We Eat Lunch

The worst food blog in Los Angeles and it's only about lunch. Cause what else do you have to look forward to at work?

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RIP Taco Bell

It is with sad news and a heavy heart that today I lay Taco Bell to rest. You were once my favorite fast food of all the fast foods and you shall be missed. 

What can I say about Taco Bell that hasn’t been said before? All your items tasted the same so I knew it was something I could rely on. It was consistent from the value menu to the vegetarian menu and consistency is the key to greatness.

Said somebody who was probably referring to basketball. 

I don’t really watch basketball, I am more of a hockey and football guy. But this isn’t about me.

It had been a long, long time since I had been to Taco Bell. After the meximelt was removed I found my wanting of Taco Bell waning. I was shown a hack with the beefy mini quesadilla and I thought this could be the ticket to get me back into your beefy, cheesy embrace. Alas, it would not last.

Today I went to Taco Bell to do the beefy mini quesadilla hack only to find that the beefy mini quesadilla was gone. Also gone was another favorite, the double decker taco. That is when I knew it was finally over. 

The love was gone.

Some of my earliest memories of Taco Bell were sitting in your booth after t-ball practice or after a swim meet and scarfing down soft taco after soft taco with a side of pintos and cheese. I will hold onto those memories fondly. Cherish them. But it is time to say goodbye.

To you Taco Bell I say ado. Farewell. Good night, old friend. May you find the taco that will ring your bell once more.

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Fresh Pasta From A Truck?!

Prince of Venice came to the office today and then they left. It was a pizza trucks day at the office so they move on. To the building down the street!

It was so hot in LA today so I risked heat stroke and thought it was a good idea to walk over and get a pile of hot pasta.

And it was totally worth it.

Look, let me be honest with you for just a few words. This truck has come by my office before, but the price of the pastas made me go, pfffft yeah, no way am I wasting my hardly earned cash on sill old pasta. Man, was I wrong.

I had their bolognese and it was. SO. GOOD. The pasta was perfectly cooked and the bolognese just melted away on my tongue. Perfectly seasoned, rich, and everything just came together to make every bite a perfect bite.

I was planning on only eating half of it and saving the rest for dinner, but it was just too good to stop eating.

Now, you’re gonna break a gasket when I tell you how much this pasta, from a truck, cost... Sit down if you need to... Fifteen bucks.

I know, I know. Calm down. Just keep reading.

This pasta could have easily been twenty-two bucks at any fine Italian restaurant. To me that fifteen bucks was a deal. I can’t keep telling you over and over again that it was that good, but it was that good. SO GOOD.

The only thing that was missing was a nice glass of red wine and after dinner nap. 

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Chicken and Waff... What? No Chicken? No Waffles?!

All week you look forward to one meal. Just the thought of it gets you through the week. It makes you believe you can make it just one more day.

On the food truck schedule for months had been a chicken and waffle truck. I had already picked out the sandwich I was going to order and when the day finally came, disaster!

The lunch menu email went out and it wasn’t chicken and waffles! It was Vietnamese. *Sad emoji*

My life was in tailspin.

What could I eat?

What else could go wrong?

Do my parents actually love me?

Nothing else went wrong.

It was a pretty good day.

I mean, I wish that I could have had something greasy and sweat, but I just ended up eating something... healthy?

Greek yogurt, strawberries, blueberries, a banana, and granola. 

It was good. 

Sort of dessert for lunch?

Maybe?

I know the dog was happy cause she got to lick up some of the leftover yogurt.

Is yogurt good for dogs?

The internet says... yes.

I should really look these things up instead of just knowing that they can’t eat grapes or chocolate or, legally, humans yet. 

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Are You A Doctor?

I had a fever and the only cure was cowbell pastrami. 

The Deli Doctor was the food truck of the day and I was going to skip it and get a salad. And then I didn't. 

I wanted pastrami.

I had their pastrami Rachel cause it had coleslaw. Coleslaw and sriracha mayo. On rye bread.

Which I learned is fake rye bread on the internet. Or was it on Netflix? 

I was watching some bread thing and they were like the rye bread people usually use isn’t real rye bread because this is real rye bread and it looked nothing like the rye bread in the photo above.

That’s all I remember from the show so you’ll have to pretend those are facts.

People do it a lot these days. 

My biggest complaint, not enough pastrami. I want it like Langer’s or Canter’s or Johnny’s. Piled high!

It was still pretty good and I’d get it again because it came with a secret.

Potato salad.

How could potato salad be a secret, you ask because I made you ask by reading that.

It wasn’t on the description when I ordered online.

