These are New Yorks "freegans", who enjoy the worlds cheapest barbecues, having scavenged their food solely from dustbins. Freeganism, which began in the mid-1990s, is an anti-consumerist lifestyle where people employ alternative living strategies- and these New Yorkers showed how to have a free summer feast. The big apple members- many of whom have high-earning jobs by day- spend their nights bin diving to collect fresh produce discarded by cafes and supermarkets.."
The big reason that I've taken 4 days off between posts is that I moved from NYC back to Boca on Monday. My brother, Brett "Jimmie Johnson" Tartarkin, got us home from the city, in about 16.5 hours (with help from me Tony Stewart'ing South Carolina in about 2 and a half hours) on Monday and I've been getting settled.
So this morning when I decided to see if there was anything juicy to write about, I went to my bread and butter, The Daily Mail, and saw this fucking gem. One of the things I won't miss about New York is walking to the subway at 8am and gagging and dry heaving over how fucking bad some of the corners smelled cause of trash. like, why is there white/green water pooled up along the curb? why does it smell like sweating, spoiled trash? So its astonishing that people would not only live this way, but also come up some bullshit hipster name for their gross trash eating clan. Cause you can slice it anyway you want and tell yourself its fresh, saving money, or that you're "rescuing the food", but you're still eating trash. I dont care if the chef at Carmines brings a fresh chicken scarp out to the curb. the second that plate touches the street, its garbage.
As for Miss Rosin saying "..its about preparing the food together, cooking the food together, eating together and cleaning up together", uhhh here's an idea. gather up all the trash feeders you're friends with, go to costco and buy IN BULK all the shit you want for like $4 a person and eat clean, fresh, un-trashed food. I'd say thats a pretty reasonable alternative to eating New York City garbage
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