Don't take cake into the office.

[presta]

I don't eat cake because I don't like it, but I recall when someone in our drawing office ran a tuck shop: a self-service filing cabinet filled with sweets from the cash & carry, with a price list and an honesty box. I got into the habit of munching just because it was there and because it was a habit, until I saw a photograph of my belly rolling over my belt one day. Then I just stopped, because it was a pointless habit I'd copied from others, and because I didn't need umpteen calories of chocolate a day.

What do you think?

I think that if those who get agitated about the nanny state found it half as easy to resist cake as they claim, they wouldn't be getting agitated. Jebb's right, it's like smoking: those who get the most upset about health warnings on fag packets are likely to be the ones who can't stop smoking. People can eat cake if they want, she's not twisting anyone's arm, but embarrassment at the rudeness of refusing a friend's offer of cake might be.

 

[Gwylan]

People "play" football
People "play" tiddly winks
Nobody "plays" golf!

They always lose anyway

 

[Dogtrousers]

People "play" football
People "play" tiddly winks
Nobody "plays" golf!

That takes me back many years to when I lived in the states. A colleague asked me if I played golf. Except that's not what he said. He said "do you golf?" I just said that I didn't and made a mental note of yet another interesting language difference between the UK and the US.

The verb "to golf": I golf, you golf, he/she/it golfs, we golf, you golf, they golf.

Strange.

 

[Shadow]

So it really could be Canada Dry.

Quite droll.
But no chance of this happening any sooner than in the UK. (or Czechia, or France, or Poland, or Ireland or......)

 

[wiggydiggy]

Is it not just a bit like this anyway?

View: https://youtu.be/ctOBMFznkto

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Some people are foodaholics just like alcoholics. It does get ridiculous if cakes and chocolates are in the workplace every week rather than just seasonal at Christmas.

 

[Illaveago]

Some people are foodaholics just like alcoholics. It does get ridiculous if cakes and chocolates are in the workplace every week rather than just seasonal at Christmas.

What about Mr Kipling ?

 

[Ming the Merciless]

What about Mr Kipling ?

He doesn’t like Christmas

 

[Illaveago]

He doesn’t like Christmas

Ah ! But he believes in cake in the workplace though .

 

[steveindenmark]

Do they consider the feelgood factor of eating cake?

They probably do not realise that most cyclists would jack it in if there was no cake stop on the route.

 

[FishFright]

Ah ! But he believes in cake in the workplace though .

He's less keen nowadays , all 300 jobs going at the local factory/bakery.

 

[tyred]

Some people are foodaholics just like alcoholics. It does get ridiculous if cakes and chocolates are in the workplace every week rather than just seasonal at Christmas.

That's what it was like in my office. The amount of sweets and cakes brought in was utterly ridiculous and even with the best will in the world, you always ended up eating more of it than you realise as it is all to easy to grab a few Roses from the tin as you walked past. My diet is definitely much healthier since I started working from home when the pandemic started.

 

[fossyant]

In other news I see that Canadians have to been advised to take a maximum of two drinks a week to avoid health problems. One drink is around half a pint of 5% beer or quarter pint of 12% wine.
So it really could be Canada Dry.

https://toronto.citynews.ca/2023/01/17/alcohol-guidance-canada-two-drinks-a-week/

Canadians are weird, we'll send them to Ghana for you if you are missing out !

 

[MichaelW2]

What do people at the Mr Kippling factory or office do on birthdays?