Alternative to Donuts?
Runoutofgears
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It is customary to buy donuts for the office, (90 to 100 staff) on your birthday, problem is I suspect no one is going to be interested in donuts so soon after Christmas, any suggestions for an alternative?
Perhaps I should just move my birthday to a more suitable time of the year?
Perhaps I should just move my birthday to a more suitable time of the year?
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Get donuts, and if no-one is interested, well then, more for you0
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Mince pies.
They'll be really cheap now ! You can probably get a hundred for less than a fiver ;-)
Push the boat out and get brandy cream (yum!) as well and you'll still get the lot for £10.
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Retro biscuits - Club, Penguins, Wagon Wheels etc.0
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Get them all to chip in a quid and buy you a nice big birthday cake0
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Alternative to donuts? Get out. GET OUT NOW!
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fenboy369 wrote:Alternative to donuts? Get out. GET OUT NOW!
YumYums from Sainsburys. Get the big ones....................
+1 Yumyums are the only alternative to donuts.Saracen Tenet 3 - 2015 - Dead - Replaced with a Hack Frame
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I do not like donuts.
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I suspect no one is going to be interested in donuts so soon after Christmas
what sort of freaks do you work with???0 -
singlespeedexplosif wrote:I suspect no one is going to be interested in donuts so soon after Christmas
what sort of freaks do you work with???
There is no alternative to Doughnuts.
Only Death.
Doughnuts or Death.
There is too much baked goods / even better fried goods backsliding going on around here and the rot must stop.Fixed gear for wet weather / hairy roadie for posing in the sun.
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You need to have a competition at work to see who can get the most standard sized jam filled donuts in their mouth without chewing. I can do 2 but 3 makes me gag. But I have seen 4 done. That was impressive.'11 Cannondale Synapse 105CD - FCN 4
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Christophe3967 wrote:Did someone call????
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Runoutofgears wrote:It is customary to buy donuts for the office, (90 to 100 staff) on your birthday, problem is I suspect no one is going to be interested in donuts so soon after Christmas, any suggestions for an alternative?
Perhaps I should just move my birthday to a more suitable time of the year?0 -
Always Tyred wrote:Bagels?
Oh yeah - I'm that's what the kids want, the heaviest most chewable bit of baked rubber in the history of mankind.
I remember (swing lamp - take a seat young 'uns and listen to me) when bagels were an exotic and fantastic thing that Americans talked about, like pastrani on rye.
Years later when you cound get them here I kidded myself that smoked salmon and cream cheese on a bagel is the height of urban cool.
It's not - waste of Salmon and Cheese to put it on something that can be used as Challenger tank track pad. As for pastrami and rye - Christ - heavily peppered sawdust bread anyone?
So - in a roundabout way - no - take an F for your pish poor counter challenge to the orthodoxy of Crispy Kreme.
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Greg T wrote:waste of Salmon and Cheese to put it on something that can be used as Challenger tank track pad
FLOL, cheers for that Mr T
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I did once suggesrt taking in friut, then the fat ugly bird said if you ever bring in friut I will slash your tyres...so I didn't tak anything I now work some where else.0
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Greg T wrote:Always Tyred wrote:Bagels?
Oh yeah - I'm that's what the kids want, the heaviest most chewable bit of baked rubber in the history of mankind.
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Bagels. Why ? Just why ???Misguided Idealist0 -
Just caught up with the responses and have now cleared my throat having choked on my apple, must remember to shake the bits out of the keyboard later.
These days we seem to have a fair few people in the office looking after their waist lines, so last time I took donuts in I ended up taking a load of them home. I could get Mrs ROOG to bake a few cakes, but that would seem a bit unkind, (I’m sure she doesn’t read this, waits for angry phone call).
I was just wondering if there was a widely used and healthy (ish) alternative, so far it seems not.I ache, therefore I am.0 -
Fireblade96 wrote:Greg T wrote:Always Tyred wrote:Bagels?
Oh yeah - I'm that's what the kids want, the heaviest most chewable bit of baked rubber in the history of mankind.
+100000
Bagels. Why ? Just why ???
It's environmentally friendly - basically, it allows people to develop a taste for stale bread and think it is a premium product at the same timeFaster than a tent.......0 -
Eccles cakes. With full buttery pastry outer. Just about unbeatable. Never actually eaten one inside Eccles city limits but they could only be better in that estimable town."Consider the grebe..."0
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Get the little boxes of mini yumyums, mini cookies, mini flapjacks etc... that Saino's do for a pound a tub. Fat people who want to get thin will eat one or two because they are small and wont be too bad for the diet. This makes the thin people laugh and also increases moral. The fat people who dont care can eat 5 or 6 and be happy.
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Or a selection of pork pies, scotch eggs and mustards....'11 Cannondale Synapse 105CD - FCN 4
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fenboy369 wrote:Or a selection of pork pies, scotch eggs and mustards....
Dickinson and Morris, please, if you do.
My vote is for Tunnock's Tea Cakes - made with real eggs instead of gelatine.0 -
Rolf F wrote:Fireblade96 wrote:Greg T wrote:Always Tyred wrote:Bagels?
Oh yeah - I'm that's what the kids want, the heaviest most chewable bit of baked rubber in the history of mankind.
+100000
Bagels. Why ? Just why ???
It's environmentally friendly - basically, it allows people to develop a taste for stale bread and think it is a premium product at the same time
Until you've tried Montreal style, straight from a brick oven, you haven't tasted bagels.
Stale pieces of wood sold in 5's in Tesco are merely stale bread in round form.0 -
Is that 24-hour bagel shop on Brick Lane still there? IIRC they tasted OK.0
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Skins2 wrote:Is that 24-hour bagel shop on Brick Lane still there? IIRC they tasted OK.Misguided Idealist0
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Always Tyred wrote:Rolf F wrote:Fireblade96 wrote:Greg T wrote:Always Tyred wrote:Bagels?
Oh yeah - I'm that's what the kids want, the heaviest most chewable bit of baked rubber in the history of mankind.
+100000
Bagels. Why ? Just why ???
It's environmentally friendly - basically, it allows people to develop a taste for stale bread and think it is a premium product at the same time
not entirely true, while I can't comment on montreal style the jewish community around finsbury park do make fu<king amazing bagels... I'm aware their competition is pi$$ poorPurveyor of sonic doom
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