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There are many things we love here around Gawker HQ, but none make us feel quite so full of joy as do accounts of New York's media elite behaving like dirty little children. Today comes one such item from one of our most beloved venues in all of Manhattan, the Conde Nast cafeteria:

Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 12:19:48 -0400
From: Beleagured Conde Minion

Remember when si newhouse was caught eating the edamame with his hands straight out of the salad bar at conde nast caf ? Well I just witnessed him do it again, this time with the cherry tomatoes. Thank GOD I served myself some BEFORE he dug his hands in. ugh!

Oh, S.I. — haven't we already talked to you about being so grabby at the salad bar? No wonder the joint got such an iffy score from the health department — that's minus 10 points for exposure to old man germs.

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