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SLOSifl
Aug 10, 2002


Every lunch I've ever had in Czech Republic looked like that. A simple salad of lettuce, tomato, and onion with no seasoning or dressing next to something gross. With a soup.

My least favorite part of my business trips is lunch, and I don't even like working.

There is plenty of good food, but even good restaurants serve only poo poo between 11 and 2.

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SLOSifl
Aug 10, 2002


Decrepus posted:

I don't think I fully understand. These places are normal restaurants? Because the impression I get from the pictures is you would be laying disabled in a bed as a tray of this stuff is brought to you.
The lunch menus in every restaurant look exactly like that, doesn't matter if it looks like a prisoncamp chowhole or a fancy french bistro. Imagine the same exact menu but printed on a nice card on the table, with nice lighting and a waiter who literally does not care about anything that happens during the entire time you are there. Then they calculate the bill at the table whether or not they are good at math as they walk from person to person taking lunch vouchers and smatterings of coins, with the process taking slightly longer than the meal itself.

That's for decent places. The real shitholes are the same except sometimes you just tell someone who works there what you had and give them money of some kind, probably lunch vouchers.

Again, nice restaurants are occasionally really good for dinner. Most of my bad experiences are lunches.

For the record, the soup is often the least offensive part of the meal and after a few days starts to actually help wash the gristly mangled ham "steak" down. I also have a bit of an appreciation for the palatable simplicity of unseasoned iceberg lettuce.

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SLOSifl
Aug 10, 2002


Captain Jesus posted:

I don't think this is fair (if we're talking about the Czech Republic at least). Lunch menus in regular restaurants are no fine dining but there are usually nowhere near as bad as what I got served in this particular eatery. Nice restaurants usually offer more elaborate lunch menus for higher prices.
I'm talking about restaurants in the business district that all switch to the small lunch menu with 3-5 options that change each day, and are all bad. The menus in those places look just like the images you posted earlier (including the display case one, just that there is no display case).

I haven't been to a cafeteria-style place, although I do sometimes get made fun of by my coworkers for stopping for McDonald's before work.

"Haha you americans love mcdonald's lololol" *eats vending machine sandwich*

SLOSifl
Aug 10, 2002


You can get fried hermelín on or with everything. Good bar food and drat good on a burger. Even McDonald's puts it on stuff and it helps.

SLOSifl
Aug 10, 2002


Hijo Del Helmsley posted:

Just looks a bit like a trifle with a base. It looks like it's just cream, bananas, jam and biscuit.

Would.
The cream is beaver jizz and the jam is placenta. Still it's the bananas that are gross.

I was raised by capuchin monkeys so maybe I'm just sick of bananas in general though.

SLOSifl
Aug 10, 2002


The gently caress is a bap?

SLOSifl
Aug 10, 2002


Sometimes it's hard to tell where British reality and British "comedy" diverge.

I'll have an oven bottom please!

Wtf you mean a scuffler?

Sorry I mean a softie, or do you have breadcakes?

Just baps, barms, baras and barmcakes, sorry.

SLOSifl
Aug 10, 2002


A GLISTENING HODOR posted:

Milk, salt, tomato, and garlic mixed together? Good heavens! :barf:

*goes back to eating pizza*
Ketchup has vinegar in it, so that's not going to help. At least you'll get some little chunks for texture.

SLOSifl
Aug 10, 2002


Roro posted:

That doesn't even loving look like tuna, holy poo poo.
Yeah it looks like a cat

edit: gently caress you

SLOSifl
Aug 10, 2002


This looks delicious and the other three dozen feral cats in my colony agree. Is this anywhere near the burned out bus factory in Texarkana? If not can you pick us up

SLOSifl
Aug 10, 2002


EorayMel posted:

I think we need a palate cleanser

put this in the ground and plant an onion on top and you get

SLOSifl
Aug 10, 2002


Hirayuki posted:

'Sup, fellow bizarre shoes-on-table family superstition haver :tinfoil::hf::tinfoil:

I don't know where it comes from, but I know it goes deep.

