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I ate and reviewed every snack in our office kitchen
- illusive4080 2y agoI once bit into a lemon like that. It ate away some enamel on my teeth and they were sensitive for a few weeks. 0/5
- dekhn 2y agoWhen I lived near a pick-your-own apple farm I often ate 10+ apples a day. After about 5-6 my teeth would get sensitive. Couldn't stop eating them, though- wholly unlike a store apple: crisp, sweet, sour.
- Apocryphon 2y agoYou can’t compare the two
- happyopossum 2y agoBest / funniest lead-gen blog post I've read in ages. Bravo!
- haunter 2y agoIf you want something even more detailed than Cabel Sasser’s annual sanck and cereal showcase is something else https://cabel.com/2025/01/27/the-snacks-cereals-of-2024/ https://cabel.com/2025/01/27/the-snacks-cereals-of-2024/
- ortusdux 2y agoI'd also recommend the Mike and Tom Eat Snacks podcast. It's a master class in being entertaining while filling time. https://matescast.com/ https://matescast.com/
- FinnLobsien 2y agothis is who I look up to
- saagarjha 2y agoOh, clicking on this link when hungry was a mistake
- Twirrim 2y agoAt one stage pre-pandemic, someone with tongue firmly in cheek, produced a wiki page with details of all the meals you could make with the office kitchen snacks and equipment. I think that eventually got removed, because the snacks changed and it was no longer accurate. No one has had that dedication since.
- mikeshi42 2y agoI do recall doing the same - partially for myself to remember all the meal hacks coworkers gave me! Putting those packaged hardboiled eggs and seaweed snacks into shin ramen is still memorable to this day.
- FinnLobsien 2y agoI hope they got promoted
- neilv 2y ago> Everybody likes grapes. False. I've heard that some med students use grapes to practice stitches, and that is how I feel about grapes. Grapes are obviously not meant to be eaten by humans, and must serve some other, probably squeamishness-inducing, purpose.
- senectus1 2y agosome of us cant consume too much in the way of fruit.. FODMAP issues really limit your snacking and healthy snacking even more :-(
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- ZeWaka 2y agoWarm grapes, sure. FROZEN grapes? Ambrosia from the gods.
- khafra 2y agoI've seen grapes dropped in a bowl of vodka in the freezer, then strained out and put in a bowl after they freeze. Good way to make your co-workers chill out a little.
- Lammy 2y agoThey did Content Marketing on a grape
- erickhill 2y agoHe straight-up ate someone else's salad? "But the distribution is bimodal here because the massive upside is countered by a massive downside: You need to evade detection. Will you hide in the bathroom? Pretend you ordered the same thing? Eat it at your desk? Either way, you need to be prepared." Pro health tip: Don't eat where you perform waste removal functions.
- sneak 2y agoNormalize treating someone who steals someone else’s food in the workplace the same way you would treat someone who steals someone else’s medication or telephone.
- smlavine 2y agoThe photo made me think of a common thing at my workplace -- a conference/customer visit had too much catering, and the leftovers were deposited in the break room. They usually don't stay very long.
- 0_____0 2y agoI ate my co workers sandwich when I was 18 at my first job at a start-up. Sometimes you gotta fuck up to learn - I never did that again. If you eat your co-worker's sandwich twice, however... may satan take you
- porridgeraisin 2y agoWas it the moist maker?
- Suppafly 2y ago>Sometimes you gotta fuck up to learn - I never did that again. How did you not know to not eat someone else's food before your first job?
- 0_____0 2y agoDo you have brothers?
- bitpush 2y agoThat was a great read.
- rtpg 2y agoFruits are kind of amazing. A tasty apple cut up into slices is more delicious than more or less any concoction Mars & co. can come up with. Even more "gnarly" stuff like figs, eating them just generates such a positive reaction. And something like mango if you're lucky enough to live in places with it... If you don't have to deal with cutting it up, that's something amazing. Getting fruit from some farm way far off in the distance to me is a feat of logistics. I always feel a bit stupid about how I reach for convenient stuff because I don't want to take a 5 minute break to do a bit of prep and cleanup.
