Chow Another Day Older
posted by March 6 at 17:14 PM
onI noticed a couple of bagels wrapped in cling film sitting on the table outside Cafe Casbah on 2nd Ave. when I walked in the other evening. Hm. Someone forgot their bagels. I had some tea, a banana, and a completely and totally awesome piece of zucchini bread. On my way out I told the barista that I thought their zucchini bread was totally and completely awesome. She said there was more—outside, on the table. She’d set the day-old pastries out, on the table where the bagels were sitting when I came in. They were day old too.
“It’s set ‘em out or throw ‘em out,” she said, “and I hate to see good, day-old pastries go to waste.”
Cafe Casbah closes at 7 PM.
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While in school in the Middle East (Arab speaking world) I noticed bread was left out on the sidewalk ledges. I inquired, I was told it was for the poor. The Casbah is SO MUSLIM minded and don't cha love um for it!
Of course now it won't go the homeless. Because it's posted here it will go to members of Seattle's fixed-gear riding dumpster foraging subculture, especially since the ride up from there is envigorating on a fixie.
Yeah, those Muslims are just SO humanitarian. Right up until they chop your arm off for stealing. Regardless, this is very cool.
I'm not crazy about day-old pastries, but I support the idea of giving away food that's dumpster bound. Businesses like that should be supported, so I might just stop by for a latte.
Delightful post, Dan. Thanks for the smilemaker.
Giving alms to the poor is one of the absolute mandates of Islam, 5280. Bread counts.
I used to eat a piece of that zucchini bread for breakfast every friday when I worked in belltown. If you got there early enough it would still be warm from the oven.
Hmm...thinking it would be a good idea to get other businesses to do this...maybe you could do it as a non-profit, go around collecting food that is good but will be thrown out. I used to work in a Mexican restaurant, and it pained me to see the HUGE buckets of rice we'd throw out at the end of the night.
2nd and WHAT????????
@2 Exactly my first thought!! And it's so true.
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What do local supermarkets do with their day-old baked goods? I used to always find racks of day-old breads and pastries priced 50% off at a lot of supermarkets, but not any more.
say food bank
give to soup kitchens, shelters
just hope a street person has not nibbled on most and put them back
and those dirty hands and fingernails
Damnit, now I want some zucchini bread.
@ 11 Many of them can not sell it even at discounted rates (liability issues that large chain grocers do not want to deal with but smaller places do not have the issue with) and many give it to the local shelters etc.
if you start feeding them, they will breed exponentially.
Who, the hipsters?
well, it probably won't go to hipsters: It's too far from capitol hill, and they can't ride their brakeless death machines back up the hill because it's too hard.
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