Food Day at the Office

In a few days the team in my office will continue its long standing monthly tradition of gorging themselves into a foodinduced stupor on over processed junk foods, sugar laced deserts and main dishes saturated with butter, cheese and salt with an obligatory salad.

The delightfully fat infused carb filled menu will be prepared by unknown hands in unbeknownst locations. It is feasible that some locations may contain kitchens full of mischievous fur balls known as cats, enthusiastic dogs with eager tongues, and unwashed roaming fingers of pesky children and other household pests that may tamper with otherwise edible food. Other locations the dishes are prepared in will undoubtedly be done so in filth by soiled utensils and hands, taste tested and blended all prior to our consumption at work.

As these splendid dishes are gloriously spread for your enjoyment, they are once again put through the gauntlet of scrutiny. They are poked, prodded, jabbed, sniffed, and sometimes picked through before it finally makes it way to your plate for your ravenous enjoyment.

Beneath the thick layers of sauces and dips blending harmoniously into a glorious obscene medley, is the carefully constructed dish. The food, is then greedily ingested until satisfaction.

After the frenzy ceases and the remaining remnants of food become scarce, you will see regretful coworkers shaking their heads in disdain as they hold their swollen bellies. The grumblings of overfed, underpaid office staff can be heard bellowing inside cramped bathroom stalls.

And why do we do this? Why does this tradition live on in American offices all across the country?

Who turns down free food…..