Random bread and rolls left on top of electricity cabinet/case in street

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Yesterday I saw a load of unopened bread and rolls just left on top of one of those electrical cases you see in the street.

Presumably they’re out of date but why put them there rather than in the bin. I suppose foxes would grab them but so can vermin.

It was left opposite a park too which has several bins there.

So why do people just leave this there?

They're not always out of date and people can use them. The Gail's near me does this but usually someone posts on our local group.

Put a note on the electrical box asking?

Is there a pond in the park? Are there ducks to feed?

I would assume it dropped out of someone’s bag onto the street and someone has left it there in case they come back for it. I once saw a guy drop a whole loaf of bread as he walked along, I was driving but stuck in a queue of traffic. I did try yelling out of the window as I went past him but I don’t think he heard me.

The homeless where I used to work would leave all sorts that they'd been given, all over the place

I don't know if it's a thing but last year there was a spate of food being dropped near our house. Sandwiches, piles of chips, half a pizza, that sort of thing.

Once one of our cats brought home an entire McDonald's chicken wrap that looked like it hadn't been touched. I was worried that someone possibly might be trying to poison local animals but nothing untoward happened and its stopped now.

I can only assume its just a scruffy person who has money to literally throw away on food they don't want.

I maybe someone left it for the homeless?

No pond in park.

Good point. There aren’t homeless people that I know of but there are refugees staying the hotel near where this was left.

Not dropped or it didn’t look like that!

That’s the thing, they looked out of date but was a good 10 mins walk from the high street.

Cafes can give items away via Olio though. One Greek cafe/deli would give me and my friends spare pastries they had after we’d been which was nice!

Maybe they fell out someone's bag snd someone else put them there so they didn't get squashed and original person comes back looking for them
A bit like you do with a random glove or hat

Good point?? Wtf? So obviously it must be local refugees if not the homeless? Why have you jumped to this conclusion?

Don't feed bread to the ducks!!! It's really bad for them.

Bread is bad for ducks and other waterfowl. Their natural diet is things like pond weed, seeds, insects, worms, small water snails and amphibians, and even crustaceans, such as crayfish. White bread offers little in the way of nutrition. It simply acts as a filler.

A bakery I lived near used to do something similar...Scotch pies and rolls in a bag somewhere nearby!

It's a nice gesture - essentially they want to give "slightly out of date but still ok" stuff away, but they don't want to be too open/public about it as they didn't want people coming into the shop and asking at closing time (or not buying and waiting for these).

So they leave them somewhere easy but not officially.

Please pick these up if you see them before they waste! :-) they're not aimed at anyone specific.

There are the food sharing apps and the food charities, but then it's organising and logistics and storage...just having the manpower or someone to take ownership is hard!

(I once thought about this for a supermarket in a student job, issue was I wasn't driving in, it was a lot of fresh stuff
..my shifts finished on Wednesday and the food charity near me was only open on Saturday.

As it was a big supermarket I couldn't have left stuff on the street as risk of complaints, H&S liability etc. But smaller places can do this quietly).

I haven’t jumped to any conclusion neither am I placing homeless people or refugees in the same area.

I was just saying maybe they were left there for them. You sometimes see the refugees with family in this park.

I also know from a friend who does charity work with the refugees there that whilst they get fed and an allowance they don’t get “extras” so if they did want extra bread they might take this (or might not).

People have fed bread to ducks since ducks and bread existed.

Is it their natural diet? No. But it's not life and death either.

Is a ready meal or coffee or a chicken tikka takeaway a humans natural diet? Also no.

I really wish People would stop 'Don't feed bread to ducks!!!!!'

And instead try 'hey, ducks REALLY love bread & having a little bit now and again is okay but, they really like peas too, you can get a bag of cheap frozen peas & defrost them and feed them instead or oats, they love making porridge & chopped up grapes or lettuce Or shredded lettice, even veggie peels from carrots etc Why not try them and see which non bread food your local ducks like best'.

It does more to educate instead of alienate.

It's also better to have people feeding them bread than nothing at all them dying

"In 2018, a swan charity told the BBC that many swans in the UK are underweight and "starving" due to lack of food in British ponds and lakes.

It was reported at the time that campaigns to stop people feeding breads to ducks and swans could be responsible for this, as people may have stopped feeding birds entirely, rather than use other foods from their homes"

www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-50087990#:~:text=%22Just%20like%20us%2C%20birds%20need,minerals%20and%20nutrients%20they%20need.%22

There’s a local park about a 20 minute drive from where I live which is popular with people and has lots of pond life including ducks, geese, swans and herons.

They have notices not to feed them bread but the park cafe doesn’t (and could) sell bird seed or seed for ducks/geese/swans. I think I asked why they didn’t sell it once and they just said they didn’t. The shops nearby might sell this food but you’d have to walk there.

Probably because it's comparatively expensive.

In a cost of greed crisis, lots of people can't afford things that aren't necessities and taking a dried up bit of bread or even paying 50p for a shops own brand loaf is more accessible than £5 and upwards for duck specific food.

I did used to get cheap duck/geese food for less than £5 from Wilkos.