# I bet I have the most pitiful lunch of everyone. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 11, 2001, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bet-i-have-the-most-pitiful-lunch-of-everyone/49549 "2001-01-11T17:51:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Whammo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8dc957/32.png) [@Whammo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whammo)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2001, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bet-i-have-the-most-pitiful-lunch-of-everyone/49549/1 "2001-01-11T17:51:09Z")
Unless of course you have no lunch, then I will share. Its payday… that means no money till tomorrow… that means scraping the fridge today. My lunch today is 2 slices of store brand process american cheese on stale white bread. Beat that. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sunshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Sunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2001, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bet-i-have-the-most-pitiful-lunch-of-everyone/49549/2 "2001-01-11T17:55:48Z")
My lunch today is PEZ. Straight from the wrapper…I don’t even have a dispenser. Poor, poor, pitiful me… ---
**Author:** ![scratch1300](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@scratch1300](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scratch1300)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2001, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bet-i-have-the-most-pitiful-lunch-of-everyone/49549/3 "2001-01-11T17:57:59Z")
I’m chewing on a rubber band right now… ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Bottle\_of\_Smoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Bottle\_of\_Smoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bottle_of_Smoke)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2001, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bet-i-have-the-most-pitiful-lunch-of-everyone/49549/4 "2001-01-11T18:00:53Z")
Bah. Crybabies. My lunch is whatever pieces of gum I can scrape from under the chairs in the company breakroom. OK, not really. But I didn’t have a lunch to bring to work today and I only have one lonely dollar left in my wallet so it looks like it will be microwave popcorn from the vending machine again. ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2001, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bet-i-have-the-most-pitiful-lunch-of-everyone/49549/5 "2001-01-11T18:02:08Z")
A package of ‘Chicken Flavored’ Maruchan Ramen. Noodles only. Uncooked. (No stove or cooking utensils in the building). ---
**Author:** ![smaft](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@smaft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smaft)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2001, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bet-i-have-the-most-pitiful-lunch-of-everyone/49549/6 "2001-01-11T18:02:08Z")
You get to EAT lunch? I have to sit and watch mine mold! ---
**Author:** ![Bubble\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c0e974/32.png) [@Bubble\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bubble_Girl)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2001, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bet-i-have-the-most-pitiful-lunch-of-everyone/49549/7 "2001-01-11T18:06:33Z")
I’m having one **very** ripe bananna and a bag of microwavable chicharrones. Ha! Beat that! And payday isn’t until next Friday so I have to make lunch last. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2001, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bet-i-have-the-most-pitiful-lunch-of-everyone/49549/8 "2001-01-11T18:10:34Z")
Lunch? I remember lunch. Mom used to make me a ham sandwich with mayo on white bread, with maybe a couple of cookies or a snack cake. She’d give me a nickel to buy a little carton of milk from the lunch lady. I remember lunch… \ ---
**Author:** ![Skelji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Skelji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skelji)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2001, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bet-i-have-the-most-pitiful-lunch-of-everyone/49549/9 "2001-01-11T18:16:28Z")
I’m eating pumpkin rind soup. It’s stale. It’s cold. It’s made from moldy pumpkins leftover from Halloween. Halloween 1999. ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2001, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bet-i-have-the-most-pitiful-lunch-of-everyone/49549/10 "2001-01-11T18:35:11Z")
My lunch was wonderful–homemade lamb curry with tomato chutney and flat bread. Unfortunately I scarfed it down at 9:00 and now all I have in my desk drawer is some instant baby cereal that my son won’t eat anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Inky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7feea3/32.png) [@Inky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inky_1)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2001, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bet-i-have-the-most-pitiful-lunch-of-everyone/49549/11 "2001-01-11T18:43:04Z")
[ul] [li]Two small packets of Southwest Airlines dry-roasted peanuts.[/li][li]Small packet oyster crackers[/li][li]Individual serving tub of Peater Pan Peanut Butter[/li][li]Hersheys Kisses (6)[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![The\_Mermaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@The\_Mermaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mermaid)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2001, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bet-i-have-the-most-pitiful-lunch-of-everyone/49549/12 "2001-01-11T18:50:38Z")
