{"id":49891,"date":"2024-04-10T15:20:26","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T20:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=49891"},"modified":"2024-04-19T15:20:34","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T20:20:34","slug":"the-citys-most-baller-taco-parties-for-the-less-fortunate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=49891","title":{"rendered":"The city\u2019s most baller taco parties for the less fortunate"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"That\u2019s what I\u2019d want to do if I had the manpower, time, cooking acumen, multitasking ability and most importantly, didn\u2019t have to sweat the whole needing to work for a living thing.<\/span><\/p>\n

I volunteered for a charity event at work, because sometimes I just want to get the fuck out of the office, and honestly I do like doing charity work, so it\u2019s a win-win getting to do something that makes my soul feel a little less droll, but at the same time doing it under the banner of work, so I get out of the office and it makes me look good all the same.<\/span><\/p>\n

It was for the Atlanta Community Food Bank\u2019s pantry center out in Bumfuck<\/span> Stone Mountain, South Carolina<\/span>; admittedly, I didn\u2019t really look much at the details of the event, so firstly I failed to see that it was in Stone Mountain instead of their main offices in West Midtown next to the Fulton County jail, but also since I\u2019d done volunteer work for ACFB before in the past, I also assumed it would\u2019ve been more manual labor of packing boxes or unloading pallets or something of a similar nature.<\/span><\/p>\n

No, the pantry center is kind of cool, in the sense that it\u2019s set up to look like a tiny grocery store, where needy families can make appointments to come and \u201cshop\u201d for donated food, in the name of preserving their dignity and giving them the opportunity to feel like they\u2019re shopping instead of being handed handouts.\u00a0 My task during my shift was to keep watch over the freezer area, to make sure people weren\u2019t taking more than they were allowed to, as well as making sure the shelves were well stocked.<\/span><\/p>\n

Obviously, I wasn\u2019t going to be a hardass on people who needed this kind of service, so if there was the occasional person who grabbed a second package of frozen meat or pouch of lunch meat, I wasn\u2019t going to say anything, and at the end of the shift, we had serve 75 families and donated about 6,000 lbs. of food, so as far as I\u2019m concerned, I like the idea that we\u2019re helping impoverished people as well as preventing a tremendous amount of food waste.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, while on my shift, I couldn\u2019t help but notice that the majority of the food stuffs we had on the shelves on this particular day, man, could we have thrown such a banging taco party if we were to just cook up all of the available food and distribute it to the homeless or give it out to low-income areas where people might be hungry.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tons of chicken and beef products were in the freezers; at or past their marked expiration dates, but if they were thawed and cooked that day, it wouldn\u2019t be a problem.\u00a0 There were pallets of taco kits, so all the meat could be seasoned and doled out in crispy corn shells.\u00a0 Cans of beans, pinto and refried were in massive quantities, and some Whole Foods somewhere donated an endless amount of bags of blue corn tortilla chips.<\/span><\/p>\n

Needless to say, plenty of ingredients for a baller taco party were on hand, and I was thinking during my shift that if I were like a more ambitious type or something, what I\u2019d want to do is just take all of the meat and taco kids and tortilla chips in the pantry that day, cook up a ridiculous amount of tacos, and be that guy that goes around the city giving away taco meals to homeless people, or title-1 school kids or anyone in the city that is hungry, needs a little food assistance or just wants to get together to share tacos for a greater cause.<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s definitely one of those ideas that only those with time, manpower and not needing to sweat the need to work for wages could accomplish, but hey, there are worse ideas to ponder about when you\u2019re trying to do something good in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That\u2019s what I\u2019d want to do if I had the manpower, time, cooking acumen, multitasking ability and most importantly, didn\u2019t have to sweat the whole needing to work for a living thing. I volunteered for a charity event at work, because sometimes I just want to get the fuck out of the office, and honestly … Continue reading The city\u2019s most baller taco parties for the less fortunate<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[56,37,83,143],"class_list":["post-49891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-food","tag-job","tag-observations","tag-ohatlanta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49893,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49891\/revisions\/49893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}