Comstock Park construction company collects 5,000 lbs. of food for charity [Video]

COMSTOCK PARK, Mich. — Wearing whipped cream on their faces, Fritz Wahlfield Jr. and his business partner, Tom, sat in front of 5,655 pounds of food, collected by their construction company for a Thanksgiving donation drive.

“That was pretty good,” said Wahlfield, wiping a piece of pie from his eye. “You going back to work now, Tom?”

That month, he and Tom’s team had collected the least amount of food in the company-wide competition for charity, leading to the pie-in-the-face punishment.

“There’s always a winner and there’s always a loser,” Wahlfield said. “But at the end of the day, everybody won here.”

With Wahlfield’s last place putting forth 800-plus pound of food, he’s right. The stockpiling of canned corn, applesauce and other items will feed families, distributed by Feeding America West Michigan.

“Fun for the boys to banter back and forth,” said Amanda Bremmer, an office administrator who came up …