# Your lunch today
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-lunch-today/531438
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [March 5, 2010, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-lunch-today/531438 "2010-03-05T17:26:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
**Page:** 3
### Author:  [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2010, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-lunch-today/531438/41 "2010-03-05T21:52:37Z")
> [@Aries28](#):
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> Chained to my desk…again…during lunch. Can of soup for me. Yuck.
Chained to my desk at
work yet again during lunch.
Canned soup for me. Yuck.
There, that’s better!
Nuked slices of ham on a toasted English Muffin. Augmented with a few Pain Rustique crackers. An orange. Just discovered the crackers last week-- they’re real good!
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### Author:  [@Proudest\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Proudest_Monkey)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2010, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-lunch-today/531438/42 "2010-03-05T23:38:32Z")
I usually bring leftovers or a sandwich, but today the whole staff ordered out from a great little restaurant that does everything from scratch. I had their soup of the day – lentil, tomato and italian sausage, with a big, crusty roll for dipping. Quite spicy, and most satisfying. In fact, I’m drooling a bit just describing it.
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### Author:  [@luv2draw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/luv2draw)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2010, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-lunch-today/531438/43 "2010-03-06T03:14:08Z")
Soooo glad you asked. I met 2 ex-coworkers for lunch. We’re all unemployed from the same place that closed months ago.
Anyway, we went to a Cuban restaurant that has a lunchtime weekday buffet.
I had a taste of each of the following: salad, a shrimp with veggies dish, yellow rice with sausage, black beans (LOVE black beans!), chicken, ribs, plantains, cuban sandwich (not a whole sandwich–they cut small portions for a taste). Ice coffee. 3-leche cake for dessert. YUM!!!
Oh yeah, someone mentioned Lent… I figure God knows I’ve given up enough this year and he/she knows I enjoy this food and gave me a break even though it’s Friday.
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### Author:  [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2010, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-lunch-today/531438/44 "2010-03-06T03:31:11Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#):
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> Left over [ginger chicken.](http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122497091)
We seriously need a drool emote.
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I don’t tend to eat much until I get home, but since I got up at 4.30 today, I decided that half a cup of soup from the kitchen would be ok.
It was just that: ok.
Been out of hot sauce and fixing for weeks in that kitchen; I hate buying food at work at all.
Need to work on bringing my own.
I just so rarely eat it! Grrr.
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### Author:  [@JXJohns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JXJohns)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2010, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-lunch-today/531438/45 "2010-03-06T03:38:43Z")
Yellowtail and Octopus nigiri. Split a volcano roll with the wife.
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### Author:  [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2010, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-lunch-today/531438/46 "2010-03-06T04:28:12Z")
A fried egg sandwich with Cholula hot sauce. The eggs were fried in duck fat.
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### Author:  [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2010, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-lunch-today/531438/47 "2010-03-06T05:15:25Z")
Wegman’s $6 meal deal. You get to pick a ‘main course’ of chicken francaise, baked tilapia, meatloaf, potato pancake, or whatever. Then a choice of two sides, like scalloped potatoes, rosemary potato wedges, mac & cheese, a whole slew of vegetables. I got the chicken, green beans, and carrots cooked with cider and pumpkin seeds. Mom had the parmesan tilapia, potato wedges, and roasted cauliflower. I recommend it! Can’t get such a good healthy meal at McDonalds, and $6 is pretty cheap. Thanks, Wegmans.
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### Author:  [@In\_Winnipeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/In_Winnipeg)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2010, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-lunch-today/531438/48 "2010-03-07T06:23:42Z")
Tariyaki beef, with mushrooms, cabbage, carrots, all on rice from the Koya Japan outlet at one of the local malls.
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### Author:  [@Claude\_Remains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claude_Remains)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2010, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-lunch-today/531438/49 "2010-03-07T06:41:02Z")
A nice reuben and a few garlic dill slices made by my mother at her house.
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