New App Wants You to Eat Your Neighbor's Leftovers

[Bay_Kat]

Would you really eat someone else's food? Sorry if this was already posted.

LeftoverSwap could be called a lot of things. It’s dumpster diving without the actual dumpster diving. It’s p2pizza. It’s freeganism. But at the core, it's really just an app to share your leftovers.

Born in the mind of Seattle’s Dan Newman, LeftoverSwap capitalizes on that guilty feeling we all get when our eyes are bigger than our stomachs and we order or make way too much food. Instead of throwing out the extras, or letting them go to waste when we get sick of eating the same thing again and again, the still-in-development app will let users take a picture of their meal remnants and advertise it. A hungry neighbor can then arrange for those extra noodles or pizza slices to be delivered or picked up.

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[slotpuppy]

My neighbor is from the philippines, I might be eating cat if I took their leftovers.

 

[Bay_Kat]

My neighbor is from the philippines, I might be eating cat if I took their leftovers.

Most of my neighbors are elderly and eat out every single day, but I still wouldn't want their food.

 

[dontknowwhy]

My neighbor is from the philippines, I might be eating cat if I took their leftovers.

and what's wrong with eating a little....nevermind

 

[vraiblonde]

I eat other peoples' leftovers all the time and they eat mine. I'm always swapping food with friends. I take excess food to neighbors, they bring excess over to me. I've lost count of the number of times I've snagged a companion's restaurant doggie bag or given up mine.

What's the big deal?

 

[Lurk]

Isn't Seattle famous for its recyclers?

 

[Bay_Kat]

I eat other peoples' leftovers all the time and they eat mine. I'm always swapping food with friends. I take excess food to neighbors, they bring excess over to me. I've lost count of the number of times I've snagged a companion's restaurant doggie bag or given up mine.

What's the big deal?

If it was something like you made too much soup or spaghetti sauce, that's fine. But if it's someone's food from a restaurant and they've had their fork in it, nope.

 

[Lurk]

If it was something like you made too much soup or spaghetti sauce, that's fine. But if it's someone's food from a restaurant and they've had their fork in it, nope.

Does the fact that people in the kitchen sweat over and probably spit (as in spray saliva during speech rather than expectorate a phlegm ball) over your food and that the wait staff probably gets their thumb in you spaghetti sauce change your position any? Did you ever look at the rag the bus-boy used to clean your table after the previous customer left?

 

[Bay_Kat]

Does the fact that people in the kitchen sweat over and probably spit (as in spray saliva during speech rather than expectorate a phlegm ball) over your food and that the wait staff probably gets their thumb in you spaghetti sauce change your position any? Did you ever look at the rag the bus-boy used to clean your table after the previous customer left?

Thanks, doubt I'll ever eat out again.

 

[vraiblonde]

Heck, I'll even take leftover-overs. Pete brought home some of his Dad's Brunswick stew and hooked me up with a container of it. YUM!

 

[Lurk]

Thanks, doubt I'll ever eat out again.

How's about we go eat at Chik-fil-a? They've got a Moca Chocolate Chip Cookie milkshake this month.