Having the post after Lunchmas is a difficult task. I feel like last night's cheeseburger macaroni. Left and leftover.
Today is my first day back in the office after being on the road since mid June. I have been thinking about lunch ever since I started the walk to the office from the bus stop in the rain. It has been so long since I've been in the area that I don't know what is still here or what I want.
I used to frequent the McDonalds on Route 7 because it was cheap and fast and, I must admit... Tasty. But then after receiving advice from OWLFers I branched out. I tried the NY Deli, the Bagel sweatshop, the Olive Garden, the food court at the mall, Chipotle and many other places. After that change I no longer had a regular lunch spot and had many that I could call my own, but the question is, Where should I go on my first day back? Who gets my lunch dollar today? I just don't know.
Now imagine yourself in my shoes, well the sandals that I wore and took off as soon as I got here. If you were gone for a month and a half, what place around you would be the spot you have longed for since departing? Where would you come home to? What would you have for lunch on your first day home? What's for lunch today?
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Upon reflection, the title of today's post doesn't go with the content. Just ignore that and imagine that the title was something like
"What do you come home for?"
So far the best thing about being in the office is the free coffee. MMM... Coffee...MMM... Free.
Does this burger of which you speak include Blue cheese? If so, I'd come home for that too.
Yeah, PeeP - don't be a tease; tell us about the burger...
And, I fucking love beer gardens... I saw no beer garden on the agenda. What gives?
I'd come home to breadline. There is no question. Hopefully I'd come home in the summer so I could have a BLT.
Breakfast/Lunch is cold pizza from the office fridge. I don't know how it's sitting after my vodka dinner last night...
Cold pizza? that's weak... well it must be free, so that adds a lot of points.
Right now, I'm leaning towards the Kung Pao spagheti at CPK for lunck today.
way better in my mind than cold Za, but way more expensive than free.
Mikey go get a sandwich from the deli.
Something with salami and mayo.
I still want OWFLers to share there feelings about the blog on yesterday's posts. Especially there OWFL origin stories...
Dipso has been a great asset in my search for jobs. Way better than washingtonjobs.com. He said he'd turn over my resume to the hiring coordinator tomorrow... once I update it and get it to him.
If I get it and move to Chicago, I'll be certain to try a Moody Blue. Sounds divine. Regular onions or Red onions?
Can a man find a place to live there? Can a person get by without a car in the windy city?
Recently I've been craving Five Guys whenever I am en route home from a road trip. I guess because in comparison to other fast food eats their burgers are the best.
Holy Crap - Jack is Back!!! Yippee! How's itchybutt the dog?
Not sure if I've ever had indian food, but I used to eat whatever the Hari Krishnas would provide on the plaza in college. if that's indian food, then that is some damn fine stuff.
blue buger...hee hee
Sunshine...can anything be closer than the Brown Street??!
I want to move to chicago...then I can start working at the Food Network Headquarters and get our blog's foot in the door and on it's way to fame!!!
Bwwaah Haaaah haaaa haaaaaaaa!
Ricobene's did me straight, peep. No problems whatsoever. Wish I could have it again today. Could it be something else, perhaps all the bugers you're eating?
Re: Mikey's post, I've become very attached to the hot n sour soup and eggrolls at 65 Chinese. If gone for a long time, I probably go straight to that. Although, the two char dog combo from Gold Coast Dogs might be hard to pass up...it would be a sweet homecoming as well.
Today, though, all this Chipotle talk has hooked me. Chicken burrito bowl will be good.
This may be a little high-brow for this crowd, but I thought it appropriate, nonetheless!
Hm, in Bermuda I had this sandwich I would always get a place called 'La Baguette' - I would get tuna on a small baguette (crusty! yummy!) with LTO and either dijon or ginger mayo. The ginger mayo was for bad days b/c it was soooooo good. I would totally go back for that. I don't know what they did to their tuna, but it was the best. Here, though. I don't know. I guess I'd get a blackened chicken caesar taco or burrito (it's the sauce that really matters, not what it's on) at California Tortilla. Or maybe . . . QUIZNO'S CHOPPED SALAD! QUIZNO'S CHOPPED SALAD! QUIZNO'S CHOPPED SALAD!! Except that Quizno's are all over the place, so you never need be more than 15 minutes away from one (from what I've seen - they are the next Starbucks!)
Lunch today = shrimp cocktail & truffle risotto, made by yours truly. Yummmm. Cheesy.
5 guys burgers draw me home to DC.
Hogaies from D'Allesandro's and cheeseteaks from Stacky's draw me home to Philly.
Knowing I can stop at a "deli" at 4:30 in the morning draws me home to NYC.
I hate to admit it but Georgio's pizza makes me want to go home to East Lansing (Mom too).
making this short list makes me sad about eateries that have closed dow but used to hold very high places in my food heart. A topic for another day.
Oh, and my story of coming to OWFL. HT (EthicsRocks at the time), began talking to me cryptically one night at happy hour about my feelings about lunch. And when I expressed my deep love for the mid-day meal, I was invited to the 'super-secret blog'. I felt so cool! Like I just got an invite from Skull & Bones! Ah, elitism. Ain't it grand? I've been blogging ever since. Probably too much . . . .
Oh, I guess I was focused on lunch near work. For generally area, foodstuffs, there's 5 Guys & Faccia Luna pizza. Jersey Mike's draws me to New Jersey. Mmmmm.
--Dipso, This is no reflection of my work ethic--
But nobody from my division is in the office today. I figure Ima take a late lunch and never return to the jerk office. mwaha ha ha.
LT, is that thing at the LOC free? If so, I'll go. Seems like fun. Also, libraries make me all warm and tingly.
