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Sax

11:26 / 22.10.04

I had a prawn and crab salad on brown and an apple Danish. Now I'm going to have a cup of tea.

What did you have/are having/are planning to have?

ONLY NICE THINGS

11:27 / 22.10.04

Salmon in hollandaise sauce (yellow!), assorted greens, a bit of waldorf salad and half a scotch egg. I'm not sure why. Oh, and a coffee/lemsip combo that I'm not sure I'd recommend.

Whisky Priestess

11:32 / 22.10.04

Frozen mediterranean vegetable pizza, because I have taken the day off work and am at home so don't have to live on sandwiches, hurray!

Sax

11:32 / 22.10.04

Did you have the other half of the Scotch egg yesterday or are you saving it for tomorrow?

And coffee and Lemsip! Should not exist outside of an ice-cream parlour, surely.

ONLY NICE THINGS

11:36 / 22.10.04

It's the danger of a catered office - you always think "yeah, I could have half a scotch egg on top of that. I mean, it's only *half* a scotch egg. That's like a diet food..."

■

11:51 / 22.10.04

A couple of mini naans with houmous followed by orange juice and caramel fingers. Balanced meal? whassat?

Ganesh

11:58 / 22.10.04

Haven't had lunch yet. Borborygmi all through my 1pm consultation, to the extent that I was eventually forced to apologise for my errant entrails.

Kit-Cat Club

12:00 / 22.10.04

6 oatcakes & hummus. I have a honey waffle for afternoon sustenance also.

Ariadne

12:05 / 22.10.04

I just went to Black Bo's, a (semi) veg restaurant, and got bought lunch. I had baked veg haggis to start and then a sort of burger thing. It was gorgeous, so I should have paid more attention.

Mourne Kransky

12:06 / 22.10.04

"4 shot" of espresso from stall at Victoria. Packet of ten thin slices of chicken breast from Safeway's and a wee pot of prawn mayo. Less than 2 carbs in the lot.

Axolotl

12:11 / 22.10.04

I've just been to a the pub where I had a pint and a sausage baguette with some chips. Not bad and it beats my normal lunch of a sandwich eaten at my desk.

sleazenation

12:18 / 22.10.04

Didn't have lunch, had breakfrast instead (I tend to do one or the other, seldom both) - The breakfast was a bit of a result of a boozy evening last night and consisted in two bacon rolls and a choccy doughnut- necessarily unhealthy.

iamus

12:28 / 22.10.04

I've not been able to eat anything yet, and when I do it'll be something shit, no of yer sausage whatjamacallits and prawn mayos.
I'm hungry, but that's OK, 'cause I just realised my sister ate ham and cheese sandwiches. On mouldy bread. Tee Hee!

ONLY NICE THINGS

12:39 / 22.10.04

Oooh - the veggie haggis at Black Bo's. Deee-licious.

_Boboss

12:54 / 22.10.04

i'm currently enjoying the same lunch i always do - half a baguette stuffed as full as you can get with tomatoes, baby spinach leaves and seriously strong chedduh. every single day i'm surprised by how happy this taste sensation makes me. cheaper than chips too.

Squirmelia

12:59 / 22.10.04

A sandwich consisting of two slices of wholemeal bread, mature cheddar cheese, cherry tomatoes, iceberg lettuce.
An apple.
A can of Pepsi Max.

lentil

13:10 / 22.10.04

Lunch has been a bit difficult for me today due to the size of a hangover I'm nursing. Had a bacon sandwich with salad, fell asleep on the sofa for an hour and awoke just in time to run to the bathroom and regurgitate the whole thing. I'm going to try some soup next, something bland out of a tin.

_Boboss

13:13 / 22.10.04

must have been the 'with salad' that did it.

lentil

13:32 / 22.10.04

Well, the salad was the least digested element when it came back up so there may be something to that.

Spaniel

13:58 / 22.10.04

I've just had my zillionth salad box from Bills. Same as it ever woz - fucking brill.

In today's box: An assortment of supersweet tomatoes (plum and cherry)with fresh herbs, a lump of homemade coleslaw with dried apricots and nuts, herby salad leaves (fresh mint!), and a spicy bulga wheat salad with chickpeas.

