Chicago MMXII

is there a tokyo lunchbox nearby?

i love their udon noodles a lot

At least you don't go to Subway, like I sometimes do. Chipotle sounds really good right now, actually.

there is a tokyo lunchbox very near me! should i eat there?

There's a TLB in my building, but disappointingly, it's not as good as the one over on Wells, which is delish. So yes, you should eat there.

I hate Subway with a fiery passion. Every time I have eaten at Subway in the past six years, it's made me feel really, really sad.

yes you should get the vegetable udon and have them add the spicy

As Pete Holmes said, "I ate at Subway today, because I gave up."

ok. thanks guys.

This is going to sound ridiculous, but I remember the first time I ate a Subway sub! It was the summer of 1990 or 91 and I was kind of broke so my friend Jay and I split a foot long veggie sub and it was delicious! Like, it was amazing to me and I was so happy that there was this cheap food with lots of vegetables on it, and also black olives and cucumbers... what??!?! So weird and good!

I've never been able to replicate that happiness.

Oh, the halcyon days of Subway veggie subs, before we all became so jaded...

Haha. I actually remember the first time I ate Subway, too. It was in Providence, R.I., in the summer of 1989, and I don't think I liked it.

I remember the first time I ate a Subway sub because I had never eaten a cold cut sandwich from a restaurant before.

It was a BMT.

Bowel Movement and Tomato?

i used to get the veggie patty subs at subway, which are even grosser than the veggie subs, with little bland gardenburger things in the middle

When I want Asian food for lunch, I'll decide between

a) Tokyo Lunchbox (sushi, or a tofu teriyaki rice bowl)
b) Wow Bao (combo of veggie DUMPLINGS! and spicy peanut noodles)
c) Green Apple Grill (veggie bi bim bop)

(G.A.G. is in the food court at 201 N. Clark.)

G.A.G. is not the best acronym. For anything.

Way worse than BMT.

green apple sounds good. lots of condescending comments on their yelp page about people eating at mcdonalds and popeyes in the same food court.

It's on the second floor of the food court, so I never actually noticed it until I started using the Skyway this past winter to get to Wow Bao.

I remember my very first Subway visit too. Here in Salisbury NC in late August 1988. Turkey, I think. Had a summer cold.

The cat sitters are sendings lots of texts with pics of yr cats.

Did you go with Chicago Pet Sitters??? Because they do that! They also leave absolutely PRECIOUS little notes about your cats. I love them so much.

John, I've often wanted to go to G.A.G. (lol) but I think that whole food court smells weird so I was skeptical. I'm going to try it on your recommendation.

The last time we had the pet sitters come, the sitter sent us a series of story-like texts based on the conceit that the cats had been out partying late the previous night, which was why they were so sleepy when she came to visit. She also signed off her text messages with one of the following closings: Bye for Meow! Have a mewo-velous day! Hope you have a "mice" day!!!

That is twee as HELL but seriously, I love it. I want the person who checks on my cats to be exactly like this person.

Whoops, I meant "meow-velous" obviously. OBVIOUSLY.

Also I am pleased and probably not surprised that so many of you remember your first Subway experience.

Ha!

Hey you know what? It's 100 degrees and not done getting hot yet. We're supposed to hit 104 today, and I have no problem believing that at all.

I'm going to try it on your recommendation.

Keep in mind, the only thing I've had is the bi bim bap, so I can't vouch for the pho or anything else.

I'm going to go outside now. Because I've never been to Iraq in August before, and I want to simulate the experience. Hopefully without the IEDs.

I just went outside. I didn't go far, but it was okay.

Having read some Green Apple Grill yelp reviews, I feel I must say that my problem with the smell of the food court isn't that it smells like a food court. It's that the second floor smells a little bit like trash.

You can bring your laptops/tablets here since there's free WiFi! I mean, it's from the McDonald's downstairs but hey, it works.

I hope the McDonald's wifi makes this person fat.

tokyo lunchbox was good! even if my tofu udon had like four pieces of tofu and they didn't make it spicy even after confirming that i wanted it spicy. it was still really tasty and i will eat there again.

also what's up with them calling it u-dong when everyone else calls it udon? some kind of immature JOKE?

I am pleased and probably not surprised that so many of you remember your first Subway experience.

It's easier to remember since every time feels like the first time. In that it is exactly the same. It's some kind of holodeck of dining. You can call up the same program again and again, and it never changes. It's more true for Subway than it is for any other fast food restaurant, I would argue, even McDonald's. Burger King has a more varied menu, FFS.

speaking of immature jokes, our external relations person just sent us a draft of our monthly newsletter with the organization name "b1g duck" spelled as "b1g d1ck."

The other day out of nowhere I remembered the tables at Wendy's with the old-timey newspaper ads printed upon them.

I remember those!!! My mom and I used to go to Wendy's a lot back when they had the food bar because it was cheap as well and conveniently located off the highway between our house and where my mom was going to school.

I laugh at U-DONG p much every time I see the sign.

Aaaand my boss just came in and is eating a Subway sub at his desk.

when sarah was pregnant she got cravings for subway sandwiches and then it turned a corner where for a while even the smell of a subway restaurant totally revolted her

I want to turn that corner. I really do. I wish that food that nasty revolted me.

The other night, I ate veal and prosciutto in a heavy beef gravy. I would be a better person if I ate that every day than if I ate at Subway twice a week.

I kind of don't understand that. If you actually thought Subway was that nasty, it would revolt you and you wouldn't eat it. But you don't think it's nasty so you eat it twice a week.

Unless this is some kind of weird self-flagellation thing. Like instead of wearing a hairshirt every day you eat Subway sandwiches for lunch sometimes.

It's not that hard. I crave it, eat it, and then regret it. You ever drink too much?

Guys I'm out in western MN right now and I just want to say it's really hot here too.

If Subway sandwiches give you an increase sense of euphoria and well being, followed by slurred speech and difficulty balancing, heightened emotions and decreased inhibitions, followed by cause dehydration, headaches, and nausea the next day, then I can see that analogy, yes.

Ok stop it. You're defending Subway. Get a grip.

we were going to go to springfield this weekend and now we don't have to! i feel like i got a reprieve!

btw

quiddities and agonies of the ruling class - a rolling new york times thread

I'm not defending Subway! Subway is vile and people who crave it are disgusting savages.

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or pregnant

Sarah repented her savagery. All is forgiven.

speaking of immature jokes, our external relations person just sent us a draft of our monthly newsletter with the organization name "b1g duck" spelled as "b1g d1ck."

i loled because i am immature