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Local charities benefit from 8,000 pounds of food leftover from DNCs canceled stadium event

Charlotte Observer ^ | 9/07/12 | Mark Price

Posted on by Libloather

Local charities benefit from 8,000 pounds of food leftover from DNCs canceled stadium event

Moving presidents stadium speech meant tons of leftover food for needy

By Mark Price

The Charlotte Observer

Posted: Friday, Sep. 07, 2012

**SNIP**

On the menu: thousands of pounds of pecan-fried chicken, baked orzo, fresh crudités, three-bean bake, fresh-cut fruit and something called short rib cobbler.

And thats only a partial list.

**SNIP**

Sixty-five thousand people holding stadium credentials were told they could no longer attend and the Panthers were left with nearly 8,000 pounds of unneeded food.

Panthers spokesman Riley Fields said the more traditional vendor food (chips, hot dogs, burgers) will keep in freezers for upcoming games, but catered items for VIP suites had to be given away.



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To: Libloather

All Highly perishable food.

In other words, most of the food was wasted.

Nice spin though.



by 2 posted onby mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)

To: Libloather

What about all of those Rimshot Joe bobbleheads?



by 3 posted onby FlingWingFlyer (On 5 September 2012 A.D., the communist Democrats tried to kill God and failed.)

To: Libloather

I thought they did away with “already” prepared food to the shelters? Or is that a state wide thing.



by 4 posted onby NoGrayZone (For evil to triumph it is only necessary for good men to do nothing.)

To: mylife

All Highly perishable food. In other words, most of the food was wasted. Nice spin though. Beat me to it. It would have to be shipped out in refrigerated trucks for the cold stuff and heated racks for the hot stuff and kept at specific temperatures the entire time until it was finally served. No way could they have pulled that off. Most likely the majority ended up in dumpsters and that's where the homeless feasted.



To: Libloather

Did it ever rain?



To: Libloather

Baked orzo. Really????



To: Libloather

They could have staged a food fight on the football field between the God-fearing and the atheist Democrats, televised it on pay-per-view and used the proceeds to pay for cosmetic surgery for many of the female speakers.



To: yawningotter

Not a drop.



by 9 posted onby PeaceBeWithYou (De Oppresso Liber! (50 million and counting in Afghanistan and Iraq))

To: Libloather

It looked to me as if those delegates had long been on high caloric diets. I am surprised there was any food left over.



To: Libloather

These incompetent donkeys can't even properly plan and run a three day convention for 25,000 people. Is there any question as to why their attempts to run the entire country have almost destroyed us? Starting with Obama, they are so stupid they don't realize they're stupid. And to top it off, they are arrogant about it. Did you ever meet a hard core liberal who wasn't certain that liberals are all above average in intelligence and ability? Charles Darwin noted, Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge. Why liberals are the way they are: The Dunning-Kruger Effect: Why The Incompetent Dont Know Theyre Incompetent



by 11 posted onby Iron Munro ("In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit." - Ayn Rand)

To: bgill

No way could they have pulled that off. < Don't fool yourself!... donated to the right government entity for a small tax deduction....it would only cost “the government” 6 million dollars and 300 new government workers to complete the task!....



To: Libloather

“Sixty-five thousand people holding stadium credentials ....” Perhaps it’s true, but I don’t believe it. I think the dems moved because they didn’t believe they could get that many people to show up.



by 13 posted onby Gator113 (I would have voted for NEWT, now it's Ryan and the other guy.~Just livin' life, my way~)

To: Libloather

Paid for with stimulus money?



To: Libloather

All the bussed in lefty volunteers denied their speech should have gotten first dibs! /sarc



by 15 posted onby GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)

To: Libloather

They’re trying to decide whether to blab this, as an indication of how charitable they are, or whether it would show that so few showed up.



To: Libloather

Good call cancelling the stadium - the hurricane that swept through Charlotte was a bad... /s



by 17 posted onby GOPJ (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading - T. Jefferson)

To: Libloather

... the Panthers were left with nearly 8,000 pounds of unneeded food.

Panthers spokesman Riley Fields said the more traditional vendor food (chips, hot dogs, burgers) will keep in freezers for upcoming games, but catered items for VIP suites had to be given away. Sounds like the team got stuck with the food, but who actually paid for it?



by 18 posted onby ZOOKER ( Exploring the fine line between cynicism and outright depression)

To: Libloather

But no lobster or Wagyu beef?



by 19 posted onby 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)

To: ZOOKER

The people who cooked it paid for it. It certainly wasn’t Democrats or Obama. They still owe $15 million for that freak show called a convention.



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