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unheimlich manoeuvre

17:25 / 27.07.05

%We have to defend ourselves, Jacques Chirac hates our food!%

I had spinach and ricotta pasta, of the cheap supermarket variety, on a bed of spinach leaves and *shock, horror* cherry tomatoes.

Technically I think that was dinner.

19:02 / 27.07.05

Nightclub Dwight, your lunches always sound divine. Do you make them yourself? Do you work from home?

I think you should post us a week long luch menu and then we can all eat as spectacularly.

19:15 / 27.07.05

Mmm. Just made up for crappy lunch with a huge bundle of asparagus lightly fried in olive oil and tooped with butter. Mmmmm fat'n'veg licious.

19:34 / 27.07.05

Today for lunch i did have a fry up which was nice. Then i did have a coke. I was still hungry so i had some toast.

I may have something different tommorrow but we'll have to see how it pans out.
My flatmate just told me that he had some game pate, bread, chicken & ham pie & a peach. He says it was nice.

It's nice when things are nice.

21:31 / 27.07.05

Sounds giid to me, you old bastard.

paranoidwriter waves hello

00:05 / 28.07.05

Whatever time the pain or my salivating mouth reminds me that I'm hungry, I usually go for something basic and quick, and I always seem to obsessively eat one or two "dishes" for weeks, sometimes even months at a time (like Inspector Gadget's wardrobe). Indeed, to my shame I am REALLY uncultured when it comes to food, as I'm a skint, lazy hermit who smokes, and as such, I also don't really enjoy the experience of eating out (though eating in is quite nice). At the moment my two main dishes are:

1) Houmous and Pitta - the other day, guy in the local shop who never usually speaks to me even shook his head and commented on my habit: "You like houmous, yes?")

2) Red (or "Sun-dried tomato") Pesto and Pasta (with a small knob of butter, if I'm lucky).

Even sadder, I once had to research and write a story which had food in it, much of which is based around a conversation between two men having a meeting in a Member's Cluban over an evening meal. Despite my best efforts, I shudder to think what readers might think of the actual "food" descriptions (etc), and as a loyal follower of Art and Story, I feel this is a very poor show on my part. Of course, compared to some in this cruel world, I'm lucky to eat what I do whenever I do. But earlier, as I began to salivate while reading this thread, it really struck home how I hadn't eaten since yesterday morning, and even worse, I haven't even heard of some of the things you've been eating for your lunches! Shame on me... (?)....Off to get some houmous!

11:56 / 28.07.05

Mmmmmm. A big, fuck-off BLT on ciabatta from the local deli. It's a classic for a reason.

The thing I love most about ciabatta is that I'll be able to taste it when I belch for the whole rest of the day.

12:02 / 28.07.05

One whole litre of smoothie.......lovely at the time and now feeling stuffed.

12:03 / 28.07.05

I had pretty much the same lunch today - veg pate sandwiches, today with jalapenos and cucumber. Not terribly exciting, I have to say. And I'm about to eat a banana.

12:14 / 28.07.05

The thing I love most about ciabatta is that I'll be able to taste it when I belch for the whole rest of the day.

Thanks for that.

Lunch today: prawn cocktail and prawn cocktail crisps stuffed into a cheesy bap. Unhealthy, delicious niceness.

12:16 / 28.07.05

Prawn cocktail AND prawn cocktail crisps? In the same roll? Intriguing.
Do you have chicken crisps with chicken, and, em, salt and vinegar with salt and vinegar?

ONLY NICE THINGS

12:21 / 28.07.05

Seven pounds fifty for a tuna and spring onion toasty? Headsick and rage...

12:22 / 28.07.05

Where were you having lunch? The Ritz?

ONLY NICE THINGS

12:25 / 28.07.05

The Goring.

12:25 / 28.07.05

Ariadne, to be honest I don't normally eat crisp sandwiches, but I do like 'em. Why did I choose prawn cocktail crisps in this case? Well, I happen to have eaten the sandwich before, so I know that the cocktail is rather more mayonnaisey than it is sweet. The crisps supplied both sweetness and crunch.

Haus, where were you eating?

12:31 / 28.07.05

Crisp sandwiches! They could have a thread all their own. I'm always a stickler for plain crisps in mine, with nothing else in there. And they're especially good in delicious Scottish burnt morning rolls.

Harrison Ford, in a battle suit, wheels for feet, knives and guns

12:33 / 28.07.05

Boboss you are so full of shit! You always eat crisps in your sandwiches, it's one of those wierd thing you have always done.
Remember when we were 5 at Eddie Workman's birthday and his mum gave you a ham & cheese roll? You punch Eddie in the face because he didn't have any chees crisps at his party. It's always me that has to sort out the aftermath of your crisp obsession. I'm sorry i havn't said anything before, this probably isn't the place, but i think you need help.

