Keep cake away from office, suggests food watchdog head
If you work in an office, you know the drill. It's someone's birthday and the unwritten rules mean they or a generous boss supplies cake (or cakes) for all.
But is it time to kick the cupcakes, to get the gateaux away? A food adviser says workers should not bring in sweet treats - to avoid tempting colleagues.
Food Standards Agency chairwoman Prof Susan Jebb compared being around cake in the office to passive smoking.
She said: "If nobody brought cakes into the office, I would not eat cakes."
Hardly a food standards issue, but what about people who promote crisps? Maybe we should follow similar reasoning here and say "if nobody advertised crisps, I would not eat crisps."
13 comments:
Wiki... "In 2008, Jebb was awarded an OBE for services to public health.[2] In 2015, she was criticised in an investigation by the British Medical Journal for her closeness to the sugar industry."
Jobs for the gals, useless communicator, so ignorable.
I'd always go down the pub for a few sherberts, not fart around with cake anyway!
Yet another shouty but otherwise underemployed left-leaning gobshite seeks to inflict her narrow views on the world at large. When interviewed, the world at large said "fuck her: I'll have the chocolate one"
What tiresome scolds these people are. Bring back the ducking stool.
Double up the order for cream cakes then. In the age of New Puritanism eating unapproved calories is a rebellious action.
"Being around cake" is like passive smoking?
I thought passive smoking was wrong because it meant that non-smokers were breathing in the smoke, to the detriment of their health. Does cake-eating release calories into the air which are absorbed by everyone in the room? If so, we can at least sort out the problem of anorexia.
Scrobs - I like cake with coffee these days - double plus ungood I suppose.
Jannie - I bet she is socially well-connected too. They usually are.
dearieme - bring back words such as 'scolds' too.
DJ - I had a slice of delicious vegan chocolate tart with my coffee the other day - that should confuse them.
Sam - I'm sure that must be it. Airborne cake calories which are probably inhaled by unsuspecting victims. Of course volunteers could scoff the cakes quickly and reduce the danger to zero.
There is a joke in there somewhere if I was bright enough.
Something about having, inhaled, your cake and eating it.
Her worst nightmare must be being locked in overnight in a patisserie.
Oh, the horror.
She would emerge looking like a trans M. Cresote. Knowing that the merest suspicion of a hint of a whiff of a madeleine will cause her to explode.
In my final job, we had cake in the office nearly all the time, also made and brought in by me. I'm an offender! Again!
Doonhamer - maybe she wouldn't do a M. Creosote immediately, but would ruthlessly deny herself a single forbidden calorie until a few minutes before opening time - then she realises it's a bank holiday...
Tammly - home-made cakes feel more innocent than bought ones. I remember scoffing absurd numbers of my mother-in-law's mince pies.
Sam - I misread your comment as 'being a round cake', with a vision of Ms Roly-poly at work, for whom the toilet door had to be widened!
LR has something on this.
Ed - reminds me of the Roly Polys on TV. A dance group if I remember rightly.
James - I know, it's a gift for bloggers, but there are so many now.
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