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^ Nice, sounds hearty!

Here right now in Cosco wonderland.

What I Went With:

I went with a hot dog and a slice of cheese pizza. The American Dream for $3, brought to you by Kirkland.

The Experience:

The pizza slice looked fresh and bubbly, nothing notable here. The dog came out fresh and i took it to the factory line-style condiment zone, which looks like somewhere between a strangely clean meat slaughtering plant where they sterilize tools and the cold utilitarian unforgiving metal surfaces of an autopsy room. It is here where i churned deli mustard, and splatted it on my Kirkland wiener, like it was some sort of industrial chemical. Next was the onion receptacle, where i literally rotated the ice cold steel handle of this curiously morbid machine to watch it defecate slightly spoiled onion chunks and juice from its innards.

Trying to forget about the disturbing condiments phenomenon, I walked to the soda fountain and grabbed a soda water, as a preventative stomach-easing measure for what might go down.

I should have opted to eat the pizza first as the hotdog which i ate pretty quickly left a slightly nauseating feel in my gut, though it was trusty and met boiled hotdog standards. I ate all but the last bite as the end of the skin had a strange white pomade looking substance oozing from it, which i assume was Kirkland brand fat.

The slice of cheese pizza was clearly the winner, though the sauce was a little standard and bitter. The hot melted cheese (as well as the hotdog bun) stood out to me as the main rewards of this experience, and will be noted.

Soda water was top notch, very fizzy and washed down the mass produced food contents in an efficient way.

The Score:

7/10 (Weighted for the benefit of being super cheap)

Unweighted: 6.4/10

Today's lunch: McDonald's double cheeseburger and a selection of miniature versions of ordinary food from a work buffet.

The cheeseburger had been sitting under the lights for a good five minutes, which I like. Anything more and it's a crapshoot - the bun could be like leather. Anything less and the processed cheese product is still cold, which is terrible. The sweet pickles also gain a pleasing dankness when they're left to stew for a little while.

I didn't have work today, but there was a thing on so I showed a face. The sweet chili dip was nearly gone when I arrived but the egg rolls still had a pleasing moistness to them. Someone handed me a plate of chicken tenders and tiny sausages and there was already ketchup for dipping on the side. I added a pack of Doritos on the side and I was in tendie heaven. 4/5

  On 10/28/2016 at 2:46 AM, kaini said:

Today's lunch: McDonald's double cheeseburger and a selection of miniature versions of ordinary food from a work buffet.

 

The cheeseburger had been sitting under the lights for a good five minutes, which I like. Anything more and it's a crapshoot - the bun could be like leather. Anything less and the processed cheese product is still cold, which is terrible. The sweet pickles also gain a pleasing dankness when they're left to stew for a little while.

 

I didn't have work today, but there was a thing on so I showed a face. The sweet chili dip was nearly gone when I arrived but the egg rolls still had a pleasing moistness to them. Someone handed me a plate of chicken tenders and tiny sausages and there was already ketchup for dipping on the side. I added a pack of Doritos on the side and I was in tendie heaven. 4/5

I read this in my mind with the voice of Charles Dance.

Today's lunch: homemade pizza w/ bacon, pepperoni, jalapeño, cream cheese, sliced onion, mozz, parmesan, oregano, and tomato base (made another one with pesto base, both turned out tasty)

Ikea vegetable dumplings whit mashed potatoes, 3€ plus blueberrie flavored water. 2/10

Gyro plate at gyro place. Had some meat, salad, rice, hummus and chili paste.

Pretty dank

Made some smoky bbq chicken fajitas with some curly fucken' fries. 7/10. Thanks.

Coworker bought me a Costco hot dog. :sup:

Leftover Cobb salad my wife made - 7.1, good, would get half a point more if I hadn't added too much dressing.

Gimbap (kind of like sushi) from local Korean grocery - 5.6, it's always -almost- good, but in need of condiments, and I can never figure out quite what.

Fucking hell a lot of these sound like 1500 calorie lunches. What's for dinner?

chicken of th wood  

edit: listening to - floating ∞

  On 10/29/2016 at 10:52 PM, sweepstakes said:

Leftover Cobb salad my wife made - 7.1, good, would get half a point more if I hadn't added too much dressing.

Gimbap (kind of like sushi) from local Korean grocery - 5.6, it's always -almost- good, but in need of condiments, and I can never figure out quite what.

dude, this just reminded me, there's a place across the street from my work that does bibimbap. I must have it.

carrots&crisps..crunchlicious..8/10

going to cook some tomato soup now, simple recipe:

chop one large onion, 4 cloves of garlic, fry in some olive oil for a few minutes until they start to brown,

chop 1 red chilli, 1 carrot, and fry for a bit more,

chop 4 tomatoes, fry for a bit, then add 1 tin of tomatoes.

add about half a litre of water and a bay leaf (alternatively a sprig of basil, or maybe some oregano instead) and simmer for 20 mins.

blend, add a bit more water if it's too thick. season to taste.

eat with some soda bread and butter.

was very nice, but not the best I've made. 8/10

That's more or less my recipe as well, very similar at least. 

I often put some parmesan or asiago in mine though. 

Cheese on rye but immediately during scoffage thought that it should have been Ham on rye in tribute to the great drinker Bukowski. 

more tomato soup, Major  to wintertime lunch success. 

quiche lorraine and a bag of bacon wheat crunchies, washed down with a 750ml bottle of Hoegaarden 10/10