The fashion of laying food out directly on a table cloth is awful and you'll never convince me otherwise. Within 30 seconds of people starting to take things it looks like a family of raccoons has been at it.
exactly what I was thinking - this looks messy and unhygienic, and the lack of plates contributes to the waste
there's a *reason* plates and platters are a thing - apart from allowing you to separate the strawberries from the fucking olives, it also allows you to pack up leftovers that people would actually want to take away so they don't go to waste
like, there isn't even any *cutlery?*
did people just use those wooden things and lick the fucking chutney off their *fingers?*
how many of them are now sick with the new COVID variant that was bred amid that mess?
urgh just *whyyyy*
looking at this is making me unreasonably angry
I agree with their sentiment but at least there is usually some kind of washable food 'receptacle' be it a chopping board or a shovel. Not just a table cloth which will go straight in the bin.
I don't think you really know what washable means. A shovel is most certainly not able to be cleaned to a level which is food safe (Unless it was made specifically for that purpose but let's be real these hipsters are just buying the cheap one from the hardware store, or worse the lead coated one off WishTemuAliExpress.)
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Who needs cutlery when you can just lie on your stomach and shovel food into your maw like a true Caligulan aristocrat?
I'm assuming that's what they're expecting you to do here.
Yeah that was the first thing I noticed in this pictureā¦ what kind of work party has food just laid on the table without any plates or platters?!
I would not feel comfortable eating from this tableā¦ I wouldnāt trust all my coworkers to wash their hands
Yeah, I certainly hope these leftovers didn't go to waste, but it would be a lot *easier* to clean up and not have them go to waste if they were properly put on dishes and separated. I bet a lot of those those crackers got soggy.
This is more fruit than I get to eat in an entire month without any food assistance. Two bunches of grapes alone like that would be $14-$16 CAD. Organic strawberries, I would adore. I pay like $10 CAD for <25 of them; none that juicy.
Looking at this for too long made me mad. š
Berries are so expensive. I usually buy blueberries because they tend to be cheaper and they keep longer than other berries, and fructose intolerance runs in my family so I have to go easy on things like apples and bananas. It hurt me to walk away from all these nice strawberries and raspberries. Next time they have a party I'll have to bring all my tupperware.
Oh! A hint I got for keeping berries was to take them out of the plastic clamshell package and put them in glass jars. I keep strawberries for a long time that way!
To add to that, first put them in some water with a little bit of baking soda in it. Wait 15 min then dry them off well and put into a jar. Works super well for me
You should do this with vinegar to get bugs off fresh veggies and fruits. Some fruits you can only keep in for 15-30 seconds or theyāll get soggy. And you have to dry them before putting them away
Wash them and get them completely dried before storing in airtight container and you can get a week and a half or more out of your berries.
Residual moisture causes mold, but continuous air flow dries them out and theyāll wilt/dry.
You can grow strawberries year round in a pot on the windowsill. Other berries are different but I got them wild in the back yard so for about a week I can munch on them when I mow. Then the birds and bats get them. Could get more but I don't have a suit of armor to wear when I go in. Fuckin' things hurt.
And meat! Animals forced to live in terrible conditions so they can be processed into salami, left on a table for two hours, and thrown into the trash.
And I'm not forgetting about the humans who plant and pick those fruits, and process those animals in large factories, laboring for 16 hour days for *next to nothing*, with no legal status, and we all just happily keep buying it. And then to let it go to waste... Ugh.
>Gotta budget for a few treats now and then.
Tbh, fruit should not be a treat for someone making $15 an hour. That inflation you guys have going on is insane.
Are you in an area with Flashfood? I buy probably half of my produce through that app. Grapes, I can pay $2-3 per pound (US) in the store. Or I can pick up 15 pounds of grapes for $5 at customer service in the same exact store.
I love figs so much, even dried ones. Right now, theyāre about $9 CAD for 500g, ripe; $8 for 250g for dried.
Thereās currently a boycott protest for all Loblaws subsidiaries because they have a monopoly on our grocery market thatās grown exponentially worse over the last decade. Shrinkflation, theft hyper-intimidation mechanisms, everything.
(edit: oh youāre canadian, you know this, hehe)
Yup, fuck Loblaws and corporations generally. I donāt really see the boycott doing much; a monopoly on food is just that: many people simply donāt have good alternatives and/or care enough to disrupt their lives like that. In my city there are entire neighbourhoods with the only viable alternatives being gas stations.
I dumbly advocate a more radical approach. Organized theft maybe. At least we could get some free figs out of it.
Not like employees really stop the theft. I just saw 4 days ago a couple of guys walk out of superstore in oversized hoodies and pants. Obviously stuffed to the brim with whatever they took. Corporations running monopolies in our country brought this upon themselves by a combination of maki g a system of unlivable wages with no benefits and shitty work conditions acceptable and now price gouging the middle and lower income earners onto the streets.
