Bring Your Own Leftovers from Ampolo Team on Vimeo.

If you have watched any of our episodes, you know we are hungry for your ideas. Hmm. Hungry. Perhaps it’s no coincidence that two episodes inspired by viewers have centered around food. The first, BYOF, was sent in by Jim, who has an idea for a restaurant that provides everything except the food. You bring that yourself and pay the establishment a fee for the table, the plates and silverware, etc. Jim’s idea inspired Mike to make and send us his own video—BYOL.

Mike told us that, “Parody is the sincerest form of flattery.” BYOL is indeed a parody. But is there also a morsel of meaning in it? On first glance, the idea for a restaurant where you bring your leftovers appears, well, unappetizing. In reality, however, there is a growing movement of anti-consumers who might find BYOL right up their alley. The movement is called Freeganism.