Mitsokushi Rice Crackers and the V Tea Room

It's been a very eventful day for carbohydrates.

We had a visitor from Tokyo today who kindly dropped off a box of Mitsokushi Rice Crackers for our office, a box which now has found its way into my desk drawer and has indicated its willingness to stay.

Then at 5 pm, a young lady from The V Tea Room "just happened to drop by" with the 5 tins of cookies that I accidentally ordered last week over the phone, and about 20 tiny little tins of samples, 3 tubs of liquer barrel cakes, the most gorgeous catalogue I've seen on this side of the planet. To cut a long horrifying story short, she let us sample everything. Every last tin. With a running commentary on ingredients, freshness, 'best served' directions and most wicked of all, her sworn assurance that every single cookie was in fact so fat-free and sugar-free and calorie-lite that we would lose more calories chewing each cookie than we would gain by consuming it. Would also lose additional calories if we looked around the room while chewing. God forbid I should work myself to the bone just making it through the 5 tins I already have.

In order to help me lose more weight, I took the whisky-baileys-kahlua-and-dark-chocolate liqueur barrel cake off her hands as well. Cheaper than a gym membership, and I'll probably make use of it a lot sooner! Oh crap there is chocolate on the keyboard.