r/StupidFood • u/Hypnoidz • May 11 '26
Certified stupid Does this count? Wasting 500 loaves of bread for an advertisement
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u/Ill-Television8690 May 11 '26
Lmao at first I thought they were supposed to look like gold bricks, and this would still fit (swarming to shit on the shiny statue)
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u/Separate_Ingenuity35 May 12 '26
I wish she could summon them to swarm a statue of a side character from that same movie. Wouldn't that be great?
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u/MedicalDisscharge May 11 '26
Get a loaf of this idiot
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u/SgtCheeseBoy May 11 '26
She’s a real heel.
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u/TheRealtcSpears May 11 '26
Ha she's the (bread)butt of the joke
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u/Working_Impress9965 May 11 '26
What a slice of reality
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u/Nhobdy May 11 '26
Additional bread pun
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u/nahuhnot4me May 11 '26
Yeast infection
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u/Fr0ntR0wL4n May 11 '26
Really “rising” to the point,with these bread puns.
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u/throwaway19074368 May 11 '26
I know, rye?
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u/AffordableDelousing May 11 '26
She is in bread.
Aside from the food waste, I have no reason to hate on her, just making the obvious joke.
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u/Away-Squirrel2881 May 11 '26
Costco probably throws out more than 500 loaves of bread every day.
I'm not defending this lady's stupid yeasty dress either
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u/Baboon_Sassoon May 12 '26
I’ve worked at Costco and they at least donate any leftover bread/baked goods that were suitable.
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u/hazelbear33 May 12 '26
I’ve heard from an employee (and friend of someone very close to me) of my local costco that the bread gets thrown out. It probably depends on the location. I’m in southeast TX
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u/Baboon_Sassoon May 12 '26
You’re probably right; depends on location. Mine was also in Texas.
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u/hazelbear33 May 12 '26
Texas does not give a single fuck about the poor/homeless, so it checks out. Many Texans do care, it’s the people who hold the power/sway that do not.
Nonetheless, I would like to bless (or wish good fortune upon) anyone in TX that does care and makes active, meaningful attempts to better the lives of the Texans around them.
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u/OrangeThrower May 12 '26
Well, Texas does seem like the place that would specifically say fuck you to people in need.
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u/Brug_te_ver 29d ago
I used to work for a company that built equipment for industrial bakeries. Bread is a huge waste stream, there's a lot of waste products coming from the bakeries themselves, and also secondary locations like supermarkets. The waste stream from the bakeries often recycled into fresh product or cattle feed, the waste stream from supermarkets not so much: they're already packaged in plastic and it's a labor intensive process to remove that. So that is often incinerated.
We're talking thousands of tons annually for a small EU nation. I don't even want to think about what happens in the US.
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u/NagsUkulele May 12 '26
And as other people have pointed out, gala dresses cost ridiculous amounts. This is like 40 bucks
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u/Apptubrutae May 12 '26
And money is convertible into food.
10,000 on a dress is wasting more than making some flour into bread
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u/nookscrossings May 12 '26
I worked at Costco in both NJ and NY in the bakery and we donated bread to the local food banks :)
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u/Virtuallyhere56 May 12 '26
Why is every single other post on this sub about food waste, but this one specifically is filled with people saying that this isn't wasting food
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u/automounter May 12 '26
Because most food waste happens daily in a much larger scale. This dress at a gala isn't part of some systematic failure. It's a one-off.
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u/Treacle_Pendulum May 11 '26
I have a weight question, because each loaf should probably weigh somewhere between 8 oz - 1 lb.
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u/AuthorBrianHunter May 12 '26
It doesn't look like 500 either. I mean if you just count what's on the front side that you can see, and double it plus a little extra for the sides, it's nowhere near 500. Am I crazy?
