# Take The Whole F-ing Donut!! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 17, 2009, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-whole-f-ing-donut/493477 "2009-04-17T21:58:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-whole-f-ing-donut/493477/61 "2009-04-19T17:05:52Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > Hmm. I don’t have an issue with someone only wanting half a donut. However, an entire box of halves means that there are several people who want only half a donut, but instead of eating the half that is already sitting there, take a whole new donut, break it in half, and leave half in the box. That’s not cool. There should only ever be maximum one half-donut in a box. > [@tim314](#): > > Taking a half is fine, leaving more than one half in the box is not. If you don’t want to eat someone else’s half, you shouldn’t expect someone to eat yours. This assumes all of the donuts are of the same type. If I don’t want the second half of the jelly donut, I might still cut the plain in half and eat that. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-whole-f-ing-donut/493477/62 "2009-04-19T18:14:29Z")
> [@apollonia](#): > > I used to have this problem with an old roommate. The house rule was that the last person to finish off the juice had to make more, or the person who finished off the milk had to put a new bag in. She would “cleverly” get around this by leaving just the barest smidgen of juice in the bottom of the pitcher or just a swallow of milk in the bottom of the bag. When we confronted her about this, she said “But I really didn’t want that last bit!” What, you thought everyone else in the house came home and thought “Gee, I’m parched, I’d love to have a nice half-sip of juice with my lunch!” > > Nice girl, but a little deficient on some basic roommate qualities. _Bag_ of milk? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-whole-f-ing-donut/493477/63 "2009-04-19T18:22:48Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > _Bag_ of milk? 😕 [Bag of milk](http://myrantsandrambles.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/milk1.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![apollonia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2bfe46/32.png) [@apollonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/apollonia)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-whole-f-ing-donut/493477/64 "2009-04-19T18:24:43Z")
In Canada you can get your milk in bags. [Cite.](http://www.cynical-c.com/archives/bloggraphics/milk3.jpg) [Cite.](http://dylanb.files.wordpress.com/2006/06/milk.JPG) Beaten to the punch, but holy moly, I’ve never seen a bag of milk like the one in **Qadgop** ’s link. It’s a little scary! ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-whole-f-ing-donut/493477/65 "2009-04-19T18:43:14Z")
> [@apollonia](#): > > In Canada you can get your milk in bags. > > [Cite.](http://www.cynical-c.com/archives/bloggraphics/milk3.jpg) [Cite.](http://dylanb.files.wordpress.com/2006/06/milk.JPG) > > Beaten to the punch, but holy moly, I’ve never seen a bag of milk like the one in **Qadgop** ’s link. It’s a little scary! I’ve only seen bags of milk like your example. The other ones look like they’d be less likely to spill though. ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-whole-f-ing-donut/493477/66 "2009-04-19T18:46:19Z")
Yeah, those things look like an accident waiting to happen. And since milk costs more per gallon than gas these days, I’ll keep my evil plastic jugs. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-whole-f-ing-donut/493477/67 "2009-04-19T18:57:43Z")
My mother for some strange reason pours her half-and-half into a little miniature pitcher when she’s having her coffee. Sometimes, when there’s some left, she puts it back in the fridge, where everyone in a while, it gets knocked over. So I’m with you, **Diana**. I’ll save my pitchers for Kool-Aid. ---
**Author:** ![BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-whole-f-ing-donut/493477/68 "2009-04-19T23:41:09Z")
> [@DianaG](#): > > Yeah, those things look like an accident waiting to happen. And since milk costs more per gallon than gas these days, I’ll keep my evil plastic jugs. A lot of people slide the whole bag into a plastic pitcher roughly the same size as the bag and cut a small pour hole in the top. ---
**Author:** ![apollonia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2bfe46/32.png) [@apollonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/apollonia)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-whole-f-ing-donut/493477/69 "2009-04-19T23:43:18Z")
Is there another way to do it besides putting your bag in a pitcher? Unless you poured the whole bag into the pitcher, which seems like a lot of work. Pitcher, bag, hole in the corner, done. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-whole-f-ing-donut/493477/70 "2009-04-20T06:48:28Z")
> [@Harmonious\_Discord](#): > > He eventually had his antics add up to where he was fired. It took years because of his position, but it happened. I’m glad to hear that he was fired, even if it took years. Generally, these people are bulletproof. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-whole-f-ing-donut/493477/71 "2009-04-20T11:15:51Z")
> [@apollonia](#): > > Is there another way to do it besides putting your bag in a pitcher? Unless you poured the whole bag into the pitcher, which seems like a lot of work. Pitcher, bag, hole in the corner, done. That’s why the slot is in the spout end. You slide the plastic into the slot to close the bag’s pouring hole ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-whole-f-ing-donut/493477/72 "2009-04-20T14:48:02Z")
