Inspired by this thread. Once, at work, we had pizza in the break room. It was the kind that has cheese in the crust, and since I can’t handle that much cheese, I put the crusts back in the box. Co-worker didn’t see me do that, but did see the crusts in the box, and loudly demanded that “whoever threw their crusts in here take them OUT!” See, to her way of thinking, I was throwing garbage in there. But to my way of thinking, I was making them available to someone else who might want them.
Didn’t matter, she said: my saliva was on them. :dubious: I’ve eaten plenty of other people’s pizza crusts (or “pizza bones”), and nothing bad has happened so far. But then, I’m somewhat feral in that way; I’ve also been known to fork up the scrim of frosting left on trays that previously held sheet cake.
So would you eat someone else’s crusts, or are they garbage to you, as they are to her? (FTR, this woman was late-middle-aged, as were most of my other co-workers, and they all nodded in agreement with her. So the cheese-filled crusts went to waste.)
Ew. I don’t know that I’d make a fuss about a stranger’s crusts back in the box, but I certainly wouldn’t want them touching any pizza I might want to eat.
I’ll eat the crusts my boyfriend or family leave behind, but then again I wouldn’t care if I accidentally used their toothbrushes either. People I work with are another matter altogether.
If the crusts had imprints of your teeth on the edges, its garbage to your coworkers. But if you sliced off the crusts then i would’nt have a problem with it.
Now the sheet cake icing is up for grabs and first come first served!
My SO eats mine, and if I liked crusts I’d eat his, but I won’t touch anybody else’s. Especially not my coworkers. Not to say I think they have anything. I have shared water bottles in desperate times as well as once i accidentally ate a pastry someone else had already started (wasn’t paying attention). But I wouldn’t deliberately go after someone’s leftover food, no. And definitely not crusts…even if I liked the crusts.
I eat my daughter’s pizza crusts all the time (she leaves a considerable amount of “good” pizza on them). I figure we’re too close for me to be squeamish about getting her cooties.
But, aside from my wife’s, I don’t think I’d eat anyone else’s.
My inner Adrian Monk is curled up in a fetal position right now. EWWW! It takes me ages before I’ll “eat after” someone I date; I can’t even begin to imagine doing so with coworkers.
In a family or close friend situation, I wouldn’t be squeamish about it at all; in a co-worker situation, it just doesn’t seem appropriate. I don’t think there’s any particularly rational reason for that, but there you go.
Well. This is a hard one. I like pizza crust. I definately eat my family’s leftover pizza crust, when there are any.
And to tell the truth ::looks around furtively because this is kind of embarrassing:: I wouldn’t mind eating a coworker’s or casual friend’s leftover crust, either. It wouldn’t gross me out to do so, I mean – I’m just not fussy about stuff like that. However, since I realize that many people (probably most) think it’s nasty, I don’t actually do it. I just eye the leftover crust in the box and wish I could eat it. And :: more embarrassing revelations, here:: if I have charge of the box after everyone else has left – say we were eating pizza at my house and my guests have gone home – I might go ahead and eat the leftover crusts, if I want them.
All that said, I wouldn’t call them garbage that shouldn’t be left in the pizza box, either. In my experience, the box is exactly where most people do leave their leftover crusts.
Uneaten crusts are garbage (to most people), and don’t go back in the box with the uneaten slices. Maybe you can offer them to someone else, if you feel bad wasting them, but I wouldn’t be putting gnawed crusts - even the cheesy kind - back in the box.
I’d eat the pizza crusts from pretty much everyone, but only after checking to make sure there was nothing visibly wrong with it (like blood or poop spread on it or something). I’ll also shock and scare my coworkers by eating potato chips that have fallen on the floor. One time I ate a cookie that fell on the sidewalk.
Point being that I’m not too picky about what I eat and not at all scared about getting sick or an infection or anything.
I also only wash my hands after peeing when I think someone will notice if I don’t. I’m pretty dirty.
Hmmm, I always thought that the crusts / pizza bones (cool phrase btw) were something you could trade around toward the end of the meal so that the people who don’t like it can spread the wealth around among the people who do. I also take sips of other people’s drinks and grab french fries/chips off their plates. These are only my friends though. My workplace, on the other hand, is very PC and stuffy and I am not really friends with my cow-orkers. I would only use proper manners there.
Please don’t. You may not draw back your hand in the same shape! I mean, I’ll share french fries and chips if you ask, but I’m not keen on having you just rifling through my plate.