But now I know and knowing that the potato salad was a good potato salad made it all worth the money I spent when I shouldn’t be spending money because I should really be saving for that concert I’m going to on Friday night and I’m just cutting into my alcohol money and I need that money for the alcohol because I need to drown my pain and sorrow away.

It’s what adults do. Right mom?

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Spicy Shrimp... No White Wine

Wow, way to center that bowl in the picture you moron. Did you learn nothing from your high school photography class?

I was really ready for those shrimps to be spicy not only because I had ordered they spicy shrimp bowl, but because a coworker got one of their other spicy bowls and was like that was really spicy.

But as we all know one man’s spicy is another man’s mild.

Yuna’s Bob was the food truck and the bowl came with spicy shrimp, cabbage, carrots, broccoli, and rice.

It was pretty good. I’d try them again. Maybe their wrap or tacos with spam musubi on the side. Mmmm spaaaaam.

You know what disappoints me? I got breakfast from a place this weekend that does a great spam breakfast bowl and I totally blew it and got a breakfast burrito with sausage.

So stupid.

What is wrong with me?

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100 Nugs

Long, long ago McDonald’s had a fifty nugget deal and I ate forty-one. Well, the Burger King decided he could top that and offered us one hundred nuggets. 

I ate twenty-three.

Dude, or dudette, that is a lot of nuggets and Burger King nuggets taste like frozen nuggets you get at the grocery store fried right.

I will let you take that how you want to take that.

I get why they did it.

I don’t actually. 

Did they have a problem at their nugget factory?

Are they trying to start the zombie apocalypse?

Is George Romero really dead?

The answer is, yes.

I am a zombie and now I want brains.

Brains for lunch. Brains for breakfast for brunch. Brains for every single meal. Why can’t we have some guts?

I’m just kidding, I’m not a zombie yet.

I have an iron stomach that can’t handle most foods.

You know what was the weirdest thing about the one-hundred nuggets?

The woman who delivered them had two more bags in her car.

Postmates drivers have been driving around all day with just piles of nuggets in their cars and nobody is investigating why. Or what that would do. To you.

The nuggets weren’t freshly hot, but you would never expect that when getting fast food delivered.

They were warm.

Just warm enough to hide the zombie virus that they delivered to each and every one of us. 

Oh no.

I gave my dog a small piece.

Who’s a good girl.

Who’s a good-

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Thai Me Up

I had a lot of leftover Thai food for the week. You already saw what I ate on Monday. Yellow curry is what I ate today.

Yellow curry is what I ate yesterday.

Pad Thai is what I ate on Tuesday. 

I might have gone a little crazy on Sunday when ordering food. Granted, it was not all for me. I just ended up with all of it.

If you live in LA and haven’t gone to Pa Ord Noodle you need to. I want to say it’s my second favorite Thai place in LA, but I think it is my favorite.

I order from them more than anyone else. 

I never eat there, but then I never go out to eat anymore unless it is sushi.

Most of the time I hate people, but who doesn't?

They are people and who wants to be around people?

Ordering food in is the best. Especially after drinking. 

Preferably alone.

I have the dog and she is just as good as people. If not better. 

She is pretty needy though. Always like pet me, hold me, show me at least some affection to let me know you care.

I don’t know if she deserves it. She barks waaaaay too much. At anything. 

Car lights coming through the windows. Me singing in the kitchen. Herself jumping off the couch onto the floor.

It gets exhausting. I tell her to hush and she will, but she always has to get one last little bark in.

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Pineapple Fried Rice

Pa Ord Noodle is known for the boat noodles so I got pineapple fried rice.

I do love that soup, but I wanted to go back to one of the first Thai dishes I tried when I moved to LA. Sweet and spicy and shrimpy.

I got it with shrimp.

It wasn’t as good as I remembered it. Maybe my tastebuds have matured or changed or died like those flowers your kids got you for your birthday.

Just a reminder that you’re next. Someday soon.

My dog keeps eating fake spiderwebs so she is probably the next to die in my family.

Though, perhaps it will be me. I have this weird spot on my arm. Probably from all the sun I don’t get.

Going outside is for the birds.

You ever regret anything?

Like how I regret getting pineapple fried rice instead of boat noodles.

Those noodles are so good. 

Oh well, life is regret as the saying goes.

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Pizza! Pizza! Pizza!

I mean, who doesn’t love pizza?

Go back to your hole troll!

Delicious was on point today. Almost like the olden days. The crust crushed.

Even my dog agrees.

But she eats garbage so what does she know.

Maybe those late night emails finally got to Delicious management and things are turning around. 

The pesto pizza was okay, but I’m glad I tried it? 

Have you ever wondered why people put pesto on pizza?

