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Re:LibreFoodPantry – a community building FOSS for food pant... by tdeck on Friday May 28, 2021 @07:52PM (#27321872)
They're called both in the U.S. I think "food bank" is at least as common. E.g. SF-Marin food bank (https://www.sfmfoodbank.org/) and the nearby Berkeley Food Pantry (https://www.berkeleyfoodpantry.org/).

The word "pantry" alone has the same meaning in both countries.

It probably makes sense to change terms if one is more universal.

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Re:LibreFoodPantry – a community building FOSS for food pant... by hmsimha on Saturday May 29, 2021 @12:19AM (#27322999)
I grew up in the U.S., spent ~7 years volunteering at a soup kitchen (not an actual soup kitchen, but a program which cooked and served meals to the public), and I had no idea what "food pantry" was. The term I'm familiar with is "food bank". Maybe it's regional? I was living in Memphis, TN
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