Oh God Look At All The Crap Our Office Ate This Week
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<br/><br/><em>The Silver Table Of Sin has <a href="http://gothamist.com/2013/02/26/is_your_office_filled_with_unhealth.php">become legend</a> at Gothamist HQ, where each day new delectable treats mysteriously manifest on its shining, crumb-filled surface. For some, it's a welcome source of midday sustenance; for others, a hellscape paved with calories, sugar and soon to be manifested cavities.<br/><br/>Things get especially bad around holiday time when we're <strike>cursed</strike> blessed to have friends sending us baskets of treats and co-workers bringing in family dessert recipes. Here's a look at how the SToS stacked up this week, including boozy fruit cake, monstrous cookies and addictive salty croissant.</em>
<br/><br/>Monday was a doozy. We started off the week almost obscuring the table itself with the amount of boxes, tins and wrappers on top. <br/><br/>First was the huge box of doughnuts from Balthazar, including chocolate, pistachio and sugar-coated varieties. Then came dozens of homemade whole wheat chocolate chip cookies, which we decided were "healthy" despite their ridiculous butter content. <br/><br/>There were some Santa-shaped chocolates of unknown origin and also some leftover treats from the week before, including tasty/addictive peppermint bark (thanks <a href="https://twitter.com/scoboco">Scoboco</a>!) and some seriously boozy fruitcake.
<br/><br/>There was quite a backlash when we "failed" to include Levain Bakery and its ridiculously-sized cookies on our <a href="http://gothamist.com/2013/12/11/best_nyc_bakeries_dessert.php">roundup of best bakeries</a>; luckily, our friends at <a href="https://twitter.com/TrivWorks">TrivWorks</a> wouldn't let one percieved misstep go un-trolled and were kind enough to send us a massive box of massive cookies. <br/><br/>It took us three days but we triumphed over the heavy confections eventually!
<br/><br/>Beware the Pretzel Croissant from <a href="http://www.thecitybakery.com/">City Bakery</a>, for once you bite into these buttery, salty delightsâspraying seeds and flakes all over your deskâyou will never be able to get the taste of heaven out of your brain. You may go so far as to claim it's one of the <a href="http://gothamist.com/2013/12/18/best_food_nyc_2013.php">best things you've eaten</a>, this year and forever.
<br/><br/>Ahh the holiday gift basket, may you never, ever change. This one from <a href="http://www.newsinc.com/">NDN</a> was chock full of snacks like shortbread cookies, oat balls, lemon drops and chocolate bars. Don't mind if we do...
<br/><br/>We end where it all begin with our notorious Pizza Friday's. We had some staffers out this week and others who abstained from the cheesy goodness claiming they were "saving themselves for the office party later." We aimed for a reasonable two pies (it's usually between 4 and 6) from Juliana's (<a href="http://gothamist.com/2013/09/20/the_ultimate_pizza_debate_grima.php">natch</a>) but barely made it through one of them. Oh well, there's always next week!