16 servings of cheap pilsner last night? Attracted to a 6in. seafood sandwich you saw being ordered and need someone to talk to? This is what terrorizes our nations workers every day. It is ever-present, in the back of our minds riding on the train, up the elevator, in that meeting. But these are simply facets of the one great question. The answer to which must be provided before we can ever grasp contentment. What's for Lunch?
Have you ever been serious about your lunch? How serious? Did that line-cutter piss you and a few of your other line-mates off? What did you do about it?
Can you get as pissed off as George at the Oscars?
What lunch did you get serious about? Where were you and what happened?
Today I am getting pretty serious about my from-home-lunch. Just ’cause it is in a bag doesn’t mean it belongs in one … seriously.
So I’m eating lunch late because I’ve got a yoga class that doesn’t start until 7:45 & I don’t want to eat right before it, which means no dinner for me until like 10-10:30 (yoga class is very far from home). So I’m putting off eating lunch until I can stand it no longer.
I’m already about 45 minutes later than normal. Now the question is, will I be able to control myself & get a reasonable lunch, or will I go nuts? Hmmm . . . nuts . . . I have some almonds on my desk . . . . But back to the main point. Do you eat like a fiend when you eat late? Or is your tummy pretty chill about when you eat?
I’m debating bagel shop & sushi. Though I usually keep sushi for a special Friday treat. And I did just balance my checkbook and am appalled at how little money I have at the moment. I guess I should hit the bagel shop. Damn.
I’ve been working this POS hard, now the kids are SOL
I wish I would have been the educator who said, let’s call our standardized tests the SOL’s or the felloow who said, yeah, and we’ll address it with our POS. (Standards of Learning & Program of Studies)
So we’re about to test how well the kiddies can write. (they can’t) but this standardized test got me to thinking about lunch.
What is a standardized lunch? Does it depend on where you are? Like Watchdog going for something at Market to market, or Jo at SoHo, or Turtle at Boston Market? Or is it more of a go to menu item. Lil’ Miss’ ordering of a grilled cheese.
What do you think a standardized lunch is? What is your standardized lunch? What is for lunch today?
I was just getting into a nice routine of “early to bed, early to rise” when I made a huge error. I napped yesterday. It was a deep long restful nap. And last night I could not fall asleep.
So today I’m struggling, and I need to be productive.
So tell me what’s a good lunch to get my afternoon body and brain juices flowing.
Inspired by the wackiness contained in sports blogs at this time of year (specifically one this morning wondering “What If the Ravens Drafted Tim Tebow?”)… let’s play some Lunch What If?
To get you started:
What if you could have lunch anywhere in the world right now, what would it be?
What if one day you woke up and you suddenly realized you hated everything you loved and loved everything you hated (uh, let’s stick with food for this one - otherwise it’s a little mindblowing for this HaterTot to handle) - what would you have for lunch?
What if you could only eat one sandwich everyday for lunch for the rest of your life, what would it be?
So, answer these, or throw out some of your own, or do a little combo of both.
As today’s a Friday during Lent, and I’m not too cool for a little sacrificing in the name of JC, I’m keeping it meat free today. I’m seriously considering a filet o’ mcfish. Okay, that’s a lie. I have fish sticks in my freezer, which I’m probably going to get after here in a few.
It seems like we are slow to get started with posting and habits around here. I totally understand. So I am taking this one. Today, I am eating at Market Grill. They have a pretty decent seared tuna steak sammy and their fries are like the auld-skool Micky D’s fries (if anyone remembers them).
That said, I feel sorry for Ro… it is her favorite thing to eat and she can’t have it because she is pregnant with our first kid. Nearly 3 months and I have pictures to prove it.
Y’all ever heard of an Automat? They were supposedly popular in Philly and NYC in and around the 50’s. They were these cafeteria style places where you plunked some change into this giant vending wall and you grabbed what was behind the little window, be that a slice of pie, or a sandwich or a bowl of soup or whatever they had cooked up for three nickles.