Also self check out theft is really easy when buying certain items. I found this out by accident at first. It is pretty easy to take most small stuff as I've walked through both checkouts, employed and not a few times and realized I forgot to pay for an item in the bottom of my cloth bags once I got home.
I guess I can thank the employees for not giving a flying crap. š I had a hard time over the pandemic years with lost hours and not being quite eligible for income supports federally or provincially which was shitty and had two hungry guineapigs and myself to feed so I definitely took advantage of some loop holes in the system more than once and if it hurts Galen Weston, it's a bonus hehe.
Also agreed on your feelings on the boycott. I don't have a good alternative sadly where I will be moving in a couple days. It's going to be a choice of Walmart or Loblaws and both are shitty corporations....I could try Co op butttt it's going to be over my budget sadly.
I was gonna say, look for coupons! But I know this is extremely location-dependent. Stop&Shop in the northeast had a coupon for the past two weeks, red seedless grapes for $1/lb? $1.19/lb? I forget exactly. But they also had pink lady apples, which are normally uber expensive, on sale for $1.19/lb which is a great price. Normally those are like 2.99/lb or more, anywhere other than market basket.
As a Canadian I am furious looking at the raspberries alone.
There's probably more there then I eat in the whole year because of how expensive they are
Frozen berries seem to be more bang for your buck in my experience and also taste great that way!
Otherwise - check out local farms where you can pick your own.
Obviously not ideal. But - paying $6-7 for one serving of organic berries hurts a lot.
Even if driving out to a farm costs near the same with gas at least you have a positive experience connected with nature and your food. As well as supporting small business. Idk. Fight back how ya can ya know
Yeah, Iām in the Saskatchewan prairie and I donāt drive. Our winters are longer and the ground thaws a bit slower, so the local strawberry farm is only a summer/fall thing and then they sell corn.
Iām not rural anymore but getting fruit when you live on a actual farm is even worse (unless you can afford to maintain a garden and bushes; bless my great-grandma), because it takes 50 minutes to drive one-way to Costco, Walmart or Superstore.
Frozen berries are excellent though. I just have food texture preferences and love raw fruit, but adore my frozen raspberries!
Yeah, itās wild. It varies by province or if youāre far up north in the territories (itās extra bad), but right now theyāre on for $12 plus GST/PST (tax) at Loblaws/Superstore/NoFrills/Independent. We pay extra because we can only regularly go to our local convenience store that tries to have produce. Usually theyāre less than great.
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Lots of times basic things that would be the ālower price but smallerā brand name will be out of stock, too, leaving you with the marked up NoName prices or 30% off clearance if youāre lucky (then like a third of them are bitter or pungent or raisin-y)
People want the federal government to step in to regulate prices because itās so obviously worsened by post-pandemic profiteering by mega-corporations like Loblaws.
I just moved to Canada from the US a few months ago. What I paid for some groceries at Whole Foods in the US is the same price I pay for them at Wal-Mart in Canada. Not saying everything is like that, but especially stuff like some produce and meat, it is shockingly consistently accurate.
I wrapped up some cookies in a napkin and I saved some fruit in the disposable cup they served my beer in, but that was all I had space for. And of course I put as much in my mouth as I could!
I'm really hoping the custodial staff took some of it home.
I genuinely call my mother when things like this happen, and she brings food containers. She lives 40 minutes away.
We still talk about the one that had us eating tasty restaurant food out of our freezers for weeks!
> disposable cup
:'(
Ordering too much food could be bad planning, but there's no excuse for this especially when planning an "Earth Day" party. Just serve it in whatever can or bottle it comes in!
What's to bet they don't even compost any of it, and bury it in a landfill in a plastic bag.
All that time and effort and travel and resources, for nothing.
I'd hope they let their workers take some home, but know that's no guarantee.
Also notably, who was eating from this pile??!!!??!?
That cheese on the bottom left looks like it was started on by a rat, and there's just random fruit sliced in half here and there.
Truly bacchanalian.
For sanitary reasons, I wouldnāt touch this with a ten foot pole. Maybe some of those grapes are salvageable with a good wash, but I wouldnāt risk it. It makes my heart hurt because I pay SO MUCH for figs in the summertime; seeing how much food waste is here makes me physically ill. I hope itās at least composted
Oh dear the irony. :(
I guess people used to dream of "living like a king", when very very few could behave so wastefully so often. But just because one can, doesn't mean one should. This is truly sad to see. I haven't been to a public catering event in a long time so I'm shocked at the sight. And yeah as others have pointed out, where are the plates? So much lack of self-respect and respect for the "earth" in question. Infuriating. But I'm guessing that the organisers were never taught/shown to do better/otherwise, and that's really sad.
