"Inglorious Fruits and Vegetables" - the glorious fight against food waste

[redqueen]

[Puglover]

1. Wonderful!

We need to do the same here.

Thanks for posting.

[NV Whino]

2. Great idea

And a very well done video.

[cyberswede]

3. Love it!

Would it work here, I wonder?

[daleanime]

4. Kick....

but no mention of the ton of money they made?

[brer cat]

5. Important thread, redqueen.

It is done here but on a very small scale. We need to push for more.

K&R

[packman]

6. I found some of those

fruits rather exotic looking, especially the eggplant- the potato had a cute baby hippo look to it - and the carrot, well... that's just too phallic by the factor of one. Ah, the French - C'est la vie.

[smirkymonkey]

7. Bravo! Thanks for posting requeen!

Excellent idea! I would really love to see this happen in this country on a large scale.

[jwirr]

8. Wonder if SecondHarvest has thought of doing this?

[Gormy Cuss]

9. If you grow any of your own fruits and vegetables, you learn this too.

Every year I have a few forked carrots, tomatoes and eggplants with "noses" and other appendages, squat or gangly cucumbers or summer squashes plus a few curled like snakes, winter squashes with gnarly blanched sections where they were in contact with the ground, round lemons, oranges with complex navels, plums with deep folds, etc.

They all taste as good as their market-perfect brethren.

[DAMANgoldberg]

10. Just watching the video...

It occurred to me that these fruits and vegetables are just as nutritionist and tasty as the "standard" kind and cost less, this would be a no-brainier. And for those that are concerned, all it would take is some of these ingredients to be made into Salsa, Stew and Chili bases, and similar items placed in a pot with rice or noodles, cream soup, and some crust all around to make Quiche-type dishes, pot pies, even cobblers. If I had access to all of this, I could whip up something good, and I am NOT A CHEF or even chef-trained. I did have years of experience in university food service where stretching food based on meal plans is a way of life.

[smirkymonkey]

11. K&R!

This is brilliant and a great post! Kicking for more recognition. I think it's time to start a movement in this country.

[flvegan]

12. This is great, it really is. In addition,

if we really wanted to take a stab at food waste (spending calories) we'd just stop eating meat.

I guess maybe after appearance we can tackle that one.