I’ve been calling around various grocery stores this week, trying to get a hold of pork fat trimmings so that I can make my own lard for some recipes. One of the stores I called today said that they couldn’t give me the trimmings because they don’t have a code for it. I forget exactly what I said, but it was something to the effect of, “so you’re just going to throw it away instead?” “Yes.”

I understand that it does require some effort to separate from the rest of the waste, so I don’t mind paying a bit, but its upsetting that they have no way to pass scraps along to someone who will use them instead of just tossing them in the waste.

  • Altima NEO@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    They don’t actually dump em in the trash. They have a bone barrel where they toss scraps they gets sent off to a facility for processing.

    But yeah, if you’re talking to an employee who doesn’t wanna go through the effort of figuring it out, they won’t help you.

    • QualifiedKitten@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      51·
      4 hours ago

      I hope you’re right, but I’m in the US, so I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s only true elsewhere.

      I’ve been asking around for a while in order to plan for my holiday cookiing, and got a small amount from another store this morning, but when I asked about getting more another day, they basically said they were doing me a favor and wouldn’t be able to provide more. The reasoning they gave me was that most of the pork they receive now is pretrimmed, but they did say that they could provide lots of beef fat trimmings, if that’s what I wanted. I’m sure that would be close enough (for central American tamales), but I’m already modifying the family recipe a decent amount to work with what I can get locally, so I’m hesitant to make more modifications when I do still have some less convenient options available to acquire the proper ingredients.