Wtf is that “sourdough loaf”? That shit looks disgusting. Fits more into shitposting.
Here a fresh loaf for your viewing pleasure:
The post had such a miserable excuse for bread in the pic.
Thank you for the nice bread pic. It looks lovely.
This has to be fake, no way people are paying significantly more than a restaurant just to get food thats Facebook marketplace quality
This post is just a joke made by OP. Notice how it’s posted to funny and OP hasn’t commented. A single time and is just sitting back and enjoying the show.
Ok yeah I checked, this is 100% fake
Food with no particular assertions about safety or hygiene either.
Just slap in “made with raw milk and gmo free” and you have a whole set of demographics buying it up and none to complain about it.
Bidding on food? What??
Was there something wrong with the way we have been selling food for like 3000+years?
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?
chat is this real
I could see those brownies being real. I can see a lot of brownies being sold through this
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
Does the “Hot item” indicator go away after a while? Or are they keeping it hot?
When you ring the doorbell to pick it up, they quickly chuck it into the microwave. 🙃
Do ppl not realise that this is fake? or am I not in on the joke lol
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.
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.
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.
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
I don’t have any way to know the kitty is real, but I know it’s cute.
I’m the President of the Internet and what you just said is true.
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
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
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.
google california for me reeeaaal quick
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.
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.
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
They should add a bid option. Then watch people snipe your lunch the last second.
“Hey kids, we are eating tonight! Outbid? Oh no… sorry kids, its starvation again.”
the second one is
Yea but they got a 50% rating… I don’t know if I want to try sourdough that only 50% of people like.
50% of the people still alive*
you can’t be sure that the people who died of food poisoning didn’t really like it!
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.
:(
Move fast and break things
The MAGA motto, along with “Don’t bother me with facts, my mind is made up.”
Move slowly with diarrhea.
Runs for president.
Move fast but leave a trail
There is already a massive difference between my coocking for myself and for guests. And my guest cooking wouldnt survive a health inspection. On the other hand do i know enough restutanz kitchens that are worse. So much…
There is already a massive difference between my coocking for myself and for guests.
I hope your guests get better coocking than you do, but I guess you have to treat your coock right every now and again.
Yes. Easy exanple is the tasting spoon. For myself i just reuse it, for others its a clean one everytime.
“The tasting spoon” is quite the cleaver euphemism for your coock
How else am i supposed to reach the bottom
I use the same one. If I’m dipping into simmering hot sauce or broth, it’s killing any germs, and I’m not exactly a vector for serious disease like Typhoid Mary (she was a cook).
Frankly, it’s the unheated stuff that you might handle with bare hands where germs will pass the best.
I think the plan is this is a joke…
Its “disruptive” duh.
This is a food safety disaster, lmao
You don’t want overpriced home cooked food from complete strangers on the internet?
Having seen my co-worker’s hand washing habits, there is exactly one whose homemade food I’ll eat at work potlucks and that’s free.
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?
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, HingeGood news, if you are already used to using gig workers, you’re already used to hours old cold food. It’s got SyNeRgY
i mean, i make a mean pot of chili. we could plan for there being 20 servings, let them bid on all 20…
lol that bread for $12.50
Brownies for $22? I’ve been really stoned, with relentless munchies, but I’ve never been $22 brownies stoned.
Because it is ORGANIC AND ARTISAN. That makes the price go up 10x for each meaningless buzz word
Add Gourmet, Hand-Crafted, and Small Batch, and jack up that multiplier.
6 bids
…is it used?
Some chew marks.
Only one previous owner!
For parts
Was warm when cooked.
Slightly dipped by a pair of balls.
