Biscuits

[slemslempike]

Does anyone actually like Viennese Whirls? I can see, I suppose, some people not minding them, but the idea of anyone, for example, citing the brittle dust clumps as their favourite biscuit is beyond me. My colleague stays in a hotel during the week, and as she cannot eat gluten she brings in the biscuits they leave for her to put on our collective food area. Occasionally they leave her lovely shortbread with bits of butterscotch in, but yesterday I wasn't quick enough and someone else took them. Today there are just packets of Viennese Whirls, which is frankly not good enough.

The provision of cake and sweets is not as good as in my old division. Technically I think that there is more of it, but it is spread out and I don't know people well enough to go and nick their food. Also we are the very first bank of desks so people walk past us and take our food because that's fine, but I have no reason to go up the room, so I can't casually take food from others. It's a very sad state of affairs.

Comments

[terriem.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't say they're my favourite, but I am a bit of a fan of the Whirl. They're all light and melty, yum.

At my current client, an email is sent out inviting people to help themselves to food on various desks. Perhaps if you do that, others at the back of the room will do something similar?

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I think I find them crumbly and not very melty. Perhaps I have had bad ones.

No, that doesn't happen! I did ask people to take chocolates from my desk when I first came, but the chocolates all went and there is no reciprocity. It's most unfair. I tell a lie, someone once accidentally bought 2 kilos of pears and told us to help ourselves to that, but no-one explicitly offers their good food.

[terriem.livejournal.com]

The Mr Kipling ones are pretty good - I tend to like the single layer chocolate ones, rather than the jammy ones. (Just had lunch, but this biscuit talk is making me hungry again!)

That's a shame about the food - not sure of a way round that, apart from making friends with the people at the back...

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

It's a very large division, and not very well gelled at all. The teams are also quite separate, and there doesn't seem to be much cross-over, which is very different from my last job.