Pret A Manger vs Eat

[Orang Utan]

On a serious note, I bring soup in and get a roll from a shop, keeping butter in fridge at work. I seriously don't know what I would do if I couldn't do that - everywhere I've ever worked has had a fridge.
I could never buy anything from Pret or Eat without feeling angry at myself. It's just not an option for me.

 

[trashpony]

Take ingredients to work weekly, stick in fridge, make sandwiches at desk/in canteen
If you spend 3 nights a week at a lover's, ask nicely if you can keep some sarnie gear round her gaff.
If not, get up an hour earliers and run round yours (good way of getting some exercise AND you're eating healthier.

We don't have a fridge or a microwave or anywhere to keep food in my office. What should I do?

Yours, puzzled of EC4

 

[Orang Utan]

Sure, these are all viable options, but not doing it doesn't make a person lazy.

Lazy! LAZY!
You obviously don't like being called lazy - maybe you protest too much. Weren't you complaining the other day about how much money you spent on lunch every week?

 

[Orang Utan]

We don't have a fridge or a microwave or anywhere to keep food in my office. What should I do?

Yours, puzzled of EC4

Ask for one! It's a basic right (IMO).
Or get another job.
I'd still bring my own sarnies in - I'm way too tight to justify spending £3 a day on lunch

 

[trashpony]

Ask for one! It's a basic right (IMO).
Or get another job.
I'd still bring my own sarnies in - I'm way too tight to justify spending £3 a day on lunch

We have a staff canteen and get £2.75 to spend in it every day. I'd still rather bring my own sandwiches but the Cranks ones aren't bad.

 

[ChrisFilter]

Orang! You buy rolls at the shop? Capitalist scum. Delice de France are getting rich and killing the third world with robots all on the back of your lazy roll purchases.

The end of the world is indeed nigh

 

[ChrisFilter]

Lazy! LAZY!
You obviously don't like being called lazy - maybe you protest too much. Weren't you complaining the other day about how much money you spent on lunch every week?

Yep, and I've cut my spending by loads by taking lunch in. Doesn't make those that choose not to wrong, or lazy.

 

[Orang Utan]

I hate that places of work don't provide self-catering facilities - they won't provide us with proper washing up facilities in order to encourage us to spend our money in the canteen (£4 average for a meal) - there are dishwashers at the coffee points but your crockery goes missing if you use them (so I keep a sponge scourer and washing up liquid in my desk). It's probably unreasonable and impractical but I think they should provide full cooking facilities, with a full-time cleaner, one on each floor.

 

[Orang Utan]

Orang! You buy rolls at the shop? Capitalist scum. Delice de France are getting rich and killing the third world with robots all on the back of your lazy roll purchases.

The end of the world is indeed nigh

I don't buy that shit - I buy it from an independent bakers called Stiles - so nuuuurghh!

 

[ChrisFilter]

I don't buy that shit - I buy it from an independent bakers called Stiles - so nuuuurghh!

Touché. You're a god damned hero, Orang, a god damned hero

Vive la revolution!

 

[PacificOcean]

Bravo! You're all making a bunch of pricks richer cos you can't be arsed spending one minute of your day buttering bread

But what about making those who make the butter or the bread richer. You can make your own bread and churn your own butter. How far back in the chain do you want to go?

 

[trashpony]

But what about making those who make the butter or the bread richer. You can make your own bread and churn your own butter. How far back in the chain do you want to go?

I used to butter bread in the TSB staff canteen. That was a shit job

 

[Orang Utan]

But what about making those who make the butter or the bread richer. You can make your own bread and churn your own butter. How far back in the chain do you want to go?

As far back as I do, of course

 

[Orang Utan]

Touché. You're a god damned hero, Orang, a god damned hero

Vive la revolution!

Glad you see it my way!
Soon everyone will be making their own stews at work in massive cooking pots and taking turns in their office to feed their hungry colleagues

 

[ChrisFilter]

Glad you see it my way!
Soon everyone will be making their own stews at work in massive cooking pots and taking turns in their office to feed their hungry colleagues

Nah, the veggies will moan and ruin it for the rest of us

 

[Chz]

If Pret is so good how come it is doing so appallingly overseas?

Its New York stores are simply not pulling in the bucks.

The reason is that Americans know what a good sandwich is and how much you should pay and there are many, many, stores in New York already supplying good sandwiches. That is why Pret does badly. In England though, too many people are prepared to eat utter crap and bang on about how OK it is