Anonymous wrote:This area is so weird. If you have some special dietary restriction or phobia of the cooking of others, don’t take a pie. Let everyone else enjoy the fun tradition. Why do you feel no one should have pie just because you decided to be a vegan? Side note: the Costco apple pie is vegan and has been for years.

All these kitchen-phobic people ruined our multi cultural night, too. It was so nice to have a pot luck thoughtfully made up from all different countries and heritages. Last year they just got some random catered food from like Moby Dick because “people are still worried about covid.” You don’t get covid from food, folks.

+1 million

This area is full of anti-social people with high levels of anxiety. This thread highlights that.

If eating food makes you anxious, then just opt out. Why the need to ruin it for others?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP-
I'm an adult child of teachers who threw away homemade items. It's not personal. Think about it- you don't know if the baker licked the spatula, had a cat on the counter, washed their hands before preparation. You don't have to be paranoid to assume home kitchens / bakers aren't extraordinarily clean.

Do you have the same irrational fear when you go to Aunt Sally’s house for thanksgiving or when cousin Mary brings her famous casserole to the family reunion?

What about when you went to your coworker’s shower? You have no clue who prepared all the food. Friends and family likely brought some of it.

DP. Your examples are different. I know my Aunt Sally and cousin Mary. I also know my coworker.

I don’t know my students’ parents.

I am a teacher and I don’t eat homemade food given to me. There are simply too many variables. Does it need refrigeration, and has it actually been refrigerated? Are there ingredients I don’t eat in this recipe?

I appreciate the sentiment, but the practice of giving homemade food doesn’t work for me. I’m another person who will be grateful for the effort behind the food and then end up disposing of it.

I’d rather receive something non-food based. (I actually don’t need anything at all. I’m a professional and I’m doing my job. If you want to thank me, send a letter to my department chair about something positive in my class.)

This area is so weird. If you have some special dietary restriction or phobia of the cooking of others, don’t take a pie. Let everyone else enjoy the fun tradition. Why do you feel no one should have pie just because you decided to be a vegan? Side note: the Costco apple pie is vegan and has been for years.

All these kitchen-phobic people ruined our multi cultural night, too. It was so nice to have a pot luck thoughtfully made up from all different countries and heritages. Last year they just got some random catered food from like Moby Dick because “people are still worried about covid.” You don’t get covid from food, folks.

Anonymous wrote:NP-
I'm an adult child of teachers who threw away homemade items. It's not personal. Think about it- you don't know if the baker licked the spatula, had a cat on the counter, washed their hands before preparation. You don't have to be paranoid to assume home kitchens / bakers aren't extraordinarily clean.

Do you have the same irrational fear when you go to Aunt Sally’s house for thanksgiving or when cousin Mary brings her famous casserole to the family reunion?

What about when you went to your coworker’s shower? You have no clue who prepared all the food. Friends and family likely brought some of it.

Cleanliness aside, sometimes people just aren't good cooks. I had the choice one time between a homemade chocolate fudge pie and a store-bought. So excited to choose the homemade and it was terrible. Chocolate had been overcooked and was like crystallized sugar. At least with store-bought you have an idea of what it'll taste like.

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I'm an adult child of teachers who threw away homemade items. It's not personal. Think about it- you don't know if the baker licked the spatula, had a cat on the counter, washed their hands before preparation. You don't have to be paranoid to assume home kitchens / bakers aren't extraordinarily clean.

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Anonymous wrote:Pies are made with pork lard that some teachers won’t eat. They often contain poisons like soy or vegetable oils also. Please don’t.

LOL. You sound crazy. What do you actually eat?

Regardless, if you don’t like pie, don’t eat it. Plenty of us DO like pie and will happily eat it.

What is wrong with you? Are you a teacher or a parent? Either way you need to take the equity training we all are required to take to understand cultural dietary restrictions and allergies.

Certain religions do not eat any pork products. Some vegetarians and vegans do not eat pie due to lard being the crust.

I really hope you were being sarcastic.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most people will eat a store bought pie. Only a few will eat a homemade one if they know who made it. Many homemade goodies go in the trash when teachers get home.

Signed,
A Teacher 🍎

That’s crazy.

Thoughtless, wasteful, crazy.

Homemade is better than store bought. Only a fancy bakery tops homemade.

If you are too paranoid to eat homemade baked goods you need therapy. Truly.

Well I’m a teacher and I will attest that most homemade goodies are not eaten. I know. It stinks! But we don’t need therapy, we just don’t want to become ill. There is no possible way to know everyone’s dietary needs and bringing in unknown foods will result in them being discarded as a safety precaution.

How are you so fragile as an adult that you can’t risk eating a pumpkin pie baked by Larla’s mom as a holiday gift for you?

You need to visit dear Larla's home.

It’s probably nicer than where most teachers live.

So it’s a zip code thing? Some teachers in lower income schools assume everyone lives in filth? Gotcha.

