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Google is known for providing their employees with lots of perks, including good food for lunch. The Google cafeteria is quite well known at this point, offering everything from childhood favorites to top quality gourmet entrees. It is safe to say that prepacked sandwiches on either stale or slightly mushy bread will never make their way into the mouths of Google employees during lunch time.

If you're curious as to what exactly the Google employees are eating on their breaks, take a look over at the Google Food Photo Blog, a collection of snapshots that chronicle the continually impressive eats at the tech company. Breakfast or dessert might be house-made yogurt and house-made granola, while lunch could be anything from Baby Bok Choi Sandwiches with mushrooms and a baby beet salad to kebabs and naan with mango lassi.

You might not want to check it out before your own lunch break, though, just in case you decide that suddenly your own lunch looks a lot less impressive.

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I love Krispy Kremes, bacon and burgers, too, but I've never tasted the abomination, er, delicacy, pictured here. But only because until today, I didn't know any place nearby to sample this artery-clogging, waist-broadening wonder. After all, I ate a hot, unglazed Krispy Kreme for an article I wrote about the company years ago. I wouldn't recommend it. Talk about heart-stopping.

If I lived anywhere near a certain minor league baseball park or was friends with a certain R&B vocalist, I'd surely have tried one of these things by now. This miracle of modern griddle work is now being served at Google's New York City cafeteria. Now all I need to do is find a good cardiologist and get a job with Google.

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Have you ever had an IT'S IT ice cream sandwich? The all-caps treat has been a San Francisco favorite for almost 80 years. It sandwiches a scoop of vanilla ice cream between two soft oatmeal cookies, and the whole thing is dipped in chocolate, making one of the finest ice cream sandwiches you can buy.

The version that you can't buy is even better, though.

Google had their chef, Nate Keller, work with IT'S IT to make a trans-fat free version that is all natural and made with locally sourced ingredients. This Google version went on sale is free in the employee cafeteria, complete with Google logo on the wrapper.

Perhaps we'll all get to sample this new version in the future, but for now we'll have to content ourselves with the classic. You can order them online from the factory, and get overnight delivery anywhere in the US. If you can get ahold of them and you ask nicely, maybe the Google cafeteria would be willing to ship their version, too.

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I was Googling a few recipes when an unexpected thing came up on my screen: new search boxes. As you can see from the screenshot above, Google has created a neat way to search for recipes by ingredient and cuisine.

It turns out that this is just an updated version of Google Base, which Andrew mentioned some months ago when the program was still in its infancy. I didn't find this feature to be nearly as helpful as Cooking with Google. My search for "beef" and "american" gave me a bunch of links to Epicurious, so it really would have been more useful to go right there, while "beef" and "usa" turned up results from www.fooddownunder.com for some reason.

The problem is that, even though there is an option to search by "course," you can't really narrow your options down at all. The "ingredient" category is limited to one option and it is one of a preset drop-down menu. All things considered, the system needs a lot of refinement to make it user friendly. And to set it apart from existing resources, they might want to consider indexing less-accessed sites that have a lot to offer, such as food blogs.

As if we didnt have reason enough to love/hate the infinite empire, Google, the company's headquarters in Mountain View has opened Cafe 150 to feed its droves of employees.

Google has taken corporate cafeteria's to the next level by providing healthy, organic, non-cafeteria-ish food in a cafeteria setting. Service is still on trays. Head Chef Nate Keller named the cafeteria "150" because he is dedicated to sourcing ingredients for everything on the menu from within 150 miles of the Google campus. It is google's way of supporting the ideas of sustainable, local, and organic that is so important to the Bay Area food culture. Chefs are encouraged to be creative with menus, which may have up to 100 different recipes a day.