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I've just come back from my local Sri Lankan restaurant - chicken biriani complete with yoghurt dip, special fried rice and mutton gravy all for the pauperly sum of four pounds.

I've had the lunch of my life, and I've never felt this way before. Oh yes indeed. So describe your ideal lunch to me, the more salivatory the better. Go on, make my dinner.....

Trevor, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think you'll find this game is properly called Lunch Trumps.

Emma, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

That should have been the real title of that Manics album bearing in mind what a fat boy Jimmy is now. I don't know. I guess something like Chinese or Thai, so I can get one of their nice fancy beers too. You know that aromatic duck with pancakes and plum sauce? Yeah that for starters. And then I guess Prawns with Chilli and Salt, and Fried Rice. Pretty sweet.

Ronan, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sausages and heavily buttered mash with a great slosh of onion gravy and a pint of cold lager at the side. Consumed in the pub whilst the test match resumes after lunch.

Jonnie, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Taco Bell. Again. And I wonder why I'm gaining weight...

Dan Perry, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Jonnie, Trevor, I live in San Francisco, where you can get almost anything to eat, but I'm fairly certain I couldn't get either of those lunches no matter what I was prepared to pay. They both sound delicious, however.

There's not that many places to get lunch around my office... I'm probably going to be stuck with a boring sandwich again.

Sean, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My favourite lunch would be Jason Pierce. I'll have that with some extra mayo. Thank you very much.

nathalie, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i hate you bastards with good restaurants near your place of employment. our only options are fast food, italian, and about 60 variations on 'taste-free deli sandwich'. so all of you eating curry for lunch can bite me.

your null fame, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

so all of you eating curry for lunch can bite me.
Why would they? They have curry. (har har). Across from work is a Japanese restaurant. A little down the road is a vegetarian restaurant. Further down is a Moroccon restaurant. Then we also have an Italian on the corner. hmm What else? About a dozen chocolate shops.

nathalie, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"My favourite lunch would be Jason Pierce. I'll have that with some extra mayo."

Jason Pierce fair enough, although I had no idea that the starved junkie look was still in vogue - that's soooo 1998. But Simon Mayo??!!! Pur-lease. And *extra* Mayo at that! You, madam, are a masochist.

And Sean, I don't care if you live on the breadline sir. You live in San Francisco dammit, isn't that enough for you? Take my word for it, East Ham comes an extremely poor second, although it is a cultural melting pot and the plethora of cheap restaurants are divine.

Trevor, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

pastrami on rye grilled cheese on sour dough (the deluxe diner broadway and 112th) salt beef and mustard bagel (brick lane) avella's special roast beef (round the back of regent street) toasted ciabatta roats beef cheese pickle horseradish

Ed, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

today i had chili. and it was not good. my lunch is generally not good. since finding a parking space at the university is next to impossible once the hordes of mamas and papas boys and girls with their graduation jeeps roll in, i typically have to grab something in the cafeteria. luckily i get to eat it at my desk, so i dont have to be surrounded by the students. (either anorexic girls complaning about the fat content of lettuce or thick meatheads talking about weight they "need to put on for the game.' i am not kidding. and this job is not making me bitter. i promise.)

jess, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well, as promised, I had a sandwich. It wasn't a bad sandwich, but not a particularly good one either. How I pine for a curry or those sausages with mashed potaotes and gravy!

Sean, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Today: Roast duck, egg fried rice and mixed vegetables, with lashings of extra hot chilli sauce, washed down with a pot of Chinese tea.

Not quite as succulent as yesterday's Sri Lankan offering, but a worthy 9 out of 10 nonetheless.

Trump that.

Trevor, Wednesday, 19 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Today I want Jason Pierce with Kevin Shields. hah!

nathalie, Wednesday, 19 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A skinny and a bloater. Nice combination.

Presumably you'll be asking Mr.Shields to "Feed me with your kiss", n'est-ca pas? If you ask me, I think he's looking a little *overkissed* as of late.

Trevor, Wednesday, 19 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

april's leftover chips and a (non-diet) coke

mark s, Wednesday, 19 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mark, you ate chips that were five months old??

Total gross out!

Trevor, Wednesday, 19 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

the chips are meh: i'm all about the moulds and fungi...

mark s, Wednesday, 19 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think I'm going to *lose* my lunch.....

Trevor, Wednesday, 19 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

1st day at work @ "Worldwide Plaza" a very tall building on 49th St. Eschewing the company cafarteria I get a BLT from the closest deli that still has the grill on. After literally *minutes* of frying bacon, etc. they give my sammy to someone else. So I read the New York Post, which is all they had left, while I wait another whole 5 minutes for a new one. Christ.