Yeah, me too. 

People pretend to like it, but I am still trying to figure out why.

It’s one of those mysteries like why do toilets really spin the wrong way in Australia or does dark matter have gravity or who is Batman. 

I have friend who prefers their pizza cheeseless, but they love cheese plates.

Now that is a real mystery.

Today is the slowest.

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Pho Real This Time

Hey, would you look at that. I remembered the noodles.

And onions.

Readily available plastic forks and spoons are no good for pho. I definitely could have used a soup spoon. I got little droplets of soup everywhere.

On my desk, on my computer, on my headphones, on my notepad, on my, on my dog.

It’s so much better with the right type of noodle. Sorry not sorry, ramen.

You guys probably want to know how my roommate made the broth and the brisket. I have no idea.

I know it took all day. From morning until I got home that night. 

The only time I got tendon.

Tendon is the best in pho. The best!

I also got ice cream. 

Not pictured.

From Coolhaus.

Their Dad’s Secret Stash which was scotch-spiked ice cream with scotchmallow swirl, M&M’s, and a hint of salt. 

It wasn’t as scotch tasting as I remember it being. 

Usually after eating one of their whiskey flavored ice creams I crave whiskey. 

Not this time, which I guess was good since my desk whiskey is empty. 

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Pho Ramen?

My roommate made pho and I brought some to work.

Also, I didn’t grab the noodles as you might be able to tell from that photo.

Luckily, my office has ramen so ramen meet pho. 

The saddest part is that she ate all the tendon so I didn’t get bring any tendon to work, but she made the pho so she gets to eat all the tendon and not share if she doesn’t want to.

The brisket was great.

You might be like, where are all the greens and onions?

I didn’t bring those either because I should have packed everything before I went to bed last night.

Sometimes you just wake up in a panic like did my dog puke on me?

She didn’t, but I was running late and needed to get into the shower anyways.

I wish I didn’t have to shower before work like I on Saturdays and Sundays.

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It’s Triple The Fun

Look at those layers! So much meat. So much cheese. How could one man possibly finish all that?

Pretty easily.

Thanks for stopping by. Hope to see you tomorrow.

Oh, you want more?

Sure.

Uhhhh what can I say about Taco Bell that I haven’t said before?

The five buck box is totally gone. I wasn’t going to get the triple double box today because I am ‘meh’ about it, but as I was figuring out what I wanted to order I came to the realization that this was the best deal.

I blew my lunch budget for the week yesterday by getting sushi. It was pretty good sushi, but now I feel like it is going to be all fast food for lunch this week. Nobody wants that.

I don’t want that.

You know what I still miss, their volcano menu. That was some good sauce. 

Also, I like nacho cheese, but I feel like they are relying on nacho cheese too much these days. It’s like in every item they can put it in. 

I just want shredded cheese. The nacho cheese is good for the nachos. Keep nacho cheese where it belongs!

Let’s build that taco shell wall!

Sorry, I was rewatching Arrested Development this weekend and got to the part where Lindsey takes the stage on Cinco de Cuatro. 

I’m gonna go eat some peanut brittle.

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The Pizza That’s Rolled For You

Do you ever roll your pizza?

Neither do I! I fold.

I tried Pizza Crek today and they make rolled pizza.

According to their website this style of pizza is found in large cities in South America, but I wouldn’t know because I’ve never been to big cities in South America. 

I had the combo 1 which came with two supremes; tomato sauce, mozzarella, pepperoni, Italian sausage, mushrooms, green peppers, and red onions. It also came with a dessert pizza crek and I chose their banana and Nutella. Oh, and a soda. Coke for me.

Even though there was some tomato sauce I think I would like a dipper. A little dish of tomato sauce would have gone a long way because it was a bit dry.

Maybe some whipped cream for the sweet one.

Postmates could have also made it a bit more clear that I could choose two different savory pizza creks. 

My autocorrect really hates the word crek. It keeps trying to turn it into creek or trek or wreck.

Stop it autocorrect! 

One of the reasons I hate Safari it thinks it can just automatically change the word for you. You are not a word processor, Safari. Chrome doesn’t do that to me. It just highlights my stupidity so I can go back and correct it. 

I don’t know if you know this about yourself, Safari, but you like to choose the wrong words. Makes things awkward when writing in Slack to my acquaintances. 

I’d eat a pizza crek again.

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I Didn’t Read The Fine Print

I poisoned myself today with COCONUT!

The enemy of myself and twenty of other people.

I was so excited for pork belly I didn’t bother to read that it came with organic savory coconut sauce.

I like coconut one way and that way is to take fresh coconut and turn it into bread on a small island in Nicaragua.

