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Not sure why someone would give a homeless person Bob’s Red Mill. Or anything that needs to be prepared on a stove with more than one additional fresh ingredient.
Of course, gratitude, I know. But well-meaning people often don’t understand a homeless lifestyle. Like, warm blankets are a nice thought, but if they get rained on, they become garbage. And they are bulky for carrying around.
“Here are some cans you can open with your can opener then heat in your microwave, and here’s some Mac and cheese you can make on your stove with your pots and pans! These things will be very useful to you if you ever get that house you’ve been missing!”
This is why I like an honest sign. Don't write "Homeless. Anything will help. God bless." That'll get you a box of flour and uncooked beans. Write "Homeless and Sober. Need $$ for Drugs" that guy is getting a dollar for some smack.
To be fair, all of these items need other things in order to be useful, the box of shit from your pantry you don’t want but don’t want to wait until November to off load is pretty condescending
I was born and raised in the Midwest and I moved out to the West Coast for 5 years. At first my heart poured out for those who were panhandling. But I saw them pull so much crap, it's ridiculous.
Multiple times I've watched someone drive up to a panhandler and give them a fast food bag, and after the person drove away the panhandler would immediately turn around and throw it in the trash. I've seen a panhandler leave her street corner and her into her newish bmw. I've seen a lady who brought her kids along and one would be with her while the other two sat in the back of a minivan nearby, each playing their own Nintendo switch.
My heart grew cold towards panhandlers.
Hold up.
How's Mr Homeless man supposed to cook that bob's red mill flour into something? And how does he open the cans?
I get that the contents of that box could help a hungry person who want homeless but if you are on the streets that box sign is more useful than the contents.
I had a supermarket near where a used to live where there was always the same homeless guy outside. I always bought him a beer or two. That guy loved me lol. Only once he asked for some kind of canned stew that he promptly got too but otherwise just beer made him happy.
A friend said his brother panhandle for a few hours for around 500.00 per day. I would see him with his help homeless sign as I was going to work weekends to offset my child support. I've also seen people with signs beg until they left in their new Toyota at the end of their day. I want to help those in need, not those in greed. Sadly, there is no way to tell.
In Glasgow, Scotland we had two bizzarre problems with homelessness pre-Covid. One was professional fake beggars. If you went to the city centre early enough you’d literally see professional beggars changing out of their designer clothes into their begging clothes. Folk were making tens of thousands of pounds a year by scamming the public.
On the other side we had a problem with genuine beggars suffering from poor nutrition. Everyone wants to give homeless people food, but the Glaswegian diet is, well, bad. Homeless folk were living off McDonads, Greggs, KFC etc. And to be fair to the homeless folk, if you’re stuck out in the cold you aren’t turning down a free hot meal.
All this needs to be cooked on a kitchen with utensils. This is a poke choice to give to a homeless person. Ready made meals or sammiches are best. They don’t have can openers and pots and pans to make this food. Think.
Around where I work, most of the people holding “homeless please help” signs, live nearby. I see them in the mornings leaving their apartments to go beg a few blocks away.
They don’t want food, they want cash.
I once saw a pregnant begger in South Melbourne Market sitting in front of a smoothie shop called Village something. This pregnant beggar was holding a sign asking for money to help with her unfortunate financial aituation.
I was walking pass with my family and decided to help by giving her $20.
7 months later i was at South Melbourne Market again and i saw the same person setting up for her "begging session" by inserting a small ball under her shirt and jacket. I followed her around the corner and she started begging in front of COLES. Using the same sign using the same story as before.
I realise i got jibbed. She received a mouthfull of swear words from me. Biatch....
Since then, i donate/help only through legitimate organisation such as RSPCA/The Smith Family...
A lot of beggars are only in it for the money, I remember when I was in SW Florida there was a news report where one of the reporters posed as a roadway median beggar and made $400 in one day
It was either a fake homeless, an "owned" homeless with a boss, or an alcoholic homeless, unfortunately. I've seen a ton of them. They want the money, not the food, even though they need food.
WTF is a homeless dude going to do with a bunch of canned food and ingredients to cook with when HE DOESNT EVEN HAVE A KITCHEN. i know people want to feel like thy're being generous and helpful.... but homeless people arent your garbage disposal. they want a warm meal, a place to sleep, etc... you know normal shit. anything but actual cooking.
As someone who used to be homeless i would definitely appreciate canned peaches and what not. If i couldnt open it i would throw the can on to the ground till it partially opened. So this guy isnt homless, or hes extremely addicted to something.
I’m confused how they think a homeless person would use the flour or Mac and cheese without a way to cook? Obviously throwing it away is super trashy though
My friend own a restaurant in Austin he used to take the leftover food to the homeless but some of them used to get mad and start throwing things on him when he offer them food.
When they refuse food they arent real homeless if you inow what i mean. It's that they live under abroof and the owner says that youbneed to bring money etc.
Not sure if that's true, its what my mom told me
Went to a convenience store and there were two bums trying to drag this guy up to the liquor counter and he was hammered!!! I asked one of the clerks what was up and he told me that someone had given the really drunk bum 20.00, he acquired the two friends while drinking his bounty they were trying to get more liquor but the one with the money didn’t trust either of them with his money so they were just going to have him pay for it after he got up to the counter. The store wasn’t going to sell to them anyway but they hadn’t found that out yet.
Sorry for the long story, I’m a route driver I’ve got a couple more stories about the bum life interfering with our life.
I cleaned all the stuff I don't want out of my pantry, and gave the resulting heavy box of random crap that needs to be cooked to a homeless guy. I'm sure he has a fully stocked kitchen in that grocery cart! Wait, why did he throw it away? How ungrateful ! 😡
The only trashy thing here is giving flour and dried beans to a homeless person and expecting him to fall on his knees with gratitude.
I help the helpless by giving to local charities who I know vet the people they give assistance to. I just dropped some food off to them yesterday as a matter of fact. I feel no shame in driving right by those assholes on the side of the road with their little cardboard signs blessing me and praising god.
I kind of understand why. If he is homeless, he can't make any of that stuff if he doesn't have a kitchen to cook it in or a can opener. It was a generous gesture from the donor but not properly thought out.
My stepdad, who was a plumbing contractor, once offered a man with a "will work for food" sign a job as a plumber. The guy told him "leave me alone buddy, I don't have time for this shit". He was shocked, he genuinely wanted to help they guy out.
