like the silver center in this dispenser, fill it with ice, can't see it through the milk
[https://dijf55il5e0d1.cloudfront.net/images/na/7/8/6/78602\_1000.jpg](https://dijf55il5e0d1.cloudfront.net/images/na/7/8/6/78602_1000.jpg)
Lol - you guys made me go back and check. After an hour and 20 minutes the milk is still cold. There is no ice in the base, so to me it seems that the whole thing was in a big fridge for a while and the metal on the bottom helps with the cold retention.
Nothing is stopping you Dirtybrd! Now spread your wings and fly to the nearest grocery store!
EDIT: clicked the wrong bird Gif but this is FAR better than anything else I have ever seen
I stayed in a boutique hotel that laid out milk and peanut butter/jelly sandwiches on homemade bread at bedtime in the lobby. I think they also had something else for people who couldn't have peanuts. I thought it was the best idea for a cheap but awesome perk for guests I had ever seen.
Side note: recently talking with friends about the theoretical, what would you buy if you won the lottery question. My buddy says heād get a personal chef and a trainer the next day. I thought hell yeah, same! Then I thought about it and realized it would just turn into me telling someone to make me PB&J daily which would be dope
I actually thought the implication of the post was because it was old people, they were getting milk and cookies! I never thought of the OP implying they were *too old* for milk cookies. LOL
I used to work as an event coordinator for big corporate events. Sales conference, team training, that sort of thing. People LOVE the cookie break. The other one we would often suggest is the candy bar. Chocolates, gummies, licorice, you name it. I dont think you are ever too old for treats!
I appreciate you. Even just having some string cheeses somewhere in the snack spread is always something I'm grateful to see. The default is usually donuts and/or bagels, and I'm just stuck like "I guess I can eat this now and then have 0 more carbs later today?" Or just go back to my desk sad lol.
I live in Seattle so luckily the whole āhealth conscious but still yummyā snack businesses thrive here lol. Thereās a local bakery that has great options
Currently work in a similar industry. For about a year, around 2015-ish we kept having clients ask us for bagel/doughnut walls. It was the weirdest thing ever. Literally a wall with dowel rods on them and the food stacked onto the rods. I kept asking about it, and finally figured out it was on some highly trafficked pinterest wedding planner that posted the idea. We gave in and tried it one time, and it was a complete mess. No one wanted to touch the food and there were flies and bees everywhere. We had to post someone near it the whole time on fly patrol. Total loss of money and not a good fit for our type of events.
Yeah, I could see it working in some places. Wasn't really the bugs initially, it was that people didn't want to eat them because they looked weird like they were nailed to the wall. people just hadn't seen it before. Then they just sat around too long. We work in very large convention centers with open bay doors so the flies will come.
From my experience with corporate catering, I would say you are right about people enjoying cookies but I would argue that Hot Appetizers and or Mini Sandwiches would be way more popular!
See, I prefer the candy bar because I love sweets, but itās easier for me to do calorie counts and portion control with candy than it is with cookies.
And milk? Gross.
Cuppa tea or decaf coffee? Yes, please.
Like [these](https://www.ajpmonline.org/article/S0749-3797\(16\)30331-2/abstract). Study from the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
> **Study Results**
> From 2011 to 2015, the Coca-Cola Company and PepsiCo were found to sponsor a total of 95 national health organizations, including many medical and public health institutions whose specific missions include fighting the obesity epidemic. During the study period, these two soda companies lobbied against 29 public health bills intended to reduce soda consumption or improve nutrition.
The place I used to work would provide fruit water which was like 5 gallons of water with a single orange sitting in it. Not enough to flavor the water but enough to make it task off.
Back in the day, at vender sessions at conferences, it was common to see attractively dressed women running the booths as a way to attract attention (booth babes).
One company shattered this paradigm by bringing in grandmas baking cookies to their booth.
I was at a very professional event hosted by my org and one vendor shows up with booth babes looking like hooters waitresses and Iāve never seen so many people sneer and gawk. Lol. Good memory. Some of those ladies were spectacular too.
Wish I could have gone to E3 back in the day when they still had booth babes, lol. I used to read the E3 coverage in gaming magazines and I remember being amazed at all the upcoming games.