I also picked up a bag a Pirate Booty which suXor to high heaven.

Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 19 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I bag of microwave popcorn. Not much of a contribution towards my RDA of the main foodgroups but only 190 calories and very filling, huzzah!

Madchen, Wednesday, 19 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Pirate booty comes in bags? Strewth!

Today my lunch was a personal pepperoni pizza. I'm angling for the health award, I am.

Dan Perry, Wednesday, 19 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I cancelled out my Healthy Choice Chicken Picatta entree & peach w/ half a bag of Combos and a Sobe Green Tea. Yes, I'd like the cherry cheesecake, please, but with a DIET Coke, please. And get a Diet Coke for Dan, too - he's getting a bit pudgy.

David Raposa, Wednesday, 19 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"I cancelled out my Healthy Choice Chicken Picatta entree & peach w/ half a bag of Combos and a Sobe Green Tea."

david has just happened upon the dillemma of the university bookstore supplies buyer: free JUNK - samples, extras, overstock...oh the humanity. (oh the flubber?)

jess, Wednesday, 19 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Would you like cheese on your whup-ass, Mr. Popshots? *assumes rockin' kendo position; techno soundtrack bumps into high gear*

Dan Perry, Wednesday, 19 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

MORTAL KOOOOOOMMMMMBAAAAAAAATTTTTT!

::t99-style riffs kick up in the background::

(sorry, couldn't resist.)

jess, Wednesday, 19 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I found an Indian place downtown! Had chicken massala for lunch. It was terrible.

Sean, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I was so hungry today that cafeteria food was heavenly. That's what I get for eating a cereal bar for breakfast. I had cheese pizza and orange juice.

Maria, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

today i had take out chinese food, and then snogged (christ, i hope that means what i think it means) with the girl i went on the date with the other night. (she had sweet and sour breath, but it was okay.)

jess, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

snogging = cockney for felching

mark s, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

you're a very bad man mr s

Ed, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'LL say. (i don't even know what the hell felching means. talk english, damnit.)

jess, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Pan Asain Platter
Pad Thai , Cocunut Rice, Kim Chi, fried eel .
All put in sqaures and circles on a green platter with a cocunut matt underneath.

anthony, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i had that and it is GOOD !

anthony, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i thought that's what feltching was for a minnit. damn time zones...wake up you brit bastards!

jess, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

felching = scouse for snogging, i.e. anthony's description is correct

Erm, not really. Hey, I'm awake. I consider myself a very small pocket of PST timezone stranded here in Britain. However, I couldn't possibly be so indelicate as to answer your question directly, but I fear it is best that you do not consult Google on the matter (especially not if you're at work), so I'll just point you here. (I didn't know it was UK only, though, but then I've never needed to discuss it with Americans before. I still can't believe that US people don't understand "taking the piss"; they all, eh, took the piss for the next three hours because they thought it was a dead posh English way of saying "taking a piss". Bah!)

Rebecca, Friday, 21 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

So if felch = merely slang, what is the proper Queen's English for this activity hey?

(I like the way the defn uses "one": "one's recently deposited [etc etc]")

Have you EVAH happened on someone who uses the phrase "furry muff" for "fair enuff"? It is real Colin Hunt stuff. I know Pete will now start but I think this slang dictionary compiler just invented it.

mark s, Friday, 21 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one month passes...
Today = Pokemon spaghetti shapes on toast!

james, Sunday, 28 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

on toast? this strange dietary phenomenon is new to me.

Maria, Sunday, 28 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

yep! it's a modification of baked beans on toast. We eat almost anything on toast!

james, Sunday, 28 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

That is so weird.

I waited until 2 for lunch (it practically killed me) and had fresh ketah. I ate almost half a loaf and I WANT MORE. NOW.

Maria, Sunday, 28 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

yesterday we ate fruit,cheese,cookies,chocolate, and deer sausage in the lobby of the conservatory.

anthonyeaston, Sunday, 28 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

james, is it actually toasted or just a euphemism for bread?

today i put left over sesame chicken on a slice of anchiovy pizza.

(yeah, you heard me.)

jess, Sunday, 28 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yeah! It's actual toast, with melted butter as well.

Surely, I can't be alone in eating pasta shapes on toast?

james, Sunday, 28 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The addition of toast to any meal improves it immeasurably. Or at least that's what my flatmate thinks. He's had curry on toast before. Mind you, this is the same guy who eats salad cream with everything.

