Yeasty

When I was a teen working at Little Caesar’s, we set up a giant elastic band in our back door, and would launch our expired dough balls at the Burger King drive-thru window across the street. Then they’d call us and yell. Fun times.

LMAO.. I would have loved to see them flying through the air!!

this is the yeast of my problems

if the dough is unusable then there's really not much choice about what to do with it. I suppose you could partially cook it before tossing it, but that's a high cost option with regards to time, energy usage, and oven space.

Add twice as much water, stir until liquid, toilet.
- I'm imagining imagining world's worst fatberg and then doubling it after resting.

Pizza the hut ate himself to death in there !

Pictures you can smell.

First time I've looked at a dumpster and thought "I bet that smells delicious"
Really? Excuse my ignorance but I thought baker's yeast doesn't smell that bad?
- To be fair, he didnnt say it smells "bad"...
- Raw pizza dough smells nice
  (and tastes nice, although i've heard you have to be careful now with salmonella in the flour, even though it doesn't have eggs)

even if the original volume was 1/10, that's a lot of wasted food

You should see grocery store dumpsters.
- You should see grocery store trash compactors. So much shit gets tossed and crushed
- My local grocer composts.
I don't know why they'd be throwing away so much dough. The only things I could think of is they made it wrong, or it's very old.
There's no way they accidentally made too much. Pizza shops usually have small dough mixers.
- If they're making actual yeast dough balls you can't make that to order. You need to prep them and put them in the fridge and if the proof time is too long then they go in the dumpster. If they were hoping for a rush and didn't get it for whatever reason that could be a lot of dough balls. And when we're talking about one of the cheapest inputs in the whole system, doing too much prep is much preferable to doing not enough. Losing a $10-$20 pizza sale because you were worried about a 20 cent waste product is poor business.
- Chains will usually ship the dough frozen from a central location, you then defrost it the night before you want to serve it. That means you need to project your sales for the next night otherwise it'll go bad. If you get it majorly wrong you'll be left with a load of dough that is bad
- Bottom right is Peppes pizza. The bases come pre-sauced and frozen in packs of 20. You put them into an oiled pan and put racks of these pans into a leavening cupboard. They puff up a lot, but they need to be used the same day. Because they fall pretty quickly.
  My guess is that they accidentally dropped a couple of boxes down the stairs and shattered them to the point they couldn't be used. Tossed them into the bin without thinking and the midday sun took care of the rest.
  Similarly with chain pizza places like PJ's, the dough is made at a central location and distributed by truck twice a week. It's kept refrigerated for a while but it needs to be taken out of the fridge to rise. Sometimes franchises will order too much and it develops a black marbling of dead yeast, when it gets old. Can't sell it at that point so you toss it in the bin.
  In short it's a failure of capitalism.
- Ya, I was thinking maybe a power outage/fridge failure cause a whole fridge worth to need to be tossed at once, but most pizza shops are gonna try to toss as little dough as possible.

Looks like Pizza the Hutt.

apparently they had to switch puppeteers for that suit so many times due to heat stroke, since the surface was actual pizza being heated from within
- They ate themselves alive.

So the early 90s movies were telling us the truth about ooze after all?

So how do you get rid of old dough?

You paint it orange and make it president.
- Shit I can’t breathe
If you let it fully ferment it'll turn into a flat goo
Salt it. Salt blocks yeast.
Cook it first
Flush it down the toilet
- PSA: Kidding aside, never do this.
Make some pancake

Will you join the Unity? Or will you die here?

Join! DIE Join! DIE
- also, cant believe thats winnie the pooh voicing the master

Pizza the hut lives!

These look like props from a Troma film.

At least they didn't pour it down the drain.

It was the yeast they could do.
- Yeah, they really had to rise to the occasion here. Some people would have disposed of it irresponsibly, but I guess they're just bread better there, although whoever left it in the sun must have been baked.
- Doh!
- That's not enough dough.
Wouldn't the water running just break it up and dissolve? Also the temperature outside in a metal dumpster is likely a lot better for proofing than down a drain in the ground with added water. At least I hope, because I know water/flour cakes up and is a pain to clean sometimes

This is like the start of a horror movie.

The Blob (1988)
I might take inspirations from those images for creature design.
- 2025 mimic just dropped

why not just make yeast expand for as long as possible? idk anything about cooking pizzas nor yeast

why not just make yeast expand for as long as possible
The expanding part isn't making more dough, it's just eating starch and making carbon dioxide it's more or less a spongy balloon.
if you walk over there with a shovel and whack it a few times it'll deflate back into the original volume.
if you take a ball of pizza dough and let it rise and cook it, you'll get a loaf of bread.

Weird thing to do to a cybertruck but I’m down

With the heat from the sun hitting the dumpster too, hmm. That might actually be how they make theirs down the road.

It hungers.

I wonder if this was the inspiration for the 1993 Mario movie

Something something our Yeast overlords

New eldritch horror: incomprehensibly wide yeast dough

Butterbean origin story.

'Is Butterbean OK?' -Johnny Knoxville

Which Peppes pizza is that in the bottom right?

Edit: Peppes pizza -skjold in Bergen.

How did you identify that as peppes let alone Bergen? Like, the hue of the sauce?
- I spent several years working at Peppes and so I could recognise the sauce anywhere, Ragn sells is the company that provides dumpsters in Bergen, and nothing happens in Norway.

PIZZZZZZUUUUUUUOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

Some slop themed slop.
- I nominate you to rethink life choices

That’s where the flavor comes from

Unlimited food hack

hope everyone likes dough

Mmm, dumpster juice flavored dough

Good place to collect wild yeast?

Dumpster concerns aside, I think these count as feral yeast.

They thought they proved 'em wrong

Reminds me of the Sweet Porridge tale.