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But they would bring weird, outdated jars and cans they’d obviously bought on a whim or gotten as gifts and wouldn’t touch. Luckily the Food Bank threw outdated stuff away.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.
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But they would bring weird, outdated jars and cans they’d obviously bought on a whim or gotten as gifts and wouldn’t touch. Luckily the Food Bank threw outdated stuff away.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.