omg omg omg
the £10 a salad fresh salad shop HAS BEEN REPOSSESSED AND CLOSED DOWN.

this was a bad surprise. what am i going to have for lunch now???
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 9:27, 6 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

MEAT
*insert your own gag here*
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 9:27, Reply)

gagging is for amateurs, darth

( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 9:30, Reply)

Oh well played
Once again I'm glad we're on speaking terms. Other than the salad calamity, how's life this fine January morning?
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 9:33, Reply)

life is good
apart from the salad tragedy. humph.

how about you, when do we get to watch your triumph, please??
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 9:34, Reply)

Any time you like honey
Assuming that you're making a somewhat obscure sexual reference or are confusing classic motorcycles with pop-pop

If you mean the Weakest Link, I don't know yet I'm afraid. Not until April or May, and I won't have a definite date until a couple of weeks beforehand. At which point I will tell EVERYONE
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 9:37, Reply)

i have got to say that "triumph"
would be a bit obscure as a euphemism or sexual reference, even for me.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 9:53, Reply)

Appreciated
What you observed there was rampant optimism on my part
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 9:55, Reply)

optim bumder
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 10:02, Reply)

i always approve of effort though

( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 10:05, Reply)

This bodes well for me
Am hoping you also value enthusiasm over end product
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 10:06, Reply)

With a business model of charging 4-5x the price of anywhere else, I'm not surprised, TBF.

( Maximinimus you stick around I'll make it worth your while, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 9:28, Reply)

How the fuck could that business model fail?

(PsychoChomp, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 9:28, Reply)

i have absolutely no idea
because life is cruel?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 9:30, Reply)

What, the one on High Holborn saying "SALAD MAKES YOU SKINNY" or something like that on the side?
Tragic.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 9:34, Reply)

OH NO
no, i meant the other one on fleet street. it had not occurred to me that the high holborn one may have gone down with it.

DO SOMETHING!!!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 9:35, Reply)

I'LL TRY
Bloody hell it's totally not about this.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 9:36, Reply)

If you're able to afford that everyday, I envy you.
You're certainly a better person than I, it's likely I'd get a mixed grill if I was spending £10.00 everyday, hold the mushrooms, extra onion rings.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 9:34, Reply)

i loathe meat
so a mixed grill would be fuck-all use to me dude
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 9:35, Reply)

Not what I've heard!

( disasterprone "Pyjamas caused the Holocaust", Wed 5 Jan 2011, 9:37, Reply)

Sorry, I was using it as an example.
I don't really know any expensive veggie food (aside from your salad)
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 9:42, Reply)

I could easily fill five people up with £10.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 9:36, Reply)

I've eaten for a month on not much more.

(PsychoChomp, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 9:39, Reply)

Me too, at Uni.
My booze bill was colossal though.
( disasterprone "Pyjamas caused the Holocaust", Wed 5 Jan 2011, 9:40, Reply)

There's some kid in africa who gets by on £1 a year.
I don't see why he should have to get by on that, yet the rest of us can swindle by on [whatever you spend per day].
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 9:40, Reply)

Home cooking, easily
Going out, not so easy.

I assume she goes there because she has no wish to prepare food before work?
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 9:40, Reply)

i have neither the wish
nor the time nor the energy. plus i am very fickle and it is guaranteed that whatever i brought in i would not fancy by 1pm. and i often end up missing lunch altogether and then it sits in the fridge for days.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 9:43, Reply)

Aye, I thought as much, I'm often the same
Just before christmas, I was going to head to the shop to buy some Branston Pickle, so I could make ham, cheese and pickle toasties.

I was putting my coat on, looking forward to my sandwiches, when someone announced they were off to McDonalds, did I fancy anything? I'd been looking forward to those toasties all day, but the instant an alternative was offered, I took it.

Makes lunches very expensive when that happens.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 9:46, Reply)

I'm the same, but I live right on top of 24 supermarkets, so I only plan meals when I want too, rather than have too.
I don't think it's that much cheaper to make your own lunch, by the time you've bought some nice bread/meats/cheeses and stuff.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 10:02, Reply)

I can make a £10 lasagne last for about 5 meals
But with cheap cheese, ham, and bread, I can make a perfectly edible toastie for a week for about £6.

It's half and half though, the toasties get dull quickly, the lasagne doesn't.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 10:04, Reply)

But the ham doesn't last a week once you've opened the packet.
I guess I could make a nice pasta bake/lasagne for about a tenner, but I'd rather spend £15-20 and get everything I like in it, and it would last about 5 meals too. But I really don't like having the same meal twice in a row.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 10:13, Reply)

The stuff I buy, long as you keep it wrapped, will stay fine

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 10:27, Reply)

Nah, convert it to pennies and use a funnel.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 9:47, Reply)

I'd heard you had a dark side
f k

With this in mind; Michael McIntyre, Russell Brand, Jamie Oliver, Robbie Williams, Cher Lloyd. Thank you.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 9:46, Reply)

Nah, keep Jamie Oliver, he's turned over a new leaf, not as big a twat anymore
And in all seriousness, I quite like Robbie Williams. His music is about as good as that genre goes, and his swagger amuses me. I'm sure if I met him in real life, I'd think him a cock though.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 9:47, Reply)

Mate
*looks appalled*

I bet you VOTED for One Direction, too
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 9:49, Reply)

I have never watched X Factor through choice
The only reason I know who they are was due to spending about 3 weekends in a row at my mates house, both her Mum and sister love it.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 9:51, Reply)

Five minutes ago I would have believed that
but now I'm calling bullshit. Which one's your favourite?
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 9:54, Reply)

Wagner, because he's a massive twat.
He made a mockery of the competition.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 10:00, Reply)

On the one hand you're quite correct, of course
Although the suggestion that the X Factor could be any more of a mockery of a competition is questionable
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 10:05, Reply)

I could easily kill five people with £10
You have to fold the note just so, and it's an effective weapon.
( disasterprone "Pyjamas caused the Holocaust", Wed 5 Jan 2011, 10:56, Reply)

Don't be a cock all your life, it's not becoming of a young man.... 'better person than I'?

