Legally kill off your grandparents and inherit their house speedrun.
Just kidding, I’m assuming this is in the USA where the grandparents would have to sell their house just to afford their magnificent diarrhea deaths at a stingy retirement home.
This will have a measurable effect on elder mortality, but nothing will change because their children will keep casting their Republican votes in absentia.
Sudden drop in demand -> oversupply of perishables. This is the opposite of nefarious.
*Some grocery store manager trying to do the right thing and not just dump a ton of edible food into a dumpster is not some evil plot by a giant corporation to save on their garbage bill or whatever cynicism poisoned motivation you’ve cooked up. Even if you assume this is from a location actually being hit with this outbreak all it takes is heating to 160F to kill the parasite, ideas below.
The main mistake here is that they took it to a place that doesn’t accept food donations so it’s more baffling than anything.
https://twitterviewer.net/CollapseTalkPod/status/2076077577157156954
I should clarify that as kitchen staff we do not use any outside food. However the staff did take some home so I can’t speak for everyone
Update: The lettuce was NOT served to the residents and was thrown away this morning. I’ll definitely be using a few bags towards my worm composting though.
Ideas if your food not bombs chapter has a bunch of lettuce available at the moment
Lettuce stir fry https://thewoksoflife.com/stir-fried-lettuce/
lettuce soup https://www.seriouseats.com/lettuce-soup-hot-chilled-recipe
spicy green peruvian sauce (heat lettuce first) https://vegetariangastronomy.com/spicy-peruvian-sauce/
Add to rice or stews.
Sub for or mix with other leafy greens in other cooked dishes.
Boil and add to smoothies or freeze excess.
Consistent heating to 158F is all it takes for safe preparation.
A sudden drop in demand for contaminated vegetables results in an oversupply of contaminated vegetables! It would be more evil if we didn’t donate the contaminated vegetables!
wow the risk of diarrhea from raw produce is 2-4x higher than it was last summer, better destroy all the leafy greens in the country.
God forbid they get the option if they want to make the decision for themselves whether that’s use normally because they aren’t near any outbreaks or just figure out some dishes where they can cook the lettuce. No, apparently it would be better to divert tens of thousands of pounds of produce to landfill because of skittish consumers.
Its a retirement home. The people eating it don’t make the decision for themselves. The decision is made by a commercial enterprise with a legal obligation to its investors to minimize costs.
cook the lettuce
Stay away from kitchens
blanched lettuce is great. it’s not only a salad veg
It’s free and the alternative is waste. Just add it to a fucking soup or a stir fry or something.
Never complain about a grocery story throwing away food again.
Apparently lettuce soup is a thing, but what temperature x time does the parasite and its eggs need to die?
Tomato is fine, it can boil at high pressures for hours and it comes out great. But lettuce is lettuce.
This is the opposite of nefarious.
How?
It is way more effort for them to donate their oversupply than to throw it out. This just reeks of wanting to be mad for the sake of being mad. Exact same people would be complaining if they had thrown it out instead of donating.
afaik businesses can usually get tax deductions for donating food, so considering that it’s still not very much effort (more than the near-zero effort to trash it, of course), I don’t think we have evidence for it being “the opposite of nefarious” and it still overall looks like it’s more likely negative.
Maybe the Kroger has a reason to believe the lettuce is not contaminated? They might not have served it because people asked to not have it, or to avoid people sending back food or not liking it. But that’s all speculative
Yeah, I can agree to the objection that drawing a conclusion relies on speculation (or information not in the OP), but that’s why I asked because the other person was making an assertion in the opposite direction.
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In the fictional future history of Futurama, sometime between now and the year 3000 was a time period called the Fifty-Year Squirts. It resulted in all the pine trees (and possibly other species) on Earth to be chopped down to manufacture toilet paper.
My suggestion to buy a thousand rolls of toilet paper as a minor crisis precaution looks smarter again.
Guarding my storage unit filled to the brim with toilet paper, waving my shotgun at the roving hordes with ass juice dripping down their legs, causing them to walk awkwardly and slow.
bidet gang
Obviously otherwise those 1000 rolls won’t last you 50 years.
Probably used it as a tax write off
It’s always a tax write-off. If they didn’t get a write-off, all grocery stores would just destroy all their waste.
