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{{a|g|[[File:Sweeties 2.jpg|450|thumb|center|Thought I was joking about the squid-coated peas, did you?]][[File:Crystalline tamarind.jpg|thumb|center|450|Will not go off for months and months. Fact.]]}}''From the '''Archives of the Old Normal''' dept.''

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

Since we don’t get to ''see'' our workmates anymore, for fear of breathing on them, this seems to be yet another artefact we must consign to our late lamented bygone office lives.

However (literally) tasteless, these treats would lure a man, like the Sirens did Odysseus, as {{sex|he}} made his way from his desk to the printer. (The man, that is, not Odysseus, obviously, though the idea of a Homeric hero lashing himself to his mast as {{sex|he}} floats by the five-week-old dregs of a box of authentic Anatolian Turkish delight, does resonate).

In any case remorse, regret and guilt are 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.

 

 

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