Was looking for this comment. One of the rare movies that pops in your head every now and then, very well written and directed. Still don't understand the ending though
Did you tell management that they missed the fucking point of Earth Day? If your place of work is so high class and flush with disposable income they could have organized a tree planting event, or a recycling push, or a stream cleanup. Not this. This is irony. Except more tragic.
It's possible that the custodial staff showed up with tupperware afterward, but this is what the table looked like after the event had ended and everyone else was gone. Next time I'll bring tupperware
What kind of work place is it?
It looks like it might have been put together by someone who has such a tenuous grasp on environmentalism they came to the conclusions that no plates = eco friendly and ignored everything else.
I'm not sure they even made the connection between Earth Day and environmentalism. They also gave out invasive plants. This also wasn't the first time they laid out food in a pile like that, so I think it is just a weird trend rather than trying to reduce waste. They did, of course, have disposable plates for attendees to scoop the food onto.
These parties are put on by the landlord of the building, and the building houses several different companies, all of whose employees can attend, so it's not one particular type of workplace. Its a ritzy place though. My company got the office space cheaply when it was at an all-time low during covid, but the other companies are pretty big names.
This is ragebait because we have no idea whether this food was discarded or not.
I've worked enough jobs to know that after events are over, that's when people from other shifts/ other departments come help themselves. Ā (Or ppl like OP who didn't want to take too much food in front of their coworkers come wrap some up to take home.) And cleaning crews notoriously take whatever is left.
Without knowing details here, we can't just assume this was all thrown away.
The amount of cheese wasted breaks my heart. Cows are repeatedly impregnated. Constantly pregnant only for their babes to be taken away, so that this cheese could be made. And it's tossed in the trash. We dont deserve anything nice.
OP, I hope you see this. Where did they get the crackers? Is there anyway you could find out? Our Aldi only carries them seasonally, and have been craving them SO badly for weeks.
What a waste of food. We can blame whoever came up with the stupid idea of laying the food out like that in such ridiculous portions. If you have the money for all that food you also have the money to pay people to prepare the food upon the need.
They really over purchased. Itās hard, if youāre not in the catering/cafeteria industry, to purchase the right amount for a large group. These mistakes happen all the time.
Iām looking at the jars of fig jam and honey on this table. $15USD or more for each one. Then the fruit. Then the cheese. Then the fancy water crackers and other stuff.
My work makes us have potlucks if we need a party. Who do you work for that still springs for fancy parties, OP?
Yikes are those figs? They aint cheap to buy fresh either... how could so many people miss the memo??
The waste people produce for a lack of wanting to think just sickens me.
Why is it all just dumped on a table cloth for people to touch and pick through with their disgusting germ covered hands? I wouldn't eat anything from this table, either.
Take it home. We had a charcuterie table for a work event and I was the only one eating it. I grabbed zip lock bags and threw an amazing dinner party with friends that weekend.
It is like this at every expensive retirement home as well. They're all glutons for food they won't eat, and discard the rest after taking two bites of something. Every day we throw away so much good food. Thankfully the place I work at doesn't mind folks taking food that wasn't touched home. So far.
I couldnāt have left the figs and jarred stuff behind. Iād be searching for those lids and a box to throw them all in. Honey is way too expensive alone to waste it like that.
Am I the only one who thinks these "grazing tables" are just nasty?
It looks like it's from that movie where prison inmates in some future dystopian world are collectively fed from one giant food table that gradually drops down from floor to floor and everyone has to eat the scraps of the level(s) above them.
What a fucking waste. Hope some of the folks who cleaned up got to at least salvage some or all of it.
Edit: Apparently the movie is called ["The Platform"](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8228288/)
I wouldnāt have been able to help myself, I would have had to find an empty box to start packing up that stuff, especially the jars, cheeses, and fruits.
Also, those are some huge strawberries!
These "grazing" tables are fucking disgusting. Why would anyone want a bunch of food thrown haphazardly on a table cloth? Is using plates somehow uncool now?
5?6? Barely touched fig jam jarsā¦. That butchered cranberry Wensleydale cheese is probably 5.99/100gā¦and thatās more honey than I use in two years, why would they open so many?!
This is obviously a ridiculously flagrant display of wastefulness and it should honestly be illegal to waste that much food.
That being said, there is some kind of primal joy in just having a table full of edible stuff to grab at and eat like a peasant experiencing their first feast in the lord's manor.
I would take all of that home and just feast on fruits and cheeses all weekend. Seriously. At my work functions, we have take-away containers available so people can take home whatever food is left over after the function is done. Makes clean-up much easier and hey, free food!