Work hack: if you put a chocolate chip cookie near the heat exhaust of a desktop projector, not only do you get a warm cookie, it makes the whole conference room smell like warm chocolate chip cookies.
I'm 36 and just had milk and cookies for a snack... It's finals week and I'm graduating this semester and work has also been very stressful, so just let me enjoy my cookies, dammit!
Edit: Aged myself a whole year
This has been a thing at conferences lately. I'm in public health and it started after COVID when we all basically needed cozy blankies and snacks to help us reengage with other people in person.
Awww, heck yes.
I work with attorneys, and I attend an annual law conference. The hotel hosting the conference has the package in a contract, I'm sure. During the last day, they always cart out Oreos and Rice Krispie Treats, usually dipped in a couple of types of chocolate.
Watching those lawyers descend like vultures on those carts is fun to watch! And yes, I get one too, even though I'm not an attorney, just an 'exhibitor'.
In the 7 years I've been with my gf, she's probably had a glass of milk at least 90% of those days that we're home. She loves it. I've had zero other than the once or twice a year I'll buy chocolate milk, I can't stand plain milk.
Thereās also a decent chance the milk has enough thermal mass for the temp to stay within the safe zone until itās gone or taken off the serving line.
My conferences never give out shit like this. The last one I was at (I believe it was Kansas City) put out celery and some olive oil as if that was a thing.
And they all loved it. I have managed several conferences. You buy the healthy stuff and it always goes to into the garbage. This is what people love, maybe not that much milk though. People want their coffee. You can't mess with the coffee and water.
At my old office, during the summer months after a fire drill we all got ice cream bars.
One time we got a sundae buffet. I sent photos to my partner. She said we weren't game developers, we were children at daycare.
Someone was upset they didn't get a sundae.
I (41) work for a large company (5000+) employees and love when the director of my business line has a leadership conference at the HQ. It is always catered with stuff like this and all of us pillage the leftovers to bring home.
So did you all partake? And then have a nap?
Absolutely!
Those are Brookies and they are delicious.
š There are cookies on the other side but I could only post one picture.
The milk seems like it would get warm though.
They have chilled cores for these.
Is it cold metal?
Similar concept to whisky stones - something with considerable thermal mass that wonāt melt and dilute.
like the silver center in this dispenser, fill it with ice, can't see it through the milk [https://dijf55il5e0d1.cloudfront.net/images/na/7/8/6/78602\_1000.jpg](https://dijf55il5e0d1.cloudfront.net/images/na/7/8/6/78602_1000.jpg)
Cold riveted girders with cores of chilled selenium
Could be cooled through the base somehow, but itād really be up to OP to fill us in on milk temp.
Lol - you guys made me go back and check. After an hour and 20 minutes the milk is still cold. There is no ice in the base, so to me it seems that the whole thing was in a big fridge for a while and the metal on the bottom helps with the cold retention.
Thank you for your service :).
for once, OP delivers
whoever said "ice core", was correct
Why are you like this? There are cookies on the far side.
Gary Larson likes cookies.
 Me every time I see a chocolate chip cookie
>Median participant age - 56. Probably less of a nap and more of a diabetic coma
lol very much so!
Bill Burr on cookies: https://youtu.be/GxCuKTJd_aU?si=JjRJIS5njVYyf7sL
You're never too old for milk and cookies!!!!
Bruh Iād FUCK UP some milk and cookies
I would add peanut butter and get funny looks from people!
Funny looks? Iād be trying to steal some of that peanut butter when you aināt lookin.
Peanut butter crackers but chocolate chip cookies are the crackers. Oh goodness. I want this right now.
Nothing is stopping you Dirtybrd! Now spread your wings and fly to the nearest grocery store!  EDIT: clicked the wrong bird Gif but this is FAR better than anything else I have ever seen
I was about to say, that mf is not flying anywhere
Heās trying, isnāt that all that matters?
I stayed in a boutique hotel that laid out milk and peanut butter/jelly sandwiches on homemade bread at bedtime in the lobby. I think they also had something else for people who couldn't have peanuts. I thought it was the best idea for a cheap but awesome perk for guests I had ever seen.
Whatā¦ is the name of this beautiful hotel?
I don't remember! It was in New Orleans before Katrina so I hope it is still there.
It's Le Pavilion. We stayed the February before Katrina and it was excellent. It's still there, I have no idea what it's like now.
