# Would you eat someone else's pizza crusts? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 27, 2006, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-someone-elses-pizza-crusts/374350 "2006-09-27T13:29:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![StinkyBurrito](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9e5f3/32.png) [@StinkyBurrito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StinkyBurrito)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2006, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-someone-elses-pizza-crusts/374350/21 "2006-09-27T14:47:49Z")
Well only my best friends, who know me well. They do the same and it is all good. Next time we do lunch, **Anaamika** , I will remember your preferences as I do value my hand. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2006, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-someone-elses-pizza-crusts/374350/22 "2006-09-27T14:52:19Z")
[QUOTE=StinkyBurrito] Well only my best friends, who know me well. They do the same and it is all good. Next time we do lunch, **Anaamika** , I will remember your preferences as I do value my hand. 😛 [/QUOTE] Just ask, and I swear I’ll give you a whole bunch of fries. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![bobkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2006, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-someone-elses-pizza-crusts/374350/23 "2006-09-27T14:57:33Z")
[QUOTE=Anaamika] Please don’t. You may not draw back your hand in the same shape! [/QUOTE] Mr. Kitty stabbed my mother in the hand with a fork (hard enough to draw blood) the night they met because she reached into his plate. To be fair, he had warned her not to. It’s odd to me that she likes him more than she likes me. Maybe I should try stabbing her. ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2006, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-someone-elses-pizza-crusts/374350/24 "2006-09-27T15:00:22Z")
**wasson** , you are not alone, everything you wrote in your post I do as well, and probably worse, and I have never gotten an illness from any of these “bad” habits. ---
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2006, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-someone-elses-pizza-crusts/374350/25 "2006-09-27T15:29:04Z")
I feel like there are two questions here. Would I eat someone else’s pizza crusts? Sure, no problem at all with friends and family. Would I put crusts back into a pizza box at work? Heck no. That’s just wrong, especially if your teeth touched them. If you don’t plan to eat the crusts, you might ask first if anyone especially likes them, and then cut them off with a knife. When eating food out of a communal serving dish (or in this case, a communal serving cardboard box), the food only goes one way, which is OUT. It does not go back in. ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2006, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-someone-elses-pizza-crusts/374350/26 "2006-09-27T15:35:52Z")
rilch, I’m going to agree with the others. If I’m eating pizza with my son and husband, we’ll throw the crusts in the box. If I’m eating with ANYONE other than those two people, crusts do not go back in the box. It’s a little to “intimate” to do with anyone other than immediate family. ---
**Author:** ![badbadrubberpiggy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/57b2e6/32.png) [@badbadrubberpiggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badbadrubberpiggy)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2006, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-someone-elses-pizza-crusts/374350/27 "2006-09-27T16:07:24Z")
Nope, only if I’m sharing with someone I know well. Sure, eating someone else’s saliva probably isn’t going to make anyone sick, but most people still don’t want to do it. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2006, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-someone-elses-pizza-crusts/374350/28 "2006-09-27T16:23:48Z")
I’ll eat pizza crusts if I know who they’re from, but as a courtesy, I’d put my discards on a plate next to the pizza box ---
**Author:** ![Carl\_Corey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Carl\_Corey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carl_Corey)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2006, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-someone-elses-pizza-crusts/374350/29 "2006-09-27T16:48:32Z")
For me to do this, either of two conditions would have to be met: 1. It would have to be a person I am very close to (as in we have exchanged bodily fluids close) 2. I am so hungry I don’t give a damn. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2006, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-someone-elses-pizza-crusts/374350/30 "2006-09-27T17:03:16Z")
I wouldn’t eat a co-worker’s pizza crusts, and I wouldn’t want anyone to put theirs back in the communal box. However, if a co-worker didn’t want their crusts, I’d be happy to take them home to my dogs, who would be very appreciative. As a matter of fact, if they were cheese-filled crusts I’d probably be mugged the minute I came in the house. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2006, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-someone-elses-pizza-crusts/374350/31 "2006-09-27T17:14:26Z")
[QUOTE=bobkitty] My inner Adrian Monk is curled up in a fetal position right now. EWWW! [/QUOTE] I agree. That’s just gross. Pizza crust is meant to be thrown out if you’re not going to eat it. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2006, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-someone-elses-pizza-crusts/374350/32 "2006-09-27T17:29:37Z")
It’s all good as long as you’re amongst family. If you’re at work, it’s wrong. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2006, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-someone-elses-pizza-crusts/374350/33 "2006-09-27T17:45:49Z")