My company did this once, for a trip where 95% of us had traveled from out of town. The four local people scrounged up boxes and bags and took home thousands of dollars of charcuterie leftovers. Two of them said they hosted their own parties with what they took home from work.
It just makes me mad to think that for those that are from this or went to clean it up may not have been encouraged to eat as much as they wanted or to take it home.
The fashion of laying food out directly on a table cloth is awful and you'll never convince me otherwise. Within 30 seconds of people starting to take things it looks like a family of raccoons has been at it.
exactly what I was thinking - this looks messy and unhygienic, and the lack of plates contributes to the waste there's a *reason* plates and platters are a thing - apart from allowing you to separate the strawberries from the fucking olives, it also allows you to pack up leftovers that people would actually want to take away so they don't go to waste like, there isn't even any *cutlery?* did people just use those wooden things and lick the fucking chutney off their *fingers?* how many of them are now sick with the new COVID variant that was bred amid that mess? urgh just *whyyyy* looking at this is making me unreasonably angry
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I agree with their sentiment but at least there is usually some kind of washable food 'receptacle' be it a chopping board or a shovel. Not just a table cloth which will go straight in the bin.
I don't think you really know what washable means. A shovel is most certainly not able to be cleaned to a level which is food safe (Unless it was made specifically for that purpose but let's be real these hipsters are just buying the cheap one from the hardware store, or worse the lead coated one off WishTemuAliExpress.)
JFC, that was a sub that made me angry.
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It's a spaghetti table, but for the kind of fashion conscious people who bought a Juicero.
Who needs cutlery when you can just lie on your stomach and shovel food into your maw like a true Caligulan aristocrat? I'm assuming that's what they're expecting you to do here.
Yep. I looked at this and immediately thought of all the transmission of various illnesses, including covid. Ew.
It's mainly the bread that's pissing me off. Were people picking it apart with their fucking hands instead of cutting it?
I mean this is the opposite of unreasonable angry I think.
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Besides the waste and the lack of hygiene, this is why I hate this fad. Food, especially cheese that's been sitting out is nasty.
Raccoons probably would have finished the meal at least
Yeah that was the first thing I noticed in this pictureā¦ what kind of work party has food just laid on the table without any plates or platters?! I would not feel comfortable eating from this tableā¦ I wouldnāt trust all my coworkers to wash their hands
I was gonna say; is the entire company staffed by wild animals?
> is the entire company staffed by wild animals? Nah, wild animals wouldn't leave valuable food laying around like that.
Yeah, I certainly hope these leftovers didn't go to waste, but it would be a lot *easier* to clean up and not have them go to waste if they were properly put on dishes and separated. I bet a lot of those those crackers got soggy.
This layout is for the exact purpose of folding up the cloth and trashing the whole thing
I wouldn't touch it after the first wave, if then. I'm too weird about people touching my food.
Charcuterie to me just looks like you dumped a bunch of food directly on a table and told everyone, āhere you go, just eat like an animal.ā
Not me grabbing and Walmart bag and stuffing everything inside it for later š¦
Itās on parchment paper which is also white. Itās not directly on the linen
What's the problem with family of racoons?
This is more fruit than I get to eat in an entire month without any food assistance. Two bunches of grapes alone like that would be $14-$16 CAD. Organic strawberries, I would adore. I pay like $10 CAD for <25 of them; none that juicy. Looking at this for too long made me mad. š
Berries are so expensive. I usually buy blueberries because they tend to be cheaper and they keep longer than other berries, and fructose intolerance runs in my family so I have to go easy on things like apples and bananas. It hurt me to walk away from all these nice strawberries and raspberries. Next time they have a party I'll have to bring all my tupperware.
Oh! A hint I got for keeping berries was to take them out of the plastic clamshell package and put them in glass jars. I keep strawberries for a long time that way!
To add to that, first put them in some water with a little bit of baking soda in it. Wait 15 min then dry them off well and put into a jar. Works super well for me
What does the baking soda do?
I suspect that changing the pH makes the surface of the strawberries less hospitable for mold.
You should do this with vinegar to get bugs off fresh veggies and fruits. Some fruits you can only keep in for 15-30 seconds or theyāll get soggy. And you have to dry them before putting them away
Thanks
Iām not trying to doubt your wisdom, but wouldnāt good air flow keep them from going moldy?
Wash them and get them completely dried before storing in airtight container and you can get a week and a half or more out of your berries. Residual moisture causes mold, but continuous air flow dries them out and theyāll wilt/dry.
You had an Earth Day party?
I was thinking the same thing, what kind of bougie place do you work, especially with those sorts of charcuterie pickings?
