# There's a right way to offer food to your co-workers and colleagues **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 23, 2008, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-right-way-to-offer-food-to-your-co-workers-and-colleagues/446563 "2008-04-23T16:27:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-right-way-to-offer-food-to-your-co-workers-and-colleagues/446563/21 "2008-04-24T12:19:17Z")
Don’t eat the muffin tops … [http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=“muffin+top”&gbv=2](http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=%22muffin+top%22&gbv=2) Every year I try to mention Adolph’s birthday. Very few people see the humor. Based on the suggestion above, I’m now going to add Stalin = Dec 18 & Mao = Dec 26 (dates from wiki) to my repertoire. It’ll be interesting to see how the audience reaction differs. Happy Boxing / Mao’s Birth Day to you, Happy Boxing / Mao’s Birth Day to you … Sorta lyrical actually. ---
**Author:** ![Silence\_of\_the\_clams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Silence\_of\_the\_clams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silence_of_the_clams)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-right-way-to-offer-food-to-your-co-workers-and-colleagues/446563/22 "2008-04-24T12:29:18Z")
I’m with Weird Al on this 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-right-way-to-offer-food-to-your-co-workers-and-colleagues/446563/23 "2008-04-24T13:55:16Z")
[QUOTE=SomeUserName] Office food is always a wonderful topic. At my work they are changing food vendors. Last Friday at about 11:30 am an annoucment comes over the speakers. “A new food vendor is here and has samples of their products for free in the lunch room” It was like a stampede. Only free money would have caused a faster dash to the cafeteria. [/QUOTE] … and then there’s Pretzel Day … ! ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-right-way-to-offer-food-to-your-co-workers-and-colleagues/446563/24 "2008-04-24T16:35:47Z")
Today I brought in a small block of cheddar cheese (courtesy of my mother, who had been enjoying this brand for years until recently), a box of crackers, and some cookies past their sell-by date. The cheese was gone by 9:30, and the cracker box was on its side by then too. The cookies aren’t going so fast yet; someone else brought in a bunch of pastries with globs of cheap-looking chocolate all over them. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-right-way-to-offer-food-to-your-co-workers-and-colleagues/446563/25 "2008-04-24T17:34:25Z")
There’s less than five people who work here, including myself. Occasionally I’ll buy something and find I don’t like it so I bring the leftovers to work. It always disappears. Not as fast at the time I brought Girl Scout cookies (yeah, I don’t like Thin Mints. Heresy, I know), but still it disappears. And no one ever complains. Course this is the same office where one of the salesmen wears shorts and a baseball cap every single day (and, y’know, a shirt). And swears at the fax machine. And ‘sings’, for values of singing that include sounding like a cat in a blender. So it’s not like we’re a high class place or nothing. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-right-way-to-offer-food-to-your-co-workers-and-colleagues/446563/26 "2008-04-24T17:48:32Z")
I brought an assorted Krispy Kreme dozen today. Suddenly I am everybody’s favorite. (When you bring high-value treats it is important to let everybody know who their benefactor is.) Seriously, I bake homemade stuff all the time, but donuts really gets their blood pumping. ---
**Author:** ![Jennyrosity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@Jennyrosity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennyrosity)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-right-way-to-offer-food-to-your-co-workers-and-colleagues/446563/27 "2008-04-24T21:52:24Z")
No, I do not want a cookie, I said no the first three times you asked me, and woman, you know I’m on a diet. Incidentally, if you poke that packet under my nose one more time, I will break your fingers. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-right-way-to-offer-food-to-your-co-workers-and-colleagues/446563/28 "2008-04-24T21:57:15Z")
[QUOTE=acsenray] There’s a napkin on which someone has scribbled “Have a muffin!” [/QUOTE] \*\* First Verse:\*\* _Oh, do you know the muffin man, The muffin man, the muffin man, Oh, do you know the muffin man, That lives on Drury Lane?_ **Second Verse:** _Oh, yes, I know the muffin man, The muffin man, the muffin man, Oh, yes, I know the muffin man, That lives on Drury Lane._ > **[The Mufffin Man - Lyrics](https://www.scoutsongs.com/lyrics/muffinman.html)** > > Enjoy these lyrics to the song The Mufffin Man [QUOTE=LSLGuy] Don’t eat the muffin tops … [Google Search](http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=%22muffin+top%22&gbv=2) [/QUOTE] Did you notice the real muffin image in the bottom row on page one? It’s from an Australian Defence Forces web site. Must be one of those new WMD experiments. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-right-way-to-offer-food-to-your-co-workers-and-colleagues/446563/29 "2008-04-24T23:33:25Z")
[QUOTE=Can Handle the Truth] At least he didn’t bring in big birthday cake on April 20 and, after everyone had a piece, announce that it was in celebration of Hitler’s birthday; like a former boss of mine did. [/QUOTE] I think that’s awesome, personally, but then my son was just born this past Sunday (April 20th), and I busted up laughing when I was told that was his due date for exactly that reason. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-right-way-to-offer-food-to-your-co-workers-and-colleagues/446563.md?page=1)