I did the Food not Bombs thing in Albuquerque on and off for several years from 2001-2012. In the early years for me it was a real nice group thing with a bunch of people (~10-15 people) from the La Montanita Coop. It was a lot of fun, we usually met a someone's house and it was a house party, and then we took our food to downtown ABQ to feed ~100 people. Food Not Bombs doesn't seem real active anymore, it rarely even happens in Madison, WI anymore.
In the later years there seemed to be more political drama with Food Not Bombs, and usually there were only 2-3 people, sometimes it was a solo act.
So I was doing Food Not Bombs with one other person in 2011 at the UNM, and we were occasionally calling out "Free Lunch", "Food not McDonalds", "Free Food, not bad" etc; when this yuppie suit type came up and asked me, "So, What's the Catch?" I thought that was real amusing so I replied," Well, if we give y'all Free Food, then someone supplies us with Free Food, and they give us more Free Food than we distribute..... So there's a Profit". It was like a light went off in his head. "Well, great, that's a real win-win situation, I'll have some." I said "Thanks!". He said, "you're welcome." Those yuppies are real quick learners.
In the later years there seemed to be more political drama with Food Not Bombs, and usually there were only 2-3 people, sometimes it was a solo act.
So I was doing Food Not Bombs with one other person in 2011 at the UNM, and we were occasionally calling out "Free Lunch", "Food not McDonalds", "Free Food, not bad" etc; when this yuppie suit type came up and asked me, "So, What's the Catch?" I thought that was real amusing so I replied," Well, if we give y'all Free Food, then someone supplies us with Free Food, and they give us more Free Food than we distribute..... So there's a Profit". It was like a light went off in his head. "Well, great, that's a real win-win situation, I'll have some." I said "Thanks!". He said, "you're welcome." Those yuppies are real quick learners.
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