I've seen my share of stories on redating food and/or adulturating food. The other day, I took my kids to Chuck E Cheese's for a birthday party. The pizza was OK, but the cake had a cornbread texture to it. It was rough and did not taste fresh or moist, like it has been sitting around for a few days before they finally decided to serve it.
I told my father about that, and he told me about the time he went to a bakery down the street to buy my grandmother a birthday cake. He over the phone had ordered a chocolate cake with chocolate icing. They told him that was no problem, and it would be ready later on in the day. He bought it, then took it home to discover this was a white cake, not chocolate, and that they had frosted this cake with chocolate over already vanilla frosting! In other words, they found a slick way to get rid of this cake that had been sitting around a few days, and instead of money being wasted, they covered it up and made a profit on it.
These incidents remind me of the stories of grocery stores the redate their meat and other perishable foods. I don't like wasting food either, but if it's spoiled, I throw it out instead of deciding to become sick.
I told my father about that, and he told me about the time he went to a bakery down the street to buy my grandmother a birthday cake. He over the phone had ordered a chocolate cake with chocolate icing. They told him that was no problem, and it would be ready later on in the day. He bought it, then took it home to discover this was a white cake, not chocolate, and that they had frosted this cake with chocolate over already vanilla frosting! In other words, they found a slick way to get rid of this cake that had been sitting around a few days, and instead of money being wasted, they covered it up and made a profit on it.
These incidents remind me of the stories of grocery stores the redate their meat and other perishable foods. I don't like wasting food either, but if it's spoiled, I throw it out instead of deciding to become sick.
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