Healthygood.

Loomis

14:13 / 22.10.04

I strolled down the road to an East African takeaway and had an amazingly delicious lunch of felafel and homous with salad rolled in warm flat bread.

Timelord

14:19 / 22.10.04

"Gourmet" Peach & Apricot Yoghurt and a beef, cheese, tomato and raw onion sandwich washed down with a Cascade Premium lager (that's Tasmanian for non-Aussies)... it's FRIDAY!

ibis the being

15:25 / 22.10.04

I had leftover green curry chicken on whole wheat noodles, and slugged a bunch of water. I have a touch of hangover but it was a good lunch & still in my belly.

grant

15:54 / 22.10.04

Scavenging -- a bit atypical. Junk food, mostly, unfortunately. Helped a co-worker open a stubborn sardine can, got a mangled fish as payment. Donuts off the snack table. A bag of Baked Cheetohs (hot & spicy flavor!) someone found totally unpalatable. Trying to get off early to pick up the kid, you see - so working through lunch.

grant

16:05 / 22.10.04

Oooh - the veggie haggis at Black Bo's. Deee-licious.

Y'know, my parents just got back from Scotland and gave me a can of this. So far, I've been keeping on a shelf next to the can of smoked rattlesnake, as a kind of food curio. Is it actually decent?

alas

16:11 / 22.10.04

My "omelette" turned into scrambled eggs mixed with sliced homegrown! roma tomatoes, a little mozerella and some basil/oregano. I also had a slice of toast and now I'm eating something called "century sundae" icecream--vanilla icecream with oreo cookies and peanut butter. Very american, and, alas, yummy and fattening and waayyy more than 2 carbs...

Loomis

16:44 / 22.10.04

Y'know, my parents just got back from Scotland and gave me a can of this. So far, I've been keeping on a shelf next to the can of smoked rattlesnake, as a kind of food curio. Is it actually decent?

Not sure if you mean the meat or veggie version. I've never had the real thing but the veggie one is delicious. I've been told by those who've had both that they're fairly similar as there isn't actually that much meat/tripe in it anyway. It's mostly oats and spices and is kind of chewy and peppery.

Papess

17:10 / 22.10.04

Italian sausage & gouda frittata, made with some left over pasta and sauce.

It was good. It must have been, my boy ate it without a fuss.

*smiles*

iamus

18:08 / 22.10.04

Grant, haggis is great. But I can only vouch for the proper "boil in the bag/sheep's stomach" version. Canned might be nasty.

Alex's Grandma

18:29 / 22.10.04

What Meludreen said. I can't help but feel that the people responsible for canned haggis don't really have your best interests at heart.

I also had half a scotch egg for lunch today. Insofar as it was a case of " hold the egg. "

HCE

18:33 / 22.10.04

Wow. You eat entirely different things over there. What's Lemsip? Unfortunately, I do know what haggis is.

Lunch yesterday: gordita de milanesa sin cebolla, con crema, y una horchata from the Grand Central Market

(a round cornmeal cake, fried, sliced open, stuffed with refried beans, guacamole, tomato salsa, chopped breaded steak, lime juice, hot sauce, cilantro, with sour cream, hold the onions, and a glass of rice beverage)

It was delicious.

Lunch today: still considering the options

Haus of Mystery

18:35 / 22.10.04

Scotch eggs are a superior food-form. I had a girlfriend who made awe-inspiring scotch eggs, and i ate nothing but for a week.

Sax

18:35 / 22.10.04

Imagine if Alex and Haus had half each of the same scotch egg.

I mean. Imagine.

iamus

18:40 / 22.10.04

Dwight, Lemsip, unfortunately, is a lemony cold-remedy that you drink. It wouldn't mix well with coffee I imagine.

As for casting aspersions on haggis...

Pshaw! (Turns away)

■

18:41 / 22.10.04

...cilantro...
While I remember, UK folks, that herb our US cousins keep referring to by that name (and you always forget to look up) is coriander (also known as Chinese or Mexican parsley).

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