Try eating curry out of a toilet bowl while sitting on a toilet bowl instead:


Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, goes in my mouth comes out of my butt

SLOSifl
Aug 10, 2002


Toriori posted:

Okay, sorry everyone but rewind...


Because how in the hell did this not get more attention?
I also find the diet of my ancestors to be the secret to health. For example this morning I ate like an early mammal, dragging large insects into an underground burrow. That kept me going through lunch, and when I got home from work I enveloped bacteria in my cytoplasm while floating in the jets of a deep-sea thermal vent.

My doctor says I have the body of someone an eighth my age so clearly is working.

Efit: you are going to die in a bathroom. :(

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SLOSifl
Aug 10, 2002


Japanese glory holes are exactly what I thought.

SLOSifl
Aug 10, 2002


RareAcumen posted:

And when you say 'bag of gummy bears' how big are we talking?

Enough for one on every table is what I say

SLOSifl
Aug 10, 2002


PCOS Bill posted:

There is no argument to be had. You are correct.
Counterpoint, fresh mozzarella is extremely great on pizza, you just have to drain it and possibly press it a little to remove the moisture.

SLOSifl
Aug 10, 2002


zedprime posted:

I'm more concerned about the label that says "For two"
Two girls, one cake.

SLOSifl
Aug 10, 2002


The worst toaster strudel.

SLOSifl
Aug 10, 2002


Leaving a Teflon pan gently fuming is a great way to kill off household pests #lifehack

SLOSifl
Aug 10, 2002


So you're saying you ate some rear end for lunch and want to eat some rear end again.

SLOSifl
Aug 10, 2002


I went to a Subway in Columbus, Ohio during a cross country drive. My friend and I still bring that place up ten years later. The reason we remember it is because the dude working there made loving perfect sandwiches. We got back to the hotel room and opened our sandwiches, and both just stopped and said "holy poo poo". They looked exactly like a promotional picture, even after being wrapped up.

Driving all day, tired, lovely hotel, but suddenly


God bless you, sandwich angel.

SLOSifl
Aug 10, 2002


Kakairo posted:

So, I get the idea of using American "cheese" slices like this when you have no alternatives around. But why on earth would you just slap the whole slice on top? Why not tear it into pieces to melt better?

Who am I kidding, like these people would take any extra steps.
That's what I thought as well, but the cheese slices are actually the ravioli. Changes very little, except that it was probably velveeta or something and that whole plate makes me want to barf.

SLOSifl
Aug 10, 2002


AnonSpore posted:

I heard those taste like peanut butter
Finally something for people with peanut allergies. You can't have peanut butter, which is delicious, but you can have giant grubs, which taste like it as far as you'll ever know.

Just in time for Halloween. Okay, you lucky kids get a handful of peanut butter cups, and you sickos get a half-size ziplock bag full of bugs.

SLOSifl
Aug 10, 2002


My middle school had motherfucking Taco Bell, it was great. Everything came without onions, and was cheap as poo poo. Your five bucks or lunch voucher could get you a proper meal or an armful of bean burritos and an ice cream sandwich. I loved it in 1994 but I can see how it's also why America is so disgusting.

Actual food porn for school kids, but anti- as far as public nutritional policy goes.

SLOSifl
Aug 10, 2002


I would eat like five of those shits. Wrong thread for sure.

Edit: vvv tastes like a California roll. Same reason you don't put cave aged Gruyere on a McDonald's double cheeseburger.

Avocado, cucumber, maybe carrot, and surimi based crab product. Wrap in nori and rice dusted with sesame seeds. Real crab is better taste-wise but is inarguably a different thing.

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SLOSifl
Aug 10, 2002


diabeetz posted:

I am so appalled at the support for a cup of deconstructed sushi meant to be eaten with a spoon.
Dumping ingredients in a cup is not deconstructing them.