They probably created the idea of vending machines. But the Automat had a real short order cook churning out food in the back whereas a vending machine has nothing, but the dead, lifeless snacks that nobody else has settled for yet.
Yes, my lunch came out of a vending machine today. It is shameful. But I am no longer hungry, and my pocket stills some green paper in it. So it could be worse.
What do you think about eating a meal out of a vending machine? What if it’s one of those fancy vending machines, where it cooks you a pizza or Brews you a mocha-latte-chino? Have we covered this before? Probably, but not in the last year so I feel like this topic is once again fair game.
Maybe you’ve watched some Olympics. (obviously I’m not talking to you Hatertot) Maybe you’ve resisted the urge to switch stations during the commercials and you have seen the McNuggets ads. I don’t know that they’re particularly good or memorable, but they do feature a sweet chili sauce that they’re offering for a limited time so you can “eat what the athletes are eating at the olympic villiage”
OK, so that last part is horse shit. Really? Top notch, world class athletes who are at the extreme end of human performance are rolling through the arches to grab a 6 piece before they represent their country in the games? Unlikely.
However, that sweet spicy chili sauce did grab my attention. So that my friends was lunch today.
A #10 (10 piece Mcnuggets) with coke (splash of orange Hi C) and a side of double cheeseburger.
I tried the sweet spicy chili sauce and I…
Pause now and think for a second. Where do you think this is going? Was it great? Was it awful? Was it a let down from all the hype, but still pretty good? What do you think?
Now back to the main topic. Lunch Sauce. How important is sauce for you at lunch? Also do Condiments count as sauce?
A Gala’s Star Attraction: Seeing Paris in Washington
Paris Hilton and Georgetown jeweler Ann Hand. (Photo by Tammy Haddad)
In a roomful of high-powered women — including Madeleine Albright and Kathleen Sebelius — guess who stole the show Sunday night?
Paris Hilton.
The famous-for-being-famous celebutante, 28, was the surprise hit of the Kennedy Center Spring Gala, where Washington doyennes and businessmen fluttered around her table and giggled while posing for pictures with her. Folks may have tired of her antics in New York and L.A., but in D.C.? Marvelous novelty! At her side: 23-year-old boyfriend Doug Reinhardt — minor league baseball player, part-time player on reality hit “The Hills” — and his stepfather, Duane Roberts, inventor of the frozen burrito and Kennedy Center board member.
It was hard to miss Hilton, decked out in a bejewelled peach gown, rhinestone headband and ginormous diamond ring she told us had been her grandmother’s. Prettier in person than you’d expect, and unfailingly polite — the party, she declared, was “amazing” — although we were unable to determine if it was more or less amazing than the Kentucky Derby, the party she attended the day before. “I bet on every horse that lost,” she said with a laugh.
Paris Hilton and boyfriend Doug Reinhardt at the Kennedy Center Spring Gala. (Photo by Tammy Haddad)But this is her real genius: The second a camera lens homed in on her, she effortlessly adjusted her body to the most flattering pose. Uncanny, really. She cannot take a bad picture. Who says she’s got no talent?
Hilton was finally forced to give up the title of Most Popular at the post-dinner performance, when the night’s second surprise — Michelle Obama — walked into the Concert Hall’s presidential box to the oooh and aahs of the audience.
Obama was accompanied by her mom, Marian Robinson, presidential adviser Valerie Jarrett, Social Secretary Desiree Rogers, and others for a celebration of women in arts. Almost every performer — including standout k.d. lang — gave shout-outs to the first lady. Lily Tomlin scored the best line of the night: “You didn’t ask to be put on pedestal. My god, you’re tall enough already.”
By The Reliable Source | May 4, 2009; 11:30 AM ET
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So my question is . . . inventor of the frozen burrito? Is that really a thing? Can I just throw anything in the freezer & call myself an inventor? If so, I just became the inventor of the frozen sandwich. And tonight I will experiment with inventing frozen salad. Do you think he got a patent for that? WTF? And WFL?
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