Talk:Leftovers

message: Just to stick a note in here - I understand that most of this is true. I understand it to be true. But... erm... sources? >.>; And where's the thing about 'doggie-bags' going out of style, at least here in the US? In Southern California, I hear 'Doggie Bag' about as often as I hear anything else... I admit, that bit is OR, but I 'know' it to be true, and it's a start to try to find something that proves it one way or another. 
I concur. Doggy bag is used often in the north east.
:We just moved to South Jersey, and have been hearing "Do you want that wrapped?" a lot. This confused us a little until we realized that still meant it was going to go in a pizza box or styrofoam clamshell or whatever, same as back in Kansas where it would have been "Do you want a box for that?" I think "doggy bag" has just fallen out of favor with waitstaff, or rather with the makers of policies, except at franchises where they have company-mandated minimum flair and use too much first-person plural: "And will we be needing a doggy bag tonight?" But everyone still knows what one is, I think. No citations for any of that, of course, which is a shame. If a grant-funded study of restaurant protocols needs researchers, I'm up for that. 73.215.157.183 (talk) 23:50, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Cute, but remember, state your point; don't prove it experimentally --Stlemur 13:26, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Hence why I was making it a request. When I am in my full capacities I do not feel up to the task of doing anything but minor organizational edits to minor Wiki articles - and when I posted that I was about three quarters asleep and fading fast. Thanks for the 'cute' comment, I really appreciated it68.101.111.170 02:49, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Sources

message: What about flavor degradation? I'm curious why roast turkey or beef aren't just dryer the day after, they get odd tastes that get worse over time. I suppose it has something to do with components of the food breaking down in the cooking process, which then oxidize in the air. This should imply that some ways of preserving the food would work better than others, perhaps covering it in water. Carl Ponder (talk) 10:12, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Flavor degradation

message: Asking for a doggy bag in the UK would get some very funny looks in most restaurants.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.108.16.194 (talk) 19:21, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Where does this apply?

message: Right now this article is only in :Category:Meals. I thought that it should be in some other category, but I could not find anything like "Category:Leftover (whatever)" or "Category:Excess (whatever)". Eventually I found :Category:Recycling by product, and I saw that there are other articles taking the form "(whatever) recycling". I think that "leftovers" is a special name for "food recycling", but this article is the same concept. I put this article in that category. I thought I would make a note here, because it seems strange to call leftovers as "recycled food", but I think it fits.  Blue Rasberry (talk) 19:28, 2 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Category - "recycling by product"

message: It seems to be standard practice for nice restaurants to wrap leftovers in foil shaped like a swan. How is this not mentioned? Give me time and i'll add it, because I'm pretty sure it's a notable practice.— Vchimpanzee •  talk • contributions •  15:25, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Swans 

message: I'm not so sure about that "shameful" bit. It supposedly had a source pointing to a book, but it wasn't specific and the title didn't seem to imply much. On top of that, from this food critic's article, the exact opposite is true: not taking food home from a restaurant seems to be the more shameful experience. Personally, I've never even heard of taking leftovers home as being a "shameful" and "embarrassing" act until just now. If someone is going to add it back in, it's their prerogative, but at least try to make it sound like less of just some personal quirk. 47.28.179.232 (talk) 18:12, 9 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shameful? According to whom?