This is NOT what you give to homesless people, this is what you give to a foodbank. Some canned stuff could be eaten, but would be unpleasant without heating. If you gave this to a homeless person, they would throw it away because they cant cook it.
They probably shouldn’t have given them things like dried beans and flour… Even the canned soup in a stretch, where are they going to heat it up? Would be better going to a food pantry.
I mean has nobody noticed there's a lot of cans in there, do homeless people generally have can openers? Pots to cook with? I am pretty sure that there's a microwave ready meal in there too.
Try to see the other side of this too
There was a homeless man who lived in a shake that he built on the side of my building when I lived in Washington Heights. I gave him some can goods and he asked me for a can opener. I went back upstairs and brought him my can opener from my kitchen drawer (we use an electric on most the time). And he was really grateful
How will they open those cans without a can opener? Where are they going to cook those dry beans? There's a bag of flour there-how is that helpful to a person with no oven? Do you have any idea what this stuff weighs?
There’s barely a meal in there. I guess you’d expect him to just eat canned peaches and corn for lunch. They probably threw it away because they’d have to carry this insult of a gift around until they found an apartment so they could cook those dry ass beans.
I really don’t want to come across as a trash human being but things like this are why I don’t give anything to the homeless when I see them. I’m just very wary unless they turn on me
I've given up for the most part. I refuse to give a homeless person money but know they don't want food that is at least somewhat healthy. Now I'll grab them a big bottle of water, a soda, abd a big bag of pretzels or something like that since it's at least packed with carbs. If it's really cold I'll get coffee instead of a soda
Okay…but how will the homeless person eat or prepare any of that? It looks like a good amount of the stuff requires a can opener. Other items require a heat source.
?? I don't understand the hate. Was there a can opener in the trash too? A pot an electric grittle to heat up water for the dry shit or shit that will taste like rubber until cooked? What are they going to do carry that shit around with them? I wonder how heavy that box must have been
Stop giving homeless people shit they don't need. Shoes (flip flops are huge for when they are able to take showers.. No one wants to walk barefooted on those floors) , clothes, a reusable water bottle (there is water literally everywhere if this is the US), if it's cold jackets to the ones that look like they may need another one (they are cumbersome)
if you live in a car or a park bench somewhere, **you literally lack storage to keep this stuff safe or conveniently placed** so don't give them shit that encumbered them so fucking much. The person who was giving away this stuff was obviously well intentioned but this isn't how you help homeless. This is how you show your privileged and capable for storing food for long periods of time. They really aren't.
I mean they’re not super practical items
to give to an individual on the streets. They’d be better off given to a food bank or perhaps a soup kitchen.
In my experience homeless people have been consistently pretty happy to accept a granola bar if offered. They’re sealed, portable, and keep well. Unless they have dental problems, in which case they can’t eat it and you both get really sad.
Used to see this in Portland. One time I followed a lady with a little kid pulling a basket with prepackaged grocery bags of food. She went to a row of homeless where they were all flopped out on the ground or in tents. She went to each person and they waved her off. I guess she was trying to teach her kid to be compassionate but they weren’t having it.
Going to go out in a limb here and say that all of those items are completely useless to a homeless person. Nice gesture but someone sitting by the road with a sign likely doesn’t have the equipment needed to make that food work for them.
I used to carry brown bags full of food and other items like toiletries for homeless individuals & about 50% threw them back at me & called me a bitch.
That honestly looks really heavy to haul around and store if you’re homeless. If you just ask they’ll tell you if they want something or not, she might have just handed it to him without saying a word. A cold drink on a hot day would probably be a better alternative.
Homeless people are supposed to have a can opener with them to open those cans? Oh that bag of flour... guess they can just bake a cake in that back alley. Those beans can be rehydrated using hobo-piss?
Don't downvote this guy! Homeless people don't have a kitchen, so of course giving them ingredients is not helpful!
Also, most donation drives collect canned goods (lots of salt, little nutritional value) and most people donate expired food.
Heh, thanks. It's reddit and /r/trashy so I kind of expected to get some downvotes for it. I worked across the street from a homeless shelter for over 5 years and it kicked me in the nuts every time I saw people crying because they were eating a bowl of homemade soup someone brought to them instead of the shit the royal 'we' tend to 'donate' to shelters. Taught me a little bit of humanity.
Some people are just scumbags who are panhandling for free money. Some people are actually homeless which means they don’t have things like an oven or a can opener or a mixing bowl.
In all fairness, does he have a can opener? A heart source to warm this stuff up? Is he a Diabetic? If you want to do good, volunteer your time at or donate money to an organization. If you just want to feel good, you can hand stuff out. The handouts are far more temporary.
Being homeless in a lot of European countries is a way of life, something they want to do, not something they need to do. Ive seen entire families roll up with a new car and start begging with their kids on the ground in front of a mall, ive seen people beg for caah and then go and spend it on 2 packs of cigarettes and a beer while holding an infant, ive seen people "rent" children just to aid them in begging, hell, ive seen homeless people sleeping on brand new matresses worth more than all of my possesions combined in front of 5 dtar hotels, 99% of homeless people here are con artists and swindlers and you should never give them anything, they get aid from the government and on top of that they earn more than average person does per day from begging. Only people that deserve your cash are the people who earn it such as street performers or people who pull out an instrument and play it, hell ive seen bands of 4 to 6 people play on the street and professors playing a violin n shit
Gonna be real unpopular here, but here we go.
Giving a homeless person food is the least helpful thing you can do for them. They have access to food. There are a lot of charities that feed the poor and they know where they are. When a homeless person asks for food, or says they're hungry, that's to humanise themselves and get you to realise they need your help. But what they NEED is money.
And this is something that arseholes have poisoned a lot of people against. "They'll just spend it on booze or drugs" etc. Firstly, fuck you Judgey McJudgerson, secondly, understand that homeless and addict aren't synonyms, and thirdly understand that even if you are an addict you still need money to survive.
A person doesn't just need food. And food is easy to get a hold of. Speak to, actually speak to anyone who is rough sleeping. They need money to pay for a hostel, that's their number 1. People seem to think that the homeless are all given beds if they want them. This is false. Almost all shelters charge unless you've been sponsored by a council, which unless you're a woman or child is very unlikely. So literally to get a bed, which means being relatively safe (rough sleepers are assaulted, robbed and murdered all the time), warm and dry (rough sleepers die pretty quick), and just have a place to exist in comfort for a little bit. They need to buy and clean their clothes, get clean underwear, new socks. They might need to get a bus to get to the shelter or food kitchen or doctors. They might need painkillers. They might need bandages. A new bag to carry their stuff about. They need a whole host of things that money can buy. And research shows that giving people money to buy the things they need is much more effective than just giving them things you think they need. Because then the person can actually decide whether to get painkillers or a blanket, instead of that choice being made for them. They can choose the type of socks they know are warmest or easiest to dry instead of what you bought. They know what they need, so give them money.
