My coworker eats the same thing everyday!

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I already knew that my dull coworker ate at the same deli everyday, for months and months.. it's the fodder for constant office jokes. But yesterday he came in, and I asked "How was lunch?"

"Well, it just felt like time for a change."

I look up, amazed. "Well, where'd you go?"

"Oh, same place. I just got a different sandwich."

Holy shit he's been going to the same deli and ordering the same sandwich every day! I'd go nuts. I walk miles trying to find new places, an ever widening circle.

Do your coworkers eat the SAME LUNCH EVERYDAY?

― andy --, Friday, 29 April 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

I don't pay close enough attention to notice.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 29 April 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

andy, you are so observant - you should be a detective!

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Friday, 29 April 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

My office mate has an extramarital long lunch once a week.

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Friday, 29 April 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

i eat grilled cheese and tater tots about twice a week, so peeps is probably making fun of me behind my back. it's cheap and i'm generally broke and it's close by. i try to mix it up though, at least a little.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 29 April 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

Well, I used to work with an OCD girl who ate a Marie Calendar entree every day. Different entree, same Marie! So, yeah, I notice this shit. I'm all up in other peep's biz.

― andy --, Friday, 29 April 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

what is an extramarital lunch (a long one)?

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 29 April 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

i never go out for lunch. am I weird?

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Friday, 29 April 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

a penini

xpost

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 29 April 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

coworker microwaves a hot pocket every day at the same time and says the same thing every day at that time when she goes to heat it up. she also mumbles all day about her cat and generally makes me want to off myself.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 29 April 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

you're smart & savvy.
xpost

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 29 April 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

rudimentary penini

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 29 April 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

Hot pocket

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 29 April 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

This guy told me he's really in "calazone" too.

I'm like, "Hel-LO, it's not '85, bro. You like Nagel and 'Risky Business' too?"

(I didn't really say that, just felt it. Calazone. Tuh.)

― andy --, Friday, 29 April 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

He and his female "friend" meet for a couple of hours. I'm not sure what they eat. Pigs in a blanket? I think there's special sauce involved. I overhear his phone conversations with her vs. the wife. I know enough.

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Friday, 29 April 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

my co-worker across the hall only eats lean cuisine. one a day. they're usually different from each other though.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 29 April 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

I want a lunch time mistress. Beats bantam paperbacks.

― andy --, Friday, 29 April 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

am i sick for being a little bit jealous of your eavesdropping? my eavesdropping involves listening to the CRAPPIEST musicals of all time & my VERY ANNOYING co-worker yelling at people on the phone b/c she's trying to get everything in order for her son's wedding. when it's quiet in her office it usually means she's doing the crossword puzzle. she's a super high up & i haven't seen her do work ever.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 29 April 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

Gray Davis had the same dish from the same Chinese restaurant every night, according to an interview in Esquire that was published during the recall.

My wife and I enjoy Betty Crocker's Chicken & Buttermilk Biscuits at least twice a week.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 29 April 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

There's a rotating wolfpack of 4-8 Weight Watchersers who routinely eat one of three varieties of Lean Cuisine frozen barf pellets every single day, all at the same time. This is really only that entertaining because we only have 1 microwave.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 29 April 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

lots of people here only eat lean cuisines or smart ones, but they're different every day.

― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 29 April 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

Well, I think it really comes down to how much routine you can tolerate in your life. Some is unavoidable, but I'm always seeking novelty: walk to work a different route, smoke a different brand of cigarettes, find new places for lunch etc.

But the aforementioned OCD girl I worked with HATED novelty. She did the same things at the same time everyday, ate the same bland food, had to be home to watch certain TV programs, and was upset when unusual things happened (she despised power blackouts, for instance, while I loved them).

― andy --, Friday, 29 April 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

I once read that David Lynch had chicken strips for lunch (and maybe dinner too) for a year.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 29 April 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

Andy, for some reason I'm visualizing you beating a bantam you ride bareback.

