Purple….well, maybe those dented cans of cubed rutabaga they got on sale 6/$1 in 1978.
They’ve never figured out what to do with them, so maybe they’ll part with them this year.
In past years they’ve ended up just putting them back on the shelf, cos… “ya never know, ya know?”But the cans seem to be starting to bulge a little.
BTW, the Pennys aren’t alone.When I was a shop manager in a mall, there was a food drive one December…the Food Bank set up circular plywood rings in a huge Christmas tree shape…the idea was to have a 20 foot tree made of cans and jars.Customers would get coupons from merchants for donating food.
It was a well-to-do area… those of us who worked retail there mostly lived in the next county and commuted.The local customers could easily have afforded to buy cans of tuna and jars of peanut butter to donate….
But they would bring weird, outdated jars and cans they’d obviously bought on a whim or gotten as gifts and wouldn’t touch. Luckily the Food Bank threw outdated stuff away.
I volunteered one night, and helped pack some boxes, and weed out a shelf or two…I was horrified that people tried to dump 10-year-old jars of snails, greying watermelon rind pickles, and faded Cabernet jelly on those who needed food.
When we did it for the Boy Scouts we got the same thing., out dated canned food and rice with bugs. Pasta was almost dust in one bag. we tossed out about 1/2 what we got from the best neighborhood. “The lower” ones gave the best. I guess because they have been there and can read what was accepted .
I was in charge of Operation Merry Christmas one year, we got dented, leaking cans. Cans so rusted you couldn’t read the labels, cans of food from foreign countries with untranslatable ingredients and the star of any Christmas table: chocolate covered baby bumble bees!.
Laura Gildwarg almost 8 years ago
I guess they’ll find nothing to give, then, since they eat anything indiscriminately. They won’t find a single thing they’re willing to part with.
SusanSunshine Premium Member almost 8 years ago
Purple….well, maybe those dented cans of cubed rutabaga they got on sale 6/$1 in 1978.
They’ve never figured out what to do with them, so maybe they’ll part with them this year.
In past years they’ve ended up just putting them back on the shelf, cos… “ya never know, ya know?”But the cans seem to be starting to bulge a little.
BTW, the Pennys aren’t alone.When I was a shop manager in a mall, there was a food drive one December…the Food Bank set up circular plywood rings in a huge Christmas tree shape…the idea was to have a 20 foot tree made of cans and jars.Customers would get coupons from merchants for donating food.
It was a well-to-do area… those of us who worked retail there mostly lived in the next county and commuted.The local customers could easily have afforded to buy cans of tuna and jars of peanut butter to donate….
But they would bring weird, outdated jars and cans they’d obviously bought on a whim or gotten as gifts and wouldn’t touch. Luckily the Food Bank threw outdated stuff away.
I volunteered one night, and helped pack some boxes, and weed out a shelf or two…I was horrified that people tried to dump 10-year-old jars of snails, greying watermelon rind pickles, and faded Cabernet jelly on those who needed food.
Loves life almost 8 years ago
When we did it for the Boy Scouts we got the same thing., out dated canned food and rice with bugs. Pasta was almost dust in one bag. we tossed out about 1/2 what we got from the best neighborhood. “The lower” ones gave the best. I guess because they have been there and can read what was accepted .
Dani Rice almost 8 years ago
We used to get smoked oysters and (I swear!) pickled cumquats.
Last Rose Of Summer Premium Member almost 8 years ago
I was in charge of Operation Merry Christmas one year, we got dented, leaking cans. Cans so rusted you couldn’t read the labels, cans of food from foreign countries with untranslatable ingredients and the star of any Christmas table: chocolate covered baby bumble bees!.
Here's Waldo almost 8 years ago
The Pennys are so generous that some day their hearts will swell up to the size of peas and explode.