Concur, but how could vegemite not be on the list? the single most important part of the day :-)

Mountain Dew and Twinkies. Because breakfast is your most important meal.

What about

split 'banana';
alarm 3, chili;
chop beef;
dump-$lings;
kill 'road';
link sausage;
log cheese;
no eyeballs;
$hand = pack icecream;
[download]

?

-QM
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Quantum Mechanics: The dreams stuff is made of

mmmmmmmmmm Curry...

Anything [Vindaloo|Madras] would suit me fine also.



Wait! This isn't a Parachute, this is a Backpack!

I like Dahnia, or a really nice one I do with coconut milk and fish sauce in it.

Some Dhal for company, paratha, rice.

Right, but only imported ones from Berlin, North-Germany or West-Germany!

The currywurst here in the southwest is bad or not existing!

Now I have to have Indian for dinner, I don't know whether to say "Damn!" or "Thanks!"

Tofu burgers? Gack! Soybeans (the phytoestrogens within them) are what fatten up beef cattle for slaughter so they can then go on to become meat with too much estrogen in it.

You don't email food! You send an email to the robot, and it comes and brings you food of your choosing!

What kind of a geek are you, anyway! ;-)

As long as I have an endless supply of Dr Pepper or tea, I can deal with whatever food there happens to be.

Seriously, I work with some cheap sons of guns, and a lot of us buy our own coffee to bring in rather than use the free stuff. If they gave this to the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, you'd have a frothing pack of journalists denouncing it as a human rights violation.

UF ref, storyline begins here

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In Bob We Trust, All Others Bring Data.

Thanks belg4mit, I bookmarked that comic, I will be sure to start working my way through the archives :)

One thing that I have taken to lately, and is a good snack food for hard driving coding sessions is applesauce and chocolate soy protein powder. It stores very well, is cheap, low fat, high protein, vege-compatible, and tasty.

</seriously> :-)

Err "chocolate soy protein powder" thats one good word followed by three that should never be uttered with the first ;) Saying chocolate in front of those three resembles that time your mother set you up with a friends daughter saying she has a "nice personality." We could just call that powder the "nice personality" mix ;)

BTW you sound like a lousy hacker, I mean you are worried about fat, protien and veges? Are you some sort of new wave health consious hacker? ;) /me keeps a roll of hostes donuts and a couple of bottles of pepsi and doctor pepper. You know its a bad day when your desk has two bottles of cola, two empty donut wrappers and a half drunk cup of hot coco ;)


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Eh..... it comes in vanilla too :-)

Are you some sort of new wave health consious hacker?

No, I'm one of the people who don't make much money and don't have health insurance.... so I can't afford to get diabetes or a heart problem, which sadly many from the "desk-set" are heading into.

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I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh

The combination of all four words together does seem rather bad. However, the words "chocolate" and "powder" are okay together. Check out these example sentences that use them together:

• My mom serves chocolate-chip brownies with powdered sugar on top.
• To make a good chocolate ice cream, blend together 2 cups of milk, 1 cup of cocoa powder, and 3/4 cup of sugar in a blender until aerated, then freeze in an ice-cream freezer.

See? Those words go fine together, if you do it right. HTH.HAND.

Come to think of it, I'm pretty sure the word "soy" is the main problem in the previous combination. The word "soy" should generally occur in the context of stir-fry or wok cooking and is usually followed by the word "sauce", although this may be omitted if it is implied by context. It should not occur in combination with the word "burger" or the phrase "La Choy".

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Sanity? Oh, yeah, I've got all kinds of sanity. In fact, I've developed whole new kinds of sanity. Why, I've got so much sanity it's driving me crazy.

This comment (and the responses to it) reminded me of a passage in one of my favorite books, The Phoenix Guards, by Steven Brust:

"The days became weeks, as they will when allowed to heap themselves upon one another unattended, and these weeks likewise turned themselves into months of seventeen days with no regard to the hours and minutes they used up in doing so."

I discovered that months also, when heaping unattended, turn themselves into years with little or no regard to the days and weeks they use up in doing so. I used to drink two Mountain Dews each morning and thought nothing of devouring half a box of Little Debbie snack cakes (especially those Nutty Bars or Swiss Cake Rolls). But as I age I'm finding that some of my poor health choices are starting to catch up with me.

It is hard to believe, but we will not be young forever, even if the definition of 'young' keeps moving. Thanks for the snack tip ... I assume you mix the applesauce and powder? I'll check into it.


No good deed goes unpunished. -- (attributed to) Oscar Wilde

Yeah, the junk food catches up with you eventually, about the mid-50's with me. Judging by how many hospital bills are caused by it, it is about as bad as smoking cigarettes. With Health Care costs becoming the number 1 factor in having employees, it would seem that companies would be screening people according to their dietary habits.

I mix it like you say. Somtimes I dilute it with water, so its like a thick slurry and drink it like a shake.

Since you are in the market for ideas, another neat one I discovered, is to mix coffee and those "meals in a can" they market to dieters and elderly people. It makes a high protein( a tasty) cafe-au-lait sort of drink. Actually I came upon the soy powder and applesauce as a way of getting the "canned meals" protein a bit cheaper. Most of those canned meals are soy-protein-isolate, vitamins, and some flavor. The soy-protein-isolate can be bought in quantity very cheap on the net.

