The best kind, chocolate chip cookies.

I would say do it! I am incredibly feminine. Outside of my uniform, I am all dresses all the time. If someone thinks I am too feminine to be an officer, joke’s on them ;)

When I was living in Scotland, I had an apartment with an entrance one flight of stairs up but was another flight of stairs to get to the actual living space. A delivery man was dropping off a box of kitty litter, and offered to run it up for me. He actually had darted up past me to the landing and then offered to…

I call it being a flexitarian. Was once handed plate of roasted goat in Kenya on Easter. Was not about to refuse.

The gluten free thing is legit for a lot of people, too. Obviously it’s a fad diet as well, but people who have a legitimate disease or allergy can and do get very ill when they eat gluten.

Yeah, that’s what I thought, too. Probably just some stupid teenager who is still stupid because he’s a teenager. But hopefully this will be a learning experience for him!

I used to road manage musicians. They would pull this kind of bullshit at venues all the time. There was always something wrong with catering at the venue, and we bent over backwards routinely to meet everyone’s ever-changing needs. They would complain that there weren’t “enough” gluten free choices, or they wanted…

I think that’s fine and if you have some sort of relationship with the food giver it is not creepy at all for them to give you food and totally cool to accept it, say thank you, and then toss it in the trash. I do think it is creepy however, that people think they can just go up to a stranger’s house (because a…

I once ate pork after 17 years of vegetarianism because I didn’t want to be rude to my hosts. It was fine, nobody died. Obviously the pig died, but that was before.

In my line of work, it’s not uncommon for people to give me food. I almost always say thank you, and then politely chuck it after.

Oh, that is very low behavior indeed. They should have their passports temporarily revoked (leaving the US) for that. I am not a well-traveled person by any means, but everybody knows that when someone in a foreign country puts themselves out to cook either a local meal or a meal like one from home for you, you…

One of my most vivid childhood memories (I hate that THIS has stuck with me for nearly 25 years) was visiting a friend’s house and her mother made fish sticks and onion rings. I hated onions rings at the time, but I HATED fish sticks. Everything about them.

Ha, my dad ate three plates of my grandmother’s spaghetti the first time he met her! He loves food though, it was not a chore.

My father has a lot of flaws. But when he first met his in-laws my grandmother made meat loaf. He fucking hates meat loaf. But he ate everything on his plate. She offered him more and dammit if he didn’t accept and eat some more of the godforsaken meat loaf. That’s how you do it.

That’s very considerate of you. Most of my reactions have been because of homemade baked goods.

I know! How can people be so rude.

A friend of mine did a yoga trip/training in India. One night, their host who was Indian made them all pizza because he knew Westerners loved pizza. Every single person except her refused to eat the pizza because they were gluten free/vegan/carb free. She literally cried telling me the story. People are the worst.

She sounds delightful. I am allergic to nuts and I wouldn’t give you the third degree like that.

LMAO, that is so fucking rude. Graciously accept the fucking cookies and throw them out if you don’t want ‘em, bitch.

Well, I baked some thank you cookies for my neighbour, I went and knocked her door to deliver the cookies, she opened, I said, “I baked this for you as a thank you”, her response was, “did you put any kind of nuts in these?”, “nope”, I said, “ I do not know if you are allergic”, “I am not, I just dislike nuts, did you…