Here’s some food for thought for today…
- But it’s got whole grain! I’m always telling people not to believe the labels on their processed food – here’s proof that I’m right.
- A weekly cake club at the office would be a great perk to an otherwise dreary job. And would be an awesome way to get back at the freaks at those workplaces that try to get everyone to diet together.
- NYC cuts 4.6 billion calories by switching to a low-fat milk in schools. You know what would cut even more calories? Cutting out milk completely – humans don’t need it.
- Why bloggers will never be able to get their photos as good as the pros. The truth from a “food slut”.
- You can’t throw an espresso machine without hitting a swank little coffee shop these days, but the future of good coffee is uncertain.
- There’s always lots of talk by media and naysayers about how there is no legal definition of “organic”, but there actually is. It’s the “beyond organic” crowd that are watering down the meaning and confusing people.
- I’m not a huge fan of most of the subject matter, but these jelly bean portraits are pretty awesome from a technical standpoint.
- I wonder if these figures are worked into those “OMG the obeses will keel you” statistics that always get rolled out – turns out, if you’re a fat woman, you might be more likely to die from poor medical treatment due to discrimination than hauling a few extra pounds around.
- Wanna know a secret? Food writers, chefs, gourmands… none of us eat fancy when we’re alone.
- Hail Seitan! Honest, you don’t need meat.
Love the cake club idea!
At my old office, they used to buy in a couple of fancy cakes on the last Friday of every month to celebrate all of the birthdays in that month.
My new office is not nearly as much fun.
I know of people who hate the whole cake/birthday process, so it can go both ways.
But I also have a friend who works someplace where staff were “encouraged” to join a group weight-loss thing last month. She’s a fat advocate, and so was offended and livid at the whole situation. I’d totally be anonymously sending boxes of cake and pastries to the office each week, just to fuck with people for being such sheep.
I generally hate the whole birthday process too, but I love cake, so it balanced out.
I sympathize with your friend; at my office they are running a “winning at losing” challenge which I am not participating in, and every time I eat a cookie or something homemade, they try to make me feel like a leper or deviant.
I’m not going to stop eating just because someone else wants to diet, y’know?
And don’t even get me going about the idea of dieting just to fit someone else’s ideal…
If it was GOOD cake, that’d be a great way to liven up Fridays at work. But none of this Dominion/Loblaws in-store bakery stuff, which sadly, is what many of my colleagues bring in. Sorry, I’m a cake snob!
P – If you send me your work address, I will *personally* send an anonymous cake to your office on Friday. I fucking hate people who try to make others guilty for what they eat. Those broads deserve to have their diets sabotaged.