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Digging Into Detroit’s Corned Beef Egg Roll | Serious Eats

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Digging Into Detroit’s Corned Beef Egg Roll | Serious Eats

Much of that corned beef will be piled into nine-ounce stacks and set between two pieces of rye or buried in an onion roll. But the scraps and shavings that aren’t pretty enough for a sandwich find a different home—the corned beef egg roll, which is exactly what it sounds like: cured meat bundled up in an egg roll wrapper and deep-fried.

Folding what was once considered waste into those wrappers represents what Winkler calls "found money." But, five years after he wrapped his first egg rolls, shavings alone can’t meet the growing demand, and he’s stocking up on more 12-pound slabs of brisket to keep up.

 

The Banana Trick and Other Acts of Self-Checkout Thievery

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The Banana Trick and Other Acts of Self-Checkout Thievery

Perhaps it’s not surprising that some people steal from machines more readily than from human cashiers. “Anyone who pays for more than half of their stuff in self checkout is a total moron,” reads one of the more militant comments in a Reddit discussion on the subject. “There is NO MORAL ISSUE with stealing from a store that forces you to use self checkout, period. THEY ARE CHARGING YOU TO WORK AT THEIR STORE.” Barbara Staib, the director of communications of the National Association for Shoplifting Prevention, believes that self-checkouts tempt people who are already predisposed to shoplifting, by allowing them to rationalize their behavior. “Most shoplifters are in fact otherwise law-abiding citizens. They would chase behind you to return the $20 bill you dropped, because you’re a person and you would miss that $20.” A robot cashier, though, changes the equation: It “gives the false impression of anonymity,” Staib says. “This apparently empowers people to shoplift.”

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Some Say Fears Of Food Shortages Are Overblown : NPR

"That is totally the mantra," says Catherine Kling, an economist at Cornell University. "I'll bet I've been to 50 talks in the last five, 10 years where the beginning is, 'We have to feed 9 billion people by 2050. This is a crisis situation.' The word 'crisis' gets used regularly."

But, in fact, the long-term trend, for more than a century, has been toward ever more abundant food, and declining prices.

To be sure, every once in a while, it really does seem like a crisis. It certainly did in 2008. Tom Hertel, a economist at Purdue University, remembers it well. "This was right in the thick of the biofuel-driven madness," Hertel says, when government policies drove a surge in demand for corn to make ethanol. Rice and wheat prices were spiking for other reasons.

Broke out the can of SPAM I bought for camp

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Broke out the can of SPAM I bought for camp. 🥫

It was fine for lunch along with the pasta I cooked up but it sure was salty. I’m not sure I’m much of a fan of SPAM. I generally avoid things in cans, if I can avoid it, because cans don’t burn up at camp and you have to save them up and bring them to recycling center. But the thin is canned foods don’t have to be chilled and I was concerned that things wouldn’t stay cold. And truth be told, I thought the SPAM was pretty darn gross — and overpriced to boot. I don’t think I’ll be buying any more Shoulder Pork and Meat any time soon.

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Why a farmer gave away millions of potatoes : NPR

While millions of Americans are struggling to get enough to eat and supermarkets are running out of certain foods, farmers all over the country are trashing their crops. Why aren't these crops getting sent to stores?

The recent collapse of the restaurant industry has disrupted the U.S. food supply chain, and many of the crops grown specifically for restaurants have no place to go.