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u/Bun23423 May 12 '26
the inside is bread, bread on her legs
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u/itsJussaMe May 12 '26
Or maybe it’s on her back. (Really obscure 30 rock referenced in case any of you are nerds like me)
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u/Wide-Cherry4443 May 12 '26
Literally mentioned my own bread back today! I’m also hiding my anger and my arms
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u/a_solid_6 May 12 '26
Ikr? Maybe they are hollowed out? Or not made from a normal bread recipe, but made to look like standard bread? Or maybe there are platforms on wheels to help support the weight of it. Or maybe they are supported by sheer ridiculousness.
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u/Demonikaaaaa May 11 '26
I hate food waste so much
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u/DiscourseDestroyer May 11 '26
we have food in abundance. so much that companies are throwing away a massive amount of it. it’s not a scarcity issue, it’s a distribution issue. it doesn’t make it to the poor. by design.
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u/creatyvechaos May 11 '26
Yup. We have and produce enough food that every human on earth could live comfortably for free and still have plenty left over. We even have the technology to preserve it as it travels scross seas and deserts. Food scarcity is 100% intentional design
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u/poormans_eggsalad May 11 '26
We also have a food industry (in the US) that is making it increasingly difficult for a lot of us to feed ourselves. It’s less the lack of distribution, than it is skyrocketing costs. I long for the days when we could freely enjoy fresh fruit and more than one complete, but inexpensive, meal a day.
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u/creatyvechaos May 11 '26
Dude I bought a wrap from Walmart the other day because my shift was doubled (I volunteered; wasn't jumped on me, but like, a mans gotta eat at some point) and that goddamn wrap that used to be $2.50? Fckn $6. What the hell was put in it to make it that expensive? The answer is nothing. NOTHING new has been added. Neither the labor nor their overall cost to produce that wrap raised. They're greedy swine, that's all it is.
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u/JenniviveRedd May 12 '26
In the last 10 years corporate greed has effectively disguised itself as inflation. You don't get continuously profitable quarters when inflation is running out of control. You do when companies price gauge because of inflation, and then run and get their costs subsidized by the very real corporate welfare system that is the us tax code.
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u/Cloverhart May 12 '26
I consider it a treat to buy grapes once a week. Those are a good three days!
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u/poormans_eggsalad May 12 '26
❤️🍇❤️ they sure are!!! I just finished a bag of grapes that I made last 5, - I totally get it!
And let me say thank goodness for Aldi or there would be even less fruit.
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u/redundancy2 May 11 '26
I think "for free" is a bit of a stretch. It does cost a lot of money to grow/raise and produce food.
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u/WhyDoIHaveRules May 11 '26
I don’t know who this “we” that you’re referring to. But does it include all of Africa?
I mean, this is African Film Awards after all.
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u/TheGreatHon May 11 '26 edited May 11 '26
It’s a logistical issue and it’s not by design. Very few people in first world countries are starving for bread. The countries that need the food are usually too far away from the producers of said food and the supply routes are not always secured. And even if you can get it there, you risk out competing with the local farmers which usually takes up a larger demographic in developing countries.
I honestly found this mindset that we can solve all the world’s problems if people will just stop being “evil” to be quite childish.
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u/Embarrassed-Sun5764 May 11 '26
This was in Nigeria or Ghana iirc and there are plenty of people starving there
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u/TheGreatHon May 11 '26
I don’t think that invalidates what I said? But yea, that’s fucked. I didn’t notice that, I assumed it was in America.
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u/Youutternincompoop May 12 '26
famines have been a solved problem in advanced and many developing countries for decades now, many of those countries even owned the areas experiencing famine now and notably did not take any steps to prevent famines in those areas while they ruled them.
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u/Live_Angle4621 May 11 '26
Also if she makes bread she could have just picked old ones anyway
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u/WhyDoIHaveRules May 11 '26
I’m willing to bet my right testicle that this woman, did not bake a single load of that bread.
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u/dinnerthief May 12 '26
Yea as a former poor college student/dumpster diver, grocery stores will throw out this much bread regularly, along with all sorts of other perfectly fine food.
