In the past three decades, I'm not sure I ever failed to finish a meal and I certainly never threw food away. But my dad was obsessed with stretching food: he threw flour into meat and eggs to maximize yield. He fried and ate peels. He checked the garbage disposal for chunks
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That man would and did eat trash. The stuff Joe Exotic fed the lions...he had me pulling from the produce and meat areas at Albertson's and Jewel, when I worked there. He ate mangos like apples. He ate bananas green ("like a monkey") with peel on.
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He had some impressive ways of stretching food. If given an old, dry, shitty grocery store sheet cake, he'd throw slices of it in a frying pan with butter and heavy cream. In fact, that was his preferred method for extending the life of old baked goods -- "dad's sweetcake"
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He had experienced legit caloric deficits throughout his youth. He was a big, wide-framed kid, and I guess hunger was the leitmotif of his childhood. The behaviors of someone like that are fascinating
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