Still Waters Posted December 27, 2013 #1 Share Posted December 27, 2013 Rub & Stub restaurant in Copenhagen is battling against waste - by serving up food that the supermarkets won't sell. The restaurant offers meals made from vegetables and fruit rejected by the food industry because of sell-by dates and over-buying. http://www.bbc.co.uk...gazine-25449219 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purplos Posted December 27, 2013 #2 Share Posted December 27, 2013 Good for them. In so many cases, I think waste comes down to people believing a sell-by date equals an eat-after-this-date-and-die-a-horrid-death date. Which is silly. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dumpnuts Posted December 27, 2013 #3 Share Posted December 27, 2013 (edited) This is great if you ask me. I myself am not above a bit of the ol' D&D (Dumpster Diving, hence the handle). Good stuff in there that just gets wasted. Unfortunately for us BBC doesn't feel that good news deserves more than a mere mention. I just hope they aren't charging people much for dumpster goods. Edit: forgot the word 'much'. Really changes the context of that last sentence I typed. Edited December 27, 2013 by DumpsterJesus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Still Waters Posted December 27, 2013 Author #4 Share Posted December 27, 2013 Good for them. In so many cases, I think waste comes down to people believing a sell-by date equals an eat-after-this-date-and-die-a-horrid-death date. Which is silly. I agree. No sense in throwing away good food unnecessarily. I read somewhere that the laws are changing regarding sell-by dates etc., on certain foods because too many people are throwing away food for nothing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dumpnuts Posted December 27, 2013 #5 Share Posted December 27, 2013 It seems that the Dailymail has a somewhat more informative article on this (I know! I'm shocked too!). So I would share it http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2470451/Rub-Stub-restaurant-Copenhagen-uses-waste-ingredients.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dumpnuts Posted December 27, 2013 #6 Share Posted December 27, 2013 (edited) After reading the comments on DM, it seems that this place charges quite a bit for it's food. While I've found no mention of charitable donations or even a mention of yearly upkeep costs. I'm starting to think that they use 'wasted food', 'volunteers' & 'nonprofit' as gimmicks & tools for reeling in the cash. I hope I'm wrong about this but that's not what former patrons are saying. Edit: Fortunately it seems that I was very wrong. It seems that quite a bit of their profits go to charitable organizations, including the education of children. Sorry to be the constant pessimist folks. Edited December 27, 2013 by DumpsterJesus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Likely Guy Posted December 27, 2013 #7 Share Posted December 27, 2013 When I read the headline I thought that the restaurant was just scraping the leftover food off other patron's plates. Glad that is not the case. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dumpnuts Posted December 27, 2013 #8 Share Posted December 27, 2013 When I read the headline I thought that the restaurant was just scraping the leftover food off other patron's plates. Glad that is not the case. As am I. That being said, I feel BBC should have given it a more thorough coverage. So that people like us didn't have to immediately jump to negative conclusions. But if it isn't sad & depressing, I guess no one wants to hear it. *sigh* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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