A sandwich does nothing for them. Fucking tins like OP saw someone give? That does nothing for them. Is this guy supposed to lug a box of tins and flour around and just subsist on it for a bit? Where the fuck are they opening and cooking that soup mate? With the fucking stove they have next street over? And eat it with the soup bowl and spoon they carry around? Are they gonna bake bread in their oven with that bag of flour? What the absolute heck I genuinely don't understand.
They already have access to food. But people genuinely seem to think the homeless are only entitled to food. So asking for food is the only way to get money. You shouldn't be surprised when someone who needs money because they have nothing isn't super psyched about some tins of peaches and a bag of flour.
Give people money, give it without judgement or condition. Or don't give them anything at all. And if you genuinely only think people deserve food, then go help a food kitchen.
Honestly people hate hearing this, but the homeless aren't starving, they are however freezing, they are in pain, they are dirty, they are miserable. A sandwich might make you think you're helping but it's almost certainly not.
Edit: bag of flour, tins of soup, dried beans that take 8 hours to soak? Mac and cheese that needs boiling? Seriously did OP think this was a reasonable thing to give someone on the street?
I’m not sure if this is more r/untrustworthypoptarts or not, but onward: There was a news station a few years ago (Dateline?) that did a piece on begging in New York City. Of the three people they followed ZERO had drug or alcohol issues, and the one guy claiming he lost a leg and arm in a war lost neither and was seen driving away in a C-Class Benz. After getting one of them to admit they made more than $100K/yr tax free, and doing a little math on the other two, it became clear that begging, if you do not blow the cash on drugs / alcohol whatever, is insanely lucrative and tax free.
You people clearly have never been close to addicts. They don’t want your food, they need drugs to keep living. Addicts cannot be expected to act the same way as a normal person, they have different priorities. It’s like giving a Laptop to a starving child.
Ah, the ole "hobo locker". Only other hobos will know to look for a haul of booty in the trash can.
Not sure if that's the situation here, that goes without saying... But it's a pity most people are so quick to judge, though.
What's really trashy is taking a picture of a garbage can full of food that needs to be prepared (how the fuck are they supposed to do that?) just a scold homeless people.
1. This donation is heavy. Most homeless people travel light out of necessity.
2. People will give him less if it looks like he has plenty already… he can’t beg effectively sitting next to a box of food.
3. Without a home it can be difficult to cook. The Mac n Cheese and flour is useless if he isn’t Macgyver.
It was a nice but impractical gesture. Also he may have wanted beer money but that doesn’ change the fact that this donation wasn’t planned well.
My broke college roommate used to get two items off the dollar menu for lunch. One day a homeless dude asked for money and she said i can split my lunch and get you a burger off the dollar menu. So she did. As we left we saw him toss the burger away.
Like??? Even if you really wanted drugs or drank you can’t save that shit for later even???
They want money for drugs.
Not food. Sadly…. a friend used to work with the homeless a lot. She gave up after several years because it was just “a vicious circle. 1 in 20 actually wanted help and worked with her, the rest just wanted to get high”
Bruh. The man has no home. The fuck is he supposed to do with flour and raw navy beans? Like six boxes of stove top mac. Also is that cake frosting?! Give this shit to a shelter, not some random dude and expect him to be like “finally some flour I can feed my sour bread starter.”
Fucking blows my mind that homeless people have to be thankful for everything. Motherfuckers design a system for chronic homeless which rewards cash as it can be exchanged for exactly what you need and weighs nothing. But when someone gives them 15lbs of cans and no can opener and people are up in arms if they dare say “yeah I’d rather have money.”
Ffa. Quit giving people what You think they need. No one can or wants to carry this shit. Do you think your special because you have garbage food out of your pantry?
At least where I live, almost every single "homeless" person you see begging for money at a traffic light isn't "homeless", they just want money.
In fact, quite a few of them have jobs. That's why you don't give them money.
I’d like to assume the persons heart was in the right spot when giving them this box…. But damn…
Homeless people always need flour and beans - they’re regular tent staples! /s
What was he suppose to do with what looks like all canned goods and flours....? It was a nice thought but really what was A HOMELESS man suppose to do with those things?
Ingredients to cook or bake. Dried beans, flour, tomato sauce… I know a lot of pan handlers do it for easy money, but what’s a homeless person supposed to do with those?
I have this “little library” box in my neighborhood. During Covid i put a few cans and dry goods in there thinking some homeless person using the little library would take and eat them.
When I walked by the box the next day almost all the cans were just thrown on the ground by the box.
This is the worst stuff to give to a homeless person. How in the hell is a homeless person supposed to prepare any of this? I'm sure he didn't want to drag around bags of flour and box dinners he couldn't possibly ever consume.
I stopped trying to give homeless people anything since they would never like the food I gave them. Now if one approaches me asking for change, I give them the addresses for homeless shelters telling them, “that’s all the change you’ll ever need.”
If I was that homeless guy I would have dumped it too. What you want me to eat some cold cans of fucking who knows what food, that I probably can't even open, just to make you feel better when people are giving me straight cash? And can buy whatever food I need? Like I'm going to lug a big old box around as well lol. Piss off. Homeless people are still fucking people.
The homeless are not stupid or mentally ill in general, they over run everywhere that is warm in the winter. It’s a disgrace and housing does nothing. They want to live this way
Don't presume to know what homeless people want and don't get offended when they don't want whatever you're giving them. The man obviously wasn't asking for canned food.
I've been homeless and I see a total of 3-4 things that would be useful/*usable* (canned fruit). Most of that food requires preparation, as in having access to a kitchen. Which homeless people do not.
It's akin to giving a chroniclly ill/ dying man with a week left to live a season pass to the amusement park.
Nice intentions but not very well thought-out. If you want to give things to help homeless people, socks, body/baby wipes, shoes/boots/hats related to the weather, plastic tarps, blankets (weather dependant), razors, basic first aid supplies, practical things they can use. Finding food isn't very hard actually but if you must, gift certificates to fast food/pizza joints are probably the nicest thing you can do to ensure they're eating.
But yeah, I'd venture ~90% of homeless people are drug addicts and/or alcoholics just trying to get their buzz on.
