Dylan: I just don't get it, and I never will

[luka]

what;s really doing it for the office workers nowadays is a kind of school dinner style affair with various items laid out in trays and the customer points and the staff put it in a takeaway container. this is the market leader

Fieldtrays - Farmer J

www.farmerj.com

Choose a base, a main and two sides.
you're still in ottolenghi-land here with pretty much everything smeared in cold gunk
eg here only steak is not smeared in gunk

Charred Harissa Chicken​

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Chermoula Chicken + Tahini​

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Charred Flank Steak​

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Gochujang Salmon​

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Smoked Chilli Miso Tofu​

 

[luka]

the boys and girls in suits queue round the block for this. they love it. i saw a mouse in farmer-js in cheapside/paternoster sq after it had closed. just peering out the window at me.

 

[shakahislop]

the boys and girls in suits queue round the block for this. they love it. i saw a mouse in farmer-js in cheapside/paternoster sq after it had closed. just peering out the window at me.

there's a sort of photobooth downtown which keeps having these massive lines going round the corner to use it everyone looks freezing

 

[luka]

given the office people have been totally colonised by cold gunk it must mean the time for cold gunk is definiteively over and we don't need to keeping smearing everything with these things

 

[luka]

ottolengi cooking is basically no different from just putting ketchup on everything. or going to the pizza hut salad bar and dumping every dressing on it and mixing it up like i used to do.

. We’ve got everything from Garlic Mayo and Blue Cheese dressing to Salsa and Thousand Island sauce.

 

[luka]

i'm going to do some more study of office worker lunchtime trends for you. but the ottolenghi school dinner one is the big one.
there's also a fairly dystopian version of it where you don't see the staff. you order on a machine and i think it pops out a chute or something. you don't see the workers at all. im pretty sure that's correct and im not making it up.

same kind of thing, choose your protein, choose your toppings, choose your slop, but with the workers hidden away

 

[luka]

look! i knew i wasn't making it up! this is what the office workers want

 

[luka]

the east asians inveted the order on a machine thing, mcdonalds popularised it in the uk
now it is ubiquitous in city office worker lunch places. you often have staff doing fuck all
behind the counter and they refuse to serve you
but if you want to order on the machine it takes half an hour and wants all your personal details
and sexual history

 

[luka]

black sheep for instance, who do the worst coffee in london wont take your order at the counter
coco mamma who do luke-warm pasta in a paper cup won't take your order at the counter
leon try and avoid it etc etc etc

 

[catalog]

I feel like wd want to outsource food? It's the only real 5hing left, massive drag for most ppl?

 

[shiels]

Dylan, Bowie, Nick Cave.. anti art, anti soul. red flag when people love them

 

[luka]

I feel like wd want to outsource food? It's the only real 5hing left, massive drag for most ppl?

yeah definitely a massive drag. tiresome things that keep us tethered to the body. clipping toenails is bad too but have to do it less frequently.

 

[luka]

i dont think we have anyone on here that has a proper go into the office in the city job they all just loaf about at home masturbating,
and somehow get paid for it.

 

[catalog]

What was that stat? Office workers do 20 mins work a day or something?

 

[catalog]

Problem with food is same as Booze and drugs, it's only good when it's bad for you

 

[catalog]

I've really noticed what a bind it is to eat since I've tried going veggie. Been going out more, to places where there's theatre like Chinese hotpot

 

[luka]

isnt the hotpot broth just meat stock?

 

[catalog]

yeah bone broth

 

[Murphy]

Put ‘airs on’thou‘s chest

 

[luka]

hows that going vegetarian then