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I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh

The person who posted this question has experienced a company kitchen that gets cleaned regularly -- I'm not that lucky. I wouldn't touch any free food that was placed in the kitchen on our floor of the building.

Occassionally, people bring in cookies / candy / donuts / etc, but those don't get contaminated by placing them in the kitchen.

The kitchen is the place that you go to play 'guess that smell' ... last summer, a few of us took it upon ourselves to try to clean out the fridge and disinfect everything. We found multiple items more than 5 years past their 'use by' date. (mostly assorted condiments, a can of slim fast (1999) and various green things that looked to have once been restaurant leftovers.)

Nah, we have popcorn carts around the building with free "make it yourself in the rotating popper" stuff; flat blows the microwave stuff away.

Then again, I cain't wait to gets me some butter brickle! (American football fans might fidn this funny, others can pass.)

1. Smoked Brisket
2. Pulled pork BBQ
3. BBQ Spare Ribs

1. Cajun Cole Slaw
2. German Potato Salad
3. Corn Salad
4. Baked Beans
5. Lots of beer

There's a place south of Waco, Texas a little off of the Interstate path that has some of the best of all that you mentioned. Town is called Lockhart (don't remember the spelling) and it was an afternoon's discovery with my not yet wife when we were both serving (time) our country at Ft. Hood. As long as the 'company' isn't obsessed by OD green, I'd love to see any of this...

--hsm

"Never try to teach a pig to sing...it wastes your time and it annoys the pig."

There's a place south of Waco, Texas a little off of the Interstate path

It has always been my experience that some of the best places to eat regardless of the style of food have been places like you just described.

Durning my tenure as a member of Uncle Sam's Canoe Club (AKA US Navy) this theme played itself out repeatedly as I visited places far and near.

When I was on "boot liberty" just before I graduated boot camp I remember one of my fondest of these. I had broken my foot during boot camp and was on crutches. (Long story) I hobbled out to the front gate on my crutches and a taxi cab driver hops out of his cab and opens a door for me so I can get in.

I have always known since I was old enough to know such things that if you want to find good places to eat the list of people to ask is headed up by taxi cab drivers, policemen and truck drivers.

Having a craving for Chinese food for some reason I asked the cabbie where there was a decent place to get Chinese. He takes me to Libertyville, IL and points to a place that only had about 10 feet of frontage to the sidewalk. No, I'm not exagerating.

I suppressed my initial reaction and pressed on and found the place run by a husband and wife with their offspring working as bus "boys" and wait staff.

They saw me hobbling in and I was treated like I was royalty. The put me in a nice comfortable table, brought me a pillow to prop my leg up on (I suspect came from their apartment which was upstairs from restraunt.

Just as an aside, once you got in the door the place opened up into a much larger room than the frontage would lead you to think of the size of the place. <,/p>

When I was asked what I wanted I told them that I didn't want "tourist Chinese", I wanted "The Real Deal Chinese®" like they'd serve themselves and relatives.

To this day I have no idea what half that stuff was but it was without a doubt the best Chinese meal I have had before or since. To top it off I had two of their younger kids (I know some folks wouldn't care for this, but it felt like "home" to me) as company at the table. Turns out it was the only way "momma" could get them to settle down and eat their meal!

So, as a result, when my daughter got to do some travelling with her college debate team (Prague one year!) she took my advise and avoided the places that obviously catered to tourists and went off the beaten path and now has wonderful tales of her own to tell from her travels.

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Anything but lasagna; my experience is that the lasagna, and pasta with tomato-based sauces from take out places (with a few exceptions, which are located in NYC and New Haven) aren't worth the calories.

And where are the curry goat, sega wat, and $potatoes{brown}?

Any specific New Haven suggestions? I work in East Haven, and if our Thursday lunch is Italian it's pretty hit or miss. If only Mamouns would get their shit together and do lunch for us, or Ivy Noodle... mmm, makdoo sammiches and curry tofu noodle...
obey the law

The only Italian place I know that does delivery is Abate's, which isn't bad, but if you're willing to have someone drive the few miles a lot more choices open up. Avellino's and Quattro's both do a particularly good and resonably-priced lunch.

In East Haven, most of the pizza places deliver, and most produce decent pasta dishes (I've had pasta dishes from Tolli's, Roma's, and dePalma's). From New Haven, Est Est Est delivers, but probably won't deliver to East Haven for an order of much less than $100. If you've got somebody willing to drive for a few minutes, try Romeo & Cesare's on Orange St in New Haven. I don't think any of the restaurants (Geppi's, Amalfi Grill, Avellino's, Tre Scalini, etc) are open for lunch. Too bad; they're all worth a visit.

For non-Italian? In East Haven? Surely you jest! In New Haven, there's Bentara, Caffe Adulis, Union League, Ibiza, Roomba, Zinc, Central Steak House, Carmen Anthony's (which probably does decent pasta dishes). Branford has some good spots, too.

emc

" The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents."
—Nathaniel S. Borenstein

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