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Title: Wastefulness
Post by: kevvosa on February 10, 2007, 01:46:14 pm
I was in Cafe Nero this morning and noticed someone had left almost a FULL muffin and a 3 quarter full mug of coffee, plus half a cheesecake at the table. These are not cheap items, for a slice of cake in Cafe Nero it costs over 2 pound.

I'm just shocked that people could be so wasteful when paying money like that. As Barbara said once on The Royal Family:

"Oooh Denise, how the other half live".

Title: Wastefulness
Post by: loulou on February 10, 2007, 01:47:28 pm
Have you considered they might not have been enjoying it?
Title: Wastefulness
Post by: smurfboy on February 10, 2007, 01:47:51 pm
I don't see why people buy things they don't want.
Title: Wastefulness
Post by: kevvosa on February 10, 2007, 01:49:18 pm

Quote from: loulou
Have you considered they might not have been enjoying it?


It's a possibility but it's still wasteful. It can't have been that horrible.
Title: Wastefulness
Post by: loulou on February 10, 2007, 01:51:34 pm

Quote from: smurfboy
I don't see why people buy things they don't want.


They want them when they buy them but if they taste bad they won't eat it just cos they have paid for it.

Title: Wastefulness
Post by: loulou on February 10, 2007, 01:52:27 pm

Quote from: kevvosa
Quote from: loulou
Have you considered they might not have been enjoying it?


It's a possibility but it's still wasteful. It can't have been that horrible.


Obviously they thought so cos they left it.

Title: Wastefulness
Post by: kevvosa on February 10, 2007, 01:53:14 pm
More like they have money to burn. 
Title: Wastefulness
Post by: loulou on February 10, 2007, 01:54:58 pm
So if you buy a sandwich then think it tastes bad would you finish eating it?
Title: Wastefulness
Post by: kevvosa on February 10, 2007, 01:57:52 pm
I would never pay a silly price for something that looks like it would taste bad. 
Title: Wastefulness
Post by: loulou on February 10, 2007, 01:59:32 pm
That's silly. How can you know what something will taste like until you try it. A lot of things look appetising to the eye but are foul tasting.
Title: Wastefulness
Post by: kevvosa on February 10, 2007, 02:00:51 pm
Fair enough.



Title: Wastefulness
Post by: loulou on February 10, 2007, 02:00:59 pm

Quote from: kevvosa
I was in Cafe Nero this morning and noticed someone had left almost a FULL muffin and a 3 quarter full mug of coffee, plus half a cheesecake at the table. These are not cheap items, for a slice of cake in Cafe Nero it costs over 2 pound.



Maybe they left for an emergency.

Title: Wastefulness
Post by: kevvosa on February 10, 2007, 02:02:11 pm
If that were me I'd shove it in my mouth really fast

Title: Wastefulness
Post by: loulou on February 10, 2007, 02:07:18 pm
Or wrap it in a napkin.When my grandad was 90 my mam would often find half eaten sandwiches and cakes wrapped in napkins in my grandads pocket. He always said he got full up too easy.
Title: Wastefulness
Post by: kevvosa on February 10, 2007, 02:19:07 pm

My grandad is like that too. If I paid good money for food I would always try and take it home for someone else if I didn't want it. 
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Title: Wastefulness
Post by: Forth Bridges on February 10, 2007, 02:25:29 pm
I stick with ASDA muffins thank taste same and just the same amount of pleasure eating them 
Title: Wastefulness
Post by: kevvosa on February 10, 2007, 02:26:46 pm

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and just the same amount of pleasure eating them 


Can you rate the amount of pleasure you get from eating them?
Title: Wastefulness
Post by: loulou on February 10, 2007, 02:31:40 pm
As long as your belly is full and there's a smile on your face you know you enjoyed it.
Title: Wastefulness
Post by: Forth Bridges on February 10, 2007, 02:33:11 pm
If people bother to taste and salver what there eating in stead of chucking in there month and swallowing it

I suggest You really Taste the food!

Title: Wastefulness
Post by: kevvosa on February 10, 2007, 02:34:32 pm
That's you told lou 
Title: Wastefulness
Post by: loulou on February 10, 2007, 02:39:23 pm
I think it was aimed at you kev.
Title: Wastefulness
Post by: Forth Bridges on February 10, 2007, 02:41:10 pm

Title: Wastefulness
Post by: kevvosa on February 10, 2007, 02:41:31 pm
Moi? 
Title: Wastefulness
Post by: loulou on February 10, 2007, 02:47:24 pm
Title: Wastefulness
Post by: kevvosa on February 10, 2007, 02:48:27 pm
I must point out that I always savor the taste. 
Title: Wastefulness
Post by: loulou on February 10, 2007, 02:49:31 pm
Title: Wastefulness
Post by: Forth Bridges on February 10, 2007, 03:18:22 pm

Title: Wastefulness
Post by: smurfboy on February 10, 2007, 06:15:54 pm
Quote from: loulou

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I don't see why people buy things they don't want.


They want them when they buy them but if they taste bad they won't eat it just cos they have paid for it.



I doubt they both thought their cakes were so horrible that they just left them. I bet it was two neurotic thin women who said 'ooh, let's be naughty and have a cake', then took a bite each and said 'I feel so full now' and then went to try and squeeze into a size 6.

