Hello fellow losers!
I have a little anecdote I wanted to share with you guys. It's a bit of a rant but could also be used as food for thought.
TL/DR: My cousin ate a whole plate of Christmas cookies at a charity baking event without even noticing.
Let me set the scene: Every year, we have a Christmas cookie baking event where a bunch of people (about 20) bake Christmas cookies together for two days to sell them later and donate the proceeds to charity. We bake about 80 kg (176 lbs) of cookies each year and sell plates of 500 g (1.1 lbs) for 18 €. Most of the cookies are really elaborate with several steps from kneading the dough to decorating the baked cookies. So we are putting a lot of effort into each cookie.
Actual event: I can't explain why but this year, I observed my fellow bakers and their behavior around the cookies. I realized that it was only the heavier-weight participants that indulged in the cookies while the others didn't. Most of the time, the sampling was done because a cookie was broken or looked too ugly to sell which is fine and the participants are allowed to taste the cookies if they want. My cousin (late 20s) overdid it, however. She would walk around the work spaces and sample several cookies at once. She would even go as far as breaking cookies on purpose while working on them to make them unsaleable and eat them herself. She would pilfer some of the marzipan filling even though we were not sure we had enough for our cookie batch. She would go to the storage area and help herself from the finished cookie boxes. Overall, she easily ate a whole plate of cookies with well over 1000 kcal in the span of a few hours.
Conclusion: I tagged this post as rant because I found it increasingly hard to not stop my cousin in her cookie eating spree and I felt really frustrated at the end of the day. Don't get me wrong, my cousin has bodily autonomy and can eat as many calories as she wants but her behavior was just so childish and out of control. If everyone had behaved like her, we would probably have lost 1/4 of our yield. It was unfathomable to me, how she did not see that her behavior was inappropriate. I was thinking that her drive to indulge in cookies was much stronger than her common sense. She was basically pilfering from charity.
I added the "food for thought" bit to my title because I wanted to ask you guys how you would have reacted in a similar situation. Are you someone that would not sample the cookies, sample a few, or go on a full out cookie tasting spree?
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