The things I did not like about the pizza is that it sits under a heat lamp all day and it is not fresh. There is never enough pizza sauce on the pizza and it taste like I’m eating just cheese and bread. The cheese on the pizza is atrocious because when you put something under a heat
His senses and common sense to evaluate the food, knowing the dumpsters of a given area and checking them regularly, and always answering the question “why was this discarded?” For example, there was a time where he would survive off of a dumpster behind a pizzeria. He realized that they discard whole pizzas that customers have sent back if the order was wrong, or pizzas that were left over at the end of the day. Eighner even admits to gaining a few extra pounds while living from this dumpster. Food isn’t the only thing Dumpster Divers scavenge for. They also find clothes, candles, bedding, toilet paper, medicine, books, furnishing, and change, sometimes amounting to many dollars.
The Fast Food Industry is responsible for obesity in America as they have many fast food restaurants typically many within a small radius providing cheap easy solutions to societies hunger. David Zinczenko, a writer for The New York Times, describes marketing powers in his assessment "Don't Blame the Eater" he states that just about all fast food restaurants falsely advertise their foods and pass to many as a "healthy" meal choice but little do people know is that they are still extremely unhealthy foods that should not be included in anybody's diet what so ever. There has been many varieties of marketing techniques developed over the years of the fast food industry's attempts to persuade others to eat at their establishments. The fact that the foods they are extremely unhealthy for people of all ages from kids to adults is helping to cause obesity throughout America although some may be aware of the risks the average American still continues to eat out at fast food establishments along with the family giving the fast food industry a chance to get the entire family hooked for life. Going to fast food restaurants to prove his theory about how horrible fast food restaurants are for the human body.
Twenty minutes later, the meals arrived, which wasn’t too bad in timing, but they came out cold. To me, this means they were prepared earlier but sat too long because a waiter/waitress forgot about them. The bar was out of wine but no alternative beverage was offered. Two additional requests had to be made for silverware and napkins. The manager was sought and Mr. Wallace was given a second serving of cannelloni but the rest of the family ate their cold meals.
George Crum then decided to make fries that were really thin and would be hard to eat with a fork in a way of irritating the customer. He would also add more salt than usual. However, his plan didn’t succeed and instead the customer really enjoyed the potato chip and more customers started ordering the thin fries. In the 1900's, instead of just eating chips at restaurants, they began to be mass marketed for home consumption. The Mike-sell's Potato Chip Company was founded in 1910 and became known as the "oldest potato chip company in the U.S." Today the top three best selling brands of potato chips are Pringles, Ruffles, and Lay's.
22) Knowing what’s safe to eat, good locations, and having some knowledge and experience serves as big tools. Eighner tells about finding objects as becoming something of an urban art. Being aware of the source, he would frequent a dumpster for a steadily supply of fresh, sometimes warm pizza. (pg.23) Eighner would keep up with college schedule calling their dumpster area rich with discarded items at the end of a semester, before and after breaks, and around midterm. (pg.23) He states that’s when student’s through away food they don’t know if it’s going to go bad before they return.
However, Adams remarks that he (the pizza dude) is on a journey and everyone should let him pass safely to deliver his pizzas to the many that have ordered. The second topic Sarah Adams gave is empathy, Sarah states that everyone has taken a job that they are not fond of or were respected at because they need money. This is a very good point; many young people work at gas stations and earn very little money and work hard. Sarah says that since the pizza dude has a bad job, he shouldn’t be blamed for it rather looked at with empathy. The third topic goes into honor, she remarks about how some big important businessmen are corrupt.
He uses his knowledge to eat safely. Eighner eats fresh and warm pizza by pulling it out from a dumpster just behind a pizza shop. He also waits until students get on break so they throw away their food not knowing if its spoiled or not. Eighner also talks about different stages
Dumpster Diving, More Than Just a Way of Life Surviving off dumpster diving is a very difficult, but insightful way of life. With scavenging comes stages of realization and acceptance of the actual fact of “picking garbage”. A person comes to realize how many untainted and reusable items are just simply thrown away. In the article “My daily Dives in the Dumpster”, by Lars Eighner, Eighner explains how at first he felt very ashamed of needing to pick through trash. “Every grain of rice seems to be a maggot.
They don’t meow all the time and they don’t meow at the visitors at home, they do so only if they are hungry or in pain . Whereas dogs bark whenever they hear someone knocking the door or they see someone around the house. But sometimes, they just bark with no reason which is annoying for the neighbors, and sometimes they get too excited and bite whoever is passing by, which can put his keeper in deep trouble. Another reason I prefer cats rather than dogs is that cat independent. As I stated before, cats don’t need to be taken out for a walk, so it’s okay if they are left home alone for couple for day but with enough food and water.