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FOOD PRESENTATIONS

POOHBEAR59 — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 15:22:00 GMT

It is truly outrageous how much food is presented on every cooking show! It is enought to feed a small country, and now I read that MOST OF IT IS THROWN OUT?????? SHAME ON YOU QVC!!!!

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Love my grandkids — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 15:32:31 GMT

@POOHBEAR59 This poor horse is getting beat again!

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Malcontent — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 15:35:18 GMT

@POOHBEAR59

You know what else is truly outrageous? Your abuse/waste of question marks; you only need one. Do you know how many poor students could use those question marks... but no, you waste them.

Shame on You!

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ManyMeows — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 15:46:05 GMT

😂 😹 😂 ........ I highly doubt that any of the food products on QVC end up in any trash cans.

You've seen the appetites on those show hosts ..... Bigger than the State of Texas. You'd have to pry it from straight their grubby little paws.

Not to mention all of the people drooling behind the scenes. If anything, they'd have to make more.

🍷 And we won't even get into the wine consumption.

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RedTop — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 16:19:47 GMT

@POOHBEAR59

There's likely not as much wasted food as you think.

Each food company has an advertising budget, which covers the amount of food shown in the QVC on air presentations. You have to spend money to make money. The price we pay for the food covers the product used for advertising purposes.

The independent representative who presents the food for that company receives the amount of food needed for the number of shows they are scheduled for; they have been instructed on exactly how much product to have displayed.

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Spacrazy — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 16:27:33 GMT

@ManyMeows Well said !

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cjm61 — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 16:33:28 GMT

I can understand, I guess, @POOHBEAR59 a person that does not look into other places where food is destroyed and how this may bother you. However, the shame is not on QVC.

Have you ever wondered what all the restaurants do with their leftover food? Especially those buffets? The grocery stores? They fill bins of trash with items. And what about all those cooking TV shows where contestants prepare items that may only have 3 small bites taken then it's tossed?

In all honesty, even if QVC never used any food in their "food" presentations, it will not change the world's hunger problems. And like @ManyMeows said, I believe a large portion of the food items are consumed by employees. There's a huge production staff behind the scenes.

I know this is said often but when watching QVC/HSN and something bothers me, it's usually a host, I just don't watch.

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ManyMeows — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 16:44:01 GMT

🌮 🌭 🍕 🍟 🍝 ....... Where I live, the restaurants, grocery stores, bakeries, delis, pizza shops, and the like donate left over food and produce items to local men's and women's shelters, soup kitchens, group homes, homeless shelters, and any place that the items will be consumed. There's never a problem deciding what to do with leftovers here.

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Sooner — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 17:06:35 GMT

@POOHBEAR59 wrote:
It is truly outrageous how much food is presented on every cooking show! It is enought to feed a small country, and now I read that MOST OF IT IS THROWN OUT?????? SHAME ON YOU QVC!!!!

@POOHBEAR59 Oh please. You can't recycle food that sits around and is oiled and sprayed to look pretty and handled by a bunch of folks.

You can't sell food without demonstrating it. Also, please tell us, do you ever discard leftovers? Let something go bad in the fridge? If not, it is truly amazing. If so, what's the difference?

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JeanLouiseFinch — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 17:12:14 GMT

@POOHBEAR59 wrote:
It is truly outrageous how much food is presented on every cooking show! It is enought to feed a small country, and now I read that MOST OF IT IS THROWN OUT?????? SHAME ON YOU QVC!!!!

Exactly how is someone supposed to present food without showing it cooked? And how do you know this to be a fact? I've read that the stage crew eats it..

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millieshops — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 17:17:38 GMT

@POOHBEAR59 I do not find it any more outrageous than the waste elsewhere.

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RedTop — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 17:18:23 GMT

Just last month, our local Sams Club had 2 wall freezers go out AFTER they had been fully stocked; everything in those freezers was hauled outside to dumpsters and taken to the landfill.

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Othereeeen — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 18:46:21 GMT

Why, I bet the many behind the scenes people eat the food that CAN be eaten ( like others said...hot lights, sprayed with stuff to make it appetizing, left on that table too long....THAT is tossed....)..but the stuff prepared in real time? Full of fat, sodium, chemicals, and preservatives? Why, it's indestructible!!!!!

Just think!! They all go and grab a Lauck and Lauck ( of which millions are laying about the studio for presentations...) snap the lids shut on the food they picked ( they are air tight and water tight!!!) whereupon they go home, turn the lid upside down, and slam it into the microwave for a late night treat!!!!

As for comments about wine, I don't think they are drinking REAL wine on the QVC set ( maybe in the location shots) because they have to drive home after the show, and can you imagine T-boning some innocent car full of people and having to explain to the cops that all you had was one or two goblets of O-Leary wine, which is grown ere so tenderly in his special grape vinyards and blended to his exact specifications for taste and bouquet????

HOW could one resist!!!

Or maybe you can relate how you sampled a few of those LITTLE bottles in the Advent Wine Box...they too are so highly crafted and exquisite...or maybe some JZ wine....surely the cops and the family of the injured or worse will understand....especially if they are foodies who watch QVC!!!

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cjm61 — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 14:06:23 GMT

@ManyMeows I'm not sure if it's just California or other states but they are not permitted to donate the food. A family member worked in a grocery store and was told to tell customers the food was donated. It was not, but it made the customer feel better.

If you think of the logistics and transporting food from restaurants, it would be very costly. Most of the food is perishable. You would not only need a refrigerator truck to transport but the facility must also have resources to store food.

It sounds like a great idea but it rarely happens anymore. The major problem is if someone should get sick off the food, the restaurant/store would be responsible. It's no longer worth the liability. Again, this is California law, it may vary in different states. My bet, you are being told it's donated when most of the time it is not.

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ManyMeows — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 20:25:46 GMT

@Othereeeen

🙊 Lauck and Lauck ?

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ManyMeows — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 20:35:15 GMT

@cjm61

🤔 I have worked as a volunteer for this project. It's a local project, we're not talking about mass quantities that need refrigeration and storage. Local business phone in to let us know that they have food to give on any given day. A volunteer picks up the food, transports it to the organization, and It's served immediately. Many of the people at the shelters have had little or nothing to eat all day, and the donated food is consumed immediately. No such thing as leftovers here.

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LizzieInSRQ — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 22:18:44 GMT

@Othereeeen are you ever positive about anythjng? This is really my own problem though, if i think about it.

I need to learn to avoid your constant negativity. Its really a huge drag to me,

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Desertdi — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 22:42:46 GMT

@ManyMeows wrote:
@Othereeeen

🙊 Lauck and Lauck ?

@ManyMeows Poster is possibly using the voice option to dictate the message....

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ManyMeows — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 22:48:54 GMT

🤗 I thought perhaps it might be Scotland's version of Lock n Lock.

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Zaimee — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 22:59:32 GMT

@ManyMeows You are too funny. Thanks for the LOL on this rainy day in Miami.