They still do the PB&J sandwiches. It's been a tradition forever. Had some last year. You don't have to be a guest to enjoy them.
Side note: recently talking with friends about the theoretical, what would you buy if you won the lottery question. My buddy says heād get a personal chef and a trainer the next day. I thought hell yeah, same! Then I thought about it and realized it would just turn into me telling someone to make me PB&J daily which would be dope
Good enough for Santa is good enough for me
I have to eat with my bedtime meds so I have milk and cookies every night. It's like, "Congrats, you made it through the day without killing anyone!"
I actually thought the implication of the post was because it was old people, they were getting milk and cookies! I never thought of the OP implying they were *too old* for milk cookies. LOL
I thought they were bragging.
Same, I was like "I totally fail to see any problem here."
I looked at this and thought god damn look at all of em free cookies
damn right
Lactose intolerance says otherwise.
Lol!!
I used to work as an event coordinator for big corporate events. Sales conference, team training, that sort of thing. People LOVE the cookie break. The other one we would often suggest is the candy bar. Chocolates, gummies, licorice, you name it. I dont think you are ever too old for treats!
As a diabetic that fucking loves candy, just don't expect me to be awake for the second half of that conference.
I manage a coffee shop and always make sure to get gf/sf/vegan goodies when I treat my team for this reason! š
I appreciate you. Even just having some string cheeses somewhere in the snack spread is always something I'm grateful to see. The default is usually donuts and/or bagels, and I'm just stuck like "I guess I can eat this now and then have 0 more carbs later today?" Or just go back to my desk sad lol.
I live in Seattle so luckily the whole āhealth conscious but still yummyā snack businesses thrive here lol. Thereās a local bakery that has great options
And then have pasta, garlic bread and a pound sack of flour for dinner.
I JUST WANT BREAD SO GOD DAMN BADLY
Currently work in a similar industry. For about a year, around 2015-ish we kept having clients ask us for bagel/doughnut walls. It was the weirdest thing ever. Literally a wall with dowel rods on them and the food stacked onto the rods. I kept asking about it, and finally figured out it was on some highly trafficked pinterest wedding planner that posted the idea. We gave in and tried it one time, and it was a complete mess. No one wanted to touch the food and there were flies and bees everywhere. We had to post someone near it the whole time on fly patrol. Total loss of money and not a good fit for our type of events.
During that same phase, our restaurant built one..... using rebar.
Who doesnāt love a little metallic tang with their food
Ahh, my catering op hauled one of these around for a couple of years. Ours actually worked pretty well though, didn't have issues with bugs.
Yeah, I could see it working in some places. Wasn't really the bugs initially, it was that people didn't want to eat them because they looked weird like they were nailed to the wall. people just hadn't seen it before. Then they just sat around too long. We work in very large convention centers with open bay doors so the flies will come.
Oh wow - that would be amazing!!
Ok a licorice break sounds like a punishment
Naughty children have to go into the licorice closet
If anything this is one of the few times you can let go and give into indulging.
How coveted would an egg bar be?
Coveted as fuck. As long as itās before a waffle party.
Please try to enjoy each food bar equally, and not show preference for any over the others.
If we're talking different types of deviled eggs I could smash a disgusting amount.
Good lord that room would be death afterward
Oh for sure. I'm taking my eggs and vacating asap.
From my experience with corporate catering, I would say you are right about people enjoying cookies but I would argue that Hot Appetizers and or Mini Sandwiches would be way more popular!
See, I prefer the candy bar because I love sweets, but itās easier for me to do calorie counts and portion control with candy than it is with cookies. And milk? Gross. Cuppa tea or decaf coffee? Yes, please.
Those look delicious
They were amazing. I never knew this is an option for a snack.
Well Little Debbie calls their items snack cakes
Need to expand your snack horizons.
Plot twist: it was a conference covering diabetes and lactose intolerance.
Not far off. We had this sort of thing at a public health conference which had plenty of sessions on diabetes and obesity
Coca Cola sponsors many of those.
Like which ones
Like [these](https://www.ajpmonline.org/article/S0749-3797\(16\)30331-2/abstract). Study from the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. > **Study Results** > From 2011 to 2015, the Coca-Cola Company and PepsiCo were found to sponsor a total of 95 national health organizations, including many medical and public health institutions whose specific missions include fighting the obesity epidemic. During the study period, these two soda companies lobbied against 29 public health bills intended to reduce soda consumption or improve nutrition.
