poor people love botulism

Tia and I volunteered at the food bank today sorting out cans of food for the less fortunate. Only, we actually worked helping to sort out pet food, baby food, and what they called pig food. Which, after minimal investigations turns out to be exactly what you think................food that is fed to actual pigs. Now, what may qualify something for pig food you might wonder. It was surprising, well some of it was anyway.

Some things became pig food because they were recently expired, which could be a possible oversight or a genuine (and generally correct) assumption that it is still okay to eat. However, a majority of it fell somewhere between a feeling that, no matter what it was, poor people would rather have it than nothing or a chance to expunge some things from the pantry that, for reasons unknown, they kept around for many years following their expiration, through significant dents and nicks, through water damage that caused rusting, and possibly bulging to twice its original size due to botulism. Amongst them were half eaten boxes of pasta, partially filled bags of flour, a half box of Splenda packets, and a jar of unopened mayonnaise that expired a FULL DECADE ago. Hope it doesn't kill any pigs.

Also, we decided to buy the house. We looked at a few more today and it solidified how nice the one we offered on. Now is when the plug gets pulled and all the money starts to run out. House inspections, earnest money, and all the associated fees that come with loans. But, hopefully it all ends well. More to come as always...........unless I eat some of the donated mayo.