It's weird to see so much ink spilled about free food at Google, which is, in monetary terms, a pretty trivial perk. Compared to things like their generous 401(k) match, many 401(k) contribution options (pre-tax, Roth, after-tax), their health plan which includes an HSA that gets seeded with a chunk of free money each year, tuition reimbursement, and so on which probably adds up to an order of magnitude more dollar value than some coffee-encrusted meat. Yet, everyone talks about the food, maybe just because it's an unusual perk.