So was having lunch at central festival food court today.  Young Thai couple eating a few tables away.  A nicely dressed mid 60's farang sits at table next to mine alone.  When the Thai couple gets up and leaves they of course leave behind their unfinished bowls of soup along with a little of some rice dish.  The farang gets up and goes and sits at the abandoned Thai table with all the dirty dishes ...seems strange as he was already at exact same size clean table. 

 

Anyway, next thing you know he starts eating all the leftovers, the soup, the rice, bit of salad etc,  using same silverware that thais had just used.  Another guy sitting nearby also sees what is happening and looks at me and rolls his eyes as neither of us can really believe what we are seeing.

 

I guess if you are here long enough you will see it all. 

 

Was the guy that hard up to have to do that or is that some sort of accepted custom in whatever country he came from.  As said, well dressed and appeared well groomed.  Weird.

I remember as a young kid , after watching the pictures at a cinema

in Newcastle , my mate and I popped  into Milburn's seafood shop ,

(how can I remember the name of the shop , 60 odd years ago ,when

i cannot remember what I did last week  ! ) back to the  story , they sold

small plates of shrimps ,various shellfish , covered in vinegar , my mate

had no money left ,but i had enough for plate of shrimps ,which I would

share with him, 

 

After he had eaten his , a man next to us left ,leaving a plate with a large

Whelk on it ,  which my friend wolfed down , I said you don't know where

it's been ,  he replied ,but I know where it's gannin ,  I felt sick , the sight of

the Whelk , never mind someone had left it.

 

regards worgeordie

The supermarket bins are better.  They have to make space on the shelves so they throw out a lot of stuff.  Go there at night time and have a real feast.  But now they put up barbed wire.

 

Getting hungry now.

When I worked for a large company in the UK during the 1990s we had one engineer who used to sit in the canteen and when a guy had finished, he would eat the leftovers.

 

He would sometimes bring in empty buttered rolls and fill them with leftovers.

47 minutes ago, billd766 said:

When I worked for a large company in the UK during the 1990s we had one engineer who used to sit in the canteen and when a guy had finished, he would eat the leftovers.

 

He would sometimes bring in empty buttered rolls and fill them with leftovers.

Yorkshire or Scotland?

Plenty of financially desperate people who still shower, shave and dress up. 

How much did you give to him in order to alleviate his suffering?

 

42 minutes ago, NextG said:

How much did you give to him in order to alleviate his suffering?

 

I did think for a minute maybe i should walk by and leave 100 baht on the table.  But i did not. 

 

What made it so strange was how well dressed he was....very nice golf type shirt, nice white shorts and a better looking pair of shoes than i own.

4 hours ago, jacko45k said:

Yorkshire or Scotland?

I am not sure but probably from around the Swindon area if I remember. His first name was Ken I think but it was back in the late 1980s or very early 1990s.

5 hours ago, worgeordie said:

i cannot remember what I did last week 

you were posting here... 

sounds like some dementia working... my dad got very cheap in some odd ways... 

Obvious we don't do such things. And no same person would do it.

 

But looking at reality, how high is the chance that he will get any disease from eating those things? 

Sometimes my gf doesn't finish something and sometime then I eat the rest.

Sure, she is my gf and I also kiss her, so there is already an exchange of body fluids. But in principle it is the same.

 

I guess the guy just had very little or no money and he wants to survive. And getting food in that way is probably better than some alternatives. I guess if he is once over the "people don't do that" then he just eats it as if he would have bought it.

4 hours ago, ChaiyaTH said:

Plenty of financially desperate people who still shower, shave and dress up. 

And it's good that they do that. It will help them feel better when not everybody looks down on them (except in the food court). 

Can't see a problem.

Not wasting food is good for the world.

How easy it is to judge. 

If I had to steal or eat scraps to be able to feed my kids I wouldn't hesitate.

7 hours ago, pomchop said:

Another guy sitting nearby also sees what is happening and looks at me and rolls his eyes as neither of us can really believe what we are seeing.

Not a position that anyone would choose to be in , but if you get yourself into a position where you are hungry and have nothing to eat , then you will eat what is available .

   At least he wasn't begging or stealing 

13 hours ago, Bluespunk said:

How easy it is to judge. 

I did not mean or attempt to judge the guy.  I simply relayed what I saw as I thought it to be unusual.  And I also hate to see food wasted as it is every day all over the world while people go hungry.

 

 

2 hours ago, pomchop said:

I did not mean or attempt to judge the guy.  I simply relayed what I saw as I thought it to be unusual.  And I also hate to see food wasted as it is every day all over the world while people go hungry.

 

 

OK, if you say so, but yours and several other posts come across as judgemental. 

35 minutes ago, Bluespunk said:

OK, if you say so, but yours and several other posts come across as judgemental. 

so now you are judging me....got it.

13 minutes ago, pomchop said:

so now you are judging me....got it.

Nope.
 

The post comes across as such, I don’t know you. 

While it seems unsavory, it shouldn't. 

Food waste is a major problem and restraunts are the core contributors. 

 

But really, I would think nothing of finishing a friend's or family member's plate of food. Barring any truly disgusting traits, why would finishing a stranger's food be any different?

3 hours ago, pomchop said:

I did not mean or attempt to judge the guy.  I simply relayed what I saw as I thought it to be unusual.  And I also hate to see food wasted as it is every day all over the world while people go hungry.

 

 

23 hours ago, pomchop said:

Another guy sitting nearby also sees what is happening and looks at me and rolls his eyes as neither of us can really believe what we are seeing.

the whole act of posting this was so others could share your disdain.

42 minutes ago, n00dle said:

the whole act of posting this was so others could share your disdain.

Not necessarily disdain, but definitely surprise.  Then hindsight, some compassion or or even relief, since simply eating leftovers, instead of criminal activity.

 

OK i am guilty of judging what i saw . I  judged that it was unusual and kind of weird.  My judgement. 

 

If that offended anyone then so be it but I am incapable of not forming some kind of opinion on most everything I see.....sometimes good opinions, sometimes bad, and sometimes just that is different.  Perhaps some  can see things and have a total neutral opinion and are rarely surprised enough to even think well that is different.  I am not.  I suppose I should just have not posted my observation and am sorry if it offended anyone. 

 

Does a day go by that many on this very forum don't  give their "opinions and judgements" on something that is reported?

 

I most certainly wish the man well whatever his motivations may have been.

 

 

 

 

On 1/20/2023 at 12:25 PM, BritManToo said:

Can't see a problem.

 

Well, there is the disease issue. 

2 hours ago, Leaver said:

 

Well, there is the disease issue. 

And what disease would that be?

2 hours ago, Leaver said:

Well, there is the disease issue. 

Not sure what disease you think someone can get from eating leftovers.

 

5 minutes ago, n00dle said:

And what disease would that be?

 

Random from the first page of a Google search for you.

 

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/does-saliva-have-health-risks-3-ways-germs-can-spread/

 

"Rhinovirus (colds).

Flu virus.

Epstein-Barr virus (mononucleosis, or mono).

Type 1 herpes (cold sores).

Strep bacteria.

Hepatitis B and hepatitis C.

Cytomegalovirus (a risk during fetal development)."

 

 

4 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Not sure what disease you think someone can get from eating leftovers.

 

 

From the OP:  "using same silverware that thais had just used."

 

In any case, there's sure to be some saliva on the bite marks left on the left overs.