• realitaetsverlust@piefed.zipEnglish
    8·
    2 hours ago

    Wtf is that “sourdough loaf”? That shit looks disgusting. Fits more into shitposting.

    Here a fresh loaf for your viewing pleasure:

    • smeenz@lemmy.nzEnglish
      3·
      58 minutes ago

      Food with no particular assertions about safety or hygiene either.

  • Furbag@lemmy.world
    6·
    4 hours ago

    Bidding on food? What??

    Was there something wrong with the way we have been selling food for like 3000+years?

    • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      2 hours ago

      Yeah, I really wonder what their thought process was. Are you supposed to bid on multiple foods, so that if you get outbid, you can fall back to the next one?

  • solidheron@sh.itjust.works
    8·
    5 hours ago

    Lol this is the innovative capitalism brings. People sell food on Facebook and that doesn’t seem to go anywhere. Sounds like eBay just desperate for revenue streams

    • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      2 hours ago

      When you ring the doorbell to pick it up, they quickly chuck it into the microwave. 🙃

    • Sunsofold@lemmings.world
      6·
      5 hours ago

      Between irony, sarcasm, Poe’s Law, human-made hoaxes, AI generated fakes, the low emotional valence of text, and the absurd pseudo-optimism of tech companies looking for the next big thing, there is no such thing as real or fake on the internet anymore.

      • bellly@sopuli.xyz
        1·
        5 hours ago

        Sure, but either this does or does not exist. I get how having to always be on the lookout for what’s real and what isnt is exhausting. And all the things you listed have definitely rapidly exacerbated the issue in the last few years, but that doesnt mean that what’s real and what’s fake suddenly dont matter anymore. At least to me.

        • Sunsofold@lemmings.world
          3·
          4 hours ago

          It’s not that it doesn’t matter. Having a sense of reality is incredibly important. It’s simply, the further we go, the less access we all have to any sense of reality that can be transmitted by essentially any medium.

          • bellly@sopuli.xyz
            1·
            4 hours ago

            Yea that is bleak :/ i usually try to think abt the ppl who do care abt truth, but if the tools themselves are “tainted” idk :(

            But i 100% know that this kitty is real :3

  • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
    24·
    9 hours ago

    i’m trying to remember how much it cost to get my food handlers permit back when. if i could get my kitchen “home certified” or whatever that means (it’s totally a thing shut up) i could be a tamale mama or get back into the ice cream game. i might even be able to compete with our local legend of a tamale mama who started a tamale factory

    • ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      1 hour ago

      Ghost kitchens/fb marketplace food/etc are libertarian tech bros flouting government regulation regarding food safety by being like “oh well I don’t actually sell the food” and they 100% get away with it even though stopping the facilitation would be stupidly easy.

      They’re testing the waters imo. How long until you can get unlicensed and untrained mental health care, physical health care, etc?

      I genuinely wonder what the rate of food poisoning looks like with the rise of shit like doordash and uber eats

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
      6·
      6 hours ago

      Your kitchen doesn’t need to be certified.

      Google Cottage Food Regulations, along with your state, and you’ll see the rules for cooking food for sale in your home kitchen. The rules are constantly evolving, especially during Covid, when people weren’t working, and needed to make money selling at farmers markets and such. But the rules generally aren’t that complicated, which is nice for a government thing, for a change.

      Usually it can’t be stuff with meat or dairy that has to be kept hot or cold. Baked goods like breads/ cakes/ cookies, candies, jarred stuff like jellies, etc. Basically think room temperature/shelf stable.

      There are also rules about labeling, font size, specific disclaimers, etc.

      Looking at this, the brownies and bread would be legal in my state, but serving hot soup, especially with meat in it, would be more of a restaurant item, and would be prohibited as a cottage food offering.

      I used to own an ice cream shop, and we tapped into the Cottage Food laws a bit. We made our own caramel and fudge (oh yeah, every bit as delicious as you’re thinking), and brownies and cookie dough (meh) but we didn’t have a stove at the store, so we made them at home. We didn’t sell them to the public, we just used them in our ice cream.

      That’s another issue with Cottage Foods. The cook can sell them themselves, but they can’t wholesale it to someone else, and at the time, they couldn’t sell it online. Again, the rules are constantly evolving, and every state is different, so YMMV. For instance, another poster mentioned getting a Cottage Food license, but that isn’t necessary in my state. You could bake a bunch of brownies, and sell them at your lemonade stand in front of your house today.

      In all my limited experience in the Cottage Food world, not once did any authority, food safety inspector, etc. ever ask a word about it. They have these rules, but I’m not sure who would be in charge of enforcing them, and I doubt they even know, so you’re pretty much free to do whatever you want - until someone gets sick. Then you’re screwed.

      So stick to the rules, avoid meat, and you’ll be fine.

        • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
          1·
          34 minutes ago

          Okay, did that, and yeah, you guys are a little tougher, but not that bad, depending on what the training takes, how much it costs, and how long the approval process takes. Knowing California, all of it is probably “a lot.” Kinda sucks. California is the poster child for Democratic over-regulation.

          However, the food handler training is pretty easy, mostly common sense. Teenagers get it to work at McDs, so you’ll be fine. Getting the permit and registration is probably just a matter of paperwork and a fee, and a wait. Nothing said anything about a kitchen inspection, unless you need that for the permit. But they’re expecting to go into everybody’s normal kitchen, so just give it deep clean, put EVERYTHING away, polish the counters, appliances, and floors, and make sure there is soap, hot water, and paper towels next the sink (it’s a thing), and you’ll probably be fine.

          In my Red state, the laws are pretty simple, no refrigeration, direct-to-consumer (and they allow Internet and mail order now), specific label language, and you can’t make over $250K (we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it, right?). Like I said, I could literally bake a pan of brownies right now, and sell them at my driveway lemonade stand as soon as they’re ready.

          Not that I’m extolling the virtues of this state, the government absolutely sucks, but their cottage food laws are working right now, so at least they got that going for them. Wait until they figure out that it give undocumented people the opportunity to make money in their own kitchens, they’ll abolish them immediately.

    • decended_being@midwest.social
      8·
      8 hours ago

      They call it a cottage baker license around where I live (for baking at least). I got it in 2025 to sell some loaves and ended up having the most busy year of work so I sold zero.

      • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
        8·
        2 hours ago

        i’m in california and have cats. and am friends with the baker at the coffee shop and we’ve talked about this exact thing before for all y’all trying to infodump and tell me i can do this when i already know the rules. i’m pretty sure the rules are insane for me

  • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    35·
    12 hours ago

    it is weird that there is bidding for this instead of just all being “buy it now”. Who wants to plan several hours ahead for probabilistic takeout you probably won’t even get, to maybe hypothetically save several dollars?

    • Rooster326@programming.dev
      1·
      7 hours ago

      You’re forgetting that after the few hours wait, you then need to bribe/bid/whatever whichever shithead “gig professional” they get to deliver it, Ubereats, Lyft, Hinge

      Good news, if you are already used to using gig workers, you’re already used to hours old cold food. It’s got SyNeRgY

  • WoodScientist@lemmy.world
    157·
    15 hours ago

    Any details on this? Is the plan to just let anyone sell whatever food they damn well please? Commercial kitchen licensing and safe food handling licenses exist for a damn good reason. These regulations were written in bloody diarrhea.