- Scene_Cast2 2y agoIn principle, I agree. However, I haven't had a tasty apple in ages - they're all way too sweet for my taste. I've been thinking about how modern fruit optimize for (among numerous other things) sweetness, and whether modern fruit are actually healthy in terms of glycemic index / glycemic load / etc.
- rtpg 2y agoMy SO is basically like "fruits _are_ filled with sugar" and they're not wrong. It feels pretty hard to make strong qualitative judgements on this stuff. Feels better than a snickers bar, surely? The only real thing that feels kind of easy to say is that any sweet drink is probably worse for you than just drinking water. Easiest diet in the world is to just never buy soft drinks, and the extra trick is to also not replace it with orange or apple juice.
- jwagenet 2y agoIt seems like fruit are preferable due to fiber, sugar content equal.
- aio2 2y agoWhile fruits are packed with sugar, eating fruit also comes with fiber. This extra digestion slows the intake of sugar into the bloodstream, and getting fat/unhealthy from sugar comes from to much of it going through the liver. Because you may have too much sugar at a time, the liver needs help from the pancreas, which secretes insulin to store the sugar, which makes you fat.
- echelon 2y agoIs Series A is the "office snacks" round? I assume you hire a catering service to stock the snacks and fridges, and that they work out deals with some vendor?
- KerrAvon 2y agoThe Cliff's Builders Bar (chocolate mint edition) is actually pretty good. This person has no taste.
- FinnLobsien 2y agoNope, mint and chocolate are great individually but intended to remain separate. Protein bars in and of themselves are questionable, but combined with an unholy combination of foods this product is bad.
- binarymax 2y agoThey’re terrible. Those things are for people who dont like food and just need to consume for energy.
- theultdev 2y agoIncredibly accurate. I hate eating and would eat one of those every morning for 2 years. You shovel it down and go about your day. Tastes and feels like you're eating mud, but who cares, only lasts a minute.
- jedberg 2y agoThis may not be the best for lead gen, but it's great for recruiting!
- aqueueaqueue 2y agoFunny article. Interesting product too. Disappointed that microwaved yesterdays fish is not reviewed. Social score: "No don't so it just go ahead and steal my lunch please!"
- FinnLobsien 2y agoNext time I do this I'll add "hardboiled egg from a ziploc bag"
- qingcharles 2y agoThe first startup I worked for had the usual free coffee, but the only food they offered was the entire salad drawer of the refrigerator filled with every candy bar imaginable. Refilled twice a day. Within a month of us moving into that building we'd all put on about 20lbs. Every coffee break was also candy bar time. We demanded they remove them all, for our own safety.
- FinnLobsien 2y agowhich one was your favorite though?
- a012 2y agoCandy bar. Because office coffee is mediocre
- qingcharles 2y agoI've worked from home for 20 years. Is office coffee still as horrible as it was? I thought startups all upgraded to $20,000 Clover brewing systems or something?
- WalterBright 2y agoBoeing coffee was MIL SPEC.
- ashoeafoot 2y agoRoasted to a standard in the cold war. MRE Jalapeno Cheese as snack!
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- swiftcoder 2y agoA bunch of them did, but they don't all maintain them to exacting standards over the long haul. If you want decent coffee out of one of those fancy grind-and-brew-in-place automatic espresso machines, they need to be deep-cleaned on a regular basis, and someone needs to be actively stocking good, fresh coffee beans...
- maxwellg 2y agoGrazing on leftover Forkable lunches is one of the great pleasures of going into the office now. I eat my regular lunch at noon. At three or four, I do a lap to see if there are any unclaimed leftovers from folks who didn't make it in. I might eat one right there, or hide it in the fridge to take home later. It's like a VC-funded loot box - will I get a sandwich? Some curry? Dim sum? The possibilities are endless.
- FinnLobsien 2y agoone time Doordash sent us someone else's order on accident. And THEN sent us our actual order. It was glorious.
- grg0 2y agoWhen their order was actually better than yours. I know the feel. You know it's wrong, but it was preordained.
