Reply to: Breakfasting at your desk

[Sysman]

Same here, can't face anything more than a cup of tea first thing.

Same here. A cup of tea on the balcony in fine weather or in front of the telly when it's cold is just fine for me.

When working in the city it was a case of come in, log on and go and get brekkie somewhere.

Here the in house canteen doesn't really do anything other than croissants and muffins, so I normally go for a banana. Never really been a big breakfast eater.

The last place I worked that had a decent canteen did some loverly salmon and crème fraîche sandwiches. Not cheap, but just the thing once I'd had my first coffee and read the papers.

Oh, another beauty about getting in early is that nobody gives a monkeys that you are reading the papers online as long as you have a few system monitoring screens already up and running

[d000hg]

I sometimes like a pot noodle when I get into work, but never at my own desk.

Ah, a new meaning to "hot-desking". Who's got the UD login?

[NotAllThere]

Tea first thing. Coffee at work. Breakfast at about 1pm. As skipping breakfast is unhealthy, I skip lunch instead.

[norrahe]

Yep, I don't like eating until I've been up for an hour or more.

Another case for breakfast at work is when the hotel you are staying in doesn't start breakfast until 7:30 and you have to be at work by 8.

Plus the one that nobody has mentioned so far: if you are on a clock card system, better to get clocked in than waste time at home.

Same here, can't face anything more than a cup of tea first thing.

When working in the city it was a case of come in, log on and go and get brekkie somewhere.

Here the in house canteen doesn't really do anything other than croissants and muffins, so I normally go for a banana. Never really been a big breakfast eater.

[MarillionFan]

Just eating a double sausage sandwich with a hash brown as I read this.

But then again, I was in the office at 6am.

[Old Greg]

I sometimes like a pot noodle when I get into work, but never at my own desk.

[Churchill]

I love that well cooked thin sliced bacon the Americans have
Thick sliced never seems to be cooked enough

http://youtu.be/nGeKSiCQkPw

The maple kind?

[Freamon]

Obviously.

Is that a pic of your own train set? Can we have some more pics of it?

...

Wait, I think I just found a wide angle shot of the above pic:

[MarillionFan]

I have my own carriage obv.

Obviously.

[Sysman]

I just can’t face food at 5:20 am so yes I have my porridge at my desk: but I do get in 30min early so I can have lots of coffee & catch up on the news

Yep, I don't like eating until I've been up for an hour or more.

Another case for breakfast at work is when the hotel you are staying in doesn't start breakfast until 7:30 and you have to be at work by 8.

Plus the one that nobody has mentioned so far: if you are on a clock card system, better to get clocked in than waste time at home.

[Sysman]

They don't seem to sell them in cloggers (and I have yet to find a bacon sarnie) but apparently cheese sarnies are the desk breakfast ( and lunch and dinner) of choice over here.

I used to like Dutch breakfasts. I shared an apartment with a cloggie and a couple of Norwegians and we were a bit more adventurous than just cheese.

The good thing about weekend parties there was that guests would come back next morning to help clear up and bring fresh breakfast goodies with them.

The bad thing about that was that sooner or later someone would crack open the booze and it'd all start again.

[MarillionFan]

My Dutch ex-girlfriend and I were camping in Middelburg once (before she was ex, obviously) and she nipped off to the local supermarket to get the ingredients for breakfast - I'd got her sold on the undoubted health benefits of a full English by this time.

As we were frying up, she explained that she'd had to ask at the butcher's counter for them to slice some bacon specially thick, as the Dutch way is to slice it extremely thinly and eat it uncooked. The butcher was most interested when she explained the concept of slicing it thicker and then frying it; he'd genuinely never heard of such a thing

NickFitz in 'been out with a girl' shocker.

[Troll]

My Dutch ex-girlfriend and I were camping in Middelburg once (before she was ex, obviously) and she nipped off to the local supermarket to get the ingredients for breakfast - I'd got her sold on the undoubted health benefits of a full English by this time.

As we were frying up, she explained that she'd had to ask at the butcher's counter for them to slice some bacon specially thick, as the Dutch way is to slice it extremely thinly and eat it uncooked. The butcher was most interested when she explained the concept of slicing it thicker and then frying it; he'd genuinely never heard of such a thing

I love that well cooked thin sliced bacon the Americans have
Thick sliced never seems to be cooked enough

[Troll]

I tend to skip breakfast but have a bottle of whisky in my desk drawer. That keeps the hunger away.

Vodka is less obvious...mix with fresh orange juice and people will think you're just being healthy

[Freamon]

You don't order a Special?

I'm a man of the people.