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This is exactly why Google needs a gossipmonger on the premises for Google Press Day — to investigate hard-hitting tips from readers like this (links mine):

I went out to dinner yesterday with some Google friends and apparently their famous free snack selection has been pared down considerably...there are a bunch of email threads going on internally about it. I don't work for them, I can't confirm.

Was it the expense, or the embarrassment of an engineering team with love handles? Send background or photographic evidence to tips@valleywag.com.