I first heard them called that just a few months ago.
And now I’m hearing it all the time.
There must be a name for that phenomenon.
what the hell?! I’ve never encountered such things. What the hell kind of savages do you work with?!
Look, you want half a donut, that’s cool (but I agree with MsWhatSit that there really should never be more than one or two halves remaining in the box, even if there are various types of donuts) but syphoning out a twinkee or cupcake? I mean, I can logically see someone saying “you know I want a donut, but not a whole one, just a half” cause my family does this (especially with bagels) all the time when I’m with them. But who the hell would ever think “I want a twinkee, but only the outside yellow cake-like-substance part, not the delicious goo in the center.” That’s just crazy talk
Pizza bones are totally different. You chewed that last bit off, why would I want it? Donuts - you either broke it off with your hand, or even better, cut it?
Don’t let her looks fool you-she’s evil. EVIL, I tell you!!! 
I do that too, just in case somebody is watching, so they don’t think I put my teeth all up on them. Only for family-sized danishes and such, of course - I eat the hell out of individual donuts.
My personal ire is reserved for people who leave muffin stumps.
And how nobody will eat the last donut. I’ll do it, if nobody’s looking.
Wait, wait, HOLD IT, please?
Okay Zsofia
- What are “muffin stumps” and why?
- What’s the problem with the last donut? Bad luck?
Thanks
Q
I’ll take a stab at this one until Zsofia gets back.
Muffin stump: Instead of taking the left or right half of the muffin, they’ll take the top or cap, leaving the part in the cup.
Last donut: Just being percieved as greedy or inconsiderate.
My cats do that all the time. Not only do they nibble, but they nibble on both halves so I can’t even salvage a half-donut, and then dump the “leavings” (98% of the donut) on the floor. Upside down.
I now seal my donuts in airtight plastic food tubs. Little bastards.
Well, somebody’s gotta take the last donut, and if I haven’t had one yet - might as well be me.
But I’m brave. It was I who discovered that the dinner rolls a visitor brought in last week actually were dinner rolls with bacon, egg, and cheese baked in the middle. You would not believe how fast those went away once the word started to spread. No cutting in half either.
Yep, nothing worse than donuts with questionable parentage 
And don’t get started on donuts with gay parents…
Yes, we certainly DO ingest lots more disgusting stuff!
Muffin stump = They cut off the top and eat it leaving the rest that was in the baking pan and didn’t rise above it.
I’d eat the whole last donut.
We had a dumb ass that would play with the cake in the break room. He’d peel off most of the frosting eating it and chop the cake into little pieces, destroying about 3/4 of a whole cake. The solution we resorted to was to bring the cake into the break room and leave with it after break to guard it.
Pizza “bones”? PETA is going to throw a shit fit about that. But I love them. And bread heels.
It’s not the “last donut” that bothers me. I mean, SOMEONE has to take it, right?
It’s after they take the last donut…
…AND LEAVE THE EMPTY BOX SITTING ON THE F-ING TABLE, FOR SOMEONE ELSE TO DISCARD!!! :mad:
The top of the muffin is of course the best part, but dude, throw away the lesser half!
And people don’t want to seem greedy, so they don’t take the last of something.
Making PETA throw a fit is one of my little hobbies.
Wouldn’t you like a more difficult hobby, like taking candy from babies?
No. I like babies.
I have a feeling a disabilities group is going to have big problems with muffin stumps.
I’d just take two of the left over halves and make a whole one. That way I’d have the benefit of two different flavours. If you’re not willing to do this then you are a hypocrite.
Alternatively I’d eat them all. I have this magical ability called ‘exercise’ that makes eating things like this not troublesome at all.