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"  College student Maximus Thaler plans to open his own caf\u00E9 called the Gleaner&amp;#039;s Kitchen. The Tufts attendee currently serves dinners under that name at his cooperative living house while raising funds. There&amp;#039;s just one thing customers should know before giving the food a try \u2014 none of Thaler&amp;#039;s ingredients are purchased from the grocery store. In fact, they are taken straight from the trash. According to Boston.com, Thaler started a Kickstarter fundraiser, which he hopes will fund a permanent 24-hour caf\u00E9 using only food that has been rescued from dumpsters. For now, the student and his friends at his cooperative living house serve &amp;quot;freegan&amp;quot; dinners. Followers of a freegan lifestyle prefer to find food and other products without participating in monetary transactions. More From Delish: The Weirdest Restaurants in the World In his Kickstarter video, Thaler states, &amp;quot;In today&amp;#039;s modern, industrial, capitalist society, gleaning takes on a new meaning. Some of us call it dumpster diving.&amp;quot; The students who currently run Gleaner&amp;#039;s Kitchen aren&amp;#039;t cooking with rotten food. They only take discarded grocery store items that are still good, like a box of vegetables that is past its expiration date but not its prime, or a carton of eggs in which one of the eggs is broken but the others are still edible. More From Delish: They Eat What?! Strange Foods From Around the Globe Apparently one can run a whole caf\u00E9 using ingredients found in dumpsters that sit behind grocery stores. While he obviously won&amp;#039;t be able to choose his recipes in advance, if Thaler meets his Kickstarter donation goal, he says the money will go straight to opening the caf\u00E9. Thaler says he will need to run the caf\u00E9 out of an apartment because of the many legal issues that would arise if he attempted to open a true dumpster-sourced restaurant. Foodbeast reports that Thaler acknowledges even his current enterprise operates, &amp;quot;in a grey area of legality.&amp;quot; But currently all the transactions are based on donations or bartered services. Would you try food from Gleaner&amp;#039;s Kitchen? Do you think it&amp;#039;s safe to take discarded food from the grocery store dumpster? Find more great food content on Delish:   Search for the perfect recipe from our homepage Find out the latest food news Get a recipe book to save your favorite dishes Sign up for our free newsletters Check us out on Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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