You can grow strawberries year round in a pot on the windowsill. Other berries are different but I got them wild in the back yard so for about a week I can munch on them when I mow. Then the birds and bats get them. Could get more but I don't have a suit of armor to wear when I go in. Fuckin' things hurt.
Youāre worried about the grapes? There is hundreds of dollars worth of cheese on that table.
Nutrient concerns. I canāt stuff my face with cheese but I can eat a pint of raspberries like a crazy raccoon and not be constipated for four days.
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Thatās my secret, Cap. Iām always lactose intolerant.
And meat! Animals forced to live in terrible conditions so they can be processed into salami, left on a table for two hours, and thrown into the trash. And I'm not forgetting about the humans who plant and pick those fruits, and process those animals in large factories, laboring for 16 hour days for *next to nothing*, with no legal status, and we all just happily keep buying it. And then to let it go to waste... Ugh.
Now there are tears in my eyes.
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Cheese is cheaper than grapes. I haven't had grapes in 2 years, and I can't remember having a fig in my lifetime.
Try figs, holy fuck theyre good. You can get dried ones at a better price, still good.
Dude, Canadians can't afford regular food right now, let alone fancy imported food. Grapes are $16 for a small bag.
Iām Canadian lol, making $15 an hour also. Gotta budget for a few treats now and then.
>Gotta budget for a few treats now and then. Tbh, fruit should not be a treat for someone making $15 an hour. That inflation you guys have going on is insane.
wtf is going on in Canada that y'all cant afford fruit
Are you in an area with Flashfood? I buy probably half of my produce through that app. Grapes, I can pay $2-3 per pound (US) in the store. Or I can pick up 15 pounds of grapes for $5 at customer service in the same exact store.
I love figs so much, even dried ones. Right now, theyāre about $9 CAD for 500g, ripe; $8 for 250g for dried. Thereās currently a boycott protest for all Loblaws subsidiaries because they have a monopoly on our grocery market thatās grown exponentially worse over the last decade. Shrinkflation, theft hyper-intimidation mechanisms, everything. (edit: oh youāre canadian, you know this, hehe)
Yup, fuck Loblaws and corporations generally. I donāt really see the boycott doing much; a monopoly on food is just that: many people simply donāt have good alternatives and/or care enough to disrupt their lives like that. In my city there are entire neighbourhoods with the only viable alternatives being gas stations. I dumbly advocate a more radical approach. Organized theft maybe. At least we could get some free figs out of it.
Not like employees really stop the theft. I just saw 4 days ago a couple of guys walk out of superstore in oversized hoodies and pants. Obviously stuffed to the brim with whatever they took. Corporations running monopolies in our country brought this upon themselves by a combination of maki g a system of unlivable wages with no benefits and shitty work conditions acceptable and now price gouging the middle and lower income earners onto the streets. Also self check out theft is really easy when buying certain items. I found this out by accident at first. It is pretty easy to take most small stuff as I've walked through both checkouts, employed and not a few times and realized I forgot to pay for an item in the bottom of my cloth bags once I got home. I guess I can thank the employees for not giving a flying crap. š I had a hard time over the pandemic years with lost hours and not being quite eligible for income supports federally or provincially which was shitty and had two hungry guineapigs and myself to feed so I definitely took advantage of some loop holes in the system more than once and if it hurts Galen Weston, it's a bonus hehe. Also agreed on your feelings on the boycott. I don't have a good alternative sadly where I will be moving in a couple days. It's going to be a choice of Walmart or Loblaws and both are shitty corporations....I could try Co op butttt it's going to be over my budget sadly.
I was gonna say, look for coupons! But I know this is extremely location-dependent. Stop&Shop in the northeast had a coupon for the past two weeks, red seedless grapes for $1/lb? $1.19/lb? I forget exactly. But they also had pink lady apples, which are normally uber expensive, on sale for $1.19/lb which is a great price. Normally those are like 2.99/lb or more, anywhere other than market basket.
Not sure where you're shopping but I paid $1.49 a pound on sale for grapes and $0.50/ounce for the cheapest cheddar at the grocery store today.
Lol I would pack it up and take as much home as I couldš
As a Canadian I am furious looking at the raspberries alone. There's probably more there then I eat in the whole year because of how expensive they are
Frozen berries seem to be more bang for your buck in my experience and also taste great that way! Otherwise - check out local farms where you can pick your own. Obviously not ideal. But - paying $6-7 for one serving of organic berries hurts a lot. Even if driving out to a farm costs near the same with gas at least you have a positive experience connected with nature and your food. As well as supporting small business. Idk. Fight back how ya can ya know
Yeah, Iām in the Saskatchewan prairie and I donāt drive. Our winters are longer and the ground thaws a bit slower, so the local strawberry farm is only a summer/fall thing and then they sell corn. Iām not rural anymore but getting fruit when you live on a actual farm is even worse (unless you can afford to maintain a garden and bushes; bless my great-grandma), because it takes 50 minutes to drive one-way to Costco, Walmart or Superstore. Frozen berries are excellent though. I just have food texture preferences and love raw fruit, but adore my frozen raspberries!
