City Sewers' Message: Don't Even Think About Pouring Gravy Down Drain

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The SF Weekly isn't big on preaching and we don't do it often. But for Thanksgiving, we thought we'd give a voice to one of the most taken-for-granted and under-represented sectors of our city: the sewers.  

Turns out the city's sewers are clogged with your kitchen grease just like your arteries will be after imbibing all that gravy tomorrow. This causes a bunch of back-ups and overflows into the streets and even the bay. You don't want to kill a seagull with your gravy now, do you? So, SFGreasecycle would like to remind you to store your cooking fat, gravy, and grease in a container until it solidifies and then throw it in the compost bin, not down the sink. Better yet, drop it off at one of the city's Thanksgiving grease drop-off points until Sunday, listed on SFGreasecycle's Web site here, so your leftover gravy can be turned into biofuel to power the city's fleet.

Preaching over. We'll leave you with a joke that a pun-loving reporter sent us this morning. Feel free to plagiarize it to impress your Thanksgiving guests: 

"I heard Jerry Brown isn't celebrating Thanksgiving this year."

"Oh yeah? What's he celebrating?"

"ThanksGavin." 
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