Back in 1980 or so, I worked with a fellow who had a sideline raising pigs. To supplement their diet he would go to the “Day Old Bread Stores” and pick up all of the old, old stock bread, cupcakes, pies, etc. His truck bed would be full of the castoffs.
It would get dumped in the feed throughs, wrappers and all, for the piggies dining pleasure.
He did say pigs will eat anything, and that he never knew of a pig getting food poisoning.
I’ve been known to chow down a few of those chocolate covered plain donuts that were in the pig rations if they weren’t too old. Piggies never seem to mind. Coffee cakes were good too. Gotta be sure that this stuff is fit to feed out to livestock.
Our church has a food pantry program, with bread supplied by a local bread bakery/sandwich, soup, and salad shop. I’m sure the vehicle of whichever volunteer for bread pickup on a given day looks like this. They give us good stuff, and it goes into food boxes for our clients.
In one of my rural parishes I used to do an occasional run out to the piggery when they’d got a fresh delivery of day-old bread. All still quite edible, just no longer saleable.
I’d get a message that there was ‘something for me’. As long as he didn’t actually see me come and get it, no harm done. Don’t come past the house, just take the track straight to the shed and help yourself. Ten minutes scavenging and I had a trunkload of bread to take to those in need, including all kinds of fancy loaves and buns they’d never normally see. Sometimes I’d put stuff on the back seat too.
I’d guess there’s a similar story to this photo.
I used to buy past-date bread from the local bakery outlet store. They sold day-old as food at a discount but once it was past-date, it had to be “animal feed” which the flock of wild ducks behind our house loved. It was also very cheap! But to enact “corporate efficiencies” the store was closed in favor of central distribution from 65 miles away, and a couple of women who had worked there for about 30-35 years became unemployed. I hope the stockholders were happy with the filthy lucre dividends the “efficiencies” yielded them.
Smaller artisan-type bakeries still have this sort of thing here. In my town, sometimes you can buy a flour sack full of ‘chook food’ that the bakery sells to locals who they know keep poultry. That keeps it legal, see? What you do with it once you buy it… no longer the bakery’s problem.
French Toast Day is just around the corner on November 28th. Time to stock up now for the big day!
A van full of Wonder.
My elderly farming neighbor used to pick up past-sell-by bread to feed to his hogs, and would come home with a load that looked very similar.
Back in 1980 or so, I worked with a fellow who had a sideline raising pigs. To supplement their diet he would go to the “Day Old Bread Stores” and pick up all of the old, old stock bread, cupcakes, pies, etc. His truck bed would be full of the castoffs.
It would get dumped in the feed throughs, wrappers and all, for the piggies dining pleasure.
He did say pigs will eat anything, and that he never knew of a pig getting food poisoning.
Well Ed, you beat me to a pig story. I shouldn’t have stopped to go the fridge for that pork chop!
The breadwinner arrives home.
Dang… and I thought my wife hoards a lot of groceries during the pandemic…
The Dodge Caravan really hauls buns…. and loaves.
it just loafs down the highway.
I’ve been known to chow down a few of those chocolate covered plain donuts that were in the pig rations if they weren’t too old. Piggies never seem to mind. Coffee cakes were good too. Gotta be sure that this stuff is fit to feed out to livestock.
Our church has a food pantry program, with bread supplied by a local bread bakery/sandwich, soup, and salad shop. I’m sure the vehicle of whichever volunteer for bread pickup on a given day looks like this. They give us good stuff, and it goes into food boxes for our clients.
In one of my rural parishes I used to do an occasional run out to the piggery when they’d got a fresh delivery of day-old bread. All still quite edible, just no longer saleable.
I’d get a message that there was ‘something for me’. As long as he didn’t actually see me come and get it, no harm done. Don’t come past the house, just take the track straight to the shed and help yourself. Ten minutes scavenging and I had a trunkload of bread to take to those in need, including all kinds of fancy loaves and buns they’d never normally see. Sometimes I’d put stuff on the back seat too.
I’d guess there’s a similar story to this photo.
Dough! I understand the transmission on these vans are on the crumby side…
I used to buy past-date bread from the local bakery outlet store. They sold day-old as food at a discount but once it was past-date, it had to be “animal feed” which the flock of wild ducks behind our house loved. It was also very cheap! But to enact “corporate efficiencies” the store was closed in favor of central distribution from 65 miles away, and a couple of women who had worked there for about 30-35 years became unemployed. I hope the stockholders were happy with the filthy lucre dividends the “efficiencies” yielded them.
Smaller artisan-type bakeries still have this sort of thing here. In my town, sometimes you can buy a flour sack full of ‘chook food’ that the bakery sells to locals who they know keep poultry. That keeps it legal, see? What you do with it once you buy it… no longer the bakery’s problem.
My guess is stale bread day for the geese and ducks 🦆 in the park.
Must be several bread stores in my area, for the geese in my park look plump and content.
If you would have asked the guy about it, he would probably have said “This is how we roll.”
Nice moulding on that Caravan.
The only way this could be better was if the bread was loaded in the bonnet and passenger seat of an Alpine Sunbeam!
I prefer a baguette, from this guy, € 0,40 freshly baked
Meant this one, same idea different execution
Here we have the Italian bread van. Much tastier to my pallet.