I noteiced lately that there are a whole bunch of canned-food drives in my area every couple months or so. I also noticed that a few of my friends don't even own a can-openers, which leads me to the thought that not many homeless people have can-openers. Do they?
Let's not mention that canned-food is some of the most difficult food to get into! even when you have a can-opener a lot of time you can lose the edge of the can and have a kind of half opwn can that you can't open all the way. I'm usually in the house with two sides of a can open like this ( ). It's still closed on both sides so ur pretty much screwed!
If Iw as homeless and at a food drive I'd probably ask "Can you guys open mine, and heat it up a little bit??" Seriously what the hell am I gonna do with a can of cream-corn and no tools? Can are TOUGH too! You can't even break a can open with a rock very easliy. This may seem like a small problem, but the canned-food for the homeless events have been oxy-moronic for years. I'd rather donate time to a soup kitchen or something.
This may seem like a pointless rant, but I'm building up to my point. I'm trhowing a can-opener drive to donate 1000 donated can openers to the homeless in the SF Bay Area. I've got 11 can-openers so far. If you have an old manual can-opener that you want to donate, feel free to e-mail me at brotherrasheid@hotmail.com & I'll make sure a homeless guy can eat the food he got from some random food drive....