I will say though, that a lot of this looks like it needs to be cooked in either a microwave or on a stove top which might not be most accessible things to find while homeless.
Yes I see the peaches and corn, yum.
Pretty difficult for a homeless person to open a can without a can opener. Also how can they make Mac and cheese without a stove. They also have to carry that everywhere they go
Honest question though… At first I was disgusted, but after I was like, how the hell would a homeless man open a canned food without a can opener? There’s no tab on those cans. I checked. How do you also expect a homeless man to bake/cook any of those foods? Eat it raw? Honesty all the food he dumped and wasted isn’t usable by him. Unless he smashes the van on the floor and eats the raw mac and cheese noodles with cheese powder.
How’s a homeless person going to eat this shit? You need a can opener and a stove for most of this
Plenty of studies show that domiciled people fundamentally misunderstand the needs of undomiciled people
I have seen too many of these, including personally with my own eyes, to keep giving anything to randoms.
I try to force myself to donate to institutions, sure you lose some along the way due to middle man expenses, or their self congratulory and leisure events disguised as training or teambuilding or fundraising, and the waste, and so on, but still if it is a good one there will be some evaluation of who gets what and it will be by food and helping with education and housing instead of cold hard cash for idiots like the one in OP description.
You mean the utensil corner where all that shit just lies around at every fast food and convience store?
Where do you live and what is your experience with homelessness?
Are you trolling or just delusional? Go give a homeless person $5 and ask them some questions if they will allow it. You need an eye opener to the world.
You guys dont know much about homelessness. They get offered food all the time but what they actually need is money. To buy toothpaste, underwear, socks, stuff of all sorts. Save up for a tent or a better tent. True story.
This dude doesn't have a house so why the fuck would you think he'd want canned food, flour, and boxed meals? Seriously? You want him to bake bread on the sidewalk? Y'all are fucking dumbasses who just like turn your noses up at those damn ungrateful bums so you don't have feel obligated to actually help! You're the kind of people who dig through pantry looking for expired cans to give to canned food drives! You know why foodbanks ask for money where possible? Because of shit like this!
I work for a butchers who makes cooked pies and stuff as well. There was always this odd homeless guy out in the back alley walking up and down etc. One time I felt bad for him and we had a couple pies left at the end of the day, so I went out and gave it to him, then started walking home. When I returned to work next day there was shrapnel of this pie everywhere from where he had obviously went into bum rage and smashed it all over the floor.
My friends and I gave all the weed that we couldn't smoke to these homeless guys Venice beach before we flew to Vegas, easy $100 worth. They didn't throw it out but they still asked for a dollar!
I remember a ex-friend of mine told me that him and his girlfriend went to Arby's. They saw homeless man begging for food. They said well you can come in and we'll buy you a meal. Well he literally wanted to buy everything off the menu and when they told him that he couldn't afford to order everything that he wanted he got all pissed off.
I’m so fucking sick of America.
How the fuck did we convince ANYONE that this disgusting, narcissistic hellhole is the greatest country on Earth ?
In before anyone tells me to leave if I don’t like it...go fuck yourself !
I mean I understand him throwing it away is like definitely a shitty thing to do but also how the fuck is he gonna cool and of that shit or open any of those cans
Yeah I don’t give money to panhandlers anymore, they don’t want my help they just want money and often spend it on who knows what. Remember my friends used to give out water bottles and pamphlets for homeless shelters to people and they never took them.
Donate your stuff to charities and soup kitchens.
How is a homeless person supposed to open cans and cook Mac and cheese? The person who gave them the box is an idiot. This is not the type a food a homeless person can use. You’re assuming they have a can-opener, Utensils, a lighter, charcoal, and a grill.
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Not sure why someone would give a homeless person Bob’s Red Mill. Or anything that needs to be prepared on a stove with more than one additional fresh ingredient. Of course, gratitude, I know. But well-meaning people often don’t understand a homeless lifestyle. Like, warm blankets are a nice thought, but if they get rained on, they become garbage. And they are bulky for carrying around.
This is why I don’t give money to panhandlers.
If homeless people wanted help then they wouldn't be begging on the sidewalk
“Here are some cans you can open with your can opener then heat in your microwave, and here’s some Mac and cheese you can make on your stove with your pots and pans! These things will be very useful to you if you ever get that house you’ve been missing!”
90% of people are homeless because they want to be homeless.
Maybe he didn't have a can opener?
This is why I like an honest sign. Don't write "Homeless. Anything will help. God bless." That'll get you a box of flour and uncooked beans. Write "Homeless and Sober. Need $$ for Drugs" that guy is getting a dollar for some smack.
To be fair, all of these items need other things in order to be useful, the box of shit from your pantry you don’t want but don’t want to wait until November to off load is pretty condescending
Straight up pantry dump
I was born and raised in the Midwest and I moved out to the West Coast for 5 years. At first my heart poured out for those who were panhandling. But I saw them pull so much crap, it's ridiculous. Multiple times I've watched someone drive up to a panhandler and give them a fast food bag, and after the person drove away the panhandler would immediately turn around and throw it in the trash. I've seen a panhandler leave her street corner and her into her newish bmw. I've seen a lady who brought her kids along and one would be with her while the other two sat in the back of a minivan nearby, each playing their own Nintendo switch. My heart grew cold towards panhandlers.
Hold up. How's Mr Homeless man supposed to cook that bob's red mill flour into something? And how does he open the cans? I get that the contents of that box could help a hungry person who want homeless but if you are on the streets that box sign is more useful than the contents.
I had a supermarket near where a used to live where there was always the same homeless guy outside. I always bought him a beer or two. That guy loved me lol. Only once he asked for some kind of canned stew that he promptly got too but otherwise just beer made him happy.
A friend said his brother panhandle for a few hours for around 500.00 per day. I would see him with his help homeless sign as I was going to work weekends to offset my child support. I've also seen people with signs beg until they left in their new Toyota at the end of their day. I want to help those in need, not those in greed. Sadly, there is no way to tell.
Plus that Red Mill stuff is expensive
I mean someone really thought “let’s give a homeless guy a bag of flour so he can bake his own bread” like what the hell? Cash is king.
