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Each year around early November, office
break rooms around the country turn into Willy Wonka’s Site B. One possible
explanation is that deals were cut with the chocolate magnate to store all of
the candy that couldn’t fit in the Chocolate Factory proper until room cleared.
Another possible explanation? A more likely one? The candy influx is the result
of health-conscious parents trying to keep kids from eating their weight in
Halloween candy.
The thing is, Halloween rolls into Thanksgiving which then rolls into
Christmas, each holiday bringing more and more treats. All the while, fitness-focused
parents are siphoning sweets off from their kid’s stash and leaving them in the
break room for adults to gorge themselves on. This never-ending supply of free
candy makes every trip to the water cooler or microwave an extreme test of
self-control. This dance occurs every year, but this year I discovered a new
wrinkle.
