Many people are ready to give thanks over some good grub this week.

Today, we'll grab our forks and dig into some weird and wonderful food facts.

I'm Bethany Vandelle.

It's Tuesday, November 23rd, and this is the 10 News.

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As many families are getting ready to gather over a holiday meal this week, creating lots of delicious leftovers, it got us thinking about where our food comes from

and what happens to the leftover food at the grocery store. Ten news correspondent Pamela Kirkland

sat down with a representative of Misfits Market, a grocery delivery service that's fighting food waste.

Food waste is a big deal in this country,

especially around Thanksgiving. You eat and eat and eat, but a lot of that food can actually end up in the trash. In fact, about 30 to 40% of the country's food supply ends up going to waste each year.

What?

Some of it gets trash simply because it's what you might call ugly.

That's unbelievable.

We wanted to talk to somebody who's trying to do something about food waste with ugly food.

Holly Eagelson is Misfit Markets, Vice President of Marketing. Holly, thanks so much

for joining the 10. Happy to be here. So we'll start with the easy question. What is Misfit

Market? So we're an online grocery store that helps eliminate food waste by selling some items

that might otherwise go to waste. An example of that might be

apples that are kind of funny looking. There may be a little bit misshapen, not that kind of classic

thing, you know, everything that looks uniform in the grocery store, maybe some olive oil with a

label upside down. We collect this food directly from farmers and really great food producers,

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