Comradeship // Freechat

I live in NYC, I have never personally done this but I know people who have struggled, and the best thing is to maybe not dress in a suit but your nicest clothes, showered, and groomed enough so people think you’re middle class plus going through one unique moment of poverty and not someone chronically poor… and just go to a food place (not a restaurant, somewhere that sells food… deli, grocery store, maybe even a food cart) ideally in a nice neighborhood. Ask to see the manager or ideally the owner (since they have way more leeway than employees) and without giving this huge sob story, politely ask for food.

They will almost never say no, and in fact you might get lucky and be given a month’s worth of food. It sucks that we have more sympathy for a moment of difficulty for the better off than a lifetime of suffering for the poor but here we are. It reminds me of the state Senator in Wisconsin or Michigan or wherever arguing against free food in schools because kids that don’t get enough sustenance in their youth have a lifetime of reduced intelligence and even charisma and if they gave every kid food, “we’d have no mechanics or bricklayers!”.

I have an equally important question: What's a free way to get fast food?

download free food apps like good to go, often times shops in the UK during closing time will punt all the stuff that they normally throw out at the end of the shift on here.

If you live in London you can live off of this stuff, I was eating free sushi and bakery goods a lot when I was skint.

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also look up local churches, sikh ones will feed anyone who walks thru the door.

Post a mutual request on hexbear, /c/mutual_aid

Check the rules first

Also, furthering on the "local" aspect of it, finding a food bank or a community canteen (probably not the right name, sorry, I'm not native English speaker), you can probably ask there and they'll likely be able to give you a better answer than post people here

Maybe not what most people would suggest, but for an occasional day, don't you have any friends who you remember need a small favour (say installing some software on a computer, or painting a wall), and tell them that you'll come over and help if they invite you over for dinner?

Also, maybe if you're country-specific, it will be easier to give suggestions

Dumpster Diving, perhaps?