Above the desk was a shelf with a dictionary, a thesaurus, some packets of restaurant sugar, an electric kettle, a stack of blue and white cups and saucers, a tin of shortbread biscuits and a box of Twinings English Breakfast tea.
And don't forget to fill your pockets with packets of sugar.
This week, it introduced ads showing a man drinking packets of sugar.
"Go get 'em," said Will Dixon, as he peered across cups, packets of sugar and stirrers at Girardi.
Their room, near Kennedy Airport, was cluttered with empty plastic cups and discarded packets of sugar and salt.
A 12-ounce soda has 150 calories and the equivalent of 10 packets of sugar, according to the health department.
"In Venezuela, you go to school for 10 years and get two degrees, for what, two packets of sugar?" she said.
Imagine pouring packets of sugar into a glass of tea, said Dr. Herbert S. B. Baraf, managing partner of Arthritis and Rheumatology Associates in Maryland.
* "Sweet 'N Low is made in Brooklyn," he says, eyeing the packets of sugar substitute on the table a few minutes after he is seated.
"This will have no impact on a large cup of joe, unless more than four packets of sugar are added," said Samantha Levine, a city spokeswoman.
The anti-sugar campaign is blitzing the airwaves with public service announcements, including a television commercial that shows a man eating 16 packets of sugar – the amount, the ad states, in a large soft drink.
