h a l f b a k e r yI like this idea, only I think it should be run by the government.
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Go Halves
Give half your food to someone who needs it more than you do | |
Recently I was thinking about how porky I've become and how to lose some weight, without resorting to such hackneyed means as exercise. I was thinking, as is my habit, in a restaurant (I find the proximity of food helps me think). I ordered a burger and swapped halves with my friend (he had the guinea
fowl), then after eating my half-burger realised that I was full.
This got me thinking - what if I just ate half of everything served to me at restaurants ? Of course that would be wasteful. What if, I continued, there was a way for me to send half my food to a starving child in Africa/India/wherever ? Then I could lose weight and gain karma points at the same time.
Hence the idea of 'Go Halves' - the charity that lets you do just that. The idea is simple - you pay full whack, but ask to 'Go Halves' and nominate the charity of your choice. You then receive a plate with your food bisected neatly down the middle (in the manner of a Damien Hirst), or just half the portion size if the former was impractical.
Half the money you paid goes direct to the charity you nominated; and you get a receipt to satisfy yourself there's been no chicanery on the part of the restaurant.
This hits several buttons in one handy package - first, our obsession with weight and diet; second, our guilt about being rich first-worlders; third, our love of conspicuous donations (vis. the Make Poverty History wristband craze); and fourth, the universal appeal of 'impulse buying' - this would be 'impulse charity'.
Finally, it should appeal because of the simplicity of the gesture - giving half of your sustenance to someone else.
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<starving child in Africa>"This half-burger is cold!"<sciA> |
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Of course you could just save half your lunch for tomorrow. But still (+) |
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A nice concept that flies in the face of crapitalism. [+] |
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Would this apply to all-you-can-eat specials too? If so, count me in :) |
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Well known in Germany as the FdH diet plan. FdH = Friss die Hälfte (Eat half of it) |
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Or you could order a smaller meal, then send money to a charity you chose, not one run by the restauranteur's brother-in-law. |
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+ I think it's wonderful. (I noticed how porky I have gotten over the winter.)... and I like the idea of *impulse charity* as I always give a dollar to beggars or street musicians which seems to always be an impulse. |
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Or you can box the other half and give it to a homeless person on the street. |
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"Let them eat half my cake." |
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I really don't see how this helps anyone anywhere in the slightest. |
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Depends how you go about it. God's Love We Deliver and other New York charities deliver the unused food from restaurants to the homeless every day of the week. Indeed, that is the basis of Pret A Manger's marketing here, that it's food is fresh bacause every night it gives the leftover sandwiches to City Harvest. |
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Since American portions are so big, and so much bigger than a normal person needs, I have frequently doggy-bagged my leftovers and given them to street beggars. |
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Whether this helps them or hurts them is open to debate, but I feel good about it. |
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//Since American portions are so big, and so much bigger than a normal person needs//
Indeed, assuming that bumhat is in the US, this idea is a bit like a shop doubling it's prices one day and then announcing a half price sale the next. |
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I guess the difference is that you're giving the money to the charity of your choice - not just food-related. So it could be helping heroin addicts in the inner city, cancer research or water aid, false legs for mine victims, anything. |
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