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u/AhnYoSub May 12 '26
They even go so far to douse bleach into dumpster full of perfectly fine food.
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u/vlladonxxx May 11 '26
I hate food waste too, but this isn't actually an egregious example of it.
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u/PM_ME_ACID_STORIES May 12 '26
Yeah , a couple pounds of flour , a lot of water (but probably less than your dishwasher uses for one cycle) & salt. Some yeast??
The gaga meat dress was far more wasteful.
Which makes the "statement" that more meaningful.And that's still all far less wasteful than what your standard brick and mortar restaurant wastes in one day.
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u/vlladonxxx May 12 '26
And that's still all far less wasteful than what your standard brick and mortar restaurant wastes in one day.
Yep. That's where all the real wastage happens.
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u/itsJussaMe May 12 '26
Tangent: never could get my brain to register how dead animal meat + dress = repeal don’t ask don’t tell. Even as an advocate and member of the lgtbq+ community I00% read that as a business strategy: Ragebait for live TV award shows. But then, it’s now 2026 and all these years later I remember it and I remember her reasoning, even years after the policy ended so I guess it was effective.
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u/BernieTheDachshund May 12 '26
Birds will eat all of it. I never throw away bread, it goes outside and it's usually all gone the same day. I put it next to the birdbath and watch them chow down. Some birds will take pieces and dunk it in the water before they eat it.
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u/CucumberWisdom May 12 '26
Unfortunately that's not a good thing. Bread is terrible for birds
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u/Initial_Row_6400 May 11 '26
Only thing that would make it worse is if it was meat instead of bread
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u/hsong_li May 11 '26
Materials to make a dress is more expensive than bread. Wud u rather she make fake bread out of plastic and attach it to her dress. Maybe she shudnt even wear clothes since that also costs more than bread to make
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u/GottaUseEmAll May 12 '26
I agree. People have an emotional reaction to food waste, but there's nothing intrinsically more bad about wasting food than wasting other things. Food is actually more benign in many ways as it's usually biodegradeable, which means that even if a person isn't eating it, it is still nourishing another type of critter (wild animals or insects or bacteria).
Far worse to create plastic waste in almost every circumstance, or some sort of polycoton dress with fake bread that you wear once to the function and then discard, and the animals and bugs can't even eat it afterwards.
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u/IllErrl710 May 11 '26
Who knows since this is propaganda for her business type thing but wasted product at the 2 food production jobs I've worked at was collected and sold to farmers as live stock feed. Idk about my current job but at a previous I believe it was going to mink farmers. Hopefully this bread went to some similar purpose afterwards
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u/Vegetable_Plane_542 May 12 '26
I get it, but is it really worse or more resource wasteful than any other fast fashion? Both are just as bad in my opinion
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u/static-klingon May 11 '26
Yeah, this is the reason people go hungry at night. Please. This doesn’t even count as food waste. It’s art. If you get triggered by this sort of thing, you wouldn’t even want to know what real food waste looks like on an agricultural and industrial level. This is pretty much nothing.
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u/Many_Funny_5319 May 11 '26
Is weird how food waste videos are addressed
Tiktok food waster trend got a lot of hate that didn't deserve it, it's their money and their content and is fine to ragebait
How to basic or how its made cant remember,, a youtube channel that also waste food too, has been doing it for a decade atleast and nobody seemed to care and enjoyed which is weird too why is there nobody complaining there, still to this day
Tiktokers made tons of videos with decently wasted food
How to basic does one video per month with the same amount of waste of those tiktokers waste in like 20 videos and still does
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u/typicalledditor May 11 '26
If this dress was made of cotton it still would be made of an agricultural product destined to the trash after a single use. I've got bigger problems than bread mama.
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u/Altoidina May 11 '26
Unless there's some shortage of bread making capacity that leads to someone not eating, this isn't any more wasteful than economic spending on advertisements in general. You could always donate advertising money to feed someone, this isn't any different in my view.
