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The obscure tropical fruit, digestives, ''Ferrero Rocher'', peanut brittle, unidentifiable gelatinous fruit, dates and the dry and tasteless Asian delicacies that colleagues  bring back from business trips and vacations, by way of guilt, to appease their moribund desk-bound workmates.
The obscure tropical fruit, digestives, ''Ferrero Rocher'', peanut brittle, unidentifiable gelatinous fruit, dates and the dry and tasteless Asian delicacies that colleagues  bring back from business trips and vacations, by way of guilt, to appease their moribund desk-bound workmates.


[[File:Squid coated peas|300px|thumb|left|Thought I was joking about the squid-coated peas, did you?]]
[[File:Sweeties 2.jpg|300px|thumb|left|Thought I was joking about the squid-coated peas, did you?]]
However (literally) tasteless, these treats lure a man, like sirens did Odysseus, as {{sex|he}} makes his way from his desk to the printer. (The man, obviously, not Odysseus, though the idea of Odysseus struggling to get to the printer, lashing himself to the mast of his boat as {{sex|he}} floats by the five-week-old dregs of a box of authentic Anatolian Turkish delight, is appealing. Remorse, regret and guilt is assured. I don’t know how many squid-coated dried green peas I’ve had, but it’s a lot, and I have not enjoyed a single one of them.
However (literally) tasteless, these treats lure a man, like sirens did Odysseus, as {{sex|he}} makes his way from his desk to the printer. (The man, obviously, not Odysseus, though the idea of Odysseus struggling to get to the printer, lashing himself to the mast of his boat as {{sex|he}} floats by the five-week-old dregs of a box of authentic Anatolian Turkish delight, is appealing. Remorse, regret and guilt is assured. I don’t know how many squid-coated dried green peas I’ve had, but it’s a lot, and I have not enjoyed a single one of them.