DW: Well Ore-Ida, ore-ida, ore-ida!
Germany had its biggest potato harvest in 25 years, and now Berlin is giving away tons of free potatoes. A farm in Saxony ended up with 4-thousand tons of potatoes after a trader backed out when prices dropped. That is nearly four million pounds of potatoes, or about the weight of 800 adult elephants. To keep the food from going to waste, the Berlin newspaper Berliner Morgenpost teamed up with the search engine company Ecosia to hand them out for free.
Trucks brought the potatoes from the farm south of Leipzig to more than 170 spots around Berlin. Food banks, homeless shelters, schools, and even zoos signed up to get some. People lined up at pickup points to grab bags for themselves. The effort was meant to fight food waste and show how the food system can leave perfectly good food with nowhere to go.
Source: The Guardian