You imagine wrong. Next time, CUT the crusts off in front of everyone and set it on a plate. That way you aren’t skeeving people out and becoming a topic of conversation when you’re not present.
I agree with the “no way in hell” crowd. Of course, I have pretty stringent rules about sharing food. Think Joey Tribiani. I dated a guy who picked food off my plate or even worse would use his finger to get a bit of sauce. It absolutely disgusted me and made me crazy angry. He couldn’t understand my aversion. “You’ll swallow my cum but you don’t want my hands on your food?”. Absolutely not. What can I say, it just aint right. I also hate it when people take half of a doughnut or bagel and put the rest back on the plate.
This is my answer too. Yuck.
Well, I was 21 at the time. :::slinks away:::
I love pizza crusts. My husband hates 'em. I routinely eat his leftover crusts. But I don’t think I would eat pizza crust from someone who wasn’t a family member or very close friend. Somehow I am squicked out at the thought of eating something that might have a stranger’s spit on it. Family/friend spit seems more acceptable.
This is an acceptable answer.
Eating your kid’s leavin’s is a time-honored parental duty. Sharing with your spouse or sweetie is OK, too.
Beyond that, iffy to icky.
I’m with your co-worker - that’s throwing garbage back into a box with food.
Yuck.
I’m in my early-30s.
Yuck.
That kind of food doesn’t get split in that fashion without direct face to face contact (e.g., “I don’t want the crusts, does anyone want mine?” “Yes, please, I’ll have them.” and I can’t imagine having that conversation at work.) They don’t go back in the box. ewww.
I’d eat a co-worker’s pizza crusts if I particularly wanted to eat pizza crusts. Count me in with the icky, nasty people who have no trouble sharing food and drink with others, even if I don’t know them well. But I know that most people don’t agree, and an office seems like the sort of place to err on the side of a bit of decorum. So it wouldn’t occur to me to put my crusts back in the box at the office. I think that’d be kind of odd.
Count me in with your boyfriend. If you’re having sex with someone, that just seems several steps more intimate than sharing food, at least to me.
It’s hard to explain, but the exchanging and ingesting (sorry for TMI) of fluids as part of sex doesn’t gross me out I guess because the said ingesting is not actually “eating” in the sense of having a meal. Stuff gets in your mouth but you’re not really thinking about that because it’s just a byproduct. Also, it’s not that I’m worried about germs or getting sick, it’s just . . .icky. I don’t mind your saliva, but your saliva incorporated with food is a no no.
I agree. With a GF or my SO, sure, no problem. In fact I often do. Even with close freinds.
But strangers spit touching my food? :eek: No thanks.
Agree its odd that one would do that at an office. Our office is close knit bunch of gross people, but even here no one puts crusts back in the box.
Let me chime in with all the “ewws”.
Only way I’d eat someone else’s pizza crust would be if they cut it off with a knife and fork before they started eating it.
I’m a vegetarian. I’m willing to let the office buy any type of pizza they want if they let me have all the crusts.
There are certain people I would share food with. Two, possibly three, of my sisters. My nephews (we split food and share drink all the time). Probably my mother. I’d share a drink with my brothers (and have) but probably not food (no, there’s no logical reason behind that).
Co-workers? Not unless I saw them cut (not bite) the offered portion from the rest. Not even the ones that I’m friends with outside of work.
You give and give and this is the thanks you get.
This is weird. In Korea during a meal, we’ll have a big bowl of stew on the table and everyone will eat directly from the bowl. My American friends would totally freak out at this concept, and I thought it was weird that they did, but apparently I am the weird one now. :dubious:
Granted, this kind of table setting is usually with a family. As for pizza crusts, it would depend on the person. I don’t mind sharing drinks with other people, but for some reason eating someone’s leftover pizza crusts seems a bit ickier than that.
I’d go as far as to eat a good friend’s crusts, even. And I find eating from the same bowl rather sweet. But not a stranger’s crusts, and not community crusts. I’d say cut em’ off.
I guess I wouldn’t freak out about SEEING crusts in a box, though. Was she afraid of spit molecules jumping onto her fingers?
With family and friends, do it all the time. Food, drink, smokes - no problem. (Except for my mother. For some reason I really dislike sharing food/drinks with her. I’d rather just give her whatever I have than share. Oh, and babies. I don’t like eating after slobbery babies.)
Co-workers - depends on who it is. There’s a few that it wouldn’t bother me to eat their pizza bones, but there’s a lot that it would. I’d agree that cutting off the crusts would be a much better way to go.
However, I can’t see freaking out over it. I’d probably just quietly toss the crusts. I do have some co-workers who would most likely spazz about it, though.