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Friday, 29 April 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

you ever had a lean cuisine skinny nick? they ain't bad.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Friday, 29 April 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

Different strokes make the world go 'round. Or in this case, unwaveringly unaltered strokes. It all amounts to the same thing, although not to the same sandwich.

"In the long run", as John Maynard Keynes said before he died, "we are all dead." It is an enlivening thought, but a bit rich for some people's tastes.

― Aimless (Aimless), Friday, 29 April 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

today i had strawberries and an amy's frozen pocket thingie with soy cheeze.

FYI.

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Friday, 29 April 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

Mandee I worked at Amy's for two days once. Baking cookies.

― andy --, Friday, 29 April 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

I've tried a couple of them Lean Cuisines, they're really not that bad, especially not as bad as I make them out to be. I just like to, you know, extrapolate sometimes.

― nickalicious, eater of rapidly shifting array of sandwiches (nickalicious), Friday, 29 April 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

i like amy's food.

i tried a lean cuisine & thought it was nasty. the cheese was so horrid!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 29 April 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

I eat the same thing for 2 meals everyday: breakfast, a fried egg on an english muffin, and for lunch, a ham and muenster cheese sandwhich. Who wants to be bothered with thinking about variety? That's what dinner is for.

― 57 7th (calstars), Friday, 29 April 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

This really wasn't supposed to be a frozen entree thread, guys. Please.

― andy --, Friday, 29 April 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

I eat food. It is fun. I am writing about my lunch. It is made of food. I like it. It's healthy and yet tasty food that has a brand name. This makes me happy. The name is like a good friend of mine. So is the wrapping. There is food inside the wrapping. I put it in my tummy. Oh, boy.

[Note: The foregoing is not a targeted bit of shrapnel, but is designed to cut a general swath of blood and hurt feelings. Don't take it personally, anyone.]

― Aimless (Aimless), Friday, 29 April 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

My need to take different paths on my lunch-time walks the other day led me to hop a fence and run through somebody's backyard. It was a good day.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 29 April 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

You didn't have to use your AK?

― andy --, Friday, 29 April 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

yeah but andy it's about LUNCH and WORK!

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

Also, there's this one guy I work with that only eats one of 3 things: pepperoni pizza, cheeseburgers, or tacos. He has never ever eaten broccoli in his life.

We had one of those office christmas party gift exchange games last year, and my entry to the pile was a splendid cookbook called The Enchanted Broccoli Forest. By the power of greyskull, somehow that gift found him. Oh, how we laughed!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

(When I worked at Amy's for those two days, I developed a crush on a 40 year old Mexican lady with a hairnet named Esmerelda. She worked a mixer, and looked like the Virgin of Guadalupe.)

― andy --, Friday, 29 April 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

there's an older coworker here (who's also the opposite of dull, never been witness to a better storyteller/bullshitter and he's had a genuinely fascinating life) who eats the same thing every single day for months on end, before it was a certain sushi plate, then a BLT from the downstairs deli, I don't know what he's on now. He's a germophobe too(never touches doorknobs with his bare hands and literally sprays people and himself with lysol when they cough and sneeze) he probably has some form of OCD.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

Y'all should read The Mezzanine by Baker, it's about lunchtime.

― 57 7th (calstars), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

jaymc to thread.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

I used to work at a very rural place (winery), so we ate from the same taco truck everyday. It was difficult to try new stuff when it's, you know, brains and tongue and stuff.

What the hell is 'sweetbread'? Such a soft name, but I think it's something super-gnarly.

― andy --, Friday, 29 April 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

Isn't sweetbread brain?

― 57 7th (calstars), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

Home > article Click here to print this article.

sweetbread
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The thymus gland (known as throat sweetbread) and the pancreas (stomach sweetbread), especially of the calf and lamb (although beef sweetbreads are sometimes eaten), are considered delicacies and are rich in mineral elements and vitamins. The pancreas is generally preferred to the thymus. Sweetbreads are highly perishable and, immediately after removal from refrigeration, should be soaked and parboiled, then creamed, curried, braised, or otherwise prepared for serving.

