Earlier this month British Prime Minister Gordon Brown spotlighted the topic of food waste in the U.K., which he said costs the average household about £8 ($16). Brown's comments, which included criticisms of "buy one, get one free" promotions run by supermarkets, sparked some derision in the UK.
Via the Wasted Food blog, we've learned of an online parody game, Gordon Brown and the Kingdom of the Wasters:
You get to control the British Prime Minister as he tries to recover good food like bananas and cupcakes while avoiding rotten items like fish bones.
Apparently, dastardly opposition leader David Cameron is the one throwing away the good food. The goal is to catch Cameron and stop him from giving another press conference. Zelda, it’s not.
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When the idea of satire in a game comes up, I always imagine something witty and clever, like a BioShock or Fallout. Sadly, 99% of satirical games are like the shovelware above :(
BioShock's not a satire, surely? I do believe it's an allegory rather than a satire.
Fallout, on the otherhand, would count as satire (I think).
-- teh moominz --
Bioshock is a satire of an Ayn Rand novel.
Yeah this game is disitnctly in the shovelware category. I wish private eye would make a game it'd be ace!
His issue isn't actually a terrible one. I've been the head of a family of 5(sort of), and it's absolutely insane the amount of food that can get wasted. The problem isn't that the supermarkets sell too much, it's that it's very difficult to ensure food gets eaten in such a structured environment. Making meals 7 days a week and trying to make sure it gets eaten, along with all the other stuff, it's difficult.
As a single guy, I always eat everything I buy. As a step-father of 3, we threw out a third of our groceries.
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