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Pagpag is the Tagalog term for leftover food from restaurants (usually from fast food restaurants) scavenged from garbage sites and dumps. [1] [2] Pagpag food can also be expired frozen meat, fish, or vegetables discarded by supermarkets and scavenged in garbage trucks where this expired food is collected. [3]
May 30, 2023 · Pagpag is the Tagalog term for leftover or trash foods salvaged from garbage and re-cooked for consumption by the poorest Filipinos in the slum districts of Metro Manila. Despite being considered a survival food and a symbol of the poor Filipinos’ resilience, pagpag has become a controversial issue due to the health risks associated with it.
Apr 30, 2012 · In Tagalog “pagpag” means the dust you shake off your clothing or carpet, but in Fabon’s poverty- stricken world, it means chicken pulled from the trash.
Consuming pagpag leads to stunted growth in children and increases risks of hepatitis A, cholera and typhoid — but eating it is a fact of life in Philippine slums.
I remember back in the day when Isko Moreno was starting out in show business, he was interviewed on one of those talk shows and he said that he and others would scrounge the bins behind a Jollibee and would look for the chicken bones and re-fry them. That they called it pagpag. ‘Ano?’ Sabi ng host. “Pagpag. Kasi pinapagpag.”
Oct 20, 2021 · pagpag. leftover food scavenged from garbage sites. This term originates from the situation where food that has been thrown away by individuals or restaurants is picked up by beggars or scavengers. It’s similar to homeless people engaging in dumpster-diving in the United States.
Apr 24, 2023 · With food prices rising relentlessly, Manila’s poorest residents are increasingly resorting to eating “pagpag”, a stew cooked with scraps of meat and bones scavenged from rubbish bins that ...
Apr 25, 2023 · Happyland, a neighborhood where the pagpag is sold “Everyone here likes my food, I have no complaints,” Evelyn Blasorca, a neighbor of Happyland who has been selling “pagpag” (“shaken” or “recycled” in Tagalog) for years, tells EFE, a recipe that all her customers combine with white rice.
May 28, 2013 · Pagpag is the local term for these leftovers found in the mounds of garbage and disposal sites in the Philippines. It is a quintessential staple for the poorest of the poor and is not only a means to nourish and sustain but has become trade and livelihood for those who dare capitalize on it.
Mar 17, 2014 · Recycled leftover food or pagpag – mostly from fastfood chain trash – nourishes many of the country’s poor. Picked up from garbage trucks that bring them to dump sites, leftover parts of ...
