Dumpster diving: it's an artform that's being lost. Time was you could scope out the back dumpster of any fast food chain and simply wait for employees to throw out discarded food such as hamburgers.
There's a misconception that Dumpster Divers will eat anything. Not true. There's a method to the madness for them, and when you're desperate you can rationalize even...even selling your body.
When items are 'old', they're taken off of holding areas that are under heat lamps. First in, first out...so this means that when the items are taken outside to the dumpster, the items on top are the 'freshest'. When they go in the dumpster, they'll be on the bottom of the discarded food items. Hopefully they'll end up on top of cardboard boxes flattened out and not be contaminated by other garbage.
With the amount of 'older' items on top of them, they'll maintain a better heat and be less likely to be spoiled. That however, was in 'the old days'.
'These days', Divers face precontamination by some companies...chemicals or cleaner solutions poured on the food items prior to leaving the store, in an attempt to 'teach' Divers not to continue to scrounge for food. Heartless, yes. Illegal, not if it's not admitted openly...it's not illegal to discard of most chemicals unless there's an EPA issue.
Sad, yes. True, yes. Disgusting, only if you're not hungry or desperate enough to consider taking 'the dive'. If not, maybe you're in need of diet pills or something.
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