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I have an aversion to wasting food. So rather than it going to waste I'd pack it up and take it home. But if I thought other's could benefit I'd only eat a modest amount and leave plenty to share. Generally I try not to over eat or drink, the fact that it's free has little impact on my consumption .
My fave at the moment is curried potato skewers- very unhealthy but very yum!
I cycle or run to work everyday so I am allowed to eat like a pig.
But I am a catering manager and by the time the food is served I am already full up.
If I am not first to the buffet then I don't bother. I don't want to eat food that the scruffy oiks I work with have been pawing over.
Am I the first to quote CTBM and say ''don't be a d1ck" and share with everyone else rather than greedily eat everything?
A what?
Is that the same as cramming haribo down your throat on the way to your next call?
I thought you were in management now, so had to endure the all day meeting...
We have two individuals at our place ,Helen & Kevin. They fight each other to be first in the line for any free food. Helen has been known to bring Tupperware in and pack the food away. Kev cycles in to work,but only on cycle to work week , just for the free breakfast.ha.
You snooze, you lose. Ram sandwiches in your face, hamster style.
Yes I am Poly but in the public sector so buffets don’t exist.
Approach it as if you were a seagull swooping in on a discarded chip - with all the lack of decorum and social norms associated with that - including loud squawking if anyone else tries to barge in before you’ve finished.
Being the person (consultant) who the buffet is normally for i had assumed that left overs are binned,.....
I never knew that they got left out for the unwashed....
I will lick all the sandwiches in future...
And spit in the fresh orange juice....
Where I work there was a woman who'd hoover up/nick all the leftovers. Long after she retired she'd still turn up, complete with an empty shopping bag to grab a take-away
Get in there quick, air conditioning means any sarnies on the edge of the stack the bread dries out and goes hard.
Maximise protein based stuff is my method, oh and fruit
Firkin a.
including loud squawking if anyone else tries to barge in before you’ve finished.
Sausage rolls? Where do you work?
<dusts off CV>
I used to work at a conferencing centre. I was exceptionally good at up-selling to hot buffet. Fewer leftovers but a better quality free lunch.
Yes I am Poly but in the public sector so buffets don’t exist.
Most of our custom was public sector.
The frequency with which we'd get two different people booking the same conference was eye-watering as a tax payer. Sometimes the name of the conference would be identical so we would pick it up and point out the error. Sometimes we would host a conference for training purposes and it would turn out to be a leaving party for someone, at tax payer's expense. Colossal levels of waste. Unlike the buffet. Nom nom.
If you're not in before the office-wide announcement is made, there is little point - invariably only a half-bowl of sweaty ready-salted remains, and probably a bunch of red seeded grapes (what sort of monster serves those up?!?).
Sensing meeting leftovers is akin to the feeling when your toddler in the next room goes suspiciously quiet - sort of an eery quiet that gets your lizard-brain jangling.
There are only ever cans of Pepsi Max or Diet Coke left after big meetings at our place. Right bunch of greedy bastards.
At a previous employer, a colleague was known as Cathy, the Buffet Slayer.
There were slim pickings after her visit to the left over buffets.
At a previous employer, a colleague was known as Cathy, the Buffet Slayer.
Surely should have been Vampire, the Buffet Slayer?
Woah WOAH - back up 20 hours.
Am I the first to quote CTBM and say ”don’t be a d1ck” and share with everyone else rather than greedily eat everything?
I always thought that Ed Hornby on here was my brother. Turns out that can't be correct as <span style="text-decoration: underline;">my</span> brother, when we were younger, would have ripped your arm out of it's socket to get the last buffet sandwich from your hand. He, (ahem, we) used to measure cake slices to make sure there was no short changing going on.
"I've licked that now - it must be mine"
"Tough shit Our Ed, it may have a bit of spit on it, but it's bigger!"
for a work buffet yeah - for social or family I'd be sliding across the table like a cowboy in a saloon fight, shovelling with an expertly grabbed serving spoon 😀
UPDATE!!!
Minted.
Lamb.
Sandwiches.