Title: Wastefulness
Post by: kevvosa on February 10, 2007, 06:55:49 pm
Exactly 
Title: Wastefulness
Post by: loulou on February 10, 2007, 09:06:02 pm
I can't understand how you cannot accept someone leaving food. Have you never been for a meal and left part of it,either because you are full or not keen on the taste?
Title: Wastefulness
Post by: Forth Bridges on February 10, 2007, 09:38:00 pm
and this is why nealry everyone is fat..
Title: Wastefulness
Post by: kevvosa on February 10, 2007, 11:50:55 pm

Quote from: loulou
I can't understand how you cannot accept someone leaving food. Have you never been for a meal and left part of it,either because you are full or not keen on the taste?


I understand where you're coming from, but many people are brought up not to waste food. There's so much food goes to waste in our country when there's so many people who starve in our country and others that it just doesn't seem right.
Title: Wastefulness
Post by: loulou on February 10, 2007, 11:52:37 pm
Well if I have paid for it what does it matter if I eat it or leave it.
Title: Wastefulness
Post by: goldencup on February 10, 2007, 11:55:19 pm
At home I'm very good and put all leftovers in a container in the fridge.  Then I throw them away a couple of days later.
Title: Wastefulness
Post by: loulou on February 10, 2007, 11:56:19 pm
So what's the point of that?
Title: Wastefulness
Post by: kevvosa on February 10, 2007, 11:56:43 pm
Compost bin?

Title: Wastefulness
Post by: goldencup on February 10, 2007, 11:58:57 pm

Quote from: loulou
So what's the point of that?


No point at all.  That's the point. 

Title: Wastefulness
Post by: loulou on February 10, 2007, 11:59:33 pm
I like the idea though.
Title: Wastefulness
Post by: kevvosa on February 11, 2007, 12:00:06 am
If there's no point at all and that's the point....what's the point of having a point?
Title: Wastefulness
Post by: loulou on February 11, 2007, 12:01:20 am
Well i made my point.
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Post by: goldencup on February 11, 2007, 12:01:26 am

Like a blunt pencil - pointless!

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Post by: loulou on February 11, 2007, 12:04:37 am
Title: Wastefulness
Post by: smurfboy on February 11, 2007, 01:35:16 pm

Quote from: loulou
I can't understand how you cannot accept someone leaving food. Have you never been for a meal and left part of it,either because you are full or not keen on the taste?
 


But this wasn't part of it - it was almost all of it. And it's not as if it was some exotic dish they were being daring and trying out; it was a slice of cheesecake, a coffee and a muffin. What can go wrong with that? Also, when you stop in a cafe when out shopping and order something like that, it's normally because you want something to keep you going for a bit, so even if it isn't that great, you have at least a couple of mouthfuls, if only so you don't have to stop again half an hour later.


I agree that if you've paid for it you can do what you want - I just don't see the point of throwing money away. Why didn't they share a cake?

Title: Wastefulness
Post by: smurfboy on February 11, 2007, 01:38:36 pm

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and this is why nealry everyone is fat..


Yeah, that's right, 'nearly everyone' is fat. And it's because they finished a slice of cake. I suppose you got those statistics from the Government Health Authority?

Title: Wastefulness
Post by: Forth Bridges on February 11, 2007, 03:17:40 pm
YES
Title: Wastefulness
Post by: kevvosa on February 11, 2007, 06:12:53 pm
No one is fat for finishing their meals, they are fat because they have no self control. If you're not hungry then don't buy any food, surely we are all intelligent enough to judge whether we feel hungry or not when we buy something? 
Title: Wastefulness
Post by: Forth Bridges on February 11, 2007, 06:17:40 pm
we are told clear our plate and if you have stuiped perant/teaches dumping big proachin on there plate well you can guess! 
Title: Wastefulness
Post by: kevvosa on February 11, 2007, 06:23:22 pm
When you're an adult you're responsible for your own actions. Upbringing is a big factor but you can't live in the shadow of your parents all your life. 
Title: Wastefulness
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on February 12, 2007, 10:39:53 am

When I was at university there was a lecturer who always bought two sandwiches and left one unopened on the table. I have no idea why he did this. He had a funny name too, I don't want to type his full name here but you will see it on a link here. His initials are DH.


http://www.ex.ac.uk/rbp/DeadCourses/BEM1004/Questionnaires/B EM1004Questionnaires.html

Title: Wastefulness
Post by: on February 12, 2007, 11:45:17 am
I always eat all my food.  i don't eat in places that serve mingin food.
Title: Wastefulness
Post by: loulou on February 12, 2007, 10:55:01 pm

Quote from: kevvosa
No one is fat for finishing their meals, they are fat because they have no self control.


Maybe it is a metabolism thing.

Title: Wastefulness
Post by: kevvosa on February 12, 2007, 11:13:12 pm

Quote from: loulou

Maybe it is a metabolism thing.



An excuse many people use, as they shovel chips and burgers in their mouth.
Title: Wastefulness
Post by: loulou on February 12, 2007, 11:14:53 pm
Not neccesarily. I have met many people who are overweight and they don't eat a lot just the wrong things.
Title: Wastefulness
Post by: kevvosa on February 12, 2007, 11:18:52 pm
There are people with metabolism problems it's true. There's also the people who eat loads but stay slim. How I envy them. 
Title: Wastefulness
Post by: loulou on February 12, 2007, 11:19:56 pm
 Envious I envy them too.