My food bank had some crates of out of date Diet Pepsi come in from Tesco or somewhere, so I helped myself to some cans. Of the four, two had dents in them (as pictured), but I thought that was just because they'd been dropped or hit, and shouldn't affect the stuff inside (although I would have to be careful when opening them).
On tasting the Pepsi in the dented cans, both had a horrible metallic taste, like I was drinking blood. The undamaged cans tasted perfectly fine.
Freezing, most probably. The drink expands, causing the can to bulge out. Drinks cans are lined with a microns-thick layer of plastic, to prevent the acidic drink from corroding the can (and to prevent the CO2 from escaping through the porous metal); If this layer is damaged, then the steel can could react with the drink to produce iron oxides, which would have a bloody metallic taste. Nothing to worry about IMO.
>>11352 >Drinks cans are lined with a microns-thick layer of plastic, to prevent the acidic drink from corroding the can (and to prevent the CO2 from escaping through the porous metal)
>>11355 >Frontline professionals identify people in need >Care professionals such as doctors, health visitors, social workers, Citizens Advice Bureau staff, welfare officers, the police and probation officers, amongst others, identify people in crisis and issue them with a foodbank voucher.
>Clients receive food >Clients bring their voucher to a foodbank centre where it can be exchanged for three days supply of emergency food. Food parcels have been designed by dieticians to provide recipients with nutritionally balanced food.
That's how it works with banks associated with the Trussell Trust. So get yourself down to CAB.
>Food parcels have been designed by dieticians to provide recipients with nutritionally balanced food.
What if they receive donations of nutritionally valueless food like a giant bag of crisps? Also, I'm curious about if any clients need a diet which is vegetarian or vegan or halal or kosher or something.
Weren't they flat at all? One time I dropped a can of coke and it started quietly hissing at the ring-pull although there was no visual damage. I drank it straight away so there was no harm done.
Manufacturers have historically used both steel and aluminium, depending on the relative price of the metals and the cost of fuel. Aluminium cans have always been more expensive, but often their lighter weight pays for itself in reduced transport costs. There has been a move towards steel cans, due to volatility in aluminium prices. Manufacturers tend to use steel more in Europe than in other markets, because the dense population and access to sea freight reduces transport costs. IIRC Coca-Cola use predominantly aluminium, while Pepsico are currently all steel.
>>11359 No they weren't flat, just the weird taste. Note that I didn't drop them myself, I just assumed they had been by someone else. The sixpack that they came from had some cola stains on it so I imagine someone fucked up with it somehow.
>>11358 The parcels we give out at our Trussell Trust food bank contain the following as standard, in quantities depending on the size of the family requesting them:
Tinned soup
Tinned baked beans/spaghetti in sauce
Tinned tomatoes/pasta sauce
Tinned vegetables
Tinned meat
Tinned fish
Tinned fruit
Cereal
Biscuits
Sugar
Tea/coffee
Juice
UHT milk
Anything else (chocolate, sweets, crisps, jam, noodles) is optional or given as treats when we have them. The parcel is designed to last the family for three days. And we cater to any dietary requirements, they just have to tell us.
>>11355 As >>11357 says, you have to have a voucher, distributed by one of these 'care professionals'. Although you can just turn up and ask, it's unlikely they'd turn you away.
The Jobcentre is one of these 'care professionals'. It really boils my piss when I get handed a voucher as pictured. They actually have purpose-made paperwork to tell people 'because you missed an appointment that would have been a waste of everyone's time anyway, we're not going to pay you enough to survive for the next few weeks, so off you trot to the third sector instead'. Welfare state my big hairy arse.
>>11361 Can I just say that right now I'm on JSA under hardship provision (sanctioned) and life is comfortable. In the past I've not applied, largely because people like you spread doom and gloom and I thought it hopeless. That mistake (mine) has cost me thousands. I'm so fortunate to live in the UK.
I do have it easier than the average pauper though.
>>11362 I'm so glad that you are comfortable. I guess everyone else on the hardship fund must be comfortable too then. Time for me to pack it in at the food bank!
Sorry, I've just joined this late lad. Do foodbanks need volunteers or anything at the minute? I'm blissfully unaware but will have some time on my hands soon and helping hand stuff out to those in an uncomfortable place is a better use of my time than nothing.
>>11363 I think I made it pretty clear that I know everyone isn't. With your last sentence you're just making a fool of yourself. The point I was making - which could have been more clear I admit - is that people genuinely concerned with basic welfare should be mindful of what they say in public. Complaining about the very real problems with benefits in the tone you have risks negatively influencing the same people you care about. You know that the vast majority of sanctions go uncontested and you also know that many of them would be reversed if appealed. I'm asking you to consider whether spreading a message of despair - one that can at times be pervasive - has any role whatever to play in that. I know it did in my case and I doubt my thinking is unique.
You're obviously doing good work overall, but having your heart in the right place doesn't make you perfect.
>>11368 I think I understand your concerns, but I'm struggling to agree that my 'tone' or that of anyone else has anything to do with uncontested benefit sanctions.
>>11369 I was just about to tack on that this is a sentiment I've only recently formulated and your post presented the first - and possibly not a good - opportunity to articulate it. Sorry.
>>11375 This GIF made me think of you. Well, I would have attached the GIF, but I don't think we can expect purple to host images 70 MB in size. So I've had to link to this newfangled gifv. The future really is now.
http://i.imgur.com/b4KT7by.gifv
>>11416 Thanks again mate. I was slightly confused because I thought they filled the can up with Nitrogen to increase the internal pressure. I re-watched the video you posted, and realised that the carbonation does it. Nitrogen is for drinks that aren't carbonated.
There is plenty of food. Did you scrape a pass in biology or something and you think that makes you an authority? The arrogance. If we can use aspartame, citric acid, etc as substrates for respiration, what makes you think bacteria cant? They are far more adaptable than we are, and there are literally millions of species of acidophilic bacteria.
Botchulism isn't entirely beyond the realms of possibility just because it's a Diet Pepsi.
Yeah, I realised after I posted it I hadn't changed it. I write it this way to annoy my Microbiology professor, as they aren't allowed to drop you marks for spelling anymore unless they ask you to specifically name the bacteria so I put it every chance I get. It's good craic, but I should have been more vigilant.
I once wrote "fucking vegetarians" on a question about the moral implications of the consumption of livestock and comment on the alternatives, like quorn and shit, and he bollocked me for a good 15 minutes for that. Luckily it was a formative, he seems to have mentally adopted me the way he acts towards me. I think it was because I 100% one of the units he lectures last year and he sees me as his project.