I’m going to invent a half donut and make a bajillion dollars. ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-whole-f-ing-donut/493477/73 "2009-04-20T15:05:42Z")
> [@An\_Arky](#): > > I’m going to invent a half donut and make a bajillion dollars. Yeah, but then we’d just rant about fucking 1/4 donuts people leave in the box. ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-whole-f-ing-donut/493477/74 "2009-04-20T16:19:26Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > One place I used to work would occasionally get chocolates in, the good kind. One coworker would pinch them in half, and if she didn’t like the filling, she’d pitch them, saying that of course nobody would want them after she’d handled them. She was right, but the boss finally said that we could each consume a certain number of chocolates each day, and consuming meant pitching them in the trash, too. This pissed my coworker off to no end. She couldn’t see that she was doing anything wrong. Oy. I’m allergic to an assortment of things put into chocolate (nuts. berries. no hunter-gatherer, me.) so biting into stuff like unlabeled truffles can be a hazard. At work, I simply decline. At home I chop every one of those suckers in two, and eat the good ones. The remainder, I bring in to work. Where they’re gone in about no time. So they don’t _mind_ the halfsies, but it seems rather rude doing so when they’re not _her_ chocolates to butcher up beforehand. ---
**Author:** ![Algher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Algher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algher)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-whole-f-ing-donut/493477/75 "2009-04-20T17:06:21Z")
> [@Hockey\_Monkey](#): > > Yeah, but then we’d just rant about fucking 1/4 donuts people leave in the box. That is why I buy donut holes when I provide for the office! ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-whole-f-ing-donut/493477/76 "2009-04-20T17:16:19Z")
> [@Lynn Bodoni](#): > > One place I used to work would occasionally get chocolates in, the good kind. One coworker would pinch them in half, and if she didn’t like the filling, she’d pitch them, saying that of course nobody would want them after she’d handled them. She was right, but the boss finally said that we could each consume a certain number of chocolates each day, and consuming meant pitching them in the trash, too. This pissed my coworker off to no end. She couldn’t see that she was doing anything wrong. That’s just pure assholishness. I’m super-picky about filled chocolates, I don’t like the majority of them, and I never just bite into one. When I’m at home, I cut them or pinch them to see what they are, and discard the ones I don’t like. When I’m elsewhere, I usually just decline them, but if I really want one, I’ll take one and pinch it. If it’s not one I like, oh well, tough shit, it ain’t my lucky day. I don’t go back at all, let alone \*keep \*going back until I get one I like. I swear some people really are raised by wolves. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-whole-f-ing-donut/493477/77 "2009-04-20T18:55:35Z")
I haven’t bought boxed chocolates in a while, but don’t they usually come with some way of identifying what type each of them is? I seem to remember either a “map” inside the lid or, even more helpfully, some sort of diagram showing how each type is decorated. Of course, the sort of asshole who would pinch community chocolates in half and just throw out the ones they don’t want would probably ignore that anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-whole-f-ing-donut/493477/78 "2009-04-20T19:36:25Z")
Yeah, most chocolates or truffles will have a key telling you what’s what. But some don’t. And, surprisingly, it’s often the high-end ones (don’t want to ruin their fancy-schmancy packaging with useful info, I guess). The way these things work is, if there’s someone with an allergy to something in only some of the chocolates, those chocolates will be of the type that _don’t_ have the ID key on them. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-whole-f-ing-donut/493477/79 "2009-04-20T20:27:16Z")
Well I’m outnumbered here becauseI find the half doughnut thing, er, not \*repellent \*exactly, but it does irk me somewhat. I mean jeez, they’re what, $10 a dozen? If you don’t want to eat the whole thing, throw the rest away. You’re really not creating any great savings. ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-whole-f-ing-donut/493477/80 "2009-04-20T20:35:28Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > Well I’m outnumbered here becauseI find the half doughnut thing, er, not \*repellent \*exactly, but it does irk me somewhat. I mean jeez, they’re what, $10 a dozen? If you don’t want to eat the whole thing, throw the rest away. You’re really not creating any great savings. But throwing it away is _wasting food_, which seems to be the eighth deadly sin to some people. I’m trying to get over my own hangup from childhood over wasting food. It can be an uphill battle even if you know rationally that eating food that you don’t need or want is at least as wasteful as throwing food away. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-whole-f-ing-donut/493477.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-whole-f-ing-donut/493477.md?page=5)