- nektro 2y agohahahahaha great article and definitely a lead generator totally shocked how grapes managed to get a 5/5 on logistics though, theyre a nightmare
- FinnLobsien 2y agoseedless ones aren't
- rubzah 2y agoshilling for the grapes industry
- timbourcier 2y agoThat was a great use of my time - thanks for the entertainment
- FrustratedMonky 2y agoReally needs a scatter plot or something. A ranking. Was expecting something like an ELO rating.
- 0_____0 2y agoI learned recently that Elo isn't an acronym but the last name of its inventor, Arpad Elo. I also learned the Pilates (exercise) isn't a reference to Pontius Pilate or something, it's the last name of Joseph Pilates. That's right, you have Joey Pilates to thank for those funky machines.
- vivzkestrel 2y agoNeeding to get up and go to the trash can should be +1 not -1. Anything that increases your trips to anywhere from your stationary office chair needs to get points to win
- throwing_away 2y agoThis was actually a great post and made me aware of your product for the first time. I eventually landed here: https://getlago.com/docs/guide/self-hosted/ https://getlago.com/docs/guide/self-hosted/ It would be nice if there was a feature matrix for self hosted premium vs open features, since that's the first thing self-hosted people are going to be looking for. Also, I'm looking at your Lever page, but no SWE roles are listed. Maybe if this post really does numbers, that'll be changing soon!
- dbl000 2y agoI think the comparison you're looking for is on the pricing page. https://getlago.com/pricing https://getlago.com/pricing
- FinnLobsien 2y agoHey! We actually are hiring for SWEs. We don't publish them because we want to make sure we can reply to everyone instead of getting thousands of applications. But HN has always been a great source so if you're interested in finding out more, feel free to email talent@getlago.com
- voidUpdate 2y agoGrapes: "No half-eaten evidence of prior gluttony remains. No trash is created. The perfect snack." Did they eat the stems too?
- rubzah 2y agoStems, a bowl to hold the grapes, somewhat sticky fingers, seeds (unless you get the engineered no-seeds variety). Yeah, can't vouch for the logistics of grapes.
- schwartzworld 2y agoHave you eaten grapes? They don’t make your fingers sticky, they have a decidedly non-sticky skin. Most of the varieties I see at the supermarket are seedless.
- rubzah 2y agoPicking them off the stem you might occasionally get some juice on the fingers. Not a big deal but more than you'd get from a Quest bar or something. Seedless is a lot more common in the US than EU, I think.
- tallanvor 2y ago> “Who does that guy think he is, eating bananas and all that?” said no one ever. The social score of the banana is fully neutral. Nobody has ever thought anything of anyone for eating bananas. As someone who cannot stand the smell or taste of bananas, I'll certainly judge you for trying to eat one near me.
- richrichardsson 2y agoI always find it fascinating to discover another banana hater; we are a vanishingly small minority.
- tkcranny 2y agoThere are dozens of us, dozens!
- dogman1050 2y agoOnly since I got COVID in 2022. That and sharp cheeses. I did pick up a taste for buffalo chicken though, which I previously found disgusting.
- tallanvor 2y agoI remember eating them as a young child and not hating them, but something changed and by the time I started college even the smell was nauseating to me. It's not as extreme a reaction as it used to be, but my stomach will still start turning after smelling them for a few minutes.
- internet_points 2y agohttps://www.politico.eu/article/sweden-equality-minister-paulina-brandber-banana-phobia/ https://www.politico.eu/article/sweden-equality-minister-pau... All rooms must be banana-free before the minister enters, according to new revelations.
- swiftcoder 2y agoThe last one absolutely sent me. Good job!
- alsoforgotmypwd 2y agoThis person has zero taste. The mint builder's bar is awesome.
- seafoamteal 2y agoThis is what corporate blogs should be, not SEO slop.
- amelius 2y agoMisses the best office snacks: (1) a handful of nuts, (2) a boiled egg.
- criddell 2y agoI like hard boiled eggs, but they are kind of stinky.
