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Re: Food is free if you know where to look

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Post by gruez »

pergadad wrote: post #33
dfeojm-zlib wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Terrible nutrition though, most def not how to run your body optimally. Freeganing can save you bank. Hit up the nicer grocery stores: Whole Foods, Trader Joes, Lunardi's, Nob Hill. Find out their schedules for throwing away perfectly good food because the arbitrary/conservative date on it "expired." One of my friends frequently scores expensive cuts of filet mignon steaks that they just toss (I'm vegetarian when it…

Many farms are near polluted places - especially airports and big streets where people wouldn't want to live. So you won't really escape the pollution - but maybe the chance of eating car exhausts is better than the guarantee of eating them. Then again, you don't know what else happened with processed/supermarket food before it reaches you.

I think you have it backwards. The more accurate statement is that farms are everywhere, including near airports and big roads. It's not like farms cluster around major highways or airports. I would even go as far to say that your average farm plant sees less road pollution than a similar plant in a suburban environment.

Re: Food is free if you know where to look

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Post by shireboy »

camjohnson26 wrote: post #6

Got to say this is an impressively dense map, there's plenty of options within 1 mile of my current location. Seems dangerous to use this info though, who knows what kinds of pesticides are sprayed on those fruit trees for example.

We were foraging for blackberries along a popular walking trail once, and an older man gave me a bit of advice I'll never forget: don't pick the lower ones- thems the ones dogs pee on.

Re: Food is free if you know where to look

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Post by bilbo0s »

lonelappde wrote: post #46
morganvachon wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Around 2000-2001 I rented a house in the small town where I grew up, and there was a plum tree in the yard. I mentioned to the landlord that I had been approached by the neighborhood kids asking if they could harvest from the tree, and the landlord said he had no problem with it if I didn't mind (that was his arrangement with the last renter). Kudos to the kids for asking first, and at first I didn't mind, but they e…

That sounds less about your fruit trees or your truck, and more about your trashy neighbors looking at you as lower status, perhaps because you were a renter, or childless, or the way you look.

I don't think it was that, to me, it sounds like much the same entitlement thinking that is sweeping most of the developed world these days.

"Aren't I entitled to your stuff? Aren't I entitled to have everything done my way? How dare you try to do things your way with your stuff?"

Re: Food is free if you know where to look

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Post by JoeAltmaier »

morganvachon wrote: post #30
saboot wrote: post #19

I see it has listed a fruit tree in my yard... Is there a way to revoke that? I've given permission to my neighbors to pick as long as they knock, not to randoms.

Around 2000-2001 I rented a house in the small town where I grew up, and there was a plum tree in the yard. I mentioned to the landlord that I had been approached by the neighborhood kids asking if they could harvest from the tree, and the landlord said he had no problem with it if I didn't mind (that was his arrangement with the last renter). Kudos to the kids for asking first, and at first I didn't mind, but they e…

Sounds like half the story. It'd be interesting to hear the other half.

Re: Food is free if you know where to look

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Post by antisemiotic »

shireboy wrote: post #52
camjohnson26 wrote: post #6

Got to say this is an impressively dense map, there's plenty of options within 1 mile of my current location. Seems dangerous to use this info though, who knows what kinds of pesticides are sprayed on those fruit trees for example.

We were foraging for blackberries along a popular walking trail once, and an older man gave me a bit of advice I'll never forget: don't pick the lower ones- thems the ones dogs pee on.

As opposed to the higher ones, which get peed upon by humans?

Re: Food is free if you know where to look

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Post by systemtest »

enz wrote: post #29
aphextron wrote: post #9

Someone should do this for tech meetups with free pizza and beer. I practically lived on those my first year in the bay area. If you're smart you can eat for free every night of the week in exchange for listening to a few boring lightning talks and recruiter pitches.

But, you have to pay the taxi/train/Uber to go to every event across the city, right?

Not OP, but as a student I had a free public transport card which made it feasible. Now that I have to pay €18 for a return ticket to Amsterdam plus the hour wasted on travel it wouldn't make sense to go for free pizza.

Re: Food is free if you know where to look

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Post by morganvachon »

JoeAltmaier wrote: post #55
morganvachon wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Around 2000-2001 I rented a house in the small town where I grew up, and there was a plum tree in the yard. I mentioned to the landlord that I had been approached by the neighborhood kids asking if they could harvest from the tree, and the landlord said he had no problem with it if I didn't mind (that was his arrangement with the last renter). Kudos to the kids for asking first, and at first I didn't mind, but they e…

Sounds like half the story. It'd be interesting to hear the other half.

I’m not sure what you’re getting at, that is what happened. The only thing to add is that a few years later I noticed the house had been torn down and all the trees and bushes cleared off the lot. I have no idea of the circumstances surrounding that.
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