RickyT, Sunday, 28 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

two months pass...
Reviving this thread because I am going for lunch in FIFTEEN MINUTES and, my deres, I am AS HUNGRY AS A HOBBIT with no LEMBAS. I want pasta shapes on toast. Especially Pokémon ones. I have a tin of Pokémon pasta shapes which I use as a bookend. GOD I want some now. I will HAF to go to TESCO at lunch p'raps. But I WILL NOT go to BENJYS this lunch cos when I went this morning THEY HAD NO TEACAKES.

Sarah, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

mm, lembas. or in my case organic carrot and parsnip and ginger soup hurrah! Sarah i shall look at your LotR links anon...

katie, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

do not have the pasta in the canteen here today. the sauce has parsnip in it. yeuch. i am SO hungry now.

Alan Trewartha, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I had curry the other day for lunch and it contained brussel sprouts (which I don't like) surprisingly it was delicious, and I have back up on this, Madchen found it equally surprised. Of course this was in the Hare Krishna curry house on Soho street.

chris, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

grilled chicken burrito w/pinto stead of black beans

m coleman, Wednesday, 30 April 2008 19:23 (seventeen years ago)

it was deelicioous

gabbneb, Wednesday, 30 April 2008 19:24 (seventeen years ago)

leftovers

Oilyrags, Wednesday, 30 April 2008 19:29 (seventeen years ago)

Sandwich made with a large hard roll from bakery, 1/2 tomato sliced, Genoa salami with v large peppercorns, and a pasting of herbed goat cheese.

Funnily, it's the same thing I had for breakfast. I do love this sandwich.

Laurel, Wednesday, 30 April 2008 19:43 (seventeen years ago)

v large peppercorns rule

gabbneb, Wednesday, 30 April 2008 19:44 (seventeen years ago)

quarter rotisserie chicken (dark)
mac n cheese
okra
chicken soup
sly fox pikeland pilsner.

ian, Wednesday, 30 April 2008 19:45 (seventeen years ago)

bulking up for the big meet?

Granny Dainger, Wednesday, 30 April 2008 19:50 (seventeen years ago)

naw that's just how i roll.

ian, Wednesday, 30 April 2008 19:51 (seventeen years ago)

over-fried chicken katsu and flavorless miso soup from a japanese stall in a food court

get bent, Friday, 2 May 2008 01:58 (seventeen years ago)

I had a chicken cheesesteak in the Essex County (NJ) Courthouse Cafeteria. It was surprisingly spot-on.

Hurting 2, Friday, 2 May 2008 02:14 (seventeen years ago)

I had Subway for the second day in a row and I think the veggie station girl thinks I came back because she's adorable.

Kerm, Friday, 2 May 2008 02:20 (seventeen years ago)

awwww.

Homemade lentil soup leftovers. It was not as good as it was the night before last. :-(

ENBB, Friday, 2 May 2008 02:22 (seventeen years ago)

I had a tomato bread roll filled with coronation chicken, red onion, lettuce and worcester sauce crisps.

*rumpie*, Friday, 2 May 2008 12:31 (seventeen years ago)

Willieburger (bacon jalapeno swiss) and two pints of Deschute Pale Ale.

Good thing I ain't got much to do this pm.

Oilyrags, Friday, 2 May 2008 19:17 (seventeen years ago)

bourbon on the rocks

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 2 May 2008 20:49 (seventeen years ago)

^ no joeks

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 2 May 2008 20:49 (seventeen years ago)

preparing for the literary life, I see.

Oilyrags, Friday, 2 May 2008 20:55 (seventeen years ago)

Grilled cheese w/ v. thin salami in the middle.

G00blar, Friday, 2 May 2008 20:56 (seventeen years ago)

wtf, gooblar, that sounds awesome.

i had steak tartar and fries. i also got veggies but i wasn't in the mood.

stevienixed, Friday, 2 May 2008 21:39 (seventeen years ago)

carne india con arroz y frijoles refritos mmmmmm

Granny Dainger, Friday, 2 May 2008 22:29 (seventeen years ago)

By this time my lunch has been thoroughly processed and will reappear in a few hours as a homogenous residue with somewhat higher concentrations of sulpherous byproducts than it had when I ate it.

Aimless, Saturday, 3 May 2008 02:00 (seventeen years ago)

two weeks pass...

the automat was frenzied at noontime, but the selections were especially fine

gabbneb, Thursday, 22 May 2008 18:40 (seventeen years ago)

Half a bacon and egg pasty, and a cheese & chutney sandwich.

snoball, Thursday, 22 May 2008 18:52 (seventeen years ago)

oyakudon. (chicken and egg on rice)
my kid liked it as well.

stevienixed, Thursday, 22 May 2008 18:56 (seventeen years ago)

Beef noodle bowl at Pho.

