(Seriously, the whole Twitter is about "tweeting what you had for lunch" thing is a myth. Most don't).
'POD might be up for it,' I thought, reasoning that I'd make a good brand ambassador for their healthy lunch thing.
But as the ladies press on, meeting a few natives along the way, including a baby yeti and a cannibal dressed as a German military officer (the remains of his lunch), things take a curious turn.
That summer's afternoon, my mother was clearing up lunch things in the caravan – I can't remember where my father was.
When I tried it out for lunch, things had been taken down a notch, albeit in the best way: instead of synchronized plate deliveries, the service was more easygoing, while prices were lower and the décor more open and modern.
Yet we can still enter into Sam Weller's lip-smacking excitement about the lunch: "Wery good thing is weal pie, when you know the lady as made it, and is quite sure it ain't kittens.… A wery good notion of lunch it is".
"We are getting the sense that in the areas where the business community lunches, things are getting better," Mr. Hunt said.
The lunch is, among other things, a weekly check-in — though this week it's sparsely attended, with many of the professors off-campus for the summer.
I think the first day of work is the same anywhere: you don't know the lay of the land -- who are the cool kids, will you be included, where will you sit in the lunch room, that sort of thing.
This is the same thing with the lunch ladies.