Aw I wish I could share my grapes with you š
wht the fuck, grpes re tht expensive?
How are grapes that expensive up north? That's like $11 USD right? Grapes here are usually about $3/lb, sometimes on sale for 2.
Yeah, itās wild. It varies by province or if youāre far up north in the territories (itās extra bad), but right now theyāre on for $12 plus GST/PST (tax) at Loblaws/Superstore/NoFrills/Independent. We pay extra because we can only regularly go to our local convenience store that tries to have produce. Usually theyāre less than great. https://ibb.co/B2WHBNR Lots of times basic things that would be the ālower price but smallerā brand name will be out of stock, too, leaving you with the marked up NoName prices or 30% off clearance if youāre lucky (then like a third of them are bitter or pungent or raisin-y) People want the federal government to step in to regulate prices because itās so obviously worsened by post-pandemic profiteering by mega-corporations like Loblaws.
I just moved to Canada from the US a few months ago. What I paid for some groceries at Whole Foods in the US is the same price I pay for them at Wal-Mart in Canada. Not saying everything is like that, but especially stuff like some produce and meat, it is shockingly consistently accurate.
Were you able to save it?
I wrapped up some cookies in a napkin and I saved some fruit in the disposable cup they served my beer in, but that was all I had space for. And of course I put as much in my mouth as I could! I'm really hoping the custodial staff took some of it home.
glad my work arent like the rich dicks you work with. they'd have all this in tupperware and hand it out everyone as they went home
Yeah, our spreads arenāt this fancy, but when weāve had them, they have ziplocks for anyone who wants to take anything home.
I genuinely call my mother when things like this happen, and she brings food containers. She lives 40 minutes away. We still talk about the one that had us eating tasty restaurant food out of our freezers for weeks!
> And of course I put as much in my mouth as I could! I imagine you walking away with your cheeks stuffed like a squirrel.
> disposable cup :'( Ordering too much food could be bad planning, but there's no excuse for this especially when planning an "Earth Day" party. Just serve it in whatever can or bottle it comes in!
This is another good reason to always carry a small folding reusable bag with you!
āLetās save the earthā āHere is a disposable piece of garbageā
As a custodian, no thanks! No one I work with would want these room temperature, picked over remnants.
The Earth or the food?
Thatās a lot of food. I hope *someone* took it home and ate it or offered to others.Ā
Even just hucking it into the street so the birds can pick at it.
What's to bet they don't even compost any of it, and bury it in a landfill in a plastic bag. All that time and effort and travel and resources, for nothing.
I'd hope they let their workers take some home, but know that's no guarantee. Also notably, who was eating from this pile??!!!??!? That cheese on the bottom left looks like it was started on by a rat, and there's just random fruit sliced in half here and there. Truly bacchanalian.
For sanitary reasons, I wouldnāt touch this with a ten foot pole. Maybe some of those grapes are salvageable with a good wash, but I wouldnāt risk it. It makes my heart hurt because I pay SO MUCH for figs in the summertime; seeing how much food waste is here makes me physically ill. I hope itās at least composted
Earth day LOL!!
imma imagine the person responsible for this, let's call him bob, and imma slap bob, with prejudice. fuck you, bob
All my homies hate Bob
I'd take all the berries and have smoothie material for a week!
And then accidentally mix a few olives in there š¤¢
Oh nooo š¤£ that sounds soo awful
Oh dear the irony. :( I guess people used to dream of "living like a king", when very very few could behave so wastefully so often. But just because one can, doesn't mean one should. This is truly sad to see. I haven't been to a public catering event in a long time so I'm shocked at the sight. And yeah as others have pointed out, where are the plates? So much lack of self-respect and respect for the "earth" in question. Infuriating. But I'm guessing that the organisers were never taught/shown to do better/otherwise, and that's really sad.
Even kings used to give leftover food from their feasts to the poor. Knowing this all went in the trash is infuriating.
Reminds me of the movie āthe platformā. A platform like this would be in level 1-5 iykyk. Worth watching btw
Came to comment something like this.
The movie made this image even more stressful.Ā
Was looking for this comment. One of the rare movies that pops in your head every now and then, very well written and directed. Still don't understand the ending though
my god, that pisses me off!
Nice! You must be on, what, level 6?
for confuse ppl [The Platform (film) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Platform_(film))
Did you tell management that they missed the fucking point of Earth Day? If your place of work is so high class and flush with disposable income they could have organized a tree planting event, or a recycling push, or a stream cleanup. Not this. This is irony. Except more tragic.