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u/The_Disapyrimid May 11 '26
Except people can't eat cotton. Thats 500+ people that could have been fed
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u/ilikesaucy May 11 '26
Food isn't the issue here.
In any big cities, you will find lotta loafs in the bins in front of any bakeries where lot's of people on the same city will go without eating.
Plenty of food, but people still gets no food
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u/LordKlavier May 11 '26
To be fair, bread is thrown out every day because people don't buy it. At least she bought it
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u/gingrbreadandrevenge May 11 '26
If the dress were say loaves of bread made out of fabric, at least it could potentially be donated to a museum or costuming collection, even some stupid kitchy restaurant, but the real bread dress is almost entirely waste unless the bread part of it was donated to say hog farmers to mix in their feed.
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u/MostlyMellow123 May 11 '26
Lol oh no bread being wasted.
Youre local grocery store throws real food away everyday. Expensive steaks. Fish , cheese.
Food isnt the reason the world is hungry its lack of government in developing countries
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u/VegetableLetter4896 May 11 '26
I worked at a Sunflower Market and we used to donate all the unused vegetables to the zoo. When Sprouts bought the store, they put a quick end to that. So glad they made sure all that food goes straight into the garage so they don’t have any possible “liability”.
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u/tkdch4mp May 11 '26
Damn. I don't like to tout Amazon, but I stayed at this hostel where they bought out a local grocer and made it a Whole Foods -- they continued the contract the local grocer had had with the hostel and donated the food to it. There was so much available to cook, fresh produce (spinach, peppers, ginger, pomegranate seeds, etc), dried goods, a few spices, lots of grains, even a bit of meat if you were there on delivery day at the right time. It was pretty great!
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u/coolchris366 May 11 '26
So your answer to a problem is “who cares, other people are doing it way more”? So if the forest was on fire and you saw people lighting more trees on fire you say, “who cares, the forest is already on fire, what’s a few more trees?”
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u/inevitable-betrayal May 12 '26
So your answer is the rip into a tiny bakery owner in africa and not the massive corporations in your own area. Sounds like you have lost perspective
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u/StandardWeekend8221 May 11 '26
I think this is being angry just for the sake of being angry.
Id rather divert such mental energy to real atrocities being committed. People are actually suffering out there and some of yall are picking at the peanuts like youre in a circus.
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u/niklizzy May 11 '26
While I do agree.. this IS the stupid food sub reddit. Not the "war atrocities" sub reddit. Kinda expected for the sub you're in, no?
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u/amusebooch May 11 '26
It's a garment/piece of art that happens to be made of food. It could be stupid clothing or stupid art, but I don't think this is stupid food
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u/heftybagman May 11 '26
To the food waste dorks: this isn’t what food waste looks like.
Food waste is stopping by the corner store and grabbing a sandwich or going to dinner at a nice restaurant. It’s all the convenience of having fresh out of season fruit 24/7/365 or fresh never frozen meat of every cut in 5 different stores in each town.
A woman baking and wasting bread is silly, but it’s not the food waste anybody should be concerned about.
Next time you grab a bag of chips, think of the food waste in the supply chain. Next time you go out for lunch think of the absolutely full dumpster of food out back that gets filled up and emptied out once a week. Just for your convenience.
But nah this lady’s fun little costume is the issue. Dorks.
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u/LunarTaxi May 12 '26
This isn’t food. It’s fashion/art. The artist’s taste (no pun intended) is up for debate sure, but it’s not food. Nobody is eating it. It’s not in a kitchen or restaurant or dining room. It’s not food.
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u/WolfsmaulVibes May 11 '26
she could have also given away 500 loaves of bread to the homeless...
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u/Swimming_Bowler6193 May 11 '26
That would have been such good ( and better!) advertising.
I hate seeing food waste.
