Mike Rubenstein's Barbarian Blog

Lunch

mike@barbariangroup.com(Mike Rubenstein) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:29:51 -0400

St. Pfeffer foolishly decided that he would pick up a burrito order from Anna’s for everyone on his way into the office today, despite the cold rain we’ve been ushering in July with. Through the wind and rain though, my super chicken burrito arrived intact and delicious, and from Doug Pfeffer a hero was born.

Lunch

mike@barbariangroup.com(Mike Rubenstein) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:59:42 -0400

Friends, today I made a startling discovery. I hope you’re ready for this, because I certainly wasn’t.

So I wanted to try something new today, but I had a few prerequisites. It had to be cheap, a pickup rather than something to call ahead for, and something free of greasy meats. This all naturally limited my options quite a bit, and among the lunch options being tossed around, Subway seemed to be the way to go.

I was tempted to follow Nick’s lead and just get a veggie sub, but then I remembered that Subway also occasionally stocks a particularly suspect-looking vegetable-based patty. The patty essentially looks like what I imagine some prison Nutraloaf might look like- a flat, speckled slab, mostly in shades of brown. Here, tell me this doesn’t look like an adventure.

Almost as tricky as ordering something that looks like that is figuring out how to dress the roll around it without knowing how it might taste. I went pretty generic, shooting for safely universal ingredients like lettuce, tomato, onion, black olives and mustard. I figured if nothing else, I could strip out the patty and at least have some bread that tasted like a real sandwich.

But things took a real twist when the veggie slab actually turned out to be totally delicious. Not just passably good, but honest-to-goodness delightful. I made sure to save some for dinner, just to stretch out the experience. Maybe it was just the thrill of victory, but I really feel like this might be one of the best things you can order over there. I’m not trying to over-hype it (because come on, this is Subway we’re talking about here), but that shit’s the shit.

Another Office

mike@barbariangroup.com(Mike Rubenstein) — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:48:47 -0400

Lunch

mike@barbariangroup.com(Mike Rubenstein) — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:17:09 -0400

I had sort of a rough weekend from a public health sort of standpoint so I figured I’d best dose myself up with some sort of salad treatment for lunch today. There are certainly a variety of options in the salad department around here, but in the end I decided to go with the Southwestern chicken salad from B.Good, mostly because we were discussing how B.Good really walks a fine line between being a good lunch option and not, and today I was really feeling like mediocrity was the way to go.

Lunch

mike@barbariangroup.com(Mike Rubenstein) — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:28:03 -0400

Microwave bacon is fascinating stuff. I’m no cookologist, but I just can’t wrap my brain around a process by which something seemingly steams in its own juices from within a plastic bag, and yet manages to come out kinda crispy. Fascinating. It definitely added a nice little twist to my cheeseburger at Grill Friday today. We even had some sliced tomato as well, for just a splash of health. But not too much.