We can relate to the oral fixation that plagues reporters. As we all know, smoking stimulates brain function which is why so many reporters smoke (or used to smoke) while writing. Now that smoking has been officially deemed unhealthy, reporters are having to find new ways to satiate the oral fixation. Some suck lollipops while writing. Others, as with this Associated Press reporter on the NASA beat, find ways to incorporate food and kitchen metaphors into their stories. From "Astronauts Spackle in Space":

The main job of Discovery astronauts Michael Fossum and Piers Sellers, squeezing out putty-like sealant and patting it down, went slowly as bubbles kept appearing in the peanut butter-like material designed to fix cracks in the shuttle's delicate heat shield.....Sellers provided a bit of excitement when the spatula -- about the size of a normal kitchen tool -- he used to spread the sealant disappeared when he wasn't looking.

Our mouths are watering just thinking about the peanut buttery goodness.