What do you do with food you bought and find out you don't like it?

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Posted: 1/25/2009 12:41:46 PM EDT

Say you bought a couple cans of Spotted Dick or something on a whim.

You try it, it makes you gag, but wasting food is wasting money.

Do you? Feed to the dog? Toss the other can out? Save the can for the next charity food drive, or what?

Posted: 1/25/2009 12:42:38 PM EDT

[#1]

food donation drives or trash it

Posted: 1/25/2009 12:42:48 PM EDT

[#2]

Spotted Dick

Posted: 1/25/2009 12:44:14 PM EDT

[#3]

Quoted:

Spotted Dick

Thought it would a humorous example

Posted: 1/25/2009 12:44:37 PM EDT

[#4]

Shitcan it and remember to only buy one sample can of any untried food in the future.

Posted: 1/25/2009 12:45:44 PM EDT

[#5]

You know how I know you're gay? You thought Spotted Dick jumped out at you as something tasty.

Posted: 1/25/2009 12:46:41 PM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:
food donation drives or trash it

this.or give it to 'friends'

Posted: 1/25/2009 12:46:54 PM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Spotted Dick

Thought it would a humorous example

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51nDCvwD2jL._SL500_AA280_PIbundle-6,TopRight,0,0_AA280_SH20_.jpg

Why the fuck is it called spotted dick?

Posted: 1/25/2009 12:47:02 PM EDT

[#8]

Feed it to the neighbors dog, I hate the little bastard!

Posted: 1/25/2009 12:47:58 PM EDT

[#9]

Eat it! I'm cheap.

Posted: 1/25/2009 12:48:45 PM EDT

[#10]

Bring to work and set it out in the break room.

Posted: 1/25/2009 12:49:11 PM EDT

[#11]

Leave it outside. The white tails will eat most anything. What they don't eat, the axis deer will.

If it's so awful, the axis bucks won't touch it, the raccoons/possums/etc. will get it.

Posted: 1/25/2009 12:49:13 PM EDT

[#12]

Quoted:
Bring to work and set it out in the break room.

That is mean and wrong.

Posted: 1/25/2009 12:55:01 PM EDT

[#13]

Quoted:
Bring to work and set it out in the break room.

Same here, it will be gone before you get out the door.

Posted: 1/25/2009 12:57:22 PM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Bring to work and set it out in the break room.

That is mean and wrong.

No, you just remove the can from the general location and offer it on a genaric plate.

It's amazing what people will eat if they don't know what it's called and it's "free".

Posted: 1/25/2009 12:57:42 PM EDT

[#15]

I have some Opossums out back that will clean up anything I throw out.

They get to eat; I have a reliable target to shoot in case I get the need to kill something. It's a win-win relationship.

Posted: 1/25/2009 12:58:01 PM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Spotted Dick

Thought it would a humorous example

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51nDCvwD2jL._SL500_AA280_PIbundle-6,TopRight,0,0_AA280_SH20_.jpg

Why the fuck is it called spotted dick?

Spotted Richard just doesn't roll off the tongue like Spotted Dick

Posted: 1/25/2009 12:58:36 PM EDT

[#17]

I let it expire then toss it so I can use the expiration date as an excuses to toss it

You you know me too well AssaultRifler, all too well.

Posted: 1/25/2009 12:59:57 PM EDT

[#18]

Spotted dick? WTF?

"I'm hungry I think I am going to go eat something"

"What are you going to eat?"

"Probably some spotted dick."

Posted: 1/25/2009 1:00:51 PM EDT

[#19]

Quoted:

Quoted:
food donation drives or trash it

this.or give it to 'friends'

I don't know about you but I just wouldn't feel comfortable giving "Spotted Dick" to my friends...

Posted: 1/25/2009 1:01:36 PM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:

I let it expire then toss it so I can use the expiration date as an excuses to toss it

You you know me too well AssaultRifler, all too well.

I ran out of poll options, wanted to add: a) shoot it at the next range session and b) add it to bacon! Everything's good with bacon!

Posted: 1/25/2009 1:01:59 PM EDT

[#21]

curry powder

Posted: 1/25/2009 1:02:18 PM EDT

[#22]

If I had a can of something I didn't like I'd give it to my church's food pantry. When I worked there, we got all sorts of oddball stuff all the time, like hearts of palm.

