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- Jul 12, 2019
It kind of looks like they're following crock pot / slow cooker instructions to me. Because you do sometimes pile aromatic veggies like onions and garlic on top of meat when you're slow cooking it, because the condensation that drips down from the lid onto the meat will kind of help cook the flavors of the vegetables into all of the meat - at least, it's what I do when I'm making slow cooker carnitas. I've never seen it done on an oven roast, though. Maybe if they're basting it, it'd have a similar purpose? No clue.What the fuck are they doing to that roast? Why did they pile a bunch of onions on top of it? What's the point of putting the potatoes and asparagus around the edge of the roasting tin, when part of the idea is to get the drippings onto it for flavour or to make a pan sauce (although it does look like they're braising it in stock, so that wouldn't work). Why is everything they cook always so greasy?
Admittedly the meat is a good colour and they did at least marinate it, so there's that. I'd preferentially eat that over tranch tacos, but I'd preferentially cook the roast myself and not do whatever they've done here.
The roast itself doesn't look horrible to me, but the drippings and everything look really nasty. But also, why wouldn't you save a nice big roast like that for Thanksgiving? Did they get a turkey, too? I can't imagine taking so much food, especially expensive food, from needy families at the holidays. I guess that's because unlike these two, I have a conscience.
Food banks in the US are usually independently run by churches and the like, so there's no centralized system where you could keep records of who is coming when, what they get, what family size they have, etc. Mostly they rely on their patrons to be honest about their situation, especially these days with covid and all and so many people in tenuous living situations, out of work, etc. You might not be able to prove that your brother who got laid off is sleeping on your couch, but you still need to feed him, and it's a church so they're going to assume you're not lying about that.How does food banks in the US works? Can you just go there and take whatever you want, like no proof of how big of a family and previous checkouts?
I know she's going around to different food banks but is there any system in check to control how often and how much you get or is it early bird rules?
Regulations on having to prove how many people are in your home, etc. just screw genuinely needy people out of food to feed their families, so usually there aren't any checks and balances more than, say, some places make you sign up for a turkey dinner kit at Thanksgiving and you can only sign up once, that kind of thing.