The buffet equivalent of coke n hookers. We must be really trying to impress this lot.
Oh. Yes. They are just a little awesome.
Does anyone else carry/wear a racing spoon? 😳
This thread has made me LOL so much!
Always remember free food has no calories or fat in it. That helps with any decision making.
Most people in my office are healthy eaters so I’m on that platter of left overs like a tramp on a bag of chips. Go for the meat every time, if the bread curls then take off half the bread and combine 2 sandwiches. Rare to see culinary delights like scotch eggs or chicken bits left over so pounce on them like you haven’t eaten for a week if they are there.
If the other people cared they’d get there before you!
Everyone in our team is a runner or health freak and in our last team meeting there was only fruit and sugar free wafer biscuits available.
I had to hide my tears 😭
In one legendary incident at our place the meeting was running late, so lunch wasn’t retrieved from the kitchen quickly enough. When the directors came out to get it they were greeted by the sight of a couple of engineers polishing the lot off.
Birthday tradition at ours was to get a load of cakes, put them in the canteen and then send an email saying 'it's my birthday and there's some cakes in the kitchen'
Certain individuals had some sort of jungle telegraph going where unless you ran back to your office and typed the email at full on 70's typing pool speed, they'd have the word around and a flock of gannets would be tucked in before most people were even aware of the treats, let alone got to them.
So one day for giggles i bought some cakes, left them on the side, wandered leisurely like back to my office and typed 'It's my daughter's birthday today and I've bought some cakes for her party with her friends and left them in the kitchen - please don't eat them!' Waited a couple of minutes and then hit send.
There were some half finished packs of cakes and a few guilty faces around that day, until I owned up.
But if I thought other’s could benefit I’d only eat a modest amount and leave plenty to share.
Hes not one of us. Burn him!
Its all about "B" - Thankfully i sit quite close to our main boardroom so get fist pass on the leftovers.
if the bread curls then take off half the bread and combine 2 sandwiches.
That's Steven Hawking levels of genius right there. But I'd eat the 2 sided curly sandwich with no filling as well.
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<span style="font-size: 0.8rem;">Birthday tradition at ours was to get a load of cakes, put them in the canteen and then send an email saying ‘it’s my birthday and there’s some cakes in the kitchen’ </span>
<span style="font-size: 0.8rem;">Certain individuals had some sort of jungle telegraph going where unless you ran back to your office and typed the email at full on 70’s typing pool speed, they’d have the word around and a flock of gannets would be tucked in before most people were even aware of the treats, let alone got to them. </span>
<span style="font-size: 0.8rem;">So one day for giggles i bought some cakes, left them on the side, wandered leisurely like back to my office and typed ‘It’s my daughter’s birthday today and I’ve bought some cakes for her party with her friends and left them in the kitchen – please don’t eat them!’ Waited a couple of minutes and then hit send.</span>
There were some half finished packs of cakes and a few guilty faces around that day, until I owned up.
Fantastic. I shall be trying that next time 😀
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If its the leftovers in a rom on my CC I'm filling my pockets before leaving. Crips, cans rolls the lot.
If its the leftovers in a rom on my CC
Does anyone here know brassneck - seems to have advanced to critical level vol-au-vent poisoning. Pop round and administer quinoa enema
STAT !!
Got a new job, started on Monday, and should anyone on the logistics team that I’m on happen to bring any food in, it would last seconds, considering how much walking is done; I did 4.0 miles today, 3.8 yesterday, 5.4 Tuesday and 3.8 on Monday, averaged out at 4 miles a day. No wonder I’m feeling hungry all the time!
Not going to happen, though.
<p>Used to love interview days at uni, loads of teenagers on best behaviour too scared to eat then come lunch time unattended tables of delight. </p><p></p><p>Sadly we don't get a sniff of that where I work now but saying that even someone bringing biscuits to meetings is fraught with danger since we have known non-hand-washers.</p>
I keep track of office birthdays.
Means i can fit the desk mounted starting blocks
The licence fee payer would frown upon such things, we feel spoilt if we get a plate of own brand digestives and a thermos of naff coffee.