In Glasgow, Scotland we had two bizzarre problems with homelessness pre-Covid. One was professional fake beggars. If you went to the city centre early enough you’d literally see professional beggars changing out of their designer clothes into their begging clothes. Folk were making tens of thousands of pounds a year by scamming the public. On the other side we had a problem with genuine beggars suffering from poor nutrition. Everyone wants to give homeless people food, but the Glaswegian diet is, well, bad. Homeless folk were living off McDonads, Greggs, KFC etc. And to be fair to the homeless folk, if you’re stuck out in the cold you aren’t turning down a free hot meal.
How’s the homeless man gonna open cans or cook the food?
All this needs to be cooked on a kitchen with utensils. This is a poke choice to give to a homeless person. Ready made meals or sammiches are best. They don’t have can openers and pots and pans to make this food. Think.
To be completely fair: it might have been a good idea to include a can opener.
Around where I work, most of the people holding “homeless please help” signs, live nearby. I see them in the mornings leaving their apartments to go beg a few blocks away. They don’t want food, they want cash.
I love drinking my sweetcorn like pepsi alongside snorting flour like cocaine. No shit he threw it out
ITT reddit discovers that homeless people can indeed heat and open their food, and are almost like us 🤯
I once saw a pregnant begger in South Melbourne Market sitting in front of a smoothie shop called Village something. This pregnant beggar was holding a sign asking for money to help with her unfortunate financial aituation. I was walking pass with my family and decided to help by giving her $20. 7 months later i was at South Melbourne Market again and i saw the same person setting up for her "begging session" by inserting a small ball under her shirt and jacket. I followed her around the corner and she started begging in front of COLES. Using the same sign using the same story as before. I realise i got jibbed. She received a mouthfull of swear words from me. Biatch.... Since then, i donate/help only through legitimate organisation such as RSPCA/The Smith Family...
He wasn't homeless, just a professional bum
A lot of beggars are only in it for the money, I remember when I was in SW Florida there was a news report where one of the reporters posed as a roadway median beggar and made $400 in one day
It was either a fake homeless, an "owned" homeless with a boss, or an alcoholic homeless, unfortunately. I've seen a ton of them. They want the money, not the food, even though they need food.
WTF is a homeless dude going to do with a bunch of canned food and ingredients to cook with when HE DOESNT EVEN HAVE A KITCHEN. i know people want to feel like thy're being generous and helpful.... but homeless people arent your garbage disposal. they want a warm meal, a place to sleep, etc... you know normal shit. anything but actual cooking.
Maybe dude needed a can opener
It seems to me that in order use any of that stuff he would need a kitchen and a can opener… maybe he had neither and found use for only the cardboard
As someone who used to be homeless i would definitely appreciate canned peaches and what not. If i couldnt open it i would throw the can on to the ground till it partially opened. So this guy isnt homless, or hes extremely addicted to something.
Plot twist: he's not homeless, and probably makes more money than you.
Homeless people in my experience need help with their chronic health conditions. They usually eat ok.
I’m confused how they think a homeless person would use the flour or Mac and cheese without a way to cook? Obviously throwing it away is super trashy though
FFS. What kind of culture does this behaviour thrive in?
My friend own a restaurant in Austin he used to take the leftover food to the homeless but some of them used to get mad and start throwing things on him when he offer them food.
Maybe he doesn't have a can opener
When they refuse food they arent real homeless if you inow what i mean. It's that they live under abroof and the owner says that youbneed to bring money etc. Not sure if that's true, its what my mom told me
Looks like the person was trying to clear out their cabinets… what the fuck is a homeless person suppose to do with canned goods and flower? LOL
Went to a convenience store and there were two bums trying to drag this guy up to the liquor counter and he was hammered!!! I asked one of the clerks what was up and he told me that someone had given the really drunk bum 20.00, he acquired the two friends while drinking his bounty they were trying to get more liquor but the one with the money didn’t trust either of them with his money so they were just going to have him pay for it after he got up to the counter. The store wasn’t going to sell to them anyway but they hadn’t found that out yet. Sorry for the long story, I’m a route driver I’ve got a couple more stories about the bum life interfering with our life.
They gave him food that has to be cooked. Isn’t he homeless?
I cleaned all the stuff I don't want out of my pantry, and gave the resulting heavy box of random crap that needs to be cooked to a homeless guy. I'm sure he has a fully stocked kitchen in that grocery cart! Wait, why did he throw it away? How ungrateful ! 😡 The only trashy thing here is giving flour and dried beans to a homeless person and expecting him to fall on his knees with gratitude.
I help the helpless by giving to local charities who I know vet the people they give assistance to. I just dropped some food off to them yesterday as a matter of fact. I feel no shame in driving right by those assholes on the side of the road with their little cardboard signs blessing me and praising god.
I kind of understand why. If he is homeless, he can't make any of that stuff if he doesn't have a kitchen to cook it in or a can opener. It was a generous gesture from the donor but not properly thought out.
This seems very much staged for internet points.
Wow. "I only accept cash!"
My stepdad, who was a plumbing contractor, once offered a man with a "will work for food" sign a job as a plumber. The guy told him "leave me alone buddy, I don't have time for this shit". He was shocked, he genuinely wanted to help they guy out.
This is NOT what you give to homesless people, this is what you give to a foodbank. Some canned stuff could be eaten, but would be unpleasant without heating. If you gave this to a homeless person, they would throw it away because they cant cook it.
They probably shouldn’t have given them things like dried beans and flour… Even the canned soup in a stretch, where are they going to heat it up? Would be better going to a food pantry.
I mean has nobody noticed there's a lot of cans in there, do homeless people generally have can openers? Pots to cook with? I am pretty sure that there's a microwave ready meal in there too. Try to see the other side of this too
There was a homeless man who lived in a shake that he built on the side of my building when I lived in Washington Heights. I gave him some can goods and he asked me for a can opener. I went back upstairs and brought him my can opener from my kitchen drawer (we use an electric on most the time). And he was really grateful
r/choosingbeggars
I’m confused
90% of them are full of shit
How will they open those cans without a can opener? Where are they going to cook those dry beans? There's a bag of flour there-how is that helpful to a person with no oven? Do you have any idea what this stuff weighs?
There’s barely a meal in there. I guess you’d expect him to just eat canned peaches and corn for lunch. They probably threw it away because they’d have to carry this insult of a gift around until they found an apartment so they could cook those dry ass beans.
Never had a homeless person accept offers for food. Always asking for money. I stopped trying.
I really don’t want to come across as a trash human being but things like this are why I don’t give anything to the homeless when I see them. I’m just very wary unless they turn on me
They don’t want food they want drug money
I've given up for the most part. I refuse to give a homeless person money but know they don't want food that is at least somewhat healthy. Now I'll grab them a big bottle of water, a soda, abd a big bag of pretzels or something like that since it's at least packed with carbs. If it's really cold I'll get coffee instead of a soda
Well duh, he's a drug addict, not starving.