IT'S WORSE THAN BRAINS IT'S GLANDS!!

― andy --, Friday, 29 April 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

It sounds like some sort of Britishism for, like, cake.

xpost OH NO

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

mmmmm, sweetbreads

― Ed (dali), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)

what do you mean, me to thread? i don't eat the same thing everyday. or do you mean i liked the mezzanine? or what?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)

THANKS FOR RUINING CAKE NICK

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

I'd eat sweetbreads every day for lunch if I wouldn't die.

― adam (adam), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

yes, mezzanine.

how do you do the fancy italics, anyway?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

They're quite perishable, Ad. Careful.

― andy --, Friday, 29 April 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

I once read that David Lynch had chicken strips for lunch (and maybe dinner too) for a year.

Lynch in Marie Claire, Feb. '97: "When I get up, I have a cappuccino -- that's breakfast. I don't have any food till lunch. I get into phases where I'll have the same thing every day. Lately I've been having feta cheese, olive oil and vinegar, tomatoes, and some tuna fish mixed together. Before that I was having tuna fish on lettuce and cottage cheese, but I got tired of that in about three months. I once had the same thing for lunch every day for seven years -- a Bob's Big Boy chocolate shake and coffee at 2:30 every afternoon. A lot of those Bob's have closed down since I changed."

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:22 (twenty years ago)

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― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:22 (twenty years ago)

I went to a Bob's Big Boy in Acapulco and they had fried plantains on the menu.

― andy --, Friday, 29 April 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

was it sherman alexie that wrote in an ihop for a long time? or david sedaris?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

THANKS FOR RUINING CAKE NICK

What, Dan, you never heard "Short Skirt Long Jacket"?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

I used to have a lemon poppyseed muffin and an orange juice almost every weekday morning for breakfast, for months. I gained a lot of weight then.

Normally I can't stand to have the same meal even two days in a row. Lately I've been having more Forkless Gourmet edamame buns than I'm comfortable with, but that's mostly because the new baby hasn't been leaving me as much time to cook as usual. Usually I prefer to cook as much as possible, & to not even order the same thing at a particular restaurant twice in a row, unless I discover something REALLY extraordinary...

― Douglas (Douglas), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

The Mezzanine is good. I'm not jaymc.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)

One really OCD guy here at the Library eats an apple and a bag of microwave popcorn every single day for lunch. Sometimes a little chocolate covered granola bar, too. He's rail thin and has skin that looks like you could wipe it off with a napkin.

― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)

For about five years, I reckon I had a Scotch pie & a chocolate donut (from Crawford's in the St James Centre in Edinburgh) for lunch approximately 75% of the time. Occasionally I would have a custard tart.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

i think it's perfectly normal to eat the same thing for months on end. andy warhol did that as well. i did that. my dad did that. if you like something, why change? i had the same lunch every frigging day for a year: fruit and yoghurt. well, occasionally i had smoked salmon but usually it was fruit and yoghurt. or i'd eat the same thing from the chinese restaurant for weeks. i think it's freaky to have something different all the time.

― nathalie in a bar under the sea (stevie nixed), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)

"Occasionally I would have a custard tart...

We heard about those long lunches upthread.

― andy --, Friday, 29 April 2005 19:28 (twenty years ago)

Stevie it means you're crazy.

― andy --, Friday, 29 April 2005 19:30 (twenty years ago)

I ate a lot of Sainsbury's 99p quiches for lunch for a year, alternated with instant soup. No wonder I got fat.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

Why do British folk always have such nice names for such nasty ass food like sweetbread and blood pudding? If I order pie in London will I actually get a big plate of pig anus?

