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Oh yes, it's the kitchenhand, the dishie, the dish pig, the boy and my favourite the "underwater porcelain detailer". Usually either a 15yo white boy or a 25yo immigrant. They are the guys who wash dishes, peel potatoes, all the dirty or time consuming jobs that don't involve the actual cooking and until you know how to use one that use a knife. I started as one of these then was snagged into an apprenticeship as a chef. I thought it was the worst job in the kitchen, then last year graduated to Head. Now I look at the lads who roll in half an hour before lunch and just get to go home at the end and think "you lucky bastards, I'd love to scrub a pot for a few hours and not care".

And don't forget your "Freegan", those who never buy meat or contribute money to the slaughtering industry as a whole but will eat protein that ends up in front of them and would otherwise go to waste.

They tend to call themselves Vegetarians though and are a blast to have at your BBQ.

I grew up in Tasmania and there's a Cadbury factory just out of town, when I was a kid it used to be open for tours and they sold all the broken bits of whatever for near cost price in white paper bags at the end of the tour. Seriously, buying kilo bags of loose rolos was the bomb. The point was that the factory was built that far south because of insects. (and a deal laid out by the gov for cheaper power bills than the mainland). I've always taken it as fact that bugs get into the system; even when I don't see anything flying around for months in my kitchen there's always plenty of bodies in the bug-zapper each week. and that much sugar, simmering away? It'd attract ANYTHING with wings for ages, begging for them to divebomb straight into that mess. Imagine if said factory was build in S.E Asia jungles or somewhere else hot and full-o-bugs? Their filtration systems would start with a pook skimmer...

On a sidenote, the factory made the standard range of chocolates, the 200g bars, freddo and caramello bears etc, used to really confuse me why all the fundraiser chocolates (still Cadbury) were made in Indonesia. Now I think that the Indonesian choc must have been cheaper to aqquire, thus more profits fundraised.

Good luck to you...keep us updated on how things progress.

this sounds... pointed...

Possible reddit meetup in the Deli? Redneck Lezbo, wear a red carnation, Revk47, wash your hands. you'll both know...

I'm considering a career change from kitchens and have been toying with the idea of starting an online re-selling business around one of my hobbies. I considered MTG, lately been revolving around Lego, both being products I'm familiar with. My plan at this stage is to just buy a few sets each of the next release (Lego), sell them individually through eBay and other local online classifieds, then re-invest the proceeds into more sets, using the first few batches to determine how feasible this will be and to not sink too much money into a pipe dream.

My questions are 1), Once you focused on this as a business and viable income how long was it before it grew into your full time job

2) My plan's deliberately simple, are there any obvious complications you think I should add now with benifit of hindsight? Things such as a homepage/branding etc.

3) I'm slightly OCD when it comes to collectables, always thought that if I were in the Magic business I'd keep one of each card that passed through my hands, keep the first black lotus, sell the second on. How extensive is your personal collection?

Thanks for your time, I scanned for if my questions were repeats but couldn't see. Have a goodun!