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Dumpster diving: The new food fad
By ERIN COVEY
KIRO Radio
One by one, a steady stream of people stop by the Essential Baking Company in Wallingford to get some of the cafe's specialty loaves. Rather than go through the front doors however, these customers head around back to the dumpster to get their bread.
The majority of bakery dumpster divers are younger, well-dressed and driving newer cars. They visit several stores in the Seattle area, including the Grand Central Bakery headquarters, Trader Joe's, Theo Chocolate, and Pioneer Organics.
"I haven't bought bread in a like year at a store," said Travis, a frequent Essential Baking Company dumpster visitor. He estimates he's saved hundreds of dollars and has his diving down to an art.
"It's hit or miss, so it takes a little bit of time because you have to do different days," he explained.
Bethany and Kaley drove up to the Wallingford bakery in a new car. Like most other dumpster patrons, they're professionals and students.
"We normally get four or five loaves. We eat what we can and when it gets bad, we throw it out," they explained.
The two women said that dumpster diving for food was almost becoming the "in" thing to do.
"There's so many people who do it and rave about it," they said.
A few miles south, a woman gets inside a dumpster at Pioneer Organics looking for vegetables for that night's dinner for her and her husband. She finds some celery and starts snapping off sticks to get to the middle, but ultimately offers the vegetable to someone else.
"It's a little too shrively," she said. "I think I can find better."
Technosexual: Sex With a Vacuum? That's a 90 Day Jail Sentence
By Sean Fallon, 8:20 PM on Wed Mar 25 2009, 19,320 views
What happens when you are caught making sweet love to a car wash vacuum in Michigan? Apparently, it gets you 90 days in jail for indecent exposure and mandatory drug testing.
Seriously though, that sentence must pale in comparison to the shame that a 29-year old man must feel when he becomes notorious for publicly screwing a vacuum. And what about the fear his community must feel? No vacuum or pool filter for 50 miles is safe. [SFGate]