Posted: 1/25/2009 1:03:29 PM EDT

[#23]

Throw it away and skip the meal pretending I ate so it's not a waste

Posted: 1/25/2009 1:06:36 PM EDT

[#24]

outside critters ferral cat,coon,opossums,ect. anything garbage they eat. The possums I have here a garbage lovers. One is about 20-25 lbs. at almost to fat to walk.

Posted: 1/25/2009 1:11:35 PM EDT

[#25]

I drive aroung until I find a homeless person and give it to him. It's just the kind of guy I am.

Posted: 1/25/2009 1:18:08 PM EDT

[#26]

There's nothing you can't make palatable with the creative use of spices; that's why in the time before canning and refrigeration our ancestors sailed the seven seas to bring back condiments that could turn maggots into a delicacy.

Posted: 1/25/2009 1:44:43 PM EDT

[#27]

Eat it while I tell myself that people are starving in Africa.

If I just can't stomach it, I throw it at cars.

Posted: 1/25/2009 1:50:54 PM EDT

[#28]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Bring to work and set it out in the break room.

Same here, it will be gone before you get out the door.

This. It is truly amazing what people in my office will eat. I mean some absolutely awful stuff. Even if its just some unrecognizable mush, if you put in in a bowl and put some Ritz crackers around it, they will scarf it up like piranhas.

Posted: 1/25/2009 2:03:06 PM EDT

[#29]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Spotted Dick

Thought it would a humorous example

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51nDCvwD2jL._SL500_AA280_PIbundle-6,TopRight,0,0_AA280_SH20_.jpg

Why the fuck is it called spotted dick?

Spotted Richard just doesn't roll off the tongue like Spotted Dick

Posted: 1/25/2009 2:04:23 PM EDT

[#30]

Right in the can or out the window if in the car. But I only buy what I like and don't try new things.

Posted: 1/25/2009 2:04:45 PM EDT

[#31]

offer it to people I don't like.

Posted: 1/25/2009 2:07:32 PM EDT

[#32]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Bring to work and set it out in the break room.

Same here, it will be gone before you get out the door.

This. It is truly amazing what people in my office will eat. I mean some absolutely awful stuff. Even if its just some unrecognizable mush, if you put in in a bowl and put some Ritz crackers around it, they will scarf it up like piranhas.

As long as it's not perishable, it goes to work. They love us after Halloween.

Posted: 1/25/2009 2:39:21 PM EDT

[#33]

Put it in the emergency stockpile. Bad food is better than no food.

Posted: 1/25/2009 2:40:57 PM EDT

[#34]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Bring to work and set it out in the break room.

That is mean and wrong.

but what if they LIKE it?

Posted: 1/25/2009 2:42:30 PM EDT

[#35]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Bring to work and set it out in the break room.

Same here, it will be gone before you get out the door.

This. It is truly amazing what people in my office will eat. I mean some absolutely awful stuff. Even if its just some unrecognizable mush, if you put in in a bowl and put some Ritz crackers around it, they will scarf it up like piranhas.

its the lure of 'free' its got a very strong appeal

Posted: 1/25/2009 2:46:50 PM EDT

[#36]

Take it to the range and perform ballistics testing.

Posted: 1/25/2009 2:46:50 PM EDT

[#37]

Take it to the range and perform ballistics testing.

Posted: 1/25/2009 2:59:25 PM EDT

[#38]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Bring to work and set it out in the break room.

That is mean and wrong.

No, you just remove the can from the general location and offer it on a genaric plate.

It's amazing what people will eat if they don't know what it's called and it's "free".

thanks for reminding me there is some cake in the break room.

Posted: 1/25/2009 3:28:37 PM EDT

[#39]

Isn't Spotted Dick a British thing?

I see the can says Heinz, but I was thinking it was some sort of English bread pudding.

Anyway...I'd give it to the food pantry.

But if it was Spotted Dick, I'd pull the label off.

Posted: 1/25/2009 3:30:01 PM EDT

[#40]

Quoted:
Spotted Dick

Dick of WHAT?

Posted: 1/25/2009 3:31:37 PM EDT

[#41]

Eat it with hot sauce.

Posted: 1/25/2009 3:33:39 PM EDT

[#42]

Quoted:
Isn't Spotted Dick a British thing?

I see the can says Heinz, but I was thinking it was some sort of English bread pudding.

Anyway...I'd give it to the food pantry.

But if it was Spotted Dick, I'd pull the label off.

Heinz makes many products for the British market. If you have a consulate in your city you'll find a market with Brit shit.