Meals and Snacks

Office drone #1: That's the thing about chicken, you never get tired of it.
Office drone #2: Well, some people do.
Office drone #1: Yeah, I do.

Charleston, South Carolina

Cubicle drone: Oh my gosh, I have cheese everywhere!

Raleigh, North Carolina

Office clerk: Woo! I got candy in *my* box!

Chattanooga, Tennesee

Overheard by: Wishing her box was as sweet

Coworker #1: (moans uncomfortably)
Coworker #2: What's wrong with you?
Coworker #1: I ate too much…at lunch, my hamburger was so big I had to close my eyes just to fit it in my mouth.

Toronto
Canadia

Office guy: I brought bars.
Office gal: Special K?
Office guy: No, they're not Special K because they don't have Special K in them. They have Rice Krispies. They are way better then Special K bars. Cause Special K is corn, and these are rice.
Office gal: I thought you would bring shrimp.
Office guy: Yeah, I said that.
Office gal: Yeah.
Office guy: And then I got the look of the death from Kay. So I brought these instead.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Overheard by: What kind of pot luck is this?

Faculty director, holding out banana: Would you like a banana?
Female program coordinator: Uh, no thanks, I'm all set.
Faculty director, holding out flowers: Well, maybe you'd like these instead!
Female program coordinator: Oh! That's so nice of you! Aw, you're off my bad list.
Faculty director: Wow, and I thought I would get off with just the banana!

Boston, Massachusetts

Overheard by: Allison

Man #1, discussing peanut usage in Asia: Peanuts are not native to Asia! The peanut was invented by George Washington Carver!
Man #2: That is completely false! You cannot invent a peanut, you can only discover it, and that happened way before George Washington Carver…he invented peanut butter.
Man #1: Listen, I am not a man of pride, but I know this much: George Washington Carver was a good man and he invented the peanut by using cross-breeding! This is what I have been told my whole life!!
Man #3: I'm googling that business right now. (uses BlackBerry) Wow, that man was obsessed with peanuts!

Boston, Massachusetts

Overheard by: Someone clearly struck a cord with this topic

Intern, after eating free coffee cake: This tastes like grandma.

Sacramento, California

Chubby cube-dweller to fit cube-dweller: I'm seriously considering buying a bag of Cadbury Eggs.

Portland, Maine

Overheard by: LiquidChicken

Plump coworker: Hey, what kind did you get?
Slender blonde coworker: I got some sort of nougat. What did you get?
Plump coworker: I got a fudgy!
Slender blonde coworker: What?

Overland Park, Kansas

Overheard by: huh?