Treasure chest
May. 6th, 2010 01:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
todayiamadaisyEvery year, my boss and one of my colleagues do the rounds of the medical careers expos, spruiking* the virtues of general practice (and in particular, general practice in our region). A few years ago, our marketing guru came up with a sun and surf theme (as in, 'be a doctor here and you can go to the beach every day!'). I don't know how successful that was. Anyway, to fit in with the theme, my boss decided to buy (or, possibly, steal from his children) a toy pirate's chest and fill it with chocolates. This is the [COMPANY NAME] Treasure Chest, and we are, apparently, famous for it. Well, famous within the circles of people who set up stands at medical careers expos.
Anyway, when it's not starring at medical careers expos, the treasure chest lives on a coffee table in the reception area, where it is constantly stocked with mini chocolate bars for the enjoyment of all comers. It's interesting to see what's popular and what's not. The Cherry Ripes** are always the first to go; the Crunchies*** are the last, with the Time Outs and the Boosts somewhere in the middle. That sounds about right to me.
I said I had to pick up some stuff at the supermarket yesterday lunch time, so Leeanne gave me some money from the petty cash tin and entrusted to me the duty of buying some chocolates to top up the treasure chest. Such responsibility! I decided on a bag of Fantails (toffees covered in chocolate with trivia about movies on the wrappers). Putting them in the chest, I felt briefly sorry for the last, sad Crunchie and ate it and I swear I could feel my teeth fizzing the way the Crunchie does when you bite it.
* spruik (-oo-) v.i. & t. (Aust. sl.) speak in public, used esp. of showman; advertise, sell; ~'er n. speaker, salesman, showman. [orig. unkn.] (I saw from the spell check's hissy-fit that I had used an unfamiliar Australian term.)
** Check out the chocolate people on the Cadbury home page. At one point in the ad, the chocolate son takes a bite out of a chocolate dog that's barking at him. That's just wrong. It's also interesting that the people are chocolate and yet they are apparently meant to be white, with blond hair and blue eyes. I'm not sure what to make of that.
*** That wikipedia page claims that the Violet Crumble is similar to the Crunchie, which is in no way true. Well... it is a bit true, but Violet Crumbles are much nicer.
Anyway, when it's not starring at medical careers expos, the treasure chest lives on a coffee table in the reception area, where it is constantly stocked with mini chocolate bars for the enjoyment of all comers. It's interesting to see what's popular and what's not. The Cherry Ripes** are always the first to go; the Crunchies*** are the last, with the Time Outs and the Boosts somewhere in the middle. That sounds about right to me.
I said I had to pick up some stuff at the supermarket yesterday lunch time, so Leeanne gave me some money from the petty cash tin and entrusted to me the duty of buying some chocolates to top up the treasure chest. Such responsibility! I decided on a bag of Fantails (toffees covered in chocolate with trivia about movies on the wrappers). Putting them in the chest, I felt briefly sorry for the last, sad Crunchie and ate it and I swear I could feel my teeth fizzing the way the Crunchie does when you bite it.
* spruik (-oo-) v.i. & t. (Aust. sl.) speak in public, used esp. of showman; advertise, sell; ~'er n. speaker, salesman, showman. [orig. unkn.] (I saw from the spell check's hissy-fit that I had used an unfamiliar Australian term.)
** Check out the chocolate people on the Cadbury home page. At one point in the ad, the chocolate son takes a bite out of a chocolate dog that's barking at him. That's just wrong. It's also interesting that the people are chocolate and yet they are apparently meant to be white, with blond hair and blue eyes. I'm not sure what to make of that.
*** That wikipedia page claims that the Violet Crumble is similar to the Crunchie, which is in no way true. Well... it is a bit true, but Violet Crumbles are much nicer.