No, taking a half doughnut because you only want half is NOT okay. All or nothing. No one wants half a doughnut you probably touched and squished. This happens at my work. No one ends up eating the other half because who the fuck knows what happened to it. So it wastes the other half.
Maybe I have gross coworkers because I would never take the second half of a doughnut. It's too questionable. At family function? Sure, we are family and close. At work? No.
I fundamentally disagree with this "all or nothing." Why be wasteful?
At my office we regularly go halvsies on the donuts, and it really is quite easy to cut a donut without touching the half you don't eat. Finger on half you do want, knife down the middle, walla!
I guess I don't have gross coworkers?
I would take half if I saw them split it. This is the only acceptable time to split one is to get a coworker to agree to a split. This means half a mystery doughnut is never left in the box.
I brink cookies, doughnuts, muffins, etc a few times a month and this dries me batty. Like someone took half a sugar cookie...just no.
Post by theblissisback on Sept 8, 2016 14:49:21 GMT -5
I always take a half donut. I don't eat a lot of sweets so if there's free donuts, cookies, cakes, cupcakes, I'll use a napkin and a knife to cut it in half.
This would drive me nuts. A dozen donuts for 5 people is enough to make sure that people get something they might enjoy without leaving random fractions of donuts lying around.
I wouldn't take a half donut left in the box like that, and if I don't want a whole donut I don't take any. The exception is that if I am there at the same time as someone else and we decide to split one, I think that's okay. If I see a half donut in a box I have no way of knowing if it was manhandled or not. And I wouldn't be so rude as to make someone else guess if I used a napkin or whatever.
Post by LoveTrains on Sept 8, 2016 15:03:15 GMT -5
We always cut/split the donuts in my office! It makes sense. I much prefer it, that way everyone can try a half a flavor and then another half of a different flavor.
Let's put it this way - I'd MUCH rather see a 1/2 donut where SOME care was made to not slobber all over it (i.e. the knife was there!) so that someone else could have some vs seeing a 1/2 eaten donut in the trash.
Maybe I wasn't clear. My point was that I can accept not being up for eating entire donut as justification for splitting and taking only half. But in order to sample all the flavors? Annoying. It's not like these are rare artisan flavors. Just pick one.
ETA but I think it's been established that I'm over invested.
Oh, and THIS.
I mean, I would miss DD if I moved away from the East Coast, but their donuts really aren't that good.
Now, if they were GOOD donuts from Peter Pan in Brooklyn, or Blue Star in PDX, or Federal Donuts in Philly ... then, yeah, I'd be tempted to try as many kinds as possible. I'd still only feel comfortable taking only one, but I'd be lying if I said I wouldn't keep going back into the kitchen for "more water/coffee" and glance at the box to see what was left near the end of the day.
Post by Wanderista on Sept 8, 2016 15:31:11 GMT -5
It wouldn't annoy me if someone cut up all the donuts into pieces but the random partial donuts would weird me out. I'm in the camp that would just take a whole one or not at all. I wouldn't be deeply bothered by the donut cutting but I would not eat them either. I lean toward team germophobe.
I WFH and mostly just go in for periodic meetings. We do get catering then but we're generally handed a menu and get to order what we want or we go out to an appreciation lunch. I don't deal with office donuts and my BF pretty much only eats glazed donuts so we never have an issue.
Now that I think about it, I have been at a few meetings with bagels and maybe donuts. I don't remember any partial cutting by anyone. I think the people I've worked with lean towards minimal touching of others' food.
As a doughnut expert, I agree that these were cut, not hand halved lol.
If one person took multiple halves (and I do agree that's what happened here), he or she is a jerk, because it wasn't done to help other people out, it was done to get multiple tastes. If multiple people took one half to save those flavors for someone else, then that was a nice gesture.
Never. I'm always here for you. I just don't believe from that picture that these were necessarily touched. But I agree that they could have been and understand why that's distasteful. Save
Halving a donut is fine, halving all the donuts so you can make yourself a sampler platter is not fine.
The real problem here is people who have bad taste in donuts. Jelly donuts need to stop existing. Apple fritters are about the only time fruit and donuts should collide.
Spouse A, sorry. I am just not really a germaphobe in general, though, and I work in a small office comprised almost entirely of people I have worked with for 5+ years and we are all pretty close. But I also enjoy potlucks and homemade food that my coworkers bring in, so I am absolutely not an accurate gauge of things people on GBCN find cringe-worthy.
I'm used to seeing only a couple half doughnuts. This would make me laugh if I was in a good mood and piss me off if I was in a bad one.
The pissed off me would be cursing them for not leaving me the whole chocolate bar. And why isn't there a rainbow sprinkle cake doughnut left? Those are my favorite.
Halving a donut is fine, halving all the donuts so you can make yourself a sampler platter is not fine.
The real problem here is people who have bad taste in donuts. Jelly donuts need to stop existing. Apple fritters are about the only time fruit and donuts should collide.
i was going to like this post until I got to the jelly doughnut part. Leave my jelly doughnuts alone!
I would like a raspberry one right now. Please and thank you.
Post by dr.girlfriend on Sept 8, 2016 18:34:12 GMT -5
I always want a full donut but if other people are doing halves I feel piggish taking a full one and try to resign myself to just half. (or take half at first, and wander by in an hour or so for another half, lol)
I can't like this post because I am just fine with donut fractionation (prefer it actually so that I can try more than one), but your use of donut fractionation made me LOL.
Post by followyourarrow on Sept 8, 2016 23:53:12 GMT -5
Team B! Do not mess with my donut and for the love of god don't pretend you can't possibly eat a whole donut. No. Just no. I have very strong feelings about donut cutting.
Post by jennistarr1 on Sept 9, 2016 8:45:54 GMT -5
I hate when people half donuts...too me it's a freak diet trick "I'm only going to let myself have half"...and I feel like you need to shit or get off the pot, eat a donut or don't. Noone really wants the half that is left. If you want to split a donut, find someone to split with. But yeah, the picture of that box is making me crazy. I hope you are spouse B
I can't like this post because I am just fine with donut fractionation (prefer it actually so that I can try more than one), but your use of donut fractionation made me LOL.
I am fine with it for trying more than one. I detest it for people who 1) think they're getting vastly fewer calories by taking half a donut or 2) feel it's rude to take the last donut, so they take increasingly small fractions so they're not "that employee"