Ooh go on...just a small one: Surely this can't be the Google diet?

If Twitter rumours are to be believed, then the picture to the right, as the caption too claims, was snapped at Google’s cafeteria.

But I’m a little skeptical (for once!).

Not because Krispy Kreme Cheeseburgers (...with bacon) would be too un-American for such a latter-day Silicon Valley stalwart and Wall Street darling. The food fits the national stereotype perfectly.

But rather because such a calorific treat seems at odds with other messaging out of Google.

Take Google's privacy chief Peter Fleischer who in a 2007 letter to the FT criticised the neck-tie - of all things - because:

“…it acts as decorative camouflage for the business suit, designed to shield the middle-aged male physique, with its shrinking shoulders and protruding paunch, from feeling sufficiently self-conscious to hit the gym.”

Fleischer went on to say:

“Men should lose their "business attire" and wear T-shirts to work. Wouldn't you like to know whether your business partners are fit? Why should you trust a man in business if he abuses his own body?”

I’d settle for just knowing my business partners aren’t eating Krispy Kreme cheeseburgers every day.

“Bacon with that?”

“Why the hell not…”