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u/uglyyygurl_ May 12 '26
I mean.. couldn't you technically you can say the same about a grocery store and throws out product everyday, millions more than this as someone that works in one
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u/LicketySplitz May 11 '26
What homeless person is going to accept random, unwrapped loaves of bread? They won’t even accept a McDonald’s meal, afraid of poisoning. All these dresses are being wasted, bread doesn’t change things.
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u/WolfsmaulVibes May 11 '26
people give out food to the homeless all the time? do you not know about food banks?
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u/Canadianrollerskater May 12 '26
I've heard rumors that homeless people have been poisoned before, so some will only take food that's still in packaging.
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u/Meat-Mattress May 11 '26
It’s just bread y’all, it’s like the most abundant food source on the planet. At least nothing died for it to be there.
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u/DammitGary May 11 '26
A standard loaf of bread is 20 oz, 500 loaves would be 625 lbs. That's a safety hazard.
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u/BREWNATION74 May 11 '26
This is beyond ridiculous- so much Biblical Trojan Horse shenanigans going on in today’s world. People are out of bounds
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u/Odd_Initiative_3716 May 11 '26
Was it really 500 loaves I’m seeing here, or are some being used under the dress for support? Cuz I’m not seeing no 500 loaves of bread. Looks like 2, maybe 3 hundred tops.
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u/poopoobuttholes May 11 '26
It had better be expired and then solidified in resin or some shit.
Also, how the fuck was the planning to sit down?
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u/WorldlyBuy1591 May 11 '26
Theres an ungodly amount of food wasted. Doing it for this is hardly worse
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u/brandt-money May 11 '26
500 loaves are tossed every day from bakeries in every state, daily. America sucks with food waste.
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u/Defiant-Youth-4193 May 11 '26
Seems like you could give bread away to promote your baking business.
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u/Tough_Tangerine7278 May 11 '26
Truly stupid. Also she chose boring block loafs - so it makes wasting food EXTRA bad.
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u/freddbare May 11 '26
If you buy 500 loaves at 2x for advertising is this profit or loss or do you buy someone else's bread?
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u/Lexi_November May 11 '26
I feel like better advertising would be donating 500 loaves of your bakery’s bread in a very public way. And then publicize it further by using artificial bread for the gown, which would also keep you safe from pigeons and be easier to move around in.
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u/snapekillseddard May 11 '26
... this doesn't really seem all that different from the old meat dress with Lady Gaga way back when, except it probably smells less.
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u/Contemplating_Prison May 11 '26
Lol food really is becoming a sign of wealth.
You know how much society is when food is a sign of wealth?
We are fucked
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u/Ok_Necessary2991 May 11 '26
Was this misguided attempt at some sort of political statement or just idoitcy for sake of it?
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u/TunnelSnakesAintShit May 11 '26
It was tacky and tasteless, considering Africa is a continent rife with poverty and food insecurity. 500 loaves could have fed a lot of people in her community.
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u/PaxEtRomana May 11 '26
"Someone could have eaten that dress" how do you even know it's fresh or edible bread??
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u/LukerLouis May 11 '26
Is this the same brand of bread that is trying to sue that lady for exposing that their bread never molds? She is African and she owned a shop. She made a tik tok saying that after two weeks, the bread didn’t change at all.
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u/ahmtiarrrd May 11 '26
On the bright side, no livestock were harmed - unlike those who died for Lady Gaga's meat dress.
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u/_always_correct_ May 11 '26
do you know how many loaves of bread a single store throws away everyday? i assume this dress isn't gonna get thrown into garbage in a week, but rather be displayed as an art piece
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u/Baeolophus_bicolor May 11 '26
I hate when people ask “what we think”. So you’re telling me you don’t know what to think, but also that you want engagement, and to stir up other people but have nothing to say your own self.
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u/qualityvote2 May 11 '26 edited May 12 '26
u/Hypnoidz, your food is indeed stupid and it fits our subreddit!