- BrandoElFollito 2y agoIt also depends how long you cook them.
- rsanek 2y agopretty negative social score on the boiled egg
- devilbunny 2y agoI love eggs, but the hard-boiled egg is the reason I didn’t eat them for 25 years or so. I know some do, and I wish I could be in your camp because they are so easy to find, but… no.
- randomcarbloke 2y agobeef jerky: "There’s a plastic bag to discard and one of those weird silica gel packets you can’t eat. I rate this 4 out of 5 because it creates plastic trash, but par for the course." olives: "Their wetness makes you unable to use your keyboard without washing your hands. Plus they produce pits, which need to be stored in an additional bowl. I love olives, but their logistics score would be zero." the two are in my eyes almost equivalent, you need to wash your hands after eating jerky, and it has (worse) waste, yet one scores much higher than the other.
- bisrig 2y agoFor some reason, my first thought when I saw this was to think back to this other recent post: https://www.scottsmitelli.com/articles/ideal-candidate/ https://www.scottsmitelli.com/articles/ideal-candidate/ I feel like these are linked in some hard to describe way.
- Havoc 2y agoFree beef jerky sure is a nice office snack. Stuff tends to be more pricey that most carb based snacks
- zelos 2y ago> If you want to make sure everyone believes you’re a sociopath, go ahead and have a straight up lemon. If not, don’t. Decided. I'm going into my next appraisal meeting and staring my manager down while eating a lemon like an apple.
- cassepipe 2y agoA bit of tangeant but I see that the beef jerky reads "No nitrates added*" with: "Except for that which naturally occurs in sea salt and celery powder" Now you may ask, why celery powder ? It turns out that in order to avoid adding "synthetic" (?) nitrates and to add "natural" ones, manufacturers add/boil products in celery extracts which contains a lot of nitrates. Ironically, the "natural" route can result in equal or even higher nitrate levels compared to traditionally cured products. From a chemical standpoint, your body doesn’t distinguish between synthetic and natural nitrates. Both can convert into nitrosamines under certain conditions (like high heat), which are compounds of potential health concern.
- jajko 2y agoYeah we frequently shop in France and I was ham 'without nitrate additives' for some time in naive effort to make food kids eat more healthy. Of course then there is 'natural celery extract'. Stopped doing that some time ago as per info I saw here and then in few articles, buying now just one with less salt (although considering cooking our own, its supposedly not that difficult and have a friend who does it). Sometimes road to hell is really paved with good intentions, or at least appearance of such. Having 0 doubt manufacturers know exactly what's going on, but they just find their profit within rules and expectations of society, consequences are for others to pick up.
- BrandoElFollito 2y agoThis is not always the case, see https://www.quechoisir.org/actualite-jambon-cuit-que-valent-les-jambons-sans-conservateurs-n44900/ https://www.quechoisir.org/actualite-jambon-cuit-que-valent-... (in French). Summary: a test of no-nitrate ham confirmed the claim. The test is done by one of the best known consumers magazine.
- jtxt 2y agoNice. I’m similarly spoiled for choice now. Past workplace: 1. Swiss Miss Hot chocolate mix 2. Starlight Peppermint Mints 3. Lemonade 4. Peanut butter For variety, I tried many combinations. Some: 1+3: bad, 1+2, 2+3: good, 1+4: awesome
- ratmice 2y agoNot the same a 3+4 but there are lemon roasted peanuts, I've not had them, but lemon roasted pistachio's are really good.
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- copypasterepeat 2y agoAn entertaining read, even if I disagree with a lot of the ratings. Bananas get 1/5 for logistics?! They are the perfect portable snack. Grapes are definitely not guilt free - most table grapes are way too sweet for my taste. I can eat a handful and then I am done. Also, there is a special place in hell for people who steal other people's lunches. That's one thing I could never understand. What's the thought process?!
- EvanAnderson 2y agoI've had no problem completing the "ate every snack in our kitchen" part. Reviewing them, though, is a level of dedication I don't have.
- FinnLobsien 2y agoIt's a labor of love