Subcultural engagement for the 21st Century...
Barbelith is a new kind of community (find out more)...
You can login or register.

Barbelith snapshot: What did you have for lunch?

Page: 1(2)3

Sekhmet

19:05 / 22.10.04

Si, senor, cilantro y coriander - same thing.

I had a mozzarella and sundried tomato pesto sandwish with spring greens on whole wheat, with a side of chips and very garlicky salsa, and an iced mocha.

I want nightclub dwight's leftovers...

HCE

20:19 / 22.10.04

Lunch today was a properly cooked linguine (not mushy, what a miracle) ruined by a mediocre sauce that couldn't decide if it was a cream sauce or a tomato sauce. I'm not ashamed that people heard me tell it to make up its mind.

Busigoth

20:23 / 22.10.04

yummy crawfish etouffee over rice, tasty salad (black olives [Greek], genoa salami, some kind of mild pepper whose name I can't spell having heard the name for the 1st time today, cheese) & a chocolate-chip cookie for dessert - all free courtesy of a drug rep (& people wonder why medications are so expensive in the U.S.)

Baz Auckland

22:00 / 22.10.04

I've eaten the same thing for lunch for almost...10 years now: 4 'Peanut Butter and Nutella' sandwiches. It's never occured to me to experiment with lunchtime, although dinners are much better.

w1rebaby

23:19 / 22.10.04

Some strange deep-fried filled stick things and dips, which were okay though a little overcooked, and half a large Reuben sandwich with coleslaw. And two pints of beer. (American 16oz pints rather than British 20oz pints.) It was my last day at work, and I was taken out by one of my co-workers.

The other half of the sandwich I took away with me, put in the fridge and forgot to bring home. Duh.

Alex's Grandma

00:00 / 23.10.04

Fridge; If there's one thing that's wrong it's dishonesty.

You ate that man's mind, didn't you ?

Alex's Grandma

00:16 / 23.10.04

Also, man, a word to the wise - Sooner or later the families start hiring private detectives, y'know ?

Billuccho!

00:36 / 23.10.04

I went to Wendy's. Single classic hamburger! Fries! Pepsi! It was delicious. And quite possibly the third time I've ever been to Wendy's.

Spaniel

11:01 / 27.07.05

God, I haven't been to Wendy's in years. If I remember correctly you could customise your own burger.

Brilliant stuff.

Annnyway, I've just eaten a rather interesting salad box from the amazing "Bills" (a second store is soon to open in the North Lanes. Get down there fellow Brighton 'Lithers). Why was it interesting? Well, the cracked wheat salad, whilst stuffed with chillies, tomotoes, olives, kidney beans and other unidentifiable, but very tasty, ingredients seemed to be flavoured with something akin to white spirit. Now, this wasn't immediately disconcerting, as Bills' salads regularly contain weird and whacky ingredients (the homemade colslaw in today's salad contained blackberries), it was very odd.

So does anyone know what the mystery flavouring could be?

Sax

11:06 / 27.07.05

People.

Spaniel

11:07 / 27.07.05

Alcoholic people?

Ariadne

11:25 / 27.07.05

Emm, maybe there was fennel in there? Not knowing what white spirit tastes like, I imagine it being sort of aniseedy, or like fennel.

Since the thread's been resurrected - I had homemade veg pate and lettuce sandwiches and a bag of crisps.

Sax

11:30 / 27.07.05

I had a ham and emmental cheese club sandwich from Boots, an Innocent smoothie and a mango yoghurt thingy. And now I'm going to have a fag and a cup of tea.

Jack Vincennes

11:32 / 27.07.05

I left my sammiches at home, so had to resort to Sainsbury's bean tortilla, which is a lot nicer than it sounds. Also bought Nutrigrain bars earlier in the week, because I remembered liking them in high school, presumably because I went to high school in an alternate universe where Nutrigrain bars aren't rough as shit. So I'll be having one of those later to try to finish the box. Bleurgh.

Loomis

12:01 / 27.07.05

Lentil and vegetable soup that I made the other night. Yum!

Axolotl

12:22 / 27.07.05

Salami sandwichs on wholemeal bread with salad made this morning with an apple & a packet of bacon flavour wheat crunchies, though I wish I'd had the spicy tomato flavour instead. I also had a piece of carrot cake from the local shop.

Kit-Cat Club

12:26 / 27.07.05

I had the £2.25 pot from Planet Organic with lentil bake, potatoes, grated carrot and couscous salad, and an apricot yogurt (separately of course), all jolly nice. I am regretting the chocolate bar I left in the shop though.