Today i made myself seafood Piaella for lunch. Fuckin' fantastic.AAAHHHHH the Spanish treat!

12:39 / 28.07.05

Mmm, paella crisps would be good...

Nothing sorts out a hangover like a roll and tomato with salt and vinegar crisps.

When out for lunch with Loomis's parents one day, I caught myself happily tucking chips (cause there were no crisps to hand) into my salad sandwich. Once I realised that this was hardly well-mannered behaviour, I stopped, but could hardly take them all out again, and so had to try and eat the sandwich without letting any chips stick out the sides.

12:40 / 28.07.05

OK, I'm boasting, but miso soup, seaweed salad, selected sashimi and a salmon and avocado roll. Followed by chocolate fondant with ginger ice-cream (I had to, I'm insufferable when I'm feeling virtuous). And no, I wasn't paying. Washed down with some green tea, which apparently cancels out food, anyway.

Harrison Ford, in a battle suit, wheels for feet, knives and guns

12:48 / 28.07.05

My enjoyable lunch now seems like a turd scoffing compared to that.

I WANT THAT GODDAMIT!

12:59 / 28.07.05

I've had lashings and lashings of green tea. But that's just as likely on an empty stomach.

13:42 / 28.07.05

I had this for lunch

Chirashi Sushi

Chirashi Sushi

13:48 / 28.07.05

Ariadne, I should point out that I have a hangover.

ORA ORA ORA ORAAAA!!

14:13 / 28.07.05

My lunch yesterday was what has been dubbed "the manwich" by my housemate: Turkish bread with a layer of cream cheese, then corned beef, sundried tomatoes, and cashews, with Danish blue cheese smashed and spread over "Australian" mustard on the top bit.

It was very good and I haven't needed to eat since. Probably needed lettuce or something, though.

14:21 / 28.07.05

Ariadne, I should point out that I have a hangover.
Still? The sandwich didn't cure it? That's a serious one.

14:22 / 28.07.05

Corned beef with sun-dried tomatoes?

The distinction between high and low culture smashed by a sandwich.

14:23 / 28.07.05

The sandwich went a long way to curing my hangover, but at my ripe old age they tend to hang around all day.

Harrison Ford, in a battle suit, wheels for feet, knives and guns

15:24 / 28.07.05

Boboss i think you'll find that a Rothmans & Caviar Sandwich is the true distinction of low & high culture.

FACT.

15:30 / 28.07.05

I WANT THAT GODDAMIT!

Rawfishburps. Now you ain't so jealous.

Tryphena Absent

15:31 / 28.07.05

Heinz Tomato soup and a sandwich. I'm simple folk.

19:01 / 28.07.05

Boots have one of their meal deals on at the moment, so I had a crayfish and roquet (rocket?) sandwich (which was less sickly than crab would have been, and for a mass-produced sammich, the lettuce wasn't limp), an actually tasty brownie (moist where a brownie should be moist, crunchie where it should be crunchy), and half a litre of freshly squeezed orange. For three quid! Bargain.

12:25 / 09.08.05

Today's was extremely nice indeed.

Goat's cheese sandwich with roasted red peppers and carmelised red onions on brown bread. And hand cooked salted crisps, all washed down with a smoothie.

Yum!

12:27 / 09.08.05

You posh bastard. I had a cheap and proletarian cheese sandwich. That, plus the hundred weight of dried fruit I've ate this morning, and I now feel a bit sick

13:36 / 09.08.05

You posh bastard.

Cost about £4, it's surprising what you find in Tescos these days. However I am now broke so the rest of the week will be homemade salads and stuff. Which could be just as posh depending on what I have in the fridge and cupboard.

[threadrot] However Google ads have come up with this lunchbox website, one thing I'm wondering is can an adult get away with owning one and I'm also mentalling beating myself up as I had one of the vintage ones as a kid and trashed it, it's worth money now! Argh!

Pooky Is Just My Pornstar Name

16:09 / 09.08.05

Today's lunch was utterly fabulous. I got the shish taouk plate from the middle eastern restaurant in the office building's food court. Juicy chunks of well cooked chicken, freshly cut from the rotating skewer thing-a-ma-jig. Mango salad (comprised of ripe mangoes, red, yellow, and green bell peppers, red onions, bits of tomatoes, and cilantro, served up in a sweet'n'spicy vinaigrette), Fatoosh salad (comprised of tomatoes, cucumbers, assorted bell peppers, red onions, parsley, sumac vinaigrette, and garnished with toasted pita chips), roasted potatoes, grilled vegetables (an assortment of bell peppers, aubergine, onions, courgette, carrot, and chayote), and of course, freshly made hommous. All for $10.00 CDN! And I still have left-overs! The portions are so huge that two people could have shared this lunch.

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