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Gourmet Holiday Shows

italiandish — Tue, 15 Dec 2020 22:22:33 GMT

I'm curious about what is done with all of the food that is displayed during the presentations if the hosts are not allowed to taste anything. For example, there were 20 plates of Mama Mancini meatballs with pasta on display during the meatball presentation. It seems to be rather wasteful in our current environment.

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KKJ — Tue, 15 Dec 2020 22:28:20 GMT

I agree about the waste, and seeing as nobody is allowed to eat the food on air due to Covid restrictions, I imagine it probably is thrown out. And I'm with you on their not needing to display so many trays/plates of meatballs, and other foods.

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AuntG — Tue, 15 Dec 2020 22:29:17 GMT

Very observant. Do you think such an egregious display of waste will put QVC into bankruptcy? I've been in restaurants where entire families leave 75% of their food on their plates so wasting food is nothing new.

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goldensrbest — Tue, 15 Dec 2020 22:32:31 GMT

So expensive,i think.

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KKJ — Tue, 15 Dec 2020 22:38:50 GMT

@AuntG wrote:
Very observant. Do you think such an egregious display of waste will put QVC into bankruptcy? I've been in restaurants where entire families leave 75% of their food on their plates so wasting food is nothing new.

Just because you see waste in restaurants, etc. doesn't make it right.

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proudlyfromNJ — Tue, 15 Dec 2020 22:39:06 GMT

I always thought the vendor donated the food being squeezed and pummeled by the hosts. I didn't think QVC paid for the food.

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Group 5 minus 1 — Tue, 15 Dec 2020 22:47:44 GMT

Heres what I think: the food is probably being eaten by the people that work there. No matter what is said.

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Kachina624 — Tue, 15 Dec 2020 22:49:48 GMT

The leftover food is destroyed. After sitting under hot lights for hours and being handled by multiple people, it's not safe or fit for consumption.

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shaggygirl — Tue, 15 Dec 2020 23:40:41 GMT

Channel surfing a short time ago and when I hit on QVC I could not believe my eyes that yet another gourment holiday show was on. Rachel was picking apart a dinner roll or pastry, something like that, piece by little piece by little piece by little piece. She totally destroyed whatever it was.......

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skatting44 — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 01:06:07 GMT

It is such as shame that vendors some how think that plates and plates of very expensive food like lobster, prime rib, roats of all kinds are just to be wasted.

I don;t know why they have to keep going with this wasteful concept .

So many children going hungry.

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Mombo1 — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 01:17:20 GMT

@proudlyfromNJ wrote:
I always thought the vendor donated the food being squeezed and pummeled by the hosts. I didn't think QVC paid for the food.

@proudlyfromNJ The rare meat takes me over the edge...

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Malcontent — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 06:27:47 GMT

My query is; if they can’t eat it, why should we buy it?

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KKJ — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 11:42:23 GMT

My query is why DO they have to eat it? It doesn't matter to me either way, but as a poster said earlier---you buy food all the time without seeing someone bite into it. Also, I can do without the over-exaggerated facial expressions made by hosts when they used to eat the food. I mean, it could be the worst-tasting thing there is and the host will ooh and ahh and say it's wonderful. I'm fine with them not eating it.