Chicagoist: "You Dive in This Dumpster Often?"

ljpljpljp

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:58:21 -0600

I'd like to dive into the ones set up behind all of the studios kitchens/places that they use to tape Food Network's and all of the other cooking shows. I bet you need a reservation. I wonder how long the wait is behind the Iron Chef studio?

matty

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:58:44 -0600

also - white people are crazy.

matty

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:58:29 -0600

"The homeless alcoholic in my alley has no idea how hip and trendy he has become. I should build him a bike with two frames welded together." bwahahaha

guest

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 16:48:51 -0600

This supposed problem of the 'waste of capitalism' will die out when the freegins all slowly die from diseases garnished from eating garbage and then waiting in line to get healthcare from the socialized clinics they put in place. Just let them be, they will be eradicated.

Stephen

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 16:45:14 -0600

My paradigm-shifting, system-smashing days are over... so hopefully a freegan can help me out with this one: I'm just curious what the wastes of socialism taste like, if the wastes of capitalism are so delicious? This just reminds me of uppity college kids living in a tent on their freshman quads in order to somehow approximate the experience of being homeless (I observe this annually - somehow this never happens in bad weather). "See? Now we understand how awful they have it!"

Lizz K

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 16:12:41 -0600

Newsweek. haha.

Lizz K

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 16:10:30 -0600

I wouldn't call it 'filling up space' when Newsweeks is also reporting on the freegans: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20920377/site/newsweek/

guest

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 15:12:15 -0600

Chicagoist calling out someone else out on timeliness? My head asplodes.

Navin

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 15:03:40 -0600

In this liberal left wack-job leaning world, now FOOD even has a bad rap?! You're busting a blood vessel over a story about dumpster diving on local blog and they're the 'wack-jobs'?

guest

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 14:45:49 -0600

Nice Alicia Dorr and Chuckie. I agree; if you don't agree with the columnist- that person is defiantly just trying to fill up space!! You guys are so clever here on chicagoist!

Alicia Dorr

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 14:32:23 -0600

I definitely agree that this column read like Kass was just trying to fill column space. My question is, when doesn't he?

guest

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 14:27:43 -0600

What the hell is wrong with regular food? These people are just a bit nutto, honestly. In this liberal left wack-job leaning world, now FOOD even has a bad rap?! There are reasons you live in a modern society, if you would rather not, don't; you could learn how the much poorer of the world scrounge for food and give each other lessons on the best technique.

Chuck Sudo

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 13:00:51 -0600

Ferdy: You're thinking of Laura's post on "replating". Same concept, except that no one has to sully themselves diving, and it's intended for those among us who aren't as fortunate.

Kevin Robinson

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 12:49:34 -0600

Oh yeah, I forgot, there are lots of vegan and other generally scrubby kids that do it just to get laid. They're called "mactivists". Starcrunch, you just took me back to the heady days of my youth, getting tear-gassed in front of the IMF and running away from the cops with vinegar soaked bandanna around our unshaven faces. Good times my friend. Good times.

pantagrapher

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 12:42:21 -0600

Tapioca.

JoeM500

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 12:34:50 -0600

The homeless alcoholic in my alley has no idea how hip and trendy he has become. I should build him a bike with two frames welded together.

starcrunch

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 12:21:42 -0600

Oh yeah, I forgot, there are lots of vegan and other generally scrubby kids that do it just to get laid. They're called "mactivists".

Ferdy

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 12:01:14 -0600

Chuck, seems like you were trying to fill some column inches, too. This was argued at length not too long ago on Chicagoist.

the new guest number 2

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 11:57:39 -0600

Can't everyone agree that the intersection of self-righteous vegans with pretentious hippies is worthy of scorn and mockery? That's just crying out for a Venn diagram.

guest

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 11:45:26 -0600

Can't everyone agree that the intersection of self-righteous vegans with pretentious hippies is worthy of scorn and mockery?

starcrunch

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 11:42:55 -0600

My brother was in that whole scene for a long time, was a freegan for a while. When he lived with me, I didn't have much tolerance for the whole trash-as-food thing, he would bring home some totally questionable stuff...bottles from behind the Odwalla bottling plant on Elston all swollen (not good), stuff like pissed me off and I would throw it back out when he wasn't home. Since then I've chilled out a bit, gotten used to it. When I went home for a visit, I went with him to the dumpsters behind this big shopping center. Among other things, we found a big ass bag of Science Diet puppy chow that had a small tear in it. There was a new puppy at home, so that was pretty sweet. You'd be surprised how much useful stuff stores throw out. Sometimes he'd bring home stuff so cool, I suspect that an employee threw it out on purpose, and he kept them from picking it up later.

guest

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 11:26:08 -0600

If it walks like a duck... Eating out of the trash? Dumpster-diver.