I ate and reviewed every snack in our office kitchen
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·February 21, 2025maxwellg
Grazing on leftover Forkable lunches is one of the great pleasures of going into the office now. I eat my regular lunch at noon. At three or four, I do a lap to see if there are any unclaimed leftovers from folks who didn't make it in. I might eat one right there, or hide it in the fridge to take home later. It's like a VC-funded loot box - will I get a sandwich? Some curry? Dim sum? The possibilities are endless.
rtpg
Fruits are kind of amazing. A tasty apple cut up into slices is more delicious than more or less any concoction Mars & co. can come up with.
Even more "gnarly" stuff like figs, eating them just generates such a positive reaction. And something like mango if you're lucky enough to live in places with it... If you don't have to deal with cutting it up, that's something amazing.
Getting fruit from some farm way far off in the distance to me is a feat of logistics. I always feel a bit stupid about how I reach for convenient stuff because I don't want to take a 5 minute break to do a bit of prep and cleanup.
Scene_Cast2
In principle, I agree. However, I haven't had a tasty apple in ages - they're all way too sweet for my taste.
I've been thinking about how modern fruit optimize for (among numerous other things) sweetness, and whether modern fruit are actually healthy in terms of glycemic index / glycemic load / etc.
rtpg
My SO is basically like "fruits _are_ filled with sugar" and they're not wrong. It feels pretty hard to make strong qualitative judgements on this stuff. Feels better than a snickers bar, surely?
The only real thing that feels kind of easy to say is that any sweet drink is probably worse for you than just drinking water. Easiest diet in the world is to just never buy soft drinks, and the extra trick is to also not replace it with orange or apple juice.
aio2
While fruits are packed with sugar, eating fruit also comes with fiber. This extra digestion slows the intake of sugar into the bloodstream, and getting fat/unhealthy from sugar comes from to much of it going through the liver. Because you may have too much sugar at a time, the liver needs help from the pancreas, which secretes insulin to store the sugar, which makes you fat.
jwagenet
It seems like fruit are preferable due to fiber, sugar content equal.
thfuran
I know I read several years ago that some zoos were cutting back on the amount of fruit the feed their animals because modern cultvars are too sweet.
erickhill
He straight-up ate someone else's salad?
"But the distribution is bimodal here because the massive upside is countered by a massive downside: You need to evade detection. Will you hide in the bathroom? Pretend you ordered the same thing? Eat it at your desk? Either way, you need to be prepared."
Pro health tip: Don't eat where you perform waste removal functions.
0_____0
I ate my co workers sandwich when I was 18 at my first job at a start-up. Sometimes you gotta fuck up to learn - I never did that again.
If you eat your co-worker's sandwich twice, however... may satan take you
shadowfacts
> He straight-up ate someone else's salad?
... no, it's clearly a joke.
smlavine
The photo made me think of a common thing at my workplace -- a conference/customer visit had too much catering, and the leftovers were deposited in the break room. They usually don't stay very long.
sneak
Normalize treating someone who steals someone else’s food in the workplace the same way you would treat someone who steals someone else’s medication or telephone.
Twirrim
At one stage pre-pandemic, someone with tongue firmly in cheek, produced a wiki page with details of all the meals you could make with the office kitchen snacks and equipment. I think that eventually got removed, because the snacks changed and it was no longer accurate. No one has had that dedication since.
mikeshi42
I do recall doing the same - partially for myself to remember all the meal hacks coworkers gave me! Putting those packaged hardboiled eggs and seaweed snacks into shin ramen is still memorable to this day.
neilv
> Everybody likes grapes.
False.
I've heard that some med students use grapes to practice stitches, and that is how I feel about grapes.
Grapes are obviously not meant to be eaten by humans, and must serve some other, probably squeamishness-inducing, purpose.
Lammy
They did Content Marketing on a grape
ZeWaka
Warm grapes, sure.
FROZEN grapes? Ambrosia from the gods.
senectus1
some of us cant consume too much in the way of fruit.. FODMAP issues really limit your snacking and healthy snacking even more :-(
illusive4080
I once bit into a lemon like that. It ate away some enamel on my teeth and they were sensitive for a few weeks. 0/5
haunter
If you want something even more detailed than Cabel Sasser’s annual sanck and cereal showcase is something else
ortusdux
I'd also recommend the Mike and Tom Eat Snacks podcast. It's a master class in being entertaining while filling time.
jedberg
This may not be the best for lead gen, but it's great for recruiting!
KerrAvon
The Cliff's Builders Bar (chocolate mint edition) is actually pretty good. This person has no taste.
EvanAnderson
I've had no problem completing the "ate every snack in our kitchen" part. Reviewing them, though, is a level of dedication I don't have.
FinnLobsien
It's a labor of love
aqueueaqueue
Funny article. Interesting product too.
Disappointed that microwaved yesterdays fish is not reviewed.
Social score: "No don't so it just go ahead and steal my lunch please!"
The first startup I worked for had the usual free coffee, but the only food they offered was the entire salad drawer of the refrigerator filled with every candy bar imaginable. Refilled twice a day.
Within a month of us moving into that building we'd all put on about 20lbs. Every coffee break was also candy bar time. We demanded they remove them all, for our own safety.