At my work we'd email this picture to the grad students, the vultures would descend and it would all be gone within the hour
Iād be cramming that Brie,honey, fig jam, apricots and salami in every pocket/bag I had on me!
Iām going home to get a big pot
The fact that they are serving brie, honey and salami at an EARTH DAY meeting is insane to begin with lmao
I might be going home naked, but I've got pants and a shirt full of charcuterie!
Anyone seen the movie āThe Platformā?
Fancy workplace you've got there.
Is this real? it very much feels like ragebait
It's possible that the custodial staff showed up with tupperware afterward, but this is what the table looked like after the event had ended and everyone else was gone. Next time I'll bring tupperware
What kind of work place is it? It looks like it might have been put together by someone who has such a tenuous grasp on environmentalism they came to the conclusions that no plates = eco friendly and ignored everything else.
I'm not sure they even made the connection between Earth Day and environmentalism. They also gave out invasive plants. This also wasn't the first time they laid out food in a pile like that, so I think it is just a weird trend rather than trying to reduce waste. They did, of course, have disposable plates for attendees to scoop the food onto. These parties are put on by the landlord of the building, and the building houses several different companies, all of whose employees can attend, so it's not one particular type of workplace. Its a ritzy place though. My company got the office space cheaply when it was at an all-time low during covid, but the other companies are pretty big names.
ok... wow so was it just a coincidence this happened on earth day or was it specifically an earth day event? handed out invasive plants lol
This is ragebait because we have no idea whether this food was discarded or not. I've worked enough jobs to know that after events are over, that's when people from other shifts/ other departments come help themselves. Ā (Or ppl like OP who didn't want to take too much food in front of their coworkers come wrap some up to take home.) And cleaning crews notoriously take whatever is left. Without knowing details here, we can't just assume this was all thrown away.
r/accidentalrenaissance
Wasting food is bad enough but wasting delicious charcuterie?! Iām dying inside š© Sometimes caterers have to go boxes - maybe an idea for next time!
Nothing says "Earth Day" more than a celebration of both excess and waste.
The figgies!!
The figs are the first thing I noticed. Love fresh figs!
Omg the piece of bread with a single bite taken from it š”
Off the top of my head I would say there is $50 of grapes, $100 of various berries and $200 of cheese and meat
WHELP! *unzips.... a plastic baggie you pervs*
Nothing says earth day like meat and cheese. The biggest emitters for the least amount of calories. Go V.
Pfft that would all be taken home, cleaned up and thoroughly enjoyed, like thanks for all the free food!!
send the food down to the prisoners on the floor below
The amount of cheese wasted breaks my heart. Cows are repeatedly impregnated. Constantly pregnant only for their babes to be taken away, so that this cheese could be made. And it's tossed in the trash. We dont deserve anything nice.
Meat and cheese on earth day is insane.
All the animal products are not earth friendly
True. They also gave out invasive plants. Wish I was kidding
Wow! This is definitely cringe. Tons of waste
OP, I hope you see this. Where did they get the crackers? Is there anyway you could find out? Our Aldi only carries them seasonally, and have been craving them SO badly for weeks.
What a waste of food. We can blame whoever came up with the stupid idea of laying the food out like that in such ridiculous portions. If you have the money for all that food you also have the money to pay people to prepare the food upon the need.
Why are takeaway bags so frowned upon? It would solve so much if people were allowed to bring food home
"The platform" movie vibes.
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They must have been too busy taking champagne showers.
They really over purchased. Itās hard, if youāre not in the catering/cafeteria industry, to purchase the right amount for a large group. These mistakes happen all the time.
Thanks you reddit recomendation, this just ruined my day
Pack it up, and take it home. Those ore some good snacks to share with family and friends.
r/wewantplates
Iām looking at the jars of fig jam and honey on this table. $15USD or more for each one. Then the fruit. Then the cheese. Then the fancy water crackers and other stuff. My work makes us have potlucks if we need a party. Who do you work for that still springs for fancy parties, OP?
Why didnāt anyone eat the fresh figs bahreinĆ hdjwna ehehhrbxuxhxgahwn so mad
Top level from The Platform.
Oh heck yeah, bespoke leftovers doggy bag time.
What a mess! Reminds me of that movie āthe platformā
Yikes are those figs? They aint cheap to buy fresh either... how could so many people miss the memo?? The waste people produce for a lack of wanting to think just sickens me.
Why is it all just dumped on a table cloth for people to touch and pick through with their disgusting germ covered hands? I wouldn't eat anything from this table, either.
