Straight guy - have done it and will again. But it’s usually only with people I know very well and it involves cutting something in half and putting it on separate plates, although I have to imagine that would be no different if I was gay.
Although, several times, I have been out with a large group of coworkers where we ordered a bunch of stuff and all just split it up. Men and women involved - not sure who was gay or straight, didn’t ask.
I voted straight woman/would share, but really, unless it’s something massive (like Longhorn’s Chocolate Stampede*) I usually don’t want to share with anybody because that dessert belongs to me, my fat ass, and nobody else.
This is a slight hijack, but I think if the server brings the desert that just one of us ordered, and brings it with two spoons, they should not mind if I put half the tip on somebody else’s table.
Seriously, we’re sitting here and you don’t order a desert from them, when they want nothing more than to sell you one out of a whole goddam barrel of desserts they have in the back, and you think you’re getting part of my one lonely single stingy dessert?
Get away from my tart! Grr!
As a rule, my GF and I always order only one tiramisù or mango-sticky rice, or whatever, and split it between us. When we actually do order dessert, which is fairly infrequent.
So yet another way to make people feel self concious about their sexuality. Great. I’m straight and like to split the oversize desserts that restaurants serve. But somehow, this is now (potentially) gay. Thanks, David Sedaris, for unnecessarily polarizing a previously innocent activity.
Straight female, and I share my desserts all the time - or eat them myself, as the case may be. Why, a bunch of us went out to lunch a couple of weeks ago and there were six of us. We got three desserts, and everyone tried a little of everyone else’s. I’d prefer separate spoons, but I am not overly concerned as long as I am comfortable with the hygiene of the people involved.
I once drank from the same water bottle as a lesbian (not at the same moment of course!). Does that make me one?
This. Although I’d do the same with a female friend.
And this.