# 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:** 2
**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, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bet-i-have-the-most-pitiful-lunch-of-everyone/49549/21 "2001-01-11T20:48:22Z")
mmmmm… stone soup. I’m not sure what the peep tree will add… but I’m willing to donate. Now, TopazAntares hush your mouth and send your grandma over here to make lunches for people who will appreciate them 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2001, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bet-i-have-the-most-pitiful-lunch-of-everyone/49549/22 "2001-01-11T21:07:23Z")
4 (count em!) saltine crackers tossed into my cube by a magnanimous cow-orker and a caffeine free Coke. Don’t laugh, them was some gooood saltines. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2001, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bet-i-have-the-most-pitiful-lunch-of-everyone/49549/23 "2001-01-11T21:14:20Z")
I’m not eating lunch today. I didn’t have breakfast this morning. (Well, I never eat breakfast.) I won’t have dinner tonight. Or lunch tomorrow. Or dinner tomorrow. Or the next day. And so on. ---
**Author:** ![St.Attila](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e99b99/32.png) [@St.Attila](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/St.Attila)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2001, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bet-i-have-the-most-pitiful-lunch-of-everyone/49549/24 "2001-01-11T21:38:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Silver Fire \* > \*\*I’m not eating lunch today. I didn’t have breakfast this morning. (Well, I never eat breakfast.) I won’t have dinner tonight. Or lunch tomorrow. Or dinner tomorrow. Or the next day. And so on. \*\* I’m waiting around the corner for **Silver Fire** to pass out from hunger. Then, I’ll be having lunch… ---
**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, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bet-i-have-the-most-pitiful-lunch-of-everyone/49549/25 "2001-01-11T21:58:00Z")
Pandora… it’s not that I’m ungrateful or anything but I wouldn’t mind it if she just left it up to me to make my own lunches? I am 18 and can feed myself. She just gets up earlier then I do and has made it a habit to feed me… I’m gonna be fat by the time I move out ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2001, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bet-i-have-the-most-pitiful-lunch-of-everyone/49549/26 "2001-01-11T22:03:41Z")
Pass out from hunger? Not likely. Not soon anyway. I just ate 20 hours ago. ---
**Author:** ![St.Attila](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e99b99/32.png) [@St.Attila](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/St.Attila)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2001, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bet-i-have-the-most-pitiful-lunch-of-everyone/49549/27 "2001-01-11T22:36:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Silver Fire \* > \*\*Pass out from hunger? Not likely. Not soon anyway. I just ate 20 hours ago. > \*\* I can wait. ---
**Author:** ![caircair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/91b2a8/32.png) [@caircair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caircair)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2001, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bet-i-have-the-most-pitiful-lunch-of-everyone/49549/28 "2001-01-11T23:12:22Z")
The good news: They catered lunch for the employees here today. Barbeque (chicken and brisket), salad, potato salad, baked beans, rolls and butter, fruit, and cake for dessert. Oh, and soft drinks. The bad news: I’m on the last shift at work, so my lunch hour is at 2:30. Catering only lasted until 1:30, so I filled my plate at noon (per supervisor’s request). Cold barbeque, congealed baked beans, warm salad, stale roll, melted butter, no fruit (they’d run out), and stale cake. At least the root beer was cold. ::hijack:: Oh, and did I mention we had an early meeting in our department today? Since I take the bus, I got to work at 6:45 AM. The last shift here gets off at 7:00 PM. I do NOT do mornings, especially when I’ve only had 5-6 hours sleep the night before. So if I seem cranky, you know why. ::hijack:: We now return you to your regularly scheduled forum. ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2001, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bet-i-have-the-most-pitiful-lunch-of-everyone/49549/29 "2001-01-11T23:28:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by caircair \* > \*\* > ::hijack:: Oh, and did I mention we had an early meeting in our department today? Since I take the bus, I got to work at 6:45 AM. The last shift here gets off at 7:00 PM. I do NOT do mornings, especially when I’ve only had 5-6 hours sleep the night before. So if I seem cranky, you know why. > ::hijack:: > > We now return you to your regularly scheduled forum. \*\* Got you beat–I work evening shift–3:30 pm to 12:30 am (or whenever I get off). We had to be here for a meeting from 8:30 to 9:30 am. Which is right in the middle of my “night”. 'Course the rest of the evening shift had to come in, too, so being cranky is not an option, or we’d all kill each other. Regarding the OP–I don’t quite know which is my lunch and which is my dinner on this schedule, but I had a sammich at about 10:30 am and Wendy’s Spicy Chicken sammich and small fries at 6:30 pm…Whatever :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bet-i-have-the-most-pitiful-lunch-of-everyone/49549/30 "2001-01-12T00:15:15Z")