Of course not. How is this different from putting an apple core back in the bowl of fruit? ---
**Author:** ![stretch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@stretch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stretch)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2006, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-someone-elses-pizza-crusts/374350/34 "2006-09-27T17:50:41Z")
[QUOTE=delphica] I feel like there are two questions here. Would I eat someone else’s pizza crusts? Sure, no problem at all with friends and family. Would I put crusts back into a pizza box at work? Heck no. That’s just wrong, especially if your teeth touched them. If you don’t plan to eat the crusts, you might ask first if anyone especially likes them, and then cut them off with a knife. When eating food out of a communal serving dish (or in this case, a communal serving cardboard box), the food only goes one way, which is OUT. It does not go back in. [/QUOTE] Exactly. Rilchiam, what you did was nasty. If you knew you weren’t going to eat the crust, and you wanted to share, you should have said so at the beginning of the food. ‘I’m not going eat the crust, so I’m cutting it off and setting it here on a plate on the side. Anyone wants it, go to town.’ You do not _touch_ food and then put it back in the box, on the plate, in the fucking pan, let alone gnaw on it and put it back in the untouched food area. ---
**Author:** ![wasson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/4da419/32.png) [@wasson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wasson)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2006, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-someone-elses-pizza-crusts/374350/35 "2006-09-27T18:40:08Z")
> [@](#): > > How is this different from putting an apple core back in the bowl of fruit? It’s different because apple cores are relatively universally left uneaten, while some people love eating pizza crust. It’s also different because putting some crust into a box is basically putting something entirely edible next to other edible stuff. Your scenario involves something inedible on top of, or touching, edible goodies. They’re not really all that similar scenarios, in fact. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2006, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-someone-elses-pizza-crusts/374350/36 "2006-09-27T18:50:28Z")
[QUOTE=wasson] It’s different because apple cores are relatively universally left uneaten, while some people love eating pizza crust. [/QUOTE] True, but I wouldn’t eat anonymous pizza crust tossed back in the box. I _might_ eat my husband’s pizza crust if it was from Papa John’s and we had that garlic dipping sauce, but not some co-worker’s crust that was tossed aside. Yuck. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2006, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-someone-elses-pizza-crusts/374350/37 "2006-09-27T19:01:42Z")
Is there something magical about it because it’s “the crust”? If you ate half the slice would you have put it back in the box? Big tooth mark through the middle of a pepperoni? Would you eat half a donut, or half a cookie and put it back? My god. Change “office” to “college dorm room” and MAYBE there’s a discussion here. (we used to call it “the box shakin’s” in college. No money? We’ll let you have the box shakin’s.) ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2006, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-someone-elses-pizza-crusts/374350/38 "2006-09-27T19:13:42Z")
[QUOTE=wasson] … putting some crust into a box is basically putting something entirely edible next to other edible stuff. [/QUOTE] I think if you look closely at “some crust”, next to your coworker’s teeth marks you’ll see little ridges of partially masticated ex-pizza that was scraped off your coworker’s teeth with each successive bite. You call it what you like. For me though, “entirely edible” ain’t eeeeeeven an option. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2006, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-someone-elses-pizza-crusts/374350/39 "2006-09-27T19:21:27Z")
Oh, by the way. . .I can be pretty grody myself and if I were hungry, I’d eat your pizza crusts with no qualms. However, I wouldn’t dream of putting a half-eaten slice back in the box. ---
**Author:** ![wasson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/4da419/32.png) [@wasson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wasson)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2006, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-someone-elses-pizza-crusts/374350/40 "2006-09-27T19:30:35Z")
> [@](#): > > I think if you look closely at “some crust”, next to your coworker’s teeth marks you’ll see little ridges of partially masticated ex-pizza that was scraped off your coworker’s teeth with each successive bite. > > You call it what you like. For me though, “entirely edible” ain’t eeeeeeven an option. Still, the box the pizza is in is also not edible at all, and you have no problem eating the pizza that’s been sitting on it. I don’t understand how putting a crust back inside that box (not touching any other pizza slice) would be considered inappropriate. Let’s face it… that pizza picked up more germs getting transferred from the oven to the cutting table… from being sliced, from being boxed up, from sitting in a pizza guy’s delivery vehicle… than it would from being a couple inches away from something a coworker took a bite out of. i think getting your panties in a twist about it is a little silly. Me, I’d love to eat a nice cheese filled pizza crust. I couldn’t care less who ate the pizza that used to be attached to it. I imagine some people feel the same. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-someone-elses-pizza-crusts/374350.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-someone-elses-pizza-crusts/374350.md?page=3)