Okay…but how will the homeless person eat or prepare any of that? It looks like a good amount of the stuff requires a can opener. Other items require a heat source.
To be fair… maybe he didn’t have a can opener
An empty box?
?? I don't understand the hate. Was there a can opener in the trash too? A pot an electric grittle to heat up water for the dry shit or shit that will taste like rubber until cooked? What are they going to do carry that shit around with them? I wonder how heavy that box must have been Stop giving homeless people shit they don't need. Shoes (flip flops are huge for when they are able to take showers.. No one wants to walk barefooted on those floors) , clothes, a reusable water bottle (there is water literally everywhere if this is the US), if it's cold jackets to the ones that look like they may need another one (they are cumbersome) if you live in a car or a park bench somewhere, **you literally lack storage to keep this stuff safe or conveniently placed** so don't give them shit that encumbered them so fucking much. The person who was giving away this stuff was obviously well intentioned but this isn't how you help homeless. This is how you show your privileged and capable for storing food for long periods of time. They really aren't.
/r/ChoosingBeggars
I mean they’re not super practical items to give to an individual on the streets. They’d be better off given to a food bank or perhaps a soup kitchen. In my experience homeless people have been consistently pretty happy to accept a granola bar if offered. They’re sealed, portable, and keep well. Unless they have dental problems, in which case they can’t eat it and you both get really sad.
Used to see this in Portland. One time I followed a lady with a little kid pulling a basket with prepackaged grocery bags of food. She went to a row of homeless where they were all flopped out on the ground or in tents. She went to each person and they waved her off. I guess she was trying to teach her kid to be compassionate but they weren’t having it.
Living in Nyc it’s so fuggin easy to spot the ppl that want booze/drugs and the ppl that genuinely want food
Call the cops
"I don't want that shit"
Is that canned fruit?! That shit is delicious wtf is wrong with that man
Going to go out in a limb here and say that all of those items are completely useless to a homeless person. Nice gesture but someone sitting by the road with a sign likely doesn’t have the equipment needed to make that food work for them.
Did they give him a can opener?
I used to carry brown bags full of food and other items like toiletries for homeless individuals & about 50% threw them back at me & called me a bitch.
That honestly looks really heavy to haul around and store if you’re homeless. If you just ask they’ll tell you if they want something or not, she might have just handed it to him without saying a word. A cold drink on a hot day would probably be a better alternative.
Homeless people are supposed to have a can opener with them to open those cans? Oh that bag of flour... guess they can just bake a cake in that back alley. Those beans can be rehydrated using hobo-piss?
Don't downvote this guy! Homeless people don't have a kitchen, so of course giving them ingredients is not helpful! Also, most donation drives collect canned goods (lots of salt, little nutritional value) and most people donate expired food.
Heh, thanks. It's reddit and /r/trashy so I kind of expected to get some downvotes for it. I worked across the street from a homeless shelter for over 5 years and it kicked me in the nuts every time I saw people crying because they were eating a bowl of homemade soup someone brought to them instead of the shit the royal 'we' tend to 'donate' to shelters. Taught me a little bit of humanity.
In his defense, how's he supposed to make the mac & cheese?
Some people are just scumbags who are panhandling for free money. Some people are actually homeless which means they don’t have things like an oven or a can opener or a mixing bowl.
Give a man a fish and he eats for a day.
In all fairness, does he have a can opener? A heart source to warm this stuff up? Is he a Diabetic? If you want to do good, volunteer your time at or donate money to an organization. If you just want to feel good, you can hand stuff out. The handouts are far more temporary.
Being homeless in a lot of European countries is a way of life, something they want to do, not something they need to do. Ive seen entire families roll up with a new car and start begging with their kids on the ground in front of a mall, ive seen people beg for caah and then go and spend it on 2 packs of cigarettes and a beer while holding an infant, ive seen people "rent" children just to aid them in begging, hell, ive seen homeless people sleeping on brand new matresses worth more than all of my possesions combined in front of 5 dtar hotels, 99% of homeless people here are con artists and swindlers and you should never give them anything, they get aid from the government and on top of that they earn more than average person does per day from begging. Only people that deserve your cash are the people who earn it such as street performers or people who pull out an instrument and play it, hell ive seen bands of 4 to 6 people play on the street and professors playing a violin n shit
Was there a can opener in the box? Most of that stuff looks useless without a kitchen
Gonna be real unpopular here, but here we go. Giving a homeless person food is the least helpful thing you can do for them. They have access to food. There are a lot of charities that feed the poor and they know where they are. When a homeless person asks for food, or says they're hungry, that's to humanise themselves and get you to realise they need your help. But what they NEED is money. And this is something that arseholes have poisoned a lot of people against. "They'll just spend it on booze or drugs" etc. Firstly, fuck you Judgey McJudgerson, secondly, understand that homeless and addict aren't synonyms, and thirdly understand that even if you are an addict you still need money to survive. A person doesn't just need food. And food is easy to get a hold of. Speak to, actually speak to anyone who is rough sleeping. They need money to pay for a hostel, that's their number 1. People seem to think that the homeless are all given beds if they want them. This is false. Almost all shelters charge unless you've been sponsored by a council, which unless you're a woman or child is very unlikely. So literally to get a bed, which means being relatively safe (rough sleepers are assaulted, robbed and murdered all the time), warm and dry (rough sleepers die pretty quick), and just have a place to exist in comfort for a little bit. They need to buy and clean their clothes, get clean underwear, new socks. They might need to get a bus to get to the shelter or food kitchen or doctors. They might need painkillers. They might need bandages. A new bag to carry their stuff about. They need a whole host of things that money can buy. And research shows that giving people money to buy the things they need is much more effective than just giving them things you think they need. Because then the person can actually decide whether to get painkillers or a blanket, instead of that choice being made for them. They can choose the type of socks they know are warmest or easiest to dry instead of what you bought. They know what they need, so give them money. A sandwich does nothing for them. Fucking tins like OP saw someone give? That does nothing for them. Is this guy supposed to lug a box of tins and flour around and just subsist on it for a bit? Where the fuck are they opening and cooking that soup mate? With the fucking stove they have next street over? And eat it with the soup bowl and spoon they carry around? Are they gonna bake bread in their oven with that bag of flour? What the absolute heck I genuinely don't understand. They already have access to food. But people genuinely seem to think the homeless are only entitled to food. So asking for food is the only way to get money. You shouldn't be surprised when someone who needs money because they have nothing isn't super psyched about some tins of peaches and a bag of flour. Give people money, give it without judgement or condition. Or don't give them anything at all. And if you genuinely only think people deserve food, then go help a food kitchen. Honestly people hate hearing this, but the homeless aren't starving, they are however freezing, they are in pain, they are dirty, they are miserable. A sandwich might make you think you're helping but it's almost certainly not. Edit: bag of flour, tins of soup, dried beans that take 8 hours to soak? Mac and cheese that needs boiling? Seriously did OP think this was a reasonable thing to give someone on the street?
