Talk:Leftovers

Flavor degradation
What about flavor degradation? I'm curious why roast turkey or beef aren't just dryer the day after, they get odd tastes that get worse over time. I suppose it has something to do with components of the food breaking down in the cooking process, which then oxidize in the air. This should imply that some ways of preserving the food would work better than others, perhaps covering it in water. Carl Ponder (talk) 10:12, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

2 things. A fairly common tradition down here in Australia at least is for a large Christmas lunch, with the leftovers being served up for dinner. Secondly, Shepards pie is tradionally made with leftover roast lamb Annachie (talk) 00:04, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Where does this apply?
Asking for a doggy bag in the UK would get some very funny looks in most restaurants. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.108.16.194 (talk) 19:21, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

In the Netherlands it is highly uncommon for people to take leftovers home from restaurants. Lnkvt (talk) 10:19, 25 May 2021 (UTC)

Category - "recycling by product"
Right now this article is only in Category:Meals. I thought that it should be in some other category, but I could not find anything like "Category:Leftover (whatever)" or "Category:Excess (whatever)". Eventually I found Category:Recycling by product, and I saw that there are other articles taking the form "(whatever) recycling". I think that "leftovers" is a special name for "food recycling", but this article is the same concept. I put this article in that category. I thought I would make a note here, because it seems strange to call leftovers as "recycled food", but I think it fits.  Blue Rasberry  (talk)  19:28, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

Swans
It seems to be standard practice for nice restaurants to wrap leftovers in foil shaped like a swan. How is this not mentioned? Give me time and i'll add it, because I'm pretty sure it's a notable practice.— Vchimpanzee  •  talk  •  contributions  •  15:25, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

Shameful? According to whom?
I'm not so sure about that "shameful" bit. It supposedly had a source pointing to a book, but it wasn't specific and the title didn't seem to imply much. On top of that, from this food critic's article, the exact opposite is true: not taking food home from a restaurant seems to be the more shameful experience. Personally, I've never even heard of taking leftovers home as being a "shameful" and "embarrassing" act until just now. If someone is going to add it back in, it's their prerogative, but at least try to make it sound like less of just some personal quirk. 47.28.179.232 (talk) 18:12, 9 April 2020 (UTC)