Don’t let them eat cake!
When Katie Mulligan baked a beetroot cake for her colleagues at a London advertising agency, she was focused on getting the recipe right NOT whether it was acceptable to bring treats into the office. With a passion to bake and cook, Mulligan says her cakes help colleagues beat the afternoon slump – and beetroot (carrot cake made with beets) is a relatively healthy option. If you work in an office, you know the drill. It’s someone’s birthday and the unwritten rules mean a fellow employee or a generous boss supplies cake for all. But is it time to kick the cupcakes? England’s Food Standards Agency chairwoman Professor Susan Jebb compared being around bakery in the office to passive smoking. She said: “If nobody brought cakes into the office, I would not eat cakes.” Speaking in a personal capacity, she said workers should stop testing the willpower of colleagues.
Lou Walker, who authored a report on office cake culture, said that sweets were becoming an everyday occurrence and was “no longer special. [It] comes from a place of generosity and kindness, wanting to share,” she said. “There’s something very important about sharing food with colleagues. It is a rare workplace that breaks the tradition and supplies a fruit platter. And who wants to be known as the one staff member who brings in healthy nuts rather than chocolates as they regale colleagues about their weekend in Switzerland?”
Speaking on BBC Breakfast, Doctor Wall said: “It does feel like we’re trying to control everything. At the end of the day you’ve got to have a little bit of willpower.” “But because people do bring cakes in, I eat them. Now, OK, I have made a choice, but people were making this choice as bad as going into a smoky pub.” Parliament published a report that said 25.9% of adults in England were obese and a further 37.9% were overweight, citing a 2021 survey. The United States ranked highest in the world for obesity levels with 43%, the report added citing OECD Health Statistics, while Britain as a whole, not just England, was at 28%. Prof Jebb, who is on the Times Health Commission, expressed frustration that after a year-long study by the paper into the future of health and social care in the UK, the government still delays the introduction of limits on TV junk food advertising.
Cake Culture Corrupted me
Life is like a box of donuts.
It doesn’t last long if you’re fat.
I was in Navy boot camp and the food was not at all like at home. Mostly I ate all the snacks and glasses of milk. One day I went through the chow line and all I had was a big piece of cake on my tray. One of the cooks eyed that and asked, “Would you like two pieces of cake, sailor?” I eagerly said, “Yes.” With that the cook leaned over, took his knife and cut my cake in half.
My sister decided to go on a diet. The first evening she phoned me, I could tell her mouth was full, so I asked her what she was eating. “A doughnut,” she mumbled. “I just got on the scale and it said 149 1/2 pounds. I decided it was no place to start a diet, so I’m rounding it off to 150.”
The wedding was so romantically beautiful,
Even the cake was in tiers.
April 10th Birthdays
1984 – Sophia Carson, 1988 – Shea MItchell, 1993 – Daisy Ridley, 1995 – Mandy Moore
1975 – David Harbour, 1937 – John Madden, 1996 – Ian Nelson, 1989 – Charlie Hunnam