Oilyrags, Thursday, 22 May 2008 19:13 (seventeen years ago)

tomorrow probably an omelette (bacon, mushrooms,...) or if the avocados are ripe i'll mash'em with soy sice and put it on japanese rice. DA YUM

stevienixed, Thursday, 22 May 2008 19:14 (seventeen years ago)

i made a frozen trader joe's 'masala burger'. like veggie burger w/ FLAVA. a little greasy though :(

tehresa, Thursday, 22 May 2008 19:16 (seventeen years ago)

we went to my friend's new restaurant called za za.
fine salad + wood oven pizza + gelato. they just opened, so we had to get a spread, try a little bit of this and that. it was very om-nom.

Ai Lien, Thursday, 22 May 2008 19:18 (seventeen years ago)

little rock has like one pizza place per citizen. i thought we didn't need another. but i think ai lien will agree with me that we needed this place. propah.

andrew m., Thursday, 22 May 2008 20:20 (seventeen years ago)

soy sice? i mean sauce duh

stevienixed, Thursday, 22 May 2008 20:24 (seventeen years ago)

gabbneb you must start reviving the lunch thread with all the cursing instead. Much more diverting.

kenan, Thursday, 22 May 2008 20:29 (seventeen years ago)

While there may be a place for the profane among our brethren, I dare say that it is a twitten down which I might prefer not to venture.

gabbneb, Thursday, 22 May 2008 20:43 (seventeen years ago)

ok, I guess "twitten" sounds a little bit dirty. Maybe. :(

kenan, Thursday, 22 May 2008 20:50 (seventeen years ago)

1x tiny tuna sandwich, 1x tiny smoked salmon & cream cheese sandwich, 1x tiny chicken and bacon sandwich (we're talking 1/4 slice of bread size), 8 crisps, 2 chunks of pineapple.

Yes it was a lunch meeting at work today and the cake plate passed me by while I was furiously minuting :(

Still, on Monday I had huge bowl o noodles with all sorts of lushness in, so I guess the universe balances itself out...

Not the real Village People, Thursday, 22 May 2008 21:06 (seventeen years ago)

egg-white omelet with romano, khashi bar

remy bean, Thursday, 22 May 2008 21:08 (seventeen years ago)

veggie breakfast panini (egg, goat cheese, asparagus), roasted potatoes, orange juice.

get bent, Thursday, 22 May 2008 23:19 (seventeen years ago)

1/2 bag gourmet potato chips

calstars, Friday, 23 May 2008 17:15 (seventeen years ago)

Some kind of microwaved sandwich that is only barely preferable to just going hungry.

Oilyrags, Friday, 23 May 2008 17:37 (seventeen years ago)

lunch special from sushi place with grilled mackerel, veggies, wild rice, mashed potatoes and tuna & salmon sashimi

bell_labs, Friday, 23 May 2008 17:44 (seventeen years ago)

(so awesome)

bell_labs, Friday, 23 May 2008 17:44 (seventeen years ago)

Ugh, I'm starting to think that going hungry would have been preferable after all.

Oilyrags, Friday, 23 May 2008 18:01 (seventeen years ago)

Veal sandwich with mushrooms, carmelized onions and so many hot peppers my nose is still running ten minutes later. Yum!

Finefinemusic, Friday, 23 May 2008 18:03 (seventeen years ago)

omelette (w tomatoes, cheese, bell pepper, mushrooms, onion).

i'm so effing hungry.

stevienixed, Friday, 23 May 2008 19:38 (seventeen years ago)

is today a soup day? i think it might be. i bet the thai noodle house up the street is PACKED today.

get bent, Friday, 23 May 2008 19:44 (seventeen years ago)

soup day?

stevienixed, Friday, 23 May 2008 19:44 (seventeen years ago)

it's cold here. wind and rain.

get bent, Friday, 23 May 2008 19:59 (seventeen years ago)

update: had noodle soup w/ bbq pork and roast duck. OM NOM NOM NOM

get bent, Friday, 23 May 2008 20:52 (seventeen years ago)

Salami & eggs, w rye toast mmmmmmmm

G00blar, Monday, 26 May 2008 12:50 (seventeen years ago)

Everyone here brings Danish sandwiches (open-faced, dry, and insufficient, IMO). I've taken to bringing the same salad every day: spinach, an apple, a carrot, a little bit of blue cheese, & some cashews. So that is what I had today, with a couple dried cranberries thrown in, as well as what I will have tomorrow and probably the rest of the week.

Maria, Monday, 26 May 2008 13:01 (seventeen years ago)

Leftovers! Half a steak, half a baked potato, and a bunch of BBQ'd veggies - mmmm.

Finefinemusic, Monday, 26 May 2008 16:50 (seventeen years ago)


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