Great British Wast Menu

[Cotty]

Just started on BBC1, might be an interesting watch.

[Shaw Tarse]

I think it may be rubbish?
Supermarkets are forced to scrap food, possibly donate it due to sell by dates?

[Cotty]

I heard of sandwich shops in London that used to donate their un-sold sanwiches to homeless charities but due to the possibility of a lawsuit if anyone became ill they stoped. You oftend see people rummaging around in their bin bage at the end of the day

[Ian Lancs]

Bit weird surely? They've met up with at least 2 suppliers to the trade and were shocked at what was on offer. Almost as if their restaurants are somehow different??

[HalfMoon]

Interesting idea but I'm finding the commentary incredibly preachy...

[tonym911]

Annually binning £2.4bn of perfectly fine produce because it doesn't conform to spurious size/shape/colour requirements is a national disgrace.

[Cotty]

I often buy the spurious size/shape/colour peppers in my local supermarket as they are cheaper then the regular shaped peppers. Once chopped up it makes no difference.

[whirligig]

Real eye opener - I hate waste and seeing it on this scale is terrible. Did they say that 30,000 lettuces were being ploughed into the ground in one day on one farm???

[Talksteer]

Cotty said:

I heard of sandwich shops in London that used to donate their un-sold sanwiches to homeless charities but due to the possibility of a lawsuit if anyone became ill they stoped. You oftend see people rummaging around in their bin bage at the end of the day

Though of course the issue that program just brought up is that the sell by dates relate to quality not danger.

[Cotty]

Talksteer said:

Though of course the issue that program just brought up is that the sell by dates relate to quality not danger.

Exactly

[zetec]

I always thought sell by dates had been outlawed?

Best before related to quality and Use by related to danger?

[tenex]

whirligig said:

Real eye opener - I hate waste and seeing it on this scale is terrible. Did they say that 30,000 lettuces were being ploughed into the ground in one day on one farm???

On a national level the farms up here are relatively small and unproductive compared to the south. 2 years ago a local farm had to plough 40 tons of carrots back into the ground simply because their sizes were not regular enough.

Madness.