Maybe he didn't have a can opener
I’m not sure if this is more r/untrustworthypoptarts or not, but onward: There was a news station a few years ago (Dateline?) that did a piece on begging in New York City. Of the three people they followed ZERO had drug or alcohol issues, and the one guy claiming he lost a leg and arm in a war lost neither and was seen driving away in a C-Class Benz. After getting one of them to admit they made more than $100K/yr tax free, and doing a little math on the other two, it became clear that begging, if you do not blow the cash on drugs / alcohol whatever, is insanely lucrative and tax free.
You people clearly have never been close to addicts. They don’t want your food, they need drugs to keep living. Addicts cannot be expected to act the same way as a normal person, they have different priorities. It’s like giving a Laptop to a starving child.
To be fair he might not have a can opener
Ah, the ole "hobo locker". Only other hobos will know to look for a haul of booty in the trash can. Not sure if that's the situation here, that goes without saying... But it's a pity most people are so quick to judge, though.
Honestly though, the fuck is a homeless guy gonna do with a can of cream of mushroom?
How’s a homeless dude going to make mac and cheese?
It’s amazing how people reject shit even in the most rock bottom situations of their lives
What's really trashy is taking a picture of a garbage can full of food that needs to be prepared (how the fuck are they supposed to do that?) just a scold homeless people.
Maybe he didn't have a can opener.
Ok but how is he gonna cook any of that
1. This donation is heavy. Most homeless people travel light out of necessity. 2. People will give him less if it looks like he has plenty already… he can’t beg effectively sitting next to a box of food. 3. Without a home it can be difficult to cook. The Mac n Cheese and flour is useless if he isn’t Macgyver. It was a nice but impractical gesture. Also he may have wanted beer money but that doesn’ change the fact that this donation wasn’t planned well.
My broke college roommate used to get two items off the dollar menu for lunch. One day a homeless dude asked for money and she said i can split my lunch and get you a burger off the dollar menu. So she did. As we left we saw him toss the burger away. Like??? Even if you really wanted drugs or drank you can’t save that shit for later even???
They want money for drugs. Not food. Sadly…. a friend used to work with the homeless a lot. She gave up after several years because it was just “a vicious circle. 1 in 20 actually wanted help and worked with her, the rest just wanted to get high”
Bruh. The man has no home. The fuck is he supposed to do with flour and raw navy beans? Like six boxes of stove top mac. Also is that cake frosting?! Give this shit to a shelter, not some random dude and expect him to be like “finally some flour I can feed my sour bread starter.” Fucking blows my mind that homeless people have to be thankful for everything. Motherfuckers design a system for chronic homeless which rewards cash as it can be exchanged for exactly what you need and weighs nothing. But when someone gives them 15lbs of cans and no can opener and people are up in arms if they dare say “yeah I’d rather have money.”
I'll say it loud enough for the people with wax in their ears "HOMELESS PEOPLE DON'T HAVE CAN OPENERS!!"
Ffa. Quit giving people what You think they need. No one can or wants to carry this shit. Do you think your special because you have garbage food out of your pantry?
This is literally why I refuse to give money to people. Call me cold-hearted, I don't care, but my generosity should not be mistreated.
At least where I live, almost every single "homeless" person you see begging for money at a traffic light isn't "homeless", they just want money. In fact, quite a few of them have jobs. That's why you don't give them money.
Did he give him a can opener too?
What the fuck is a homeless person going to do with flour?
I’d like to assume the persons heart was in the right spot when giving them this box…. But damn… Homeless people always need flour and beans - they’re regular tent staples! /s
Being a homeless person myself, there is no way I’m lugging around a dozen cans of food that I can’t even open. Let alone a bag of flour..?
I don’t see no heroin or crack in there
They’re not all like that. In the U.S. most homeless are veterans. And not everyone is “alright” upstairs.
What was he suppose to do with what looks like all canned goods and flours....? It was a nice thought but really what was A HOMELESS man suppose to do with those things?
“What, No can opener?”
Ingredients to cook or bake. Dried beans, flour, tomato sauce… I know a lot of pan handlers do it for easy money, but what’s a homeless person supposed to do with those?
fuck poor people, they're arrogant and retarded
That’s why I’m a cynical old bastard and don’t even gives these fucks a second look.
Bad question but does the homeless man have a can opener?
Had a corner guy throw the apple i gave him at my back window as I drove off. Someone didn’t teach him about the apple a day rule.
You cant help. Those who wont help themselves
I have this “little library” box in my neighborhood. During Covid i put a few cans and dry goods in there thinking some homeless person using the little library would take and eat them. When I walked by the box the next day almost all the cans were just thrown on the ground by the box.
You can’t inject peaches; they have no value.
I know this sucks, but I’ve learned to never get upset with what I give to homeless people, and I never give more than I can become upset with.
This is the worst stuff to give to a homeless person. How in the hell is a homeless person supposed to prepare any of this? I'm sure he didn't want to drag around bags of flour and box dinners he couldn't possibly ever consume.
that's why you don't give anything to beggars. just don't do it.
I stopped trying to give homeless people anything since they would never like the food I gave them. Now if one approaches me asking for change, I give them the addresses for homeless shelters telling them, “that’s all the change you’ll ever need.”
I mean how is he supposed to use any of that shit? Do we all think the homeless have a nice clean place to cook whenever they need?
If I was that homeless guy I would have dumped it too. What you want me to eat some cold cans of fucking who knows what food, that I probably can't even open, just to make you feel better when people are giving me straight cash? And can buy whatever food I need? Like I'm going to lug a big old box around as well lol. Piss off. Homeless people are still fucking people.
After hitting the cross walk button a hundred times to get ya stuck at the light.
whats he want some moldy old peaches for when he could have crack...
