Lunch Options

If you are like most of us, you will at some point during your work day find yourself seated next to an assorted group of your colleagues at a long table in the company lunch room. You will unpack your chicken salad sandwich and sliced cukes and prepare to eat. Invariably you will notice what is in front of those seated closest to you and be quite amazed at the story revealed by the food. Someone who is eating stuffed pork tenderloin and rice on a china plate using real cutlery shows you what he and his wife had for dinner last night although it is up to you to figure out who did the cooking. The guy from the "fitness" department is eating his gigantic green apple claiming that it is filling enough and then you know, he did not bother to make himself a lunch and it would appear that no one made him a lunch either. There are always two or three colleagues who arrive with small plastic containers of sliced at home fruit which gets added to one of those fancily packaged new yogurt containers which boast a zillion new flavours and you can tell that these ladies are hellbent on staying in shape. There are always those who make tracks for the microwave so that they can coax a dehydrated serving of pasta back to life and in fact these tend to successfully simulate the home-prepared meals because the aroma fools you into thinking it's actually home-cooked leftovers and not $1.99 frozen Michelina's! If your lunch room has a kettle as most do then you are never surprised to see those mammoth cups of "soup" again, not home cooked but not half bad in a pinch. Lunch room desserts tend to vary from fresh fruit, chocolate bars, cake (some actually are home baked) or the ever popular pudding cup. You find that with a minimum effort, you are well versed insofar as who eats what goes, and the most important thing to remind yourself once you have processed what you have learned is to exercise caution when you select your lunch hour seat; you have discovered that you do not enjoy the smell of that over ripe banana so you know when it is better for you to avoid the "popular" table..