Being a cruise destination port means a variety of impacts to a community. Radio Orkney tweeted this announcement last week. It seems that a cruise liner’s voyage was being changed/delayed in some way and they had to offload some perfectly good frozen food, here in Orkney. So the local council and the food bank arranged to give the food away to whomever needed/wanted it.
Approximately 500 people queued up for thirteen tonnes of chicken, chips, vegetables, ice cream, etc. It was quite impressive – the locals nicknamed it Chicken Galore, after the classic Scottish film Whisky Galore!, a film about barrels of whisky that wash ashore on a remote Scottish isle.