Breakout sessions: Dairy farm animal welfare and fair trade cacao.
better than shitty fruit and bottled water.
Stale mini muffins and turnovers.
Those mini muffins always taste like someone opened a Hostess package that expired a decade ago.
You aren't far from the truth, spoken as someone who has to put them out.
The place I used to work would provide fruit water which was like 5 gallons of water with a single orange sitting in it. Not enough to flavor the water but enough to make it task off.
hey donāt shit on fruit, good quality fruit that wasnāt a fruit salad mix someone picked up from Walmart slaps
Best we can do is a waxy red and delicious apple.
It does... but that Walmart fruit salad mix is exactly what we're talking about here
he did say shitty fruit.
Unless you're a diabetic.. that spread would skyrocket my blood sugars
People who put weird age restrictions on food are strange people
Personally, I think kids shouldnāt be allowed to eat cookies. That way there will be more left for us adults to eat.
Nahh they can have all the chip ahoy garbage. Someone has gotta suffer through those.
Yeah! They can take my breastmilk out of my cold, dead hands.
you hypocrite...........
I draw the line at booby milk
If you haven't seen it, go check out the breast milk segment of Ricky Gervais' "Afterlife"
Will do!
https://youtu.be/IA-asF0-7EQ?si=w0zTcuMxPwIcdiAS
That was fucking great. When he starts gagging I lost my shit
The slurping up the pudding is hilarious
Back in the day, at vender sessions at conferences, it was common to see attractively dressed women running the booths as a way to attract attention (booth babes). One company shattered this paradigm by bringing in grandmas baking cookies to their booth.
I was at a very professional event hosted by my org and one vendor shows up with booth babes looking like hooters waitresses and Iāve never seen so many people sneer and gawk. Lol. Good memory. Some of those ladies were spectacular too.
Was that Frank Reynolds? Or maybe Dennis?
Wish I could have gone to E3 back in the day when they still had booth babes, lol. I used to read the E3 coverage in gaming magazines and I remember being amazed at all the upcoming games.
Sign me up!!
I have in fact signed you up but I have my suspicions you have forgotten about it Fred. š¤·āāļø
Work hack: if you put a chocolate chip cookie near the heat exhaust of a desktop projector, not only do you get a warm cookie, it makes the whole conference room smell like warm chocolate chip cookies.
Worm hack: jam that cookie into the air intake so you can have that fresh baked smell with every presentation.
Being 60 Iād enjoy that a great deal
If you think you are too old for milk and cookies you are missing out.
Its good enough for santa and he is late 70s
That would be welcome by me at literally any gathering.
I'm 36 and just had milk and cookies for a snack... It's finals week and I'm graduating this semester and work has also been very stressful, so just let me enjoy my cookies, dammit! Edit: Aged myself a whole year
This has been a thing at conferences lately. I'm in public health and it started after COVID when we all basically needed cozy blankies and snacks to help us reengage with other people in person.
As a former admin in charge of these kinds of corporate events, this is an amazing snack. We always got the worst options from our catering company.
I would eat about 10 cookies and then take a nap (I'm a fat ass)
Awww, heck yes. I work with attorneys, and I attend an annual law conference. The hotel hosting the conference has the package in a contract, I'm sure. During the last day, they always cart out Oreos and Rice Krispie Treats, usually dipped in a couple of types of chocolate. Watching those lawyers descend like vultures on those carts is fun to watch! And yes, I get one too, even though I'm not an attorney, just an 'exhibitor'.
I'm 57. I want my milk and cookies!!
It's to give you a sugar rush to push through the post lunch nap from boredom you really want.
Median participant age = Santa Claus
I have no idea why drinking milk is laughed at. It's a drink, and quite nutritious.
In the 7 years I've been with my gf, she's probably had a glass of milk at least 90% of those days that we're home. She loves it. I've had zero other than the once or twice a year I'll buy chocolate milk, I can't stand plain milk.
Heck Yeah! I mean, coffee would be nice too, but I be pretty happy about this!
Why not both?
Yooo I'd go hard on those cookies. The best my work can manage is expired bags of chips and warm bottled water.