> [@](#): > > Luxury! > Why just the other day my lunch consisted of eating my own left pinkie flavored with whiteout and wrapped in newspaper. You had your left pinkie? Oh, you had it sooooo good! I ate my pinkie last week. It was the last finger I had. Today I was reduced to eating the fingernail polish shavings I had scraped off my fingers before I ate them. I saved them just in case of an emergency. I’m typing this with a pencil between my _gums,_ because I ate my teeth three weeks ago. …[sub]Persephone, who’s up there with Silver Fire on days without food…[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bet-i-have-the-most-pitiful-lunch-of-everyone/49549/31 "2001-01-12T01:22:06Z")
You had pinkies wrapped in fine newspaper and covered with bechamel correction sauce? Now that is spoiled. My pinkies always came wrapped in tinfoil. Now that just hurts the teeth. ---
**Author:** ![hypergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/49beb7/32.png) [@hypergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hypergirl)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bet-i-have-the-most-pitiful-lunch-of-everyone/49549/32 "2001-01-12T01:39:48Z")
I had six pieces of pizza and three cans of coke. Neener neener! ---
**Author:** ![Jeffro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7993a0/32.png) [@Jeffro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeffro)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bet-i-have-the-most-pitiful-lunch-of-everyone/49549/33 "2001-01-12T01:49:23Z")
My lunch today was 3 pears a bag of pretzels a Dr. Pepper Is it any wonder I only weigh 130 pounds. ---
**Author:** ![weyrdchic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@weyrdchic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/weyrdchic)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bet-i-have-the-most-pitiful-lunch-of-everyone/49549/34 "2001-01-12T01:56:06Z")
::actually exists. yes, really:: I eat a lot at lunch, because they pile on the side dishes and stuff at our school…but here’s the catch: it’s not edible. and usually looks like something unmentionable. that beef crap the other day…I can’t believe I even ate the three pieces of it that I did. ::twitch:: ---
**Author:** ![Eo\_Echo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ebca7d/32.png) [@Eo\_Echo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eo_Echo)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bet-i-have-the-most-pitiful-lunch-of-everyone/49549/35 "2001-01-12T03:03:11Z")
I had chicken McNuggets for lunch today for the second time this week. As long as the prices are so low, I will likely continue to do so. Sometimes I really love McDonald’s, as sad as that may sound. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bet-i-have-the-most-pitiful-lunch-of-everyone/49549/36 "2001-01-12T05:43:59Z")
My lunch today: Roast beef on marble rye with cheddar and Montery Jack cheese (one slice of each), tomatoes and mayo. A little bit of chicken salad on the side. ---
**Author:** ![andygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@andygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andygirl)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bet-i-have-the-most-pitiful-lunch-of-everyone/49549/37 "2001-01-12T06:05:10Z")
I had a cup of Kozy Shack chocolate pudding that was on it’s expiration date. It was on sale at the food court. [sub]the manicotti was just a side order…[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bet-i-have-the-most-pitiful-lunch-of-everyone/49549/38 "2001-01-12T06:13:35Z")
Lunch was bulggogi and rice at the restaurant across the street… damn they have good cok-toogie there! But the whole thing made my stomache kind of upset… ---
**Author:** ![tatertot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@tatertot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tatertot)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bet-i-have-the-most-pitiful-lunch-of-everyone/49549/39 "2001-01-12T06:44:04Z")
I want some bulggogi and rice! Damn you **Astroboy** , now I’m going to have to whine and whine and whine to my Mommy until she makes me some, and you know how those old Korean women get when they are upset. And, for some reason cok-toogie sounds familiar, but I can’t remember what it is. Is it gross? Oh, and my Mom still won’t tell me what a shumyunsiki is. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bet-i-have-the-most-pitiful-lunch-of-everyone/49549/40 "2001-01-12T06:51:41Z")
> [@](#): > > And, for some reason cok-toogie sounds familiar, but I can’t remember what it is. Is it gross? **tater** , cok-toogie is a kind of kim-chi… they take this big-ass radish and cut it up into cubes, then ferment it for a while with various secret herbs and spices… it really is good! But for some reason the whole thing made my stomach upset, so I’m sitting here at work waiting for 5:00 so I can go home and lay down for a bit… then I have to go out drinking (bachelor’s party for a friend)! Ugh! Right now my stomach does not want alcohol… BTW: sorry to read that you’re sick! Get well soon! And: whine and whine until Mommy tells you what shumyunsiki is! I still wanna know! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bet-i-have-the-most-pitiful-lunch-of-everyone/49549.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bet-i-have-the-most-pitiful-lunch-of-everyone/49549.md?page=3)