Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest

Soup Kitchens- anyone here use them?

  • 30-11-2010 10:28AM
    #1
    gonedrinking
    Closed Accounts Posts: 810 ✭✭✭


    Just came across this video on bloomberg and the meal that bloke is eating looks pretty good. I'd say going to soup kitchens would be a great way of saving a few quid at lunch time. So anyone use them? Whats the deal with them, do they charge you a euro or something for each meal?

    http://www.bloomberg.com/video/64874550/


Comments

  • #2
    Dancor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,624 ✭✭✭Dancor


    Soup kitchen? Is that not some sort of homeless orgy?


  • #3
    gonedrinking
    Closed Accounts Posts: 810 ✭✭✭gonedrinking


    I think money-conscious yuppies like myself are starting to use them too


  • #4
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,219 ✭✭✭✭biko


    The money for the food should come straight out of the TDs pockets.


  • #5
    sensibleken
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,650 ✭✭✭sensibleken


    have we got them in ireland? do they do a vegetarian option?

    Oi! stop throwing things at me!


  • #6
    Odysseus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,752 ✭✭✭Odysseus


    I remember them growing up, there was a lot of shame associated with them. The joke was that it was a mirical [sp] that half the babies in Ballyer were not badly burned, as people would hide the pot in the pram on their way home with it.


  • Advertisement
  • #7
    Elevator
    Closed Accounts Posts: 844 ✭✭✭Elevator


    I've never used them but know some people who have, these would be people I came to know for one reason or another and they fell foul of the drink and drugs, life passed them by and if it wasn't for the food kitchen in Galway they'd be dead long ago!!

    I would have no problem in using them of things got so tight around here that I couldn't afford to buy food after paying my rent and paying for my own medication out of my dole. I'd probably help out just to give something back


  • #8
    gonedrinking
    Closed Accounts Posts: 810 ✭✭✭gonedrinking


    Elevator wrote: »

    I would have no problem in using them of things got so tight around here that I couldn't afford to buy food after paying my rent and paying for my own medication out of my dole. I'd probably help out just to give something back

    would you have a problem with people who could afford food using them just to save a few quid?


  • #9
    FunkZ
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,179 ✭✭✭FunkZ


    gonedrinking wrote: »
    would you have a problem with people who could afford food using them just to save a few quid?

    I hope not, we need a Boards Beers at one of these places! Grand buzz.


  • #10
    Canis Lupus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,880 ✭✭✭Canis Lupus


    gonedrinking wrote: »
    would you have a problem with people who could afford food using them just to save a few quid?

    I would. Soup kitchens are not there for you to 'save a few quid', they're there to help the less fortunate and the truly needy. If I worked in one and knew someone coming in that didn't need to they'd be out on their ear in as loud and as publicly shaming fashion as possible.


  • #11
    sollar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,007 ✭✭✭sollar


    Anybody posting on boards prob either owns a laptop/computer with paid up broadband or has access to a internet from work so i couldn't imagine many would be eating in soup kitchens.


  • Advertisement
  • #12
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,116 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    gonedrinking wrote: »
    would you have a problem with people who could afford food using them just to save a few quid?
    I've never used a soup kitchen, but if I did, I'd be happy to pay my way through a donation. There are so few places where you can get a bite to eat at a sensible price. If I had kids I'd be tearing my hair out at the cost of getting something to eat in Dublin.

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #13
    Babooshka
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,142 ✭✭✭Babooshka


    gonedrinking wrote: »
    would you have a problem with people who could afford food using them just to save a few quid?

    You are just pulling the p*ss with this. Any selfish prick who'd steal subsidised food from the genuinely hungry would not care what others thought of them anyway, so you're just deliberately trying to rile people up here. I'd say you'd get your head kicked in if you went into one of them.


  • #14
    Son Of A Vidic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    Ya, you'd see a few Boardsie's alright going into a soup kitchen with their Laptop bags slung over their shoulders.


  • #15
    DublinWriter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,571 ✭✭✭DublinWriter


    medicman2009 wrote: »
    Ya, you'd see a few Boardsie's alright going into a soup kitchen with their Laptop bags slung over their shoulders.
    ...going up to the counter, getting the free soup and then saying, um, do you have wi-fi too?


  • #16
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    I turn Prod in a jiffy for a free, decent bowl of potato and leek.


  • #17
    uch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,020 ✭✭✭uch


    I've used the Focus Ireland one because I've a mate that works there, the homeless get very cheap grub in there, I had to pay full price (which is fair enough) but that was still only about a fiver for meat and 2 veg dinner, and it was lovely fresh grub too. But if it was too packed I'd go elsewhere because most of the unfortunates in there can't afford to go elsewhere and have to wait outside in all weather till space is available

    21/25



Advertisement