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		By: Jan		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2007 19:42:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Erich, if there is an afterlife, Pappy (our dear grandfather) is enjoying your chocolate-salvaging incident.  It&#039;s quite a step up from the items he used to recover from the roads while driving about town. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Erich, if there is an afterlife, Pappy (our dear grandfather) is enjoying your chocolate-salvaging incident.  It&#039;s quite a step up from the items he used to recover from the roads while driving about town. </p>
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		By: Mary		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mary]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jan 2007 20:49:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[You know, historically, back in the one-room schoolhouse days, everyone drank from the same water dipper.  Hurray for germs!  At least some of them . . . .  I hate to see food go to waste, so whether it&#039;s a later customer or the restaurant staff, or the dumpster-diver partaking, good for any of them. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You know, historically, back in the one-room schoolhouse days, everyone drank from the same water dipper.  Hurray for germs!  At least some of them . . . .  I hate to see food go to waste, so whether it&#039;s a later customer or the restaurant staff, or the dumpster-diver partaking, good for any of them. </p>
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		By: hogiemo		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[hogiemo]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jan 2007 11:03:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ah, my astute chocaholic friend, CAN is appropriate under the circumstances.
 

 
I had not requested the chocolate but, inquired whether there is such chocolate and a present ability on your part to deliver same, which you have not indicated in your insouciant response. 
 

 
If you had such chocolate, and had indicated so in your response, then and only then, would the permissive &#034;may&#034; be required! 
 

 
I only skipped classes with you, and we plotted in the back to have Nixon impeached, or some entry for &#034;Dr. Quack&#039;s Corner&#034; in the student newspaper. In Fr. Siggy&#039;s relgion class we made paper airplanes, which may explain your current godless behavior, and my lack of respect for authority. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ah, my astute chocaholic friend, CAN is appropriate under the circumstances.</p>
<p>I had not requested the chocolate but, inquired whether there is such chocolate and a present ability on your part to deliver same, which you have not indicated in your insouciant response. </p>
<p>If you had such chocolate, and had indicated so in your response, then and only then, would the permissive &quot;may&quot; be required! </p>
<p>I only skipped classes with you, and we plotted in the back to have Nixon impeached, or some entry for &quot;Dr. Quack&#039;s Corner&quot; in the student newspaper. In Fr. Siggy&#039;s relgion class we made paper airplanes, which may explain your current godless behavior, and my lack of respect for authority. </p>
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		By: Scholar		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Scholar]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jan 2007 10:26:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ebonmuse, I stand by my post. As someone who has worked in restaurants, 5 different ones, it isn&#039;t fair to the establishment to scavenge food purchased by other guests, regardless of if you bought something. If, the food had been left by the trashcan outside of the restaurant, in the mall central, sure, go ahead and dip in. 
 

 
Please don&#039;t think I am taking this too seriously, it just seems kind of interesting now that we have some differing points of view. I think that taking the food off of the other table is not really different than taking the tip off of a table. The food/plates/tip are the property of the restaurant, until you have the food boxed up *to go* and walk out the door. As Anon points out, the restaurant workers are the ones who are scraping for rent, car payments, shoes, school, *food*. The food left on the tables would seem to be *their* property more than some *bum* (sorry, I couldn&#039;t resist) off of the street. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ebonmuse, I stand by my post. As someone who has worked in restaurants, 5 different ones, it isn&#039;t fair to the establishment to scavenge food purchased by other guests, regardless of if you bought something. If, the food had been left by the trashcan outside of the restaurant, in the mall central, sure, go ahead and dip in. </p>
<p>Please don&#039;t think I am taking this too seriously, it just seems kind of interesting now that we have some differing points of view. I think that taking the food off of the other table is not really different than taking the tip off of a table. The food/plates/tip are the property of the restaurant, until you have the food boxed up *to go* and walk out the door. As Anon points out, the restaurant workers are the ones who are scraping for rent, car payments, shoes, school, *food*. The food left on the tables would seem to be *their* property more than some *bum* (sorry, I couldn&#039;t resist) off of the street. </p>
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		By: Ebonmuse		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ebonmuse]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jan 2007 23:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hey, I don&#039;t see anything wrong with that. :) I would probably have done the same, in your circumstances. I absolutely hate seeing good food go to waste (that&#039;s my bleeding-heart liberal mentality coming through there). In fact, my dinner for most of this week is probably going to be leftovers from a holiday party I attended last weekend.
 

 
I certainly wouldn&#039;t eat anything a stranger had touched or chewed, but if the food was untouched, I can&#039;t see any harm in it. I doubt the risk is significantly higher than we already incur by eating in a mall restaurant frequented by hundreds of strangers every day where your food has already been shipped for miles and passed through who knows how many sets of hands before it ends up on your plate. 
 

 
I note also, for Scholar, that Erich had already purchased something from that restaurant, as his original post indicated. It&#039;s not as if he was taking business away from the establishment; they were only going to throw the food out anyway. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey, I don&#039;t see anything wrong with that. 🙂 I would probably have done the same, in your circumstances. I absolutely hate seeing good food go to waste (that&#039;s my bleeding-heart liberal mentality coming through there). In fact, my dinner for most of this week is probably going to be leftovers from a holiday party I attended last weekend.</p>
<p>I certainly wouldn&#039;t eat anything a stranger had touched or chewed, but if the food was untouched, I can&#039;t see any harm in it. I doubt the risk is significantly higher than we already incur by eating in a mall restaurant frequented by hundreds of strangers every day where your food has already been shipped for miles and passed through who knows how many sets of hands before it ends up on your plate. </p>
<p>I note also, for Scholar, that Erich had already purchased something from that restaurant, as his original post indicated. It&#039;s not as if he was taking business away from the establishment; they were only going to throw the food out anyway. </p>
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