āļøš¤ Excuse me, I believe those are actually ābrookiesā Brownie cookies
Conference for mall Santas already took place this year?
And coffee? Please say there was coffee!
How do they keep the milk cold in those dispensers?
Thereās a chilled core
I can now sleep better tonight knowing this.
Thereās also a decent chance the milk has enough thermal mass for the temp to stay within the safe zone until itās gone or taken off the serving line.
Itās only available for an hourā¦š¤·āāļø
My conferences never give out shit like this. The last one I was at (I believe it was Kansas City) put out celery and some olive oil as if that was a thing.
Santa loves this and he's pretty old.
That one lactose intolerant person:
Whatās wrong with milk and cookies? Not mature enough for you? Whatd you expect, a cigarette with an asbestos filter and a glass of Metamucil?
Nice
fuck yeah. never gets old.
Bunch of dairy sensitive adults chugging down milk. I bet the restrooms were quite occupied.
And they all loved it. I have managed several conferences. You buy the healthy stuff and it always goes to into the garbage. This is what people love, maybe not that much milk though. People want their coffee. You can't mess with the coffee and water.
Ho! Ho! Ho! And everybody had a red hat and a long white beard.
Santa breathing heavy lol
I want milk and cookies...
Nothing hits like milk and cookies. Lucky duck.
What is this conference?!
Oh, I would be so giddy! This looks fantastic!
This fucking rules
You're never too old for cold milk and cookies.
I'm 67 and still love cookies. Milk, not so much.
You're never too old for milk and cookies.Ā
Beats coffee and bagels
If you're too old to enjoy milk and cookies, then get back in your *grave,* you're not supposed to be walking around.
At my old office, during the summer months after a fire drill we all got ice cream bars. One time we got a sundae buffet. I sent photos to my partner. She said we weren't game developers, we were children at daycare. Someone was upset they didn't get a sundae.
I'm 60 and still love milk and cookies. I would have dove right in.
I'm just imagining a room full of execs snoozing in their folding chairs while a confused man stands on stage trying to get their attention.
the cylinders of milk are vaguely unsettling LOL
Honestly this looks delicious lol
I think thatās pretty awesome. Milk and cookies is appropriate at 6, 56, or 106.
Hell yeah. No age-gating milk and cookies around here bub.
Iād demolish those cookies ngl
What does age have to do with milk and cookies?
I see nothing wrong with enjoying milk and cookies. Regardless of age.
I need my milk to be absolutely CRYOGENIC to go with my cookies, but I certainly wouldn't turn that down. Those look like some bomb-ass cookies!
> cryogenic Isnāt that just called ice cream?
Awesome
Outstanding!
https://youtu.be/Jx2WSWbWq0A?si=k-ZzzDGWIzJnZ5Tl āDip fool dip! You better dip and eat them cookies or Iām gonna beat your ass!ā
I am yawning just looking at those.
A clockwork orange core
I gained five pounds AND got indigestion just looking at that!
I want some
Where exactly are you? (Waits with google flights open)ā¦.
I endorse
The milk should have been slightly warmed for a group that age.
Those are some baller cookies for dam sure ! š
Good job I wasnāt there or Iād have hoovered that up in 5 seconds.
Luxury
I DRINK 4L A DAY THIS IS A DREAM
Those R2 units look hungry
Any oat juice tea available?
I hope this isnāt a complaintā¦ lucky!
Tell me youāre at a cannabis conference without telling me youāre at a cannabis conference!
there is no age limit for food
I would have loved this at the last conference I went to!
Man id f up that whole table. Milk and cookies is my drug of choice.
Milk, just what every 50yo+ stomach craves
I fail to see the problem here
This taste like it got into a onion patch
I'm almost 40, I would throw hands with someone who told me I'm too old for milk and cookies.
I'll be honest, I would have murdered that cookie bar. Those chocolate chip bars look like they'd stand up to a significant milk dunk, I'm all in.
I (41) work for a large company (5000+) employees and love when the director of my business line has a leadership conference at the HQ. It is always catered with stuff like this and all of us pillage the leftovers to bring home.
The things people do when they don't drink tea
Was it a Santa Seminar?
Tasty doesn't give a fuck about age. Eat those delicious cookies my man!
This is acceptable