You've done the rebaking thing. You've done the making-turkey-sandwiches-for-a-week thing. You've created quiches and stir fry and gumbos out of the slowly shrinking heap of leftovers until now you just wish you had taken the whole family to McDonald's on Thanksgiving like your son wanted you to. So what do you do with the rest of the rapidly decaying foodstuff in your fridge?
Obviously you can throw it all away and move on with your life. But isn't that wasteful? More to the point, won't that point out how much food you bought in the first place in your mindless, oddly competitive attempt to glut your family with more bounty than any 30 starving people could comfortably digest?
"Look at this, Bill," one garbageman would say to another. "This lady's disposing of six barely-gnawed game hens and a pony keg of congealed gravy. Just imagine how much food she must have bought for this to be disposable excess. What a wastrel!"
"She surely is a conspicuous consumer," Bill would respond. "Perhaps there's some agency to which we could report her and her villainous ways."
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This is great, Chris! Somehow it reminded me of how, when I was little, I would mash up everything on my plate and stir it all together.
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This is great, Chris! Somehow it reminded me of how, when I was little, I would mash up everything on my plate and stir it all together.
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It really wasn't your fault! There was a redundancy in the title. It invited redundant posts.
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