SLOSifl
Aug 10, 2002


The White Dragon posted:

I thought that was fried rice :v:

I was imagining something more along the lines of mostly greens, maybe some wild rice on top as the starch.
Yeah, that's not a salad. Rice with a bunch of poo poo in it is rice. Pasta with a bunch of poo poo in it is pasta. Potatoes bukakke'ed in miracle whip is horse food trash.

Can salads just be lettuce and poo poo for a minute?

SLOSifl
Aug 10, 2002


Potato Jones posted:

Wow, a lot of these are pretty same-y, but this is a good one.

I'm the cheese-leg burger-frog.
Seems Google's nightmare generator learned about ducks, some kind of amphibian, and possibly sea life. This bodes well for sleeping aid stock.

SLOSifl
Aug 10, 2002


That's the bedpan of a very sick patient.

Gagging sound

SLOSifl
Aug 10, 2002


The raw garlic makes me assume this is served as-is, beef tartare. Not shown is a huge plate of fried bread literally dripping with burnt oil.

SLOSifl
Aug 10, 2002


Tiggum posted:

A couple of recent photos from our favourite Czech eatery:



Pasta salad with pork medallions, American dressing, toast.




Roast duck, red cabbage, dumplings.
I didn't realize this place was in Brno. Next time I'm there I will try to go there one day for lunch. The food looks exactly the same as every other place I've been between around lunch time there so why the hell not.

I was just there during St. Martin's or whatever the holiday is called, where every place has duck and goose on the menu because the guy liked ducks or some poo poo. That bird-haunch in purple paste with steamed bread was served from steamer pans at a company party.

One lesson I've learned - "steak" there, unqualified, usually means a very large gristly lump of ham. If it doesn't say beef it's probably going to be disappointing. And if it says beef it will also be disappointing.


edit: Yumm-o


My quick translation of the caption is pretty unassuming - pork roulade with potatoes and salad. Where is the salad? What is in the roll? Don't ask about salat.

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SLOSifl
Aug 10, 2002


Simply Simon posted:

Potato salad, we've been over this.
No, definitely not in this case. It was a rhetorical question anyway, no meal would be complete without a handful of iceberg lettuce and a tomato wedge or two.

SLOSifl
Aug 10, 2002


Senior Scarybagels posted:

Looks like something a raccoon would find in the garbage.
Looks like something a raccoon would leave in the garbage.

SLOSifl
Aug 10, 2002


I like this one, there's a story here.

Sally is preparing for the Church potluck, green bean casserole recipe laid out on the counter, an unused Pyrex 9x14 greased and ready. Her beautiful children take their sack lunches - ham and cheese for Heather and peanut butter for James - and a kiss for the road, and head to the bus. A loving hug from her husband flutters her belly as he runs out the door to see his perfect children before they get on the bus.

"I need to pick up corn flakes for this casserole" is the last thought before her life changed.

The brakes on the bus were broken before it left the depot that morning. A recall for the cooling fan of the hydraulic pump was to be issued the following day.

Sally was still thinking of corn flakes when the bus hit the curb. She was still thinking about corn flakes when the police and fire trucks poo poo off their lights.

"I told them I would bring a casserole" she thought vaguely. All that's left is a half bowl of uneaten Cheerios and maybe 40 long years of futile life.

Supposed to be corn flakes.

"Supposed to be corn flakes" she said, placing the dish on the fold-out table.

SLOSifl
Aug 10, 2002


It looked like a skeleton hand reaching for the image above as I scrolled through on my phone.



You can have that pink thing mr skeleton it's okay

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SLOSifl
Aug 10, 2002


FetusSlapper posted:

Why do cucumbers suck so bad raw, but when pickled become amazing? Oh right, salt.
Cucumbers are great raw. With salt.

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SLOSifl
Aug 10, 2002


VendaGoat posted:

and just a touch of red wine vinegar.

Salty vinne cukes.
Definitely. Pre-pickles are good shits.

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