So There's a Big Plate of Chocolate Chip Cookies in Front of You And...

People actually try stuff like that... I always made homemade dinner rolls for the potlucks at my husbands work and made enough for each employee to have two rolls...

Yet people were walking entire bags of them out to their cars, so I had to start figuring in some theft so people could still have two rolls if they wanted...

Crazy world.

Well, stealing is stealing... But I kind of know how they feel. I feel the same at the salvage grocery when I find something incredibly good. (I don't go there to save money. I go there to find neat stuff I'll never see at Walmart, like cashew juice and chocolate bars designed to fit in a sports jacket pocket.) I know I'll probably never see it again, so I buy all they have.

Maybe you should start setting bags of rolls out for sale. They'd probably buy them instead of stealing if they have an option to buy them. I mean I'm not saying they are RIGHT to steal them... Just saying I know the feeling of "I may never see this good thing again."

My husband doesn't work anymore now, but I'd never sell my food anyway.

I cook/bake for the joy of it and the joy it brings to others, and there's something about a price tag that I've always been afraid would ruin the joy it brings.

Nope, just making more to compensate was good enough.

That would make an ethical dilemma for me. Should I steal some, knowing you made enough specifically because you knew some people would steal some? If I didn't steal some, you would have way too many leftovers. I might be morally obliged to steal a bag or two...

Don't pay any attention to me. I'm just picking.

That would make an ethical dilemma for me. Should I steal some, knowing you made enough specifically because you knew some people would steal some? If I didn't steal some, you would have way too many leftovers. I might be morally obliged to steal a bag or two...

Don't pay any attention to me. I'm just picking.

At Christmas when on a large job as a construction worker....it was unique to see the behavior of my team behave around the cookies I baked for them.

Some were shy, some didn't want to admit they liked the cookies....some wanted the whole tub. Some wanted to take all the chocolate chip....(I made several varieties)
Others were more normal.
One lady made over a dozen excuses to go by the office that day so she could take one or two every time she went....

It was so much fun that day. I was the assistant superintendent on that job. (Directing over half the crew)

People get strange when shown kindness and generosity they didn't expect. The climbing over each other to get ahead is somewhat destroyed....there were 30 people on our crew. All got cookies. I had a big smile and said Merry Christmas.

People actually try stuff like that... I always made homemade dinner rolls for the potlucks at my husbands work and made enough for each employee to have two rolls...

Yet people were walking entire bags of them out to their cars, so I had to start figuring in some theft so people could still have two rolls if they wanted...

Crazy world.

huh I knew someone who worked in a casino and she said they always got free food to eat as much as they liked but it was the not the leftovers or the uncooked food meant to be prepared for the customers. The casino actually fed its workers with meals. They might have paid a low wage but they actually fed them when they were on their shifts.

I recall the school would have someone come round every christmas selling buckets of cookie time cookies. The teachers were asked to buy them, and then they would give them as christmas gifts. I would not give a whole bucket to one person. Nobody can eat that much. I bought one bucket and offered them to my book lovers club for our movie afternoon at the end of the year. The cookies were small but everyone took as much as they could eat. But I think they preferred the fresh strawberries and popcorn.

when they won a prize in the book battle, the sponsors (a real estate company) gave a whole packet of chocolate chip cookies to each participant even though one of the librarians had homebaked cookies one for each particpant. The children took home the packaged cookies to feed their families and gave me all the homebaked cookies.

I thought it a shame the one librarian had spend all day baking fresh cookies for everyone and this company just bought packets of factory made cookies as prizes, and as they had made up entire packages of course the children would take the packages and not the individual cookies, of which they were only allowed one each at the end. They were not allowed to eat during the book battle so I made them eat beforehand...2 hours of quiz at morning tea time before lunch makes them hungry if they have not eaten a good breakfast. Then went and got them pizza lunch straight after.

I think that some adults truly dont understand what a driving force an empty stomach/hunger can be for children. They may not know when their next meal will arrive (and they cannot cook for themselves) so they will take whatever they can get.

I count my calories and, depending on its size, a chocolate chip cookie could have anywhere from 60 to 300 calories. That may be too much for me to stay within my 2500-cal / day limit. So, unless I can calorically "afford" it, I'll refrain.

That would make an ethical dilemma for me. Should I steal some, knowing you made enough specifically because you knew some people would steal some? If I didn't steal some, you would have way too many leftovers. I might be morally obliged to steal a bag or two...

Don't pay any attention to me. I'm just picking.

Maybe you would steal a few if they were sour dough rolls. I probably would or at least seriously think about it.

the meals on wheels wanted the garden club to make 50 batches of cookies and stipulated No coconut ir any chips (just plain ones) but we said no we couldnt make that much as we were few in number.

Well I didnt want to make that many...and I am not good at baking. so we decided to defer it for another month. We thought it was cheeky for them to order so many and place such a burden on us.

Its not cheap to make that many cookies after buying all the ingredients and the time spent making them...its not as if everyone is at home all day with nothing else to do and an empty kitchen.