The restaurants have a quandary on beer, it does have an expiration date in kegs of course once opened, and they can't serve it after that. Most places around here are selling their wine at half price, but it isn't really a great deal. Most of the food we packed last week was already ordered and in stock or being delivered, so it would be wasted soon enough and discarded. For a while I was breaking down boxes, it's amazing how much cardboard is used to ship food. We had a pile 6 feet high and 10 feet on each edge. They had processed eggs in jugs, I asked if there was a machine that broke the eggs and filled the jugs, nobody knew, obvious that was going bad soonish. We had two reefers to keep things chilled. Some of the potatoes had started to go bad.
So the companies like US Foods that donated a lot of food figured it was either that or the dumpster, the question was how to break it all down into separate packages.
A lot of good food gets wasted because it goes past Sell BY date.
