Hugh Fearnley- Whittingstall's programme about chicken a couple of years ago showed that buying a chicken for Sunday lunch and then throwing the rest away was a quite normal practice.
About 30 years ago my aunt visited a new friend for a meal and was absolutely shaken when after a Sunday lunch of roast beef what was left of the joint was put in the bin, which was full of ham sandwiches. The lady concerned always made her husband two rounds of ham sandwiches in the evening after supper in case he got hungry watching television. He rarely did so the sandwiches went into the bin
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