...and it seems to be the real thing. Pretty good.

It was in plain shrinkwrapped freezer packaging.

We sometimes get bulk overruns at our food pantry. The packages are so huge we need to divide them into smaller units.

I can usually get the big food service can of chili beans for my homemade chili there though. I can't think of much of anything else like that I would use, because my diet has very little canned anything. I imagine some people could go through quite a few items if the price was good.

If only we had a competent administration that cares about the people.

Last weekend the bread aisle of my nearby grocery was wiped clean. On Tuesday it was half full, but not of the usual brands. The loaf I got was marked "for food service only".

If it's legal for sale, it's legal for sale.

When I worked food service I'd buy some large packages of stuff. And I've seen it for sale at the local restaurant supply companies, but it's stuff that the vendors want to sell that way and that the stores want to stock. (You sponsor student clubs selling food at special events, it helps to have worked food service.)

some high end places are closed but most are operating

to homeless shelters.

Right down to the chopped frozen eggs.

It could be donated. Or they could hold onto it and use it later, provided it hasn't gone too fast past its expiration date.

On a lot of that stuff, the problem isn't the labeling. It's that the packages are outrageous in size. Say you want a small bottle of salad oil. If you go to the grocery store, a small bottle holds less than a quart. A small bottle in a restaurant supply store is a gallon. Flour comes in 50-pound bags. Sugar is in 25-pound bags. Most people would never use that much.

It starts with a 5 lb container of cottage cheese.

Working food service can make you stop liking food.

Those packages are not labelled for retail and currently cannot be sold retail without it.

Good idea though

I feel like in this emergency we are being strangled by our own red tape