Jack, I could never forget Itchybutt! And, now that you're back, I'd like to request that you get to posting on the OWFL favorite recipes page. As I recall, you whipped up some awesome eats for a holiday awhile back.
My fave lunch place, and place I would return to after a long absence, is the Lebanese Taverna Cafe. Partly b/c the food is YUMMY! But mostly because it's way the eff up Rockville Pike, so I need someone to drive my sorry, Metro-riding ass, and the individuals most likely to play chauffer when Taverna is involved are some of my favorite workplace dining companions. Sometimes a meal is about more than the food.
Welcome back Sunshine!
When I return from a journey, i'd want something familiar and good. Like those good Mt. Pleasant places such as Pollo Sabrosa or Adam Express. Of course the chicken sangwich from Pollo is world class, I can't believe that moron Alan ordered a burger from there, POLLO is the first word in the name! And Adams Express, i'm a Bi Bim Bap freak and haven't found it out in the burbs yet, or in Chinatown for that matter.
Went to Eat First! today for lunch, I had a spring roll, hot and sour soup, and Kung Pao Chicken. Good shit.
in DC, i'd come home for:
ben's chili half smoke
parkway deli's eggs, lox and latkes
don jaime's huevos rancheros
in LA, i'd come home for:
in-n-out burger animal style
taco lita's manager special burrito
any korean bbq place in k-town serving kalbi
in nyc, i'd come home for:
a good slice of pizza on many corners
homemade pasta in little italy
planet thai in billyburg
in boston, i'd come home for:
fanueil hall's clam chowdah
angelo's chicken stir fry sub
cranberry farms (in the BU student union) mac-n-cheese
today is that crap load of pasta and homemade sauce i brought in on tuesday but never ate due to lunchmas, free office pizza, and a hamburger craving.
spam kitty on the menu it's "latkes, lox and eggs".
Not the other way around...jeez.
Mad Props Watchdog for the tasty chicken and the adams express.
I actually ordered from Eddie Cafe the night I got home and it took them 45 minutes to bring it to me. Now for those of you who don't live in Mt Pleasant, these china food fools used to take the call, cook it in the car on the way over and bring it to your door around the time you were hanging up from ordering. They have slipped, or their psychic took a job on a telephone like and left the world of predicting orders for Eddie.
If I worked in the city still, or if I weren't cat / condo sitting for my sister at the last stop on the Metro, i would definitely be grabbing a Pollo Sabroso Chix Sammie right now, or at least when I got home tonight. But as it stands, my nephews, the kitties need me.
Plus the roomies are undertaking a major construction project with the half bathroom that has been flodded and I want to stay as far away from that as I can. the Pinger is bad enough with rocks and sticks, i can't imagine him with power tools
I just finished a salami & braunschweiger hoagie with swiss, lto, hot peppers and mayo.
De-effing-lish.
"The Pinger" sounds ominous...
I heard Pinger is going to make a "rustic" bathroom, complete with hole in floor and leaves for wiping. Its gonna be awesome. Except for the CHUDS, not sure where that floor goes, but I think its DOWN
Lovely...just lovely...
Miu, that article is worth it for the headline alone.
Perhaps if the indoor-outhouse works out, we can aim the hole right down into the CHUDS toilet. No problem... unless Uni and I have the same BM schedule... then it's no problem for me.
Late lunch today. Will be taking Josephus' advice and hitting the NY Deli. I'm thinking Guiliani w/ sprouts and carrot shreds instead of L, T. Onions instead of onions and ranch instead of Mayo.
mikey they have a sandwich named after Giuliani?
Any sandwiches named after Custer?
Or Lindbergh?
No, i think Rudy is one of the only people that have sammies named after them. There's a Bronx, a Manhattan, an upper east side.
A Koch?
A Dinkins?
A Bloomberg?
A Berkowitz?
You know, the Guiliani should already have sprouts instead of lettuce - just a few, draped over top.
Went to Jonathan's...chicken in pita with muenster, avocado, sprouts and green pepper.
Miu, just gay guys and fast women
food coma...so tired.
my first memory of OWFL is overhearing HT talking about it to someone here at work. she'd say something about consulting people about lunch. i didn't get what the eff she meant.
little did i know what i was getting into until i saw the site and fell in love with the concept. and the fact that in halloween 2004 (or 2003?), jo piggyback carried me several blocks b/c i couldn't walk in those damn hooker heels i had on. loving him for it, i said any blog he AND HT are on should be worthy of populating.
clemmie!
great lunch story.
I guess we won't see you again for a year...?
Clemmie! It really IS a Merry Lunchmas!! And, I love that old lady. That's genius. It reminds me of that Friends episode where Joey and Chandler get fancy new recliners, and in order to not have to get up, they have the food delivered across the hall. Brilliant.
Nice comment Clemmie, good to see ya out there.
As for me, I was also harrassed, cajoled, codgered, badgered, pestered, and perturbed by Jo on a daily basis to check out the blog. As I was just starting a new job I was at first reluctant to spend time on a "blog". But soon I was way into it, and in enough of comfort zone where I felt I could get away with it.
Occassionally I have uber busy days at work (being a watchdog can be demanding) and I don't show up to post, but mostly i'm all up in the blogs junk, having a good time.
And if any of you are curious why I'm the only one who doesn't have an Avatar, i'll make a confession:
I can't figure out how to do it...
not so tech savy am I.
Dang Watchdog. I even figured out how to have a knife wielding snake, jumping through a tire on my flag.
I wanted to make it El Ultimo Dragon, but I couldn't figure out how to use a photo from my collection, so I pirated from the web.
Sunshine you really should use El Ultimo Dragon! Open an acct. on Flickr.com
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