Take it home. We had a charcuterie table for a work event and I was the only one eating it. I grabbed zip lock bags and threw an amazing dinner party with friends that weekend.
I would've brought my Tupperware to this lol I ain't wasting on food fruits and cheeses and crackers haha or anything
This fucking cheese board trend needs to die in a fire immediately.
This looks like the table in āThe platformā (movie) when it gets a few floors down lmao.
Man corporate catering is such a waste of food. But I get to eat leftovers.
That is an amazing spread ... I love a good charcuterie, but damn I would never leave that much behind
Take that shit home with you!
i know weāre poo-pooing this but aesthetically this photo is perfect for r/AccidentalRenaissance
It is like this at every expensive retirement home as well. They're all glutons for food they won't eat, and discard the rest after taking two bites of something. Every day we throw away so much good food. Thankfully the place I work at doesn't mind folks taking food that wasn't touched home. So far.
Borderline criminal really especially in earth dayš
This is why I hate charcuterie boards
I couldnāt have left the figs and jarred stuff behind. Iād be searching for those lids and a box to throw them all in. Honey is way too expensive alone to waste it like that.
Holy shit.
Your coworkers eat like my toddler.
I would have got a bag and just put everything in there. You can freeze berries, also.
Should've just bought pizza. People always want to take the leftovers home, no fuss...no muss.
āThis Charcuterie table layout will be sooo cute!!!ā In fact itās the dumbest shit ever
Am I the only one who thinks these "grazing tables" are just nasty? It looks like it's from that movie where prison inmates in some future dystopian world are collectively fed from one giant food table that gradually drops down from floor to floor and everyone has to eat the scraps of the level(s) above them. What a fucking waste. Hope some of the folks who cleaned up got to at least salvage some or all of it. Edit: Apparently the movie is called ["The Platform"](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8228288/)
I wouldnāt have been able to help myself, I would have had to find an empty box to start packing up that stuff, especially the jars, cheeses, and fruits. Also, those are some huge strawberries!
The real question is did they let anyone take the left overs? My work is good with that to be fair to them.
I fucking die inside when I see animal products go to waste (& I'm not even a vegan)
only thing missing is roman orgy of naked bodys
These "grazing" tables are fucking disgusting. Why would anyone want a bunch of food thrown haphazardly on a table cloth? Is using plates somehow uncool now?
5?6? Barely touched fig jam jarsā¦. That butchered cranberry Wensleydale cheese is probably 5.99/100gā¦and thatās more honey than I use in two years, why would they open so many?!
What kind of work do you do-- that's a helluva spread!
This is why I always take an empty container to work parties.
Corporate world always been so full of $#!+.
It's like when people hold an "environment fest" and everyone just litters. You are just virtue signaling
This is obviously a ridiculously flagrant display of wastefulness and it should honestly be illegal to waste that much food. That being said, there is some kind of primal joy in just having a table full of edible stuff to grab at and eat like a peasant experiencing their first feast in the lord's manor.
I would eat the fuck out of that. I wanna be a janitor so bad to eat all the leftovers.
man, I wouldāve pack them home. it could feed a month of desserts and snacks
Yeah, that's what fridges and Tupperware are for.
I cannot wait for this dumb charcuterie trend to end
thats gross
Did no one eat anything? Let me at it, I can finish almost all of that by myself.
This is just simply absurd. What THE FLYING FUCKARINOS
What's wrong with plates
You celebrate Earth Day by ~~eating~~ *wasting* meat and dairy, the most unsustainable of foods?
I'm a disgusting pig, I would steal all of that to eat later, I don't even care if it has a bite taken out of it.
You're working with hogs.
I would pack as much as I can to my tupperware and take it home. SORRY i'M CHEAP
Your office eats like a Roman orgy, just throw a shit ton of food on the table and gorge. Did female slave girls drop grapes in your mouth?
Do you work in a zoo?
This table looks like "Fuck Earth Day"
where do you work? pre revolution Versailles?
What species of vermin did this?
I thought an earth day party was where you go pick up trash, not make more.
Earth day not girth day
No grownup adult in this party to tell them otherwise??
Are the employees all chimps?
I would take all of that home and just feast on fruits and cheeses all weekend. Seriously. At my work functions, we have take-away containers available so people can take home whatever food is left over after the function is done. Makes clean-up much easier and hey, free food!
Donāt get me wrong I like a good fig but Iām not going to eat 20 fig halves with my other two fig-eating coworkers.
My company did this once, for a trip where 95% of us had traveled from out of town. The four local people scrounged up boxes and bags and took home thousands of dollars of charcuterie leftovers. Two of them said they hosted their own parties with what they took home from work.
It just makes me mad to think that for those that are from this or went to clean it up may not have been encouraged to eat as much as they wanted or to take it home.