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   josh susser (joshsusser@autistics.life)'s status on Thursday, 04-Dec-2025 06:41:37 JST josh susser

   A short tale from way back when I worked at Apple: My team had a lot of lunchtime meetings and they usually got pizza to feed us lunch while we worked. There were two of us on the team who were vegetarian, so they'd order six or eight pizzas for the team and all of them would have meat except for the one meatless pizza they had for just the two of us. But everyone likes vegetarian pizza, so people would get in line, take what looked good which included the veggie pizza, and by the time I got to the veggie pizza it would be gone and I'd have no lunch (and the other vegetarian had the same problem, of course). They tried to get the non-vegetarian people to stop eating the veggie pizza, then tried to hide it so only we veggies could get it, but nothing worked. So I suggested they order four kinds of vegetarian pizzas and a couple pizzas with meat, and that worked out great and there was much rejoicing.

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     Brad Grzesiak 🦆 (listrophy@ruby.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Dec-2025 07:57:25 JST Brad Grzesiak 🦆

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     @joshsusser I attended a conference once that allowed people into the food line in a specific order: people with allergies, then people with dietary preferences, and finally everyone else. Seemed radical at the time, but it worked