Freegans?

[servermonkey]

Freegans say they dine well - and make an important political statement — by eating food thrown away by stores and restaurants. . .

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[noteasytochoke.livejournal.com]

my roomates in Boston were freegans. They use to bring home literally hundreds of dollars worth of groceries that stores would just throw out. They were all unused.

[yafah.livejournal.com]

my favorite part of this article was

Luna Tic recently converted his car to run on the cooking oil discarded by restaurants; he collects it from vats outside Chinese restaurants. He says he gets 12 miles to the gallon and recently drove from Salem, Ore., to Seattle burning nothing but recovered vegetable oil.

i think that's a neat idea.
i'm not sure i would be willing to do that, though, especially without guidance.

[servermonkey.livejournal.com]

Really. I'm not sure that I could get used to this. I mean, perhaps if I were younger and had been doing it for some time.

The article definitely piqued my curiosity.

[servermonkey.livejournal.com]

I hear ya, I'm that way as well. With my limited mechanical skills, I'd be more likely to crack an engine block than get it to run on discarded cooking oil.

[mipplet.livejournal.com]

Ew.

[yafah.livejournal.com]

my car would explode, and i was just thinking about how much i love my car.

[noteasytochoke.livejournal.com]

yep. its not that complicated. they would hit up the dumpsters behind stores late at night. At some stores there were actually FIGHTS at the dumpsters, its rather popular in Boston. You would be amazed what stores throw away. Alot of dept stores just throw away returns.

[servermonkey.livejournal.com]

I find it easy to believe that there would be fights at the dumpsters.

[servermonkey.livejournal.com]

That was my initial thought, but I've really become curious about it.

Well, not so curious that I'd partake of it, though it'd be nice to find a PC parts shop that dumped returned parts out from time to time.

[trillian42.livejournal.com]

Odd... my best friend uses "freegan" to mean she will eat free range dairy and eggs, but is otherwise vegan.

[servermonkey.livejournal.com]

She's really the other kind of freegan. ;)

[servermonkey.livejournal.com]

Should we start looking for a color bar? You know, Our Cars are Love?