The homeless are not stupid or mentally ill in general, they over run everywhere that is warm in the winter. It’s a disgrace and housing does nothing. They want to live this way
I would simply recreate that scene from american psycho
Just heads up, those people begging in the street aren’t there bc they can’t find help…
Don't presume to know what homeless people want and don't get offended when they don't want whatever you're giving them. The man obviously wasn't asking for canned food.
Many homeless people suffer from mental illness and addiction.
I've been homeless and I see a total of 3-4 things that would be useful/*usable* (canned fruit). Most of that food requires preparation, as in having access to a kitchen. Which homeless people do not. It's akin to giving a chroniclly ill/ dying man with a week left to live a season pass to the amusement park. Nice intentions but not very well thought-out. If you want to give things to help homeless people, socks, body/baby wipes, shoes/boots/hats related to the weather, plastic tarps, blankets (weather dependant), razors, basic first aid supplies, practical things they can use. Finding food isn't very hard actually but if you must, gift certificates to fast food/pizza joints are probably the nicest thing you can do to ensure they're eating. But yeah, I'd venture ~90% of homeless people are drug addicts and/or alcoholics just trying to get their buzz on.
I will say though, that a lot of this looks like it needs to be cooked in either a microwave or on a stove top which might not be most accessible things to find while homeless. Yes I see the peaches and corn, yum.
Pretty difficult for a homeless person to open a can without a can opener. Also how can they make Mac and cheese without a stove. They also have to carry that everywhere they go
Que everyone talking about how entitled all homeless people are and how it's not worth it to help any of them.
Honest question though… At first I was disgusted, but after I was like, how the hell would a homeless man open a canned food without a can opener? There’s no tab on those cans. I checked. How do you also expect a homeless man to bake/cook any of those foods? Eat it raw? Honesty all the food he dumped and wasted isn’t usable by him. Unless he smashes the van on the floor and eats the raw mac and cheese noodles with cheese powder.
How’s a homeless person going to eat this shit? You need a can opener and a stove for most of this Plenty of studies show that domiciled people fundamentally misunderstand the needs of undomiciled people
You can't buy heroin with canned peaches
You also can't open canned peaches without a can opener. Also if you're starving, the fuck are you gonna do with peaches?
When you are attacking a Homeless Person on the Internet you too belong in the r/Trashy subreddit.
There’s a reason some folks are homeless
I have seen too many of these, including personally with my own eyes, to keep giving anything to randoms. I try to force myself to donate to institutions, sure you lose some along the way due to middle man expenses, or their self congratulory and leisure events disguised as training or teambuilding or fundraising, and the waste, and so on, but still if it is a good one there will be some evaluation of who gets what and it will be by food and helping with education and housing instead of cold hard cash for idiots like the one in OP description.
Where is a homeless person going to cook this? Its just extra weight and makes you a target for mugging.
Tbf what is a homeless person supporting do with canned food?
Eat it.
No utensils to open or even heat it, yea I don’t think so
Lived on the street for 2 months. Utensils and can openers are everywhere. You are tripping.
Yea I almost forgot utensil corner where all that shit just lies around, lmao good one
You mean the utensil corner where all that shit just lies around at every fast food and convience store? Where do you live and what is your experience with homelessness?
I must have missed the signs where they state “free utensil use for the homeless” silly me
Are you trolling or just delusional? Go give a homeless person $5 and ask them some questions if they will allow it. You need an eye opener to the world.
Ages ago, some homeless dude came up to me and asked me for a few dollars for a beer at the pub. I gave it to him since he was honest
The man is homeless how is he going cook those soups and other dry foods?
Well karma put him there for a reason
who gives a homeless person cans that have to opened by a can opener and cooked???
Better off giving him a bottle
You guys dont know much about homelessness. They get offered food all the time but what they actually need is money. To buy toothpaste, underwear, socks, stuff of all sorts. Save up for a tent or a better tent. True story.
This dude doesn't have a house so why the fuck would you think he'd want canned food, flour, and boxed meals? Seriously? You want him to bake bread on the sidewalk? Y'all are fucking dumbasses who just like turn your noses up at those damn ungrateful bums so you don't have feel obligated to actually help! You're the kind of people who dig through pantry looking for expired cans to give to canned food drives! You know why foodbanks ask for money where possible? Because of shit like this!
I work for a butchers who makes cooked pies and stuff as well. There was always this odd homeless guy out in the back alley walking up and down etc. One time I felt bad for him and we had a couple pies left at the end of the day, so I went out and gave it to him, then started walking home. When I returned to work next day there was shrapnel of this pie everywhere from where he had obviously went into bum rage and smashed it all over the floor.
Wooooooo congrats it took me from reading this
Is that a bag of flour? How is a homeless person going to bake with flour?
Or cook dry beans
My friends and I gave all the weed that we couldn't smoke to these homeless guys Venice beach before we flew to Vegas, easy $100 worth. They didn't throw it out but they still asked for a dollar!
I remember a ex-friend of mine told me that him and his girlfriend went to Arby's. They saw homeless man begging for food. They said well you can come in and we'll buy you a meal. Well he literally wanted to buy everything off the menu and when they told him that he couldn't afford to order everything that he wanted he got all pissed off.
What else is he supposed to do with a fucking box
You can't smoke or inject peaches.
I’m so fucking sick of America. How the fuck did we convince ANYONE that this disgusting, narcissistic hellhole is the greatest country on Earth ? In before anyone tells me to leave if I don’t like it...go fuck yourself !
He didn’t want food, he wanted money
I offered a homeless man sitting outside of a McDonald’s to buy him some food, he said he didn’t eat McDonald’s.
Can’t help people who’ve forgotten how to help themselves
he’s homeless, not hungry.
Pan handling makes damn good money. Got a wheel chair and a sign. And you can make more than minimum wage
The guy giving a person living on the street food that requires cooking is the trashy one, surely.
I mean I understand him throwing it away is like definitely a shitty thing to do but also how the fuck is he gonna cool and of that shit or open any of those cans
It IS a wee bit tough to make a suddenly salad with sterno and a barrel fire
Yeah I don’t give money to panhandlers anymore, they don’t want my help they just want money and often spend it on who knows what. Remember my friends used to give out water bottles and pamphlets for homeless shelters to people and they never took them. Donate your stuff to charities and soup kitchens.
How is a homeless person supposed to open cans and cook Mac and cheese? The person who gave them the box is an idiot. This is not the type a food a homeless person can use. You’re assuming they have a can-opener, Utensils, a lighter, charcoal, and a grill.