Loomis

12:29 / 27.07.05

Ah, Planet Organic. How I miss thee.

illmatic

12:31 / 27.07.05

Vegtable curry with rice and two aubergine fritters, from the canteen. Quite nice but far too many potatoes in my helping.

Ariadne

12:33 / 27.07.05

You can never have too many potatoes. What I'd give for a curried tattie right now...

Katherine

12:34 / 27.07.05

Hot sausage from tescos and very mature chedder, quite ad hoc but very very nice.
Debating whether to have something sweet to round it all off

doozy floop

12:35 / 27.07.05

Some sort of chicken fajita wrap from Tescos. It was grim. What I really want is a bag of chips and a battered sausage from the chippy down the road.

Evil Scientist

12:39 / 27.07.05

Homemade chicken sandwich with a little mayonaise and a good coating of Tobasco sauce. Plus an apple and a nectarine.

JOY NO WRY

13:00 / 27.07.05

Some of the fruit and nut and stale bottled water beside my computor. I think it might count as breakfast, though, seeing as I just got up. I'll update you all on my next meal.

haus of fraser

13:02 / 27.07.05

ahhh a toasted Onion Bagal with very strong cheddar, cherry tomatos, a handful of rocket salad and some finely chopped red onion. Yes it was delicious.

We have a big fridge at work which i fill at the start of the week with salad type things then i buy cheese, chicken, ham etc as I fancy it - saves me an absolute fortune and avoids sweaty plastic flavoured lunchbox food- it also helps that we have a Tescos on the street i work on.

Boboss didn't Wendys (home of the square burger) go bankrupt/ fold in the UK- I too remember Wendys trying to launch in the UK about 6-7 years ago only all to turn into McDonalds about a year later probably why you've not had one for a while... what do i care i'm trying to loose weight fer gods sake, so its probably a good thing its gone.

Yum cheesy oniony bagal salad sandwich...

haus of fraser

13:12 / 27.07.05

oh and i'm just about to eat a banana...

■

13:34 / 27.07.05

Cheese sarnie (brown bread), some plain yoghurt and a handful of dry roasted nuts. Wonder why I'm always so tired?

Spaniel

13:54 / 27.07.05

I imagine it being sort of aniseedy, or like fennel.

It weren't fennel. I knows me fennel, I does.

Copey, nahhh, I remember Wendy's from being a little un. Those square burgers always fascinated me, but it was the array of fillings that I want as an adult.

And, Phyre, I love spicy tomato wheat crunchies. They're the shit.

Alex's Grandma

14:52 / 27.07.05

Mexican chicken sandwich from the shop down the road. Which I sat and ate on my own, outside, in the rain.

Nobody approached me.

Psych Safeling

14:57 / 27.07.05

Some kind of tasty caribbean corn soup which actually looked like it was more calalloo-based (in that I couldn't actually detect any corn but there was a lot of calalloo). Large plate salad (lettuce, grated carrot, potato salad, pesto pasta spirals, tomatoes, cucumber, sweetcorn, sadly no alfalfa today) and a cold tuna steak with a tomato salsa.

Work canteen. Food superior to company.

I will now find out if there are any other 'Lithers at my work. I can't imagine Caribbean Corn Soup was served at any other canteens today. Unless Aramark has a uniform menu across all locations. I doubt it, if they move it around they can rotate the novelty hats and decorations.

Psych Safeling

15:00 / 27.07.05

ps Loomis, I don't know if you were talking about Nile Valley or not but that sure made me nostalgic. Mmmmm chicken khobz (?sp - it's been too long)

Olulabelle

15:02 / 27.07.05

I had the very odd sounding but utterly lovely comfort food which is half a can of Heinz tomato soup and half a can of baked beans, mixed together and heated.

And a granary roll.

■

16:15 / 27.07.05

half a can of Heinz tomato soup and half a can of baked beans, mixed together and heated

[Shudder]
As a certified tomatophobe, I need to lie down now.

Psych Safeling

16:42 / 27.07.05

I can only tolerate free speech up to a certain point. Homophobia - well, OK. Arachnophobia - kind of understandable. But tomatophobia? Sheeeesh, you're going a little too far there. I suggest you rein it in in my company (or I might pull a face).

Billuccho!

17:02 / 27.07.05

Wow, thread resurrection. I see I killed the thread last time we went through it... let's see if I can do it again!

Today: Two-day old slice of Domino's pizza and a l'il tuna sandwich. Coke w/ lime.

You British and your fancy eats. Humpho!

Page: 1(2)3

Add Your Reply