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 9:39, Reply)

I mean she was eating healthily, if I had that much on a day to day basis, it's likely I'd eat food that was hideously bad for me
Well, that or sushi.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 9:41, Reply)

"healthily"
we are talking about pasta or couscous stuffed with cheese as well as salad vegetables here!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 9:43, Reply)

Ah, so as healthy as my Spinach & Ricotta ravioli in a creamy tomato sauce from last week?

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 9:48, Reply)

ie, not at all
But definitely tasty.
I know I'll be proven wrong in this, but in my experience if it's tasty, it's unhealthy and vice versa.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 9:50, Reply)

diet coke???

( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 9:53, Reply)

Bad for your teeth, isn't it?

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 9:53, Reply)

use a straw
i have no fillings and i drink cans of the bloody stuff
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 10:04, Reply)

Considering the bashing I get for drinking Diet Coke in the first place, I think a straw would only make it look gayer

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 10:28, Reply)

You are at a greatly enhanced risk
of oesophagal cancer if you drinks loads of Diet Coke or indeed any carbonated drink.

Please stop killing yourself with low-calorie cola drinks.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 10:34, Reply)

I love that this has come from you

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 10:35, Reply)

Enriched with six vitamins and irony.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 10:39, Reply)

i drink about 3 cans a day
is this too much??
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 10:42, Reply)

yes
although a good friend of mine gets through more. She's fucking weird. Best cook I know, and yet she can't eat without a can of diet coke, and she puts ketchup on almost everything.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 10:45, Reply)

Probably. Sorry.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 10:50, Reply)

I don't like the taste of diet coke
Plus I've seen what it does to Mentos mints.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 9:57, Reply)

I love the stuff, definitely prefer it to full fat

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 10:01, Reply)

You can have items that are healthy and tasty (e.g. steamed corn on the cob)
But to make a full meal tasty, I think at least one thing has to be bad for you.

Although I can't talk, my tea from last night was pretty unhealthy. I'm having the same tonight, and the next 2 nights though. (It was cheap)
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 9:53, Reply)

But corn on the cob's bland without lots of butter and black pepper
I just wish I could develop the ability to eat whatever I want and make other people fat.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 10:00, Reply)

You have a point there, shit.
Steamed is only the 3rd best way to cook it anyway.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 10:00, Reply)

depends how fresh it is
if you can get it within minutes of coming off the plant it is sweet and delicious with nothing added
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 10:34, Reply)

I'm sure there are some fields round here that grow it
Will have to try this later in the year.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 10:35, Reply)

you won't believe how good it is
it's almost like the kernels are packed with sugary butter
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 10:43, Reply)

Of course, if you're a townie
you'll probably misjudge it and get a mouthful of bile.

I'm a townie =(
( Kroney, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 10:50, Reply)

there is that
I had the advantage of having it grown by my mother, but I've snaffled it from fields before.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 10:58, Reply)

Soup !
Soup is the food of the moment, lovely soup with noodles and stuff.

I'm totally going to score myself some soup for lunch today, and afterwards I'll be all like "Hawt DAYUM, that was some fiiiiine soup right there".
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 9:38, Reply)

yeah
i'm going to EAT with a friend for soup today. but it's not the same as the salad, it really isn't. murp. murp. murp.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 9:42, Reply)

What's their soups like? There is one just 'round the corner from me.
I'm tempted.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 9:58, Reply)

tomorrow is the best one imho
it is a really thick chunky tomato minestrone stuffed full of pasta and veg with pesto on top. divine. AND even the massive-could-not-possibly-finish-it pot is only about 300 cals; the more normal sized one is about 180. marvellous. and i am stuck lunching with 2 barristers so will miss it..... i am not happy about this.......

every day they have 2 different soups, you can check out the menu on their website. my friend likes the smoky bacon and lentil and the meaty texan chipotle, but he is a wrongun.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 10:04, Reply)

Oh man, I didn't realise they did that. I'll try that other one tomo, I don't like the look of today's stuff though... I don't mind lentals but they hate me.
I might go Pauls today instead and if they got that awesome looking mushroom soup, then, well, Happy Days.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 10:16, Reply)

pret does an awesome mushroom risotto soup?
but yay try the minestrone tomorrow and let me know. it'll be like food porn as i'll be stuck in some restaurant somewhere.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 10:29, Reply)

Are you going to have a poo there?

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 10:30, Reply)

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 10:32, Reply)

It's been a long time since I've had good soup
There's been plenty of OK stuff, but the last good soup I had was Hot & Sour at a place in Lanzarote.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 9:44, Reply)