Miss Manners: Co-worker has dietary needs, I get it, but do they have to do this one weird thing?

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I work with a woman with whom I have a friendly, professional relationship. We are often in shared-food settings together, such as office lunches or happy hours with appetizers.

She adheres to a no-carb diet, but is quite gracious about encouraging others to order or bring whatever they’d like, saying that she’ll “make it work.”

My qualm is that when she needs to modify a food, such as only eating the cheese from a pizza, she will execute the modification on the shared dish, rather than taking a slice of pizza and carving it up on her own plate. The crust carcass remains on the serving plate.

Is this strange? Is there a polite way to encourage her to perform pizza surgery on her own plate?

GENTLE READER: “Here, Taylor, why don’t you take your piece first.”

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