Code Orange

Posted by: Michael Orey on October 12

Orange you glad I didn’t have a banana?

Working from home might seem to offer an ideal opportunity to assemble creative and wholesome meals from the plethora of ingredients in one’s pantry and fridge. More often that not, though, I’ve found it leads to impulsive grazing, and that the combination of foods ingested around the noon hour ends up being rather horrifying. Above is my “lunch” from Friday. No, I did not pick out the Doritos and think they would pair nicely with the Honey Nut Cheerios; those were sequential impulses driven by craving (Doritos) and then a need for a speedy supplement (Cheerios). As for my choice of beverage, well, the carrot juice just happened to be in front of the cider in my refrigerator. How did it happen that everything I consumed was orange or in orange packaging? The subliminal influence of the pervasive Halloween promotions, I suppose.