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Post by Kath on Jan 2, 2024 13:07:13 GMT
I believe they are illegal now. Although pigs will eat anything, feed has to be of a certain quality. After a few days in the sun the waste was mostly maggots by weight. Very lively. Summer 1990 I was living near Newbury when my dad passed away up here in Cheshire. I left Newbury having emptied the fridge of chicken pieces (was going to BBQ) straight into a wheelie bin and travelled home. Imagine what my bin was like when I returned home a week or so later. I can smell it now! Yuck. A few years ago we ordered our Christmas turkey from Waitrose. It was off. By quite a lot. And as Waitrose was closed until the 27th December, it was even more off when my husband shoved it in a bin bag to take back and complain. There was no quibbling from the staff member who processed our refund. Or if there was it muffled behind her arm/sleeve/pile of paper hankies as she tried to avoid the stench. |
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Post by peterob on Jan 2, 2024 13:07:25 GMT
I believe they are illegal now. Although pigs will eat anything, feed has to be of a certain quality. After a few days in the sun the waste was mostly maggots by weight. Very lively. Summer 1990 I was living near Newbury when my dad passed away up here in Cheshire. I left Newbury having emptied the fridge of chicken pieces (was going to BBQ) straight into a wheelie bin and travelled home. Imagine what my bin was like when I returned home a week or so later. I can smell it now! Closing the lid was a mistake  |
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Post by spinno on Jan 2, 2024 13:07:42 GMT
And to make it interesting Kath could climb in the bins and cover herself in food waste and take selfies. I am sure you could make up some arty conceptual reasons for doing so. My work explores the relationship between Critical theory and food waste ethics. With influences as diverse as Camus and Frida Kahlo, new variations are distilled from both orderly and random meanings. Ever since I was a student I have been fascinated by the theoretical limits of the moment. What starts out as yearning soon becomes finessed into a cacophony of distress, leaving only a sense of unreality and the dawn of a new synthesis. As spatial derivatives become distorted through studious and repetitive practice, the viewer is left with a clue to the edges of our existence. Courtesy of Arty Bollocks. I think it will do nicely. Cor(e)! Doesn't AI ramble on... |
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Post by MJB on Jan 2, 2024 13:40:15 GMT
Thankfully I am unaware of any such 'pig bins' in my locale! I believe they are illegal now. Although pigs will eat anything, feed has to be of a certain quality. After a few days in the sun the waste was mostly maggots by weight. Very lively. Banned due to a restaurant not separating the meat from the vegetable waste and causing the 2001 foot & mouth disease outbreak. As a child all of our veg peelings got converted into tasty bacon by the pigs kept at the end of next doors garden. The council estate I grew up on was a veritable farm, with pigs, chickens, and rabbits all being kept and everyone's gardens had a small square of lawn with flowerbeds for mother to sit in, the rest being cultivated veg patches (They'd build 3 houses on each plot nowadays). |
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Post by kate on Jan 2, 2024 13:53:39 GMT
I read this morning that the most thrown out food is potatoes. Hard to believe! Followed by bread and milk. Easier to believe given the sh&t way bread is produced and packaged these days. Surprised about milk though.
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Post by peterob on Jan 2, 2024 14:39:29 GMT
I read this morning that the most thrown out food is potatoes. Hard to believe! Followed by bread and milk. Easier to believe given the sh&t way bread is produced and packaged these days. Surprised about milk though. I'd expect those to be the most bought foodstuffs, especially of those not eaten on the spot, so not surprising. Milk these days has a huge shelf-life whereas, when it arrived on the doorstep in bottles, it pretty much had to be used that day. |
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Post by Kath on Jan 2, 2024 16:17:20 GMT
I rarely buy milk because Mr Kath doesn't drink hot drinks and I don't like the stuff. So if I do buy any, I get the smallest amount possible. It would be rare for us to throw any away. Bread...sometimes it goes off as soon as you turn your back. With only two in the house it's not easy to eat it all before it has a smattering of green all over it. Have started buying morning rolls from the newsagents on an as required basis rather than waste parts of a loaf. I don't believe I've ever thrown out a potato|!
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Post by spinno on Jan 2, 2024 17:08:03 GMT
I don't believe I've ever thrown out a potato|! Unlike Birmingham City Football Club... |
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Post by MJB on Jan 2, 2024 17:20:59 GMT
I'm convinced that central heating is the biggest contributor to food waste. My grandparents spare bedroom stored home grown apples, potatoes, and root vegetables all winter. They never owned a fridge until 1986 and their larder had a mesh window instead of glass and a marble slab for butter, cheese, and meat. Runners beans preserved in salt and numerous pickled onions, eggs, beetroot, and red cabbage. They even had a canning machine in the shed which had been retired.
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Post by Kath on Jan 2, 2024 17:25:46 GMT
I'm convinced that central heating is the biggest contributor to food waste. My grandparents spare bedroom stored home grown apples, potatoes, and root vegetables all winter. They never owned a fridge until 1986 and their larder had a mesh window instead of glass and a marble slab for butter, cheese, and meat. Runners beans preserved in salt and numerous pickled onions, eggs, beetroot, and red cabbage. They even had a canning machine in the shed which had been retired. I recall my grandmother had a chest of drawers in the spare room which were reserved for apples. Fresh newspaper on the bottom, apples spread out in a layer with air between them all - lasted forever. Then I again I also recall chipping the ice from the inside of the windows and there being a spare fire poker to use to break the surface of the water in the loo so it's possible the chest of drawers was there to warm them up! |
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Post by spinno on Jan 2, 2024 17:29:32 GMT
I'm convinced that central heating is the biggest contributor to food waste. My grandparents spare bedroom stored home grown apples, potatoes, and root vegetables all winter. They never owned a fridge until 1986 and their larder had a mesh window instead of glass and a marble slab for butter, cheese, and meat. Runners beans preserved in salt and numerous pickled onions, eggs, beetroot, and red cabbage. They even had a canning machine in the shed which had been retired. I recall my grandmother had a chest of drawers in the spare room which were reserved for apples. Fresh newspaper on the bottom, apples spread out in a layer with air between them all - lasted forever. Then I again I also recall chipping the ice from the inside of the windows and there being a spare fire poker to use to break the surface of the water in the loo so it's possible the chest of drawers was there to warm them up! We used a paraffin lamp to stop our outside toilet pipes from freezing, you certainly didn't read the squares of newspaper in winter... |
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Post by don on Jan 3, 2024 11:35:30 GMT
I love to see pictures of decay so I immediately (not quite that quickly) thought of time lapse decay mould etc on a sandwich or a plate of food 🥘 salad might be good. Other than that one of our local shops has a window covered in a film of a photo of fruit blown up giant size .
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Post by don on Feb 3, 2024 14:42:15 GMT
Decay is an interesting concept and maybe closeups could work . Mould up close and personal seems like it could hit the spot
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