OK HERE IT IS: The drinking at lunch thread

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I say CLASSIC. Did it yesterday, will do it today.

― andy --, Friday, 1 April 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

As long as I don't have to go to work afterwards. I hate having a buzz at work. It's a waste.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 1 April 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

I don't mind the buzz as much as the needing a nap at 3 o'clock.

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Friday, 1 April 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

I NEED TO MOVE TO ESPANA.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 1 April 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

I used to go to a German restaurant called Schroeders in the Financial District and drink a giant litre of Kostritzer. I just wanted to sleep in the broom closet.

― andy --, Friday, 1 April 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

Move to England hstencil, I hear the grime scene is really taking off.

― Airtube (nordicskilla), Friday, 1 April 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

i'd have to be drunk to listen to it.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 1 April 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

Australians drink at lunch don't they? I saw cowboys there and they carry around a case like it's a sixer, under one arm.

― andy --, Friday, 1 April 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

At my old job, our whole ten-person department (minus our boss) would go out to lunch maybe once every month or two at an Indian buffet. I think one time I ordered a beer but felt weird about doing so, since no one else was.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 April 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

Schroeders is great.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 1 April 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

Then again, I'm not sure I really wanted the beer. I just liked the idea of having a beer before going back to work!

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 April 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

I do it rarely, but when I do, I usually cut loose. Like, ordering one of those big chilled bucket-size mugs of Dos Equis with my ceviche at the Mexican place up the street. Then I come back here and customers are all like "can I get coverage for, like, an old airplane that's falling apart?" and I'm like "SURE THING BRO".

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 1 April 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

We had a work lunch awhile ago and I quietly ordered a Stella. Everyone gave me shit: "Are you having a BEER?" and I was like, "Well, he asked what I wanted to drink, and that's all I could think of. Sorry." They were all drinking jamaica or rosehips or some shit. I felt like the biggest LOSER, but in a way, I won.

― andy --, Friday, 1 April 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

At my first job, we had a giant swanky cafeteria with videogames and giant screens in it and a professional cook. She would bring me Stella Artois IN A MUG at 11am while I was working in the editing room. People in the English ad industry don't even wait until lunch to start drinking.

― Airtube (nordicskilla), Friday, 1 April 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

But then when I moved here we went to FLytrap for a lunch celebration and nobody even ordered a glass of white wine. SO weird.

― Airtube (nordicskilla), Friday, 1 April 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

Apparently, in the olden days of the insurance industry (especially on the company side), it was not uncommon for underwriters & executives to basically get WASTED at lunch, and also not uncommon for agents to fully take advantage of their impaired afternoon judgement, getting them to write all sorts of things they would normally know better than.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 1 April 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

working in a bar means that I have recently experience the pleasure of quitting a night of drinking at lunchtime.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 1 April 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

I attended some meetings in England where folks would have like three pints at lunch. It was awesome. The same folks were totally plowed by 7 and in bed by 9:15.

― andy --, Friday, 1 April 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

I don't know when "the olden days" were, but I worked for an insurance company in the 80's, and we all used to go get trashed at lunchtime, including the Sr. execs. Ahh, the 80's.

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 1 April 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

Nick: I worked with this SF lady that had been in offices since the early sixties and she said everybody has ASHTRAYS at their desk back then and there was a thick blue haze through the office! Cool.

― andy --, Friday, 1 April 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

The other day I went out to lunch at a Mexican place with three co-workers. I ordered first and got something non-alcoholic (horchata I think), and then they all ordered TEH BEER! I missed my chance.

I had a Smythwick's on St. Patrick's day, it was excellent.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 1 April 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

I've only done this once. It was just me and my boss and he offered, so... But I was totally useless the rest of the afternoon. I just sat at my desk and hoped the phone wouldn't ring.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 1 April 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

Nickalish, what place do you go to?

― sugarpants: kind of blurry, kind of double (sugarpants), Friday, 1 April 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah, here's mine: I got super-wasted during last year's basketball season when I went to a bar to watch a game with my DAD. He had to drive me back to work. I was totally useless and took a five-hour nap when I finally walked home.

― sugarpants: kind of blurry, kind of double (sugarpants), Friday, 1 April 2005 20:27 (twenty years ago)

In the heady days of '99 we used to do this every Friday, entirely unsanctioned by management -- business was so good I guess they didn't care.

― 57 7th (calstars), Friday, 1 April 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

That was RINCON, sugpants. Not the Rincon near where you are, but the one out here in teh BURBS, by the post office! The bartender there knows my name.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 1 April 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

oh yeah! it used to be a pizza joint.

― sugarpants: kind of blurry, kind of double (sugarpants), Friday, 1 April 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)

I'm always tempted to get Ouzo when I get lunch at the greek place. But somehow $4 sammich $6.50 glass of drink does not compute.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 1 April 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

I used to bring one beer in to work and drink it with lunch at my desk, til the guard found one in the trash and said that was a no-no. This was a defense company with confidential and secret projects, so no alcohol was a gov't policy (maybe even a crime). For the next year or more the guard would joke "You're not bringing any beer in here, are you?"

I once put some white wine into a thermos at the same place (after the beer incident) and drank it in my car in the parking lot, but didn't realize how much those things hold, and I got a pretty good buzz.

― nickn (nickn), Friday, 1 April 2005 21:01 (twenty years ago)

Sweet.

― andy --, Friday, 1 April 2005 22:01 (twenty years ago)

"Australians drink at lunch don't they? I saw cowboys there and they carry around a case like it's a sixer, under one arm."

No sadly they dont. As a cowboy myself spending 10 weeks at at time in the "bush" in outback WA I can comnfirm the beer drinking doesnt happen until after 5.00pm (sort of). They drink a serious amount of piss though bud. Still can't beat London for the lunch hour double pint.

― Kiwi, Friday, 1 April 2005 22:09 (twenty years ago)

"Australians drink at lunch don't they? I saw cowboys there and they carry around a case like it's a sixer, under one arm."

Sadly they dont. Asw a cowboy myself I can confirm the beer drinking doesnt start till after 5.00pm. They drink a serious amount of piss thiugh budd. Still cant beat London for the double pint lunch and afternoon snooze. Ahhhh....

― Kiwi, Friday, 1 April 2005 22:14 (twenty years ago)

whoops time to go to bed

― Kiwi, Friday, 1 April 2005 22:15 (twenty years ago)

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