No pies in DTSS or Wheaton, but pies aplenty in Potomac, Bethesda, Chevy Chase, Ktown and Potomac-lite (Olney/Brookeville).

Perhaps the parents in the W schools can bake for the teachers across the county? Would you eat a pie baked by a SAHM from a W school?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most people will eat a store bought pie. Only a few will eat a homemade one if they know who made it. Many homemade goodies go in the trash when teachers get home.

Signed,
A Teacher 🍎

That’s crazy.

Thoughtless, wasteful, crazy.

Homemade is better than store bought. Only a fancy bakery tops homemade.

If you are too paranoid to eat homemade baked goods you need therapy. Truly.

I'll eat homemade food made by friends and family because I know they are not gross. When it comes to food in the workplace, I will only eat it if I know who made it, and they are a clean-seeming person. But come on, I think we all know there are plenty of really gross people. If you're a parent walking around with dirty hair, your kids are filthy, and your clothes are covered in dog hair, I don't want to eat anything you make. If I don't know who it came from, I'm *probably* not eating it. I might make an exception for something that is immaculately presented, in which case I know it probably didn't come from a slob.

I can’t tell if this is a zip code thing or a paranoid teacher thing.

Where on earth are you teaching in moco that you encounter such filthy people?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most people will eat a store bought pie. Only a few will eat a homemade one if they know who made it. Many homemade goodies go in the trash when teachers get home.

Signed,
A Teacher 🍎

That’s crazy.

Thoughtless, wasteful, crazy.

Homemade is better than store bought. Only a fancy bakery tops homemade.

If you are too paranoid to eat homemade baked goods you need therapy. Truly.

Well I’m a teacher and I will attest that most homemade goodies are not eaten. I know. It stinks! But we don’t need therapy, we just don’t want to become ill. There is no possible way to know everyone’s dietary needs and bringing in unknown foods will result in them being discarded as a safety precaution.

How are you so fragile as an adult that you can’t risk eating a pumpkin pie baked by Larla’s mom as a holiday gift for you?

You need to visit dear Larla's home.

Anonymous wrote:Who would not want a pie?

Unfortunately, it kind of depends on the home environment. I've made some home visits before for some precious kids with sweet parents -- but I wouldn't want to eat anything prepared in their home. It's not SES level either....I've been in some very nice homes with kitchens that are just not clean...

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most people will eat a store bought pie. Only a few will eat a homemade one if they know who made it. Many homemade goodies go in the trash when teachers get home.

Signed,
A Teacher 🍎

That’s crazy.

Thoughtless, wasteful, crazy.

Homemade is better than store bought. Only a fancy bakery tops homemade.

If you are too paranoid to eat homemade baked goods you need therapy. Truly.

Well I’m a teacher and I will attest that most homemade goodies are not eaten. I know. It stinks! But we don’t need therapy, we just don’t want to become ill. There is no possible way to know everyone’s dietary needs and bringing in unknown foods will result in them being discarded as a safety precaution.

How are you so fragile as an adult that you can’t risk eating a pumpkin pie baked by Larla’s mom as a holiday gift for you?

Anonymous wrote:Pies are made with pork lard that some teachers won’t eat. They often contain poisons like soy or vegetable oils also. Please don’t.

LOL. You sound crazy. What do you actually eat?

Regardless, if you don’t like pie, don’t eat it. Plenty of us DO like pie and will happily eat it.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most people will eat a store bought pie. Only a few will eat a homemade one if they know who made it. Many homemade goodies go in the trash when teachers get home.

Signed,
A Teacher 🍎

That’s crazy.

Thoughtless, wasteful, crazy.

Homemade is better than store bought. Only a fancy bakery tops homemade.

If you are too paranoid to eat homemade baked goods you need therapy. Truly.

I'll eat homemade food made by friends and family because I know they are not gross. When it comes to food in the workplace, I will only eat it if I know who made it, and they are a clean-seeming person. But come on, I think we all know there are plenty of really gross people. If you're a parent walking around with dirty hair, your kids are filthy, and your clothes are covered in dog hair, I don't want to eat anything you make. If I don't know who it came from, I'm *probably* not eating it. I might make an exception for something that is immaculately presented, in which case I know it probably didn't come from a slob.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most people will eat a store bought pie. Only a few will eat a homemade one if they know who made it. Many homemade goodies go in the trash when teachers get home.

Signed,
A Teacher 🍎

That’s crazy.

Thoughtless, wasteful, crazy.

Homemade is better than store bought. Only a fancy bakery tops homemade.

If you are too paranoid to eat homemade baked goods you need therapy. Truly.

Well I’m a teacher and I will attest that most homemade goodies are not eaten. I know. It stinks! But we don’t need therapy, we just don’t want to become ill. There is no possible way to know everyone’s dietary needs and bringing in unknown foods will result in them being discarded as a safety precaution.