I chopped up 2 apples-- golden delicious and a granny smith and cooked them till barely tender in a little butter and seasoned with a little lemon juice cinnamon and brown sugar. Then I put a couple of spoons of that on a flour tortilla and topped with small chunks of monteray jack cheese. Then I rolled them up and fried till golden brown in butter. Served with a big glass of milk. I was out of caramel sauce; I’m roughing it. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Pandora](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/eada6e/32.png) [@Pandora](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pandora)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2001, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bet-i-have-the-most-pitiful-lunch-of-everyone/49549/13 "2001-01-11T19:01:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Whammo \* > \*\*Unless of course you have no lunch, then I will share. > > Its payday… that means no money till tomorrow… that means scraping the fridge today. My lunch today is 2 slices of store brand process american cheese on stale white bread. > > Beat that. > > 🙂 \*\* Payday’s not till Monday. Lunch today is a stale marshmallow tree (think seasonal peeps) left over from christmas and a glass of water. Since I have $.65 to my name at the moment, meals for the remainder of the weekend are likely to come from the lonely box of rice in my pantry. Your sandwhich sounds pretty good Wammo 🙂 I’ll give you half my “peep” tree for half your sandwich. (actually, there’s not much i wouldn’t do for a soda right now… but we’ll leave that discussion for another thread 😛 ) -Pandora ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2001, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bet-i-have-the-most-pitiful-lunch-of-everyone/49549/14 "2001-01-11T19:02:42Z")
1 (one) sliced fuji apple 1 (one) kind of squishy orange water I hate diets. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2001, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bet-i-have-the-most-pitiful-lunch-of-everyone/49549/15 "2001-01-11T19:06:12Z")
> [@](#): > > I’m chewing on a rubber band right now… Luxury! Why just the other day my lunch consisted of eating my own left pinkie flavored with whiteout and wrapped in newspaper. ---
**Author:** ![Girlbysea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Girlbysea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girlbysea)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2001, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bet-i-have-the-most-pitiful-lunch-of-everyone/49549/16 "2001-01-11T19:15:52Z")
One piece of gum… 5 calories… Damn, I’m over my limit…I’ll feast on water after my workout… ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2001, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bet-i-have-the-most-pitiful-lunch-of-everyone/49549/17 "2001-01-11T19:17:25Z")
**Pandora** - I’ll trade you a half a Ramen block (minus a some of the endy-bits that shatter) for part of your “peep tree”. Or get me a pot and we can make some ‘stone soup’\* I have the noodles. **Shanin** has a banana. **Whammo** has bread and cheese **scratch1300** has a rubber band. Anyone else in for potluck? - [sub]for those of you too young to remember the story, IIRC, it’s about a hungry stranger travelling through a village, but the villager were too greedy to share, so the stranger makes some soup using only a stone and water, the villagers are intrigued and the stranger suggests it would taste better with a carrot, (someone runs off to get a carrot and adds it to the kettle), some onions, (someone runs off to get some onions and adds them to the kettle) a beef bone, etc. so by the end of the story, they have a heckuva meal and everyone is friends.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![vix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a88e4f/32.png) [@vix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vix)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2001, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bet-i-have-the-most-pitiful-lunch-of-everyone/49549/18 "2001-01-11T19:19:50Z")
I was reading this thread and thinking about my sorry lunch of an orange when my boss (bless her!) brought me pumpkin cookies from the farmer’s market! She knows they’re my favorite… she knows I’m having a hard day… :😭: ---
**Author:** ![dustMagnate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/fbc32d/32.png) [@dustMagnate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dustMagnate)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2001, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bet-i-have-the-most-pitiful-lunch-of-everyone/49549/19 "2001-01-11T19:54:24Z")
At least twice a month I splurge and get food from a downtown food cart run by a local Indian restaurant: for US$4.50 I got a big serving of chicken Makhani over rice, some Lentil daal, a special spiced mango pickle, some yogurty sauce with carrots and cucumber, bread and a bottle of water. This food cart is right outside my building so from impulse to serving five minutes elapses, tops. Poor me. ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2001, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bet-i-have-the-most-pitiful-lunch-of-everyone/49549/20 "2001-01-11T19:55:34Z")
STONE SOUP! I love stone soup! I haven’t had it in ages though. (Last time I had it was at Guide camp about… oh gotta be 7 or 8 years ago. I really need to find the recipe… and we did cook it with a stone in it… I remember helping to find a clean stone for it.) Lunch today? Same as always… a sandwich, 3 cookies, and a juicebox. Grandma is pretty consistent but I gotta tell her today not to give me sandwiches… I’m sick of them… 4 months of sandwiches everyday (well every school day) palls on a person. Oh and if I’m really hungry and have money I get fries… which isn’t too often but right now I’m lucky I have money. I really need a job. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bet-i-have-the-most-pitiful-lunch-of-everyone/49549.md?page=2)