On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 07:20:05 -0800
"Nexis" > wrote:

>
> "Scott Danzig" > wrote in message
> ...
> > Hey all,
> >
> > I took up cooking and baking when I moved out on my own 3 years ago.
> Often
> > I'll experiment with cookies/brownies/turtle
> bars/cheesecakes/fudges/peanut
> > brittle, etc etc. I only see my friends so often and I can't keep
> stuffing
> > cookies down their throats, despite the rave reviews they give them.
> > Everyone at work is rather weight conscious. I don't own a coffee
> > shop to sell the stuff in. I was even thinking of donating the
> > desserts
> somewhere,
> > but I have no idea where to ask. I'm not religious and don't keep
> > kosher, so I guess the local synagogue is out. I certainly don't
> > want to throw
> any
> > of it away. What are some ideas of what I can do with my unsung
> > confections?
> >
> > - Scott
>
>
> Have you thought about finding a local soup kitchen type place and
> asking there? They are often happy to receive such donations.
> Volunteer for local bake sales too.


It's worth a shot, but you might be surprised.

12 years ago in my pizza days, i ended up working under this manager
who, well, lets just say that she worked her way up through pizzahut
corporate management for 10 years until she could pull enough strings to
get someone to let her manage a store again. It probably never occurred
to her that corporate might have reasons to keep her out of the
storefront.

Everybody knows that one of the few perqs of working for a pizza joint
is free pizza. Nobody ever told her that.

So, she kept saying she was going to donate unclaimed pizza to a soup
kitchen / charity / whatever. What she ended up doing was letting them
rot in the fridge. Soup kitchens didn't want 'em. Shelters wouldn't
take 'em. they had varying silly reasons based on incomprehensible
policy or law or liability. She persisted in her quest, and there was no
free employee pizza.

It did not endear us to her.