So now we're determined to go back there every night until we find a bag of pastries. And then, we'll open up a discount pastry shop called *Garbage Pastries.*
Monday, June 27, 2011
Great Tragedy and Dumpster Diving
On Saturday we witnessed a great tragedy. At 8pm, we were standing outside of a bakery that was just closing. Inside, a woman was going through the shelves against the windows, and throwing away EVERYTHING. Brownies, pastries, fruit tarts with whipped cream, croissants.... ALL went in the trash. I couldn't watch; it hurt too much. It was pastry genocide. Kyle and I decided we had to try to get our hands on that trash bag full of pastries, so we went around back to the alley after the employees had left, and sifted through several dumpsters. Alas, we never found the bag of pastries, but we DID find a garbage bag full of croissants, of which I had one. Of course, just as Kyle and I were munching on a croissant, the other 4 people in our group came around to the alley and saw us. We were caught red-handed, sifting through garbage and eating garbage croissants. We must have been a pretty hilarious sight.
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a man after my father's own heart. although i don't think he's ever dumpster dove (dived?) for food
ReplyDeleteMaybe it wasn't trash, but they were putting it in a bag to take to a homeless shelter or food bank or something. I've definitely heard of that happening before.
ReplyDeleteIn a somewhat unrelated note, I had a mormon friend in high school, and her family would always get day old leftover panera breads and things. And I'm not sure why, since it wasn't like they were eating from food banks, but they were a reallllllllly big family (and not wealthy) so maybe that's why??
I really doubt the food was being donated. She was taking very delicate-looking fruit tarts, and just dumping them upside-down into a bag. :-(
ReplyDeleteSuch a foodie....
ReplyDeleteso sad