Throwing away a perfectly good half-donut is silly. In fact, sometimes we pre-cut the bagels and donuts in half before everyone begins eating. To be honest, the real problem is the size of these things. If they didn’t make them 200% bigger than they used to be, we wouldn’t the need to cut them in half.
So someone doesn’t want to waste a half donut that someone else might want?
How fucking INCONSIDERATE CAN SOME PEOPLE BE?!?!?! God I’m livid!
Yeah, sometimes the pastry bear claws are as big as the paws that real bears have, and could honestly serve about half a dozen people. If you have an assortment of teenage boys around, of course, there’s no problem with the serving size. Most adults in the US, though, are either on a diet or think that they probably should be. The ones who don’t need to diet usually don’t like sweets, in some culinary corollary to Murphy’s law.
Cutting the pastries in halves or quarters is a good idea. So is getting lots of donut holes or minimuffins or minicupcakes.
In my teens, I spent a couple of years living with my grandparents, who were young adults in the Depression. I learned many things from them, some things have served me well (my chicken soup is excellent, and it’s made from the carcass) and some things, not so well. My grandfather always maintained that cold boiled potatoes were an excellent snack, for instance, because that’s what HIS mother had fed her brood when they were hungry and it wasn’t a mealtime. He also said “the fat’s where the flavor is”, and he was right, but that fat usually isn’t the healthiest thing to eat. It pained him to throw away hamburger grease, for instance, so usually he’d pour it over dry dog food for the dog. The dog thought this was an excellent idea. Grandpa would rather have saved the grease for cooking, but Grandma and I refused to use it that way. Grandma and Grandpa had money, but they had also gone hungry too many times for them to be able to waste food and be able to sleep easily.
My parents bought greasy hamburger when I was a kid. For the first half of childhood the hamburger buns got thrown on the grease and browned like a buttered bun. There is no other way to make a hamburger that has that particular taste. It was good, but we switched to lean hamburger and no grease fried buns in the 70’s to lower cholesterol. I used to get chewed out for not eating a lot of stuff as a kid that later was black listed as a heart attack food.
Then they can take the whole thing with them and seek out their doughnut challenged soulmate and split it amongst themselves. I personally think it is
inconsiderate to manhandle food and then put it back in the community plate. I also have a suspicion that this practice has less to do with wasting food and being considerate of one’s fellow man and more to do with dieting issues.
There were some half eaten cookies in the office today. I didn’t want the whole thing, so I took a leftover half. I’m pretty sure I’m dying now.