the social dynamics of free food

[moominmolly]

Put out pizza in the office kitchen, and no matter how much there is, it will all be gone in less than 45 minutes.

Put out a spread of barbecue, and within an hour, everything is gone but some cornbread and greens.

Put out a tray of cut vegetables, and it stays there all day.


I think I'm the only one eating the grape tomatoes! How can that be?

Comments

[chenoameg.livejournal.com]

I find that cut fruit usually went fast at my workplaces.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Who knows where those things have been?

[aroraborealis.livejournal.com]

If I were there, you would have some stiff competition for those tomatoes, so count your blessings!

[nex0s.livejournal.com]

cornbread and greens! now that's what i call dinner!

n.

[fengshui.livejournal.com]

If you put out enough pizza in a small office, it can defeat the masses, but it's hard. Usually it takes about a costco pizza for every 4-5 people.

[harimad.livejournal.com]

If you put out donuts, one half of the plainest donut will be left at the end of the day. Caveat: A large number of donuts can defeat a small number of coworkers.

My former office of 8 or so can demonstrably eat 4 Pizza Hut pizzas.

If we worked together, you'd have competition for carrots and peppers, maybe celery if I were desperate.

[bluepapercup]

We demolish everything except, it seems, bran muffins and homegrown cucumbers. I agree with the donuts defeat small offices, but bagels will be dug out of the freezer and eaten the next Monday.

[dancingwolfgrrl.livejournal.com]

My current office has the following characteristics that make it distinct from other places I've worked:
1. It is nearly exclusively made up of women.
2. The average age is probably in the late thirties or early forties.
3. Junk food lasts a surprisingly long time in the kitchen.

I have yet to derive any definitive causal relationships from these three things, but I feel like there ought to be some!

[piratedan.livejournal.com]

I would eat the tomatoes. and carrots. but raw broccoli is most distasteful to me. as is raw cauliflower. as are cucumbers.

And, for the record, the cornbread would NOT survive long in ANY office.

To quote Chris Rock: "Cornbread. Ain't nothing wrong with that!"

mmm, tomato gluttony

[nminusone.livejournal.com]

I think I'm the only one eating the grape tomatoes! How can that be?

Because I'm not there! I've rarely had a container of them so large that I considered it more than a single serving. ;)

[montacute.livejournal.com]

yes, i also fail to understand how anyone can faily to appreciate the worth of grape tomatoes.

well, that's not true. a given person i can understand. but an entire office seems to defeat some law of statistical probability.

[lickerish.livejournal.com]

I would take the cornbread and greens and leave the bbq myself.