That is the only way coconut is acceptable to eat.

I think I remembered liking the Cave Vietnam Truck in the past. 

I think.

It was the meatballs.

The pork belly wasn’t crispy enough on the outside, but I still enjoyed the melt in your mouth inside. Also, I wish the carrots were pickled more. They were on the raw side.

All in all, okay.

Like the way you feel after getting a card in the mail from your grandparents.

You know that feeling. The okay, I guess I have to write them back feeling.

You tell yourself you will, but you don’t. You never do. And when you finally see them during the holidays you feel bad for a minute or two, but then cookies.

Now I want cheese curds or deep dish pizza.

I really hope my grandparents make it to next summer.

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When Something Looks Worse Going In Than Coming Out

McDonald’s is really giving Pizza Hut a run for their money with these new honey bbq chicken strips. I thought the old version of fat me had found my one true love with Pizza Hut’s boneless honey bbq chicken wings, but Mr. McDonald welcome to my boudoir if you know what I mean. *winky face* *winky face*

What’s red and blue and white all over? The American flag and I am so happy to be alive in these innovative times.

Well, maybe not these political times because they really suck. Hard. 

There is a lot of nonsense being spread and there is fear mongering going on and so much hatred it’s all just so disappointing.

America is very disappoint right now.

Like my life.

Take today for instance, I woke up early to get to work early enough for breakfast. I was hoping for an omelette station. 

Nope!

Disappointment number one.

But I knew my saving grace was going to be lunch because a lunch truck I really like said it was going to be just down the street. I took the dog of a walk and it was not there.

Disappointment number two.

If you can’t get the sushi burrito you want where do you go next?

McDonald’s.

The chicken strips were pretty good according to my old fat hidden self which is hidden under my less fat, but still fat self, but guess what? The fries were stale. 

Disappointment number three.

Just one thing after the next. It’s just enough...

Just enough to...

You know...

September is national suicide prevention awareness month. If you or anyone you know may be struggling and you might be afraid or just too shy to call the crisis line you can always text. In the US text 741741 at any time on any day and someone will be there to listen. 

Also, I saw what you did.

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Cali Burrito

When in Cali put French fries in your burrito, is the old saying around these parts. Not even close to true.

Pinch of Flavor was today’s truck and I had their California burrito which came with carne asada (I chose that meat), cheese, guacamole, and French fries. 

Fries are superior to rice. Fact!

Sometimes. 

Not all the time. Like for sushi. Or is it...

No, definitely rice over French fries for sushi.

I like the Pinch of Flavor truck. They do seafood tacos, which I haven’t tried yet because their California burrito always calls to me.

Though, I came real close to ordering Nachos. It was up on my screen for a long time. Almost two hours. 

When the email went out announcing the truck of the day I pulled up the menu and clicked on nachos and went back to work for two more hours. It was just sitting there. Ready to click.

I just couldn’t. I needed a burrito.

If someone was to ask if I was burrito person or a taco person I would say I am burrito. 

Everything is wrapped up in a beautiful package without the worry of everything spilling out. I could happen, but it is less likely.

Safety first. 

Also, flour tortillas for life!

Take your corn and shuck it! I ain’t eating it no more!

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TACOS!!!

And not just any ole taco. FISH TACOS! and a shrimp.

Too bad I didn’t have any white wine.

Wicked Fish Tacos was the truck and they weren’t at my office. I had to walk to the next office complex over. Luckily for me my coworker had found them otherwise I would have gotten sick.

They had a special of three tacos, a side, and a drink. So I had two crispy fish tacos, one crispy shrimp taco, fries, and a Coke.

The two fish tacos were pretty good. They were crispy on the outside and flaky on the inside. Great job with those fryers, boys. And/or girls. All the accoutrements serviced the fish to the max. 

Pretty rad.

I had a problem with the shrimp taco. The two jumbo shrimp did not want to stay on the taco. I ended up just eating the shrimp by themselves and forking the slaw and salsa into my gullet. 

The shrimp was fried well, but not as good as the fish.

I wish I could get fish tacos more often. 

Like when I lived in Hollywood.

There just aren’t any fish tacos in the West Adams area. Or I haven’t found them.

Plenty of fried fish places.

I guess I could construct them myself. Go get a plate of fried fish and take it home to all the fixin’s. 

Actually, I will be right back I am going to do some quick investigation. 

Mel’s Fish Shack has fish tacos and that’s right by my metro stop. 

I love the LA Metro. I can’t wait to see it expand and criss cross in more ways. 

LA needs to get off their car obsession and embrace public transpo. 

C’mon LA, for the children.