― darin (darin), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:32 (twenty years ago)

yeah, i guess, but damn it i love fruit 'n' yoghurt! ;-)

― nathalie in a bar under the sea (stevie nixed), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:32 (twenty years ago)

There are certain foods I can eat several times in a row. Bean burritos is one, but only if the beans are fresh and home-made. I sometimes cook a pot of beans and then eat bean burritos for dinner a few days in a row. I pretty much have the same breakfast most every day with slight variation: coffee & muffin, coffee & donut, coffee & cinnamon roll.

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

I totally eat the same breakfast, lunch and dinner almost every day for months on end (dif foods at each meal, obv). But it's not OCD or anything (I did those online tests and I am O.K.!) (I'm torn about whether it's cool or scary/not cool at all that D. Lynch is the same way...) But if other people buy or make food for me (or if I go to a restaurant), I am usually happy/excited and eat it though. I likes what I likes, until I start to get bored by it. It's a combination of laziness, being stubborn, and being distracted by many other things in teh world.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

Morrissey only eats dry toast & yoghurt. He's a freak.

― andy --, Friday, 29 April 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

Blood pudding is a nice name? It makes me want to wretch.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

i think it's perfectly normal to eat the same thing for months on end. andy warhol did that as well. ... i think it's freaky to have something different all the time.

I agree Nathalie. It's not like I can still taste yesterday's lunch when I'm getting ready to eat today's. It's a whole new experience each time. I dig repetition in the lunchtime and I'm never gonna lose it.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:35 (twenty years ago)

Black Pudding

1lt (1¾ pints) Blood (Pig, Lamb or Goose)
340g (12oz) Shredded Suet
300ml (½ pint) Milk
50g (2oz) Oatmeal
3 Medium Onions, chopped
1 tbsp Salt
½ tsp Mixed Herbs
½ tsp Cayenne Pepper
Pinch Nutmeg

Pre-heat oven to 160°C: 300°F: Gas 2.
Mix all of the ingredients together thoroughly, making sure that the seasonings are evenly distributed.
Next fill the large sausage cases, see: Sausage Making Basics for advice on doing so.
Place into an ovenproof dish with a cover, standing in a larger dish half filled with water.
Bake for 1½ hours.
Allow to cool.

― andy --, Friday, 29 April 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)

a 40 year old Mexican lady with a hairnet named Esmerelda

Did she also have a wooden leg named Smith?

― C J (C J), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:39 (twenty years ago)

I bet that'll be me in 20 years time.

In my first year at university, nearly every weekday for lunch I had a BLT from Olympic Sandwich on Potterrow.

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

Do different bloods bring something special to the pudding? Or is it just what you happen to have around? I'm going to pass out now.

― andy --, Friday, 29 April 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

Actually, I don't think the treat I sometimes allowed myself was a custard tart. Custard tarts are another thing. I had the odd vanilla slice. (These contain more yummy custard than a custard tart even, hence my confusion.)

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)

im eating yoghurt now!

its so sour (key lime flavor) that it is kind of making me want to vomit.

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

Of course different bloods give different flavours. It's a proper thing to do with blood that would otherwise be flown away. It would be an act of great disrespect to the animal not to eat all of it. And besides black pudding is a beautiful rich, crumbly delicacy. Very good for breakfast. i shall buy dome tomorrow.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 29 April 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

most people in mexico probably eat mexican everyday and think nothing of it.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 29 April 2005 20:09 (twenty years ago)

poor guy, I always get paranoid at jobs that people talk about where I eat my lunch, and I don't think there's even anything embarassing about the various places I go.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 29 April 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

i ate some tapioca pudding not too long ago.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 29 April 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

a 40 year old Mexican lady with a hairnet named Esmerelda
Did she also have a wooden leg named Smith?

This is why I love CJ. Here I was going to make essentially the same joke and she not only beat me to it but did it better.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 29 April 2005 20:14 (twenty years ago)

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