Refrigerator Stuffed Too Full?
Replating includes leaving leftover food, preferably wrapped, on a garbage bin for the homeless to take.
(Courtesy Of Josh Kamler)
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Friday, November 23, 2007
Finally, a solution for the Thanksgiving leftovers. Two San Francisco designers, Axel Albin and Josh Kamler, want you to replate your food.
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Once atop le garbage, see, homeless folk can dig in.
Replating already has a logo (the "Recycle" triangle flanked by cutlery) and a slogan: "YOU MAY ALREADY BE AN ACTIVIST."
Replating has its own downloadable posters: a foil-wrapped burrito and some Chinese takeout hanging around on garbage bins.
Just the brilliant branding you might expect from two guys who run a communications studio and might like a little synergistic publicity for it!
Perhaps the replating guys are Seth Rogen-like duuuuudes who would totally pluck an old dumpling from a public waste bin. But experienced do-gooders -- like D.C. Central Kitchen's Robert Egger, who commented for this article -- don't seem to think it's such a good idea.
Some pesky questions plague the concept, mostly relating to the assumption that the transient should be grateful for our gnawed-on skirt steaks. And also:
Wait, isn't a room-temp burrito basically a nastygram filled with salmonella or backwash? and --
Wait, what if roaches get the "This burrito's for you!" Evite faster than the homeless? --
Wait, isn't this less, like, activism and more, like, littering? --
Wait, didn't I read this in the Onion?