On Wed, 21 Sep 2016 02:12:36 -0500, Sqwertz >
wrote:

>On Tue, 20 Sep 2016 16:06:14 -0700, Whirled Peas wrote:
>
>> I saw an example of this recently while waiting for a pizza. I could see
>> directly into the kitchen and a person was dumping out pounds of salami
>> and other toppings directly into a standard 33-gallon trash can that was
>> nearly full. Every so often, he would sprinkle some white powder on top
>> of it. I can pretty well guarantee it wasn't Parmesan.
>
>Are you nuts?
>
>Retailers do not purposely poison the food they have to throw away.
>That would make them extremely liable when there was practically no
>liability previously.

Well... not *poisoned* as such, but I do know that in Australia, meat
thrown away by the major supermarkets used to be covered in a blue dye
of some sort, presumably to make it less appealing to dumpster divers.
Only heard about this in one state though.