Using the internet for free food?

GreyOrange writes "With all the offers for free food on the internet how can a hungry person differitiate between the bogus ones and the ones that fill the tummy? One legitimate offer I've found so far is from www.jellybelly.com were they give you a free sample. But theres a tremendous amount of websites that are missleading and offering food in exchange for credit application and other horrible things like spam and never living up to their end of the deal. Got any good websites for free edibles, how about other things that might be of equal value that are not bogus. How about some methods you have picked up for all you veterans out there. Is there a directery out there that is true to its word, how about a wikipedia page?"

A bit late

[brejc8]

I remember a few years back (99-01) during the internet boom/desperation days there were lots oc sites giving away stuff. The best way to fing free stuff is from "free stuff" websites. I got lost of stuff:T-shirts, samples... My favorite was a train whistle (huge 9" wooden thing that sounds just like a train) and a very nice box of chocolates.

Unfortunately the're no longer many money burning web ventures.

This year is higher quality, MAYBE

[Anonymous Coward]

I usually am a troll (I try to get upmoderated, as opposed to the lamer crapflooding, though), but I actually have to admit that I like the "real submissions unedited", if they truly are real submissions.

It is a pretty good way to see some of the lamest submissions that make it into Ask Slashdot - the ones that get posted are often lame, but these are orders of magnitude beyond that.

I vote to keep it.

Re:April Fools: An Important Message

[tbase]

I think you may be missing the point. The posts aren't supposed to be the funny part - it's the fact that people actually submitted these that IMHO is hillarious.

Maybe it's not a real good fit for April Fools, but I think it's as good a time as any, and I for one enjoy the opportunity to look at some of the submissions that we otherwise wouldn't have the opportunity to.

If you honestly have that much of a problem with it, take a day off from /. - I'm sure you'll survive.

seriously

[mandalayx]

I realize it's an April Fool's story.

But if you are really interested in free stuff, may I suggest FatWallet's Free Stuff [fatwallet.com] forum. FW is "known" for its Hot Deals forum so I imagine the Free forum would be of substance as well.

I would guess sites like Anandtech and bargainshare.net would have similar forums.

Re:Buying a Car

[leastsquares]

To cut a long story short, I was actually in a position to do this.

Sadly, they always approve you -- but would you take out a loan at 38.4% interest?

(Did I mention that I love the credit agencies?)

Here's a site where you can get free food...

[Meoworgg]

weeklyfreebie.com [weeklyfreebie.com] They actually have a list of "free food" sites.

Re:April Fools: An Important Message

[vanillacoke]

Better to have a sucky sense of humor then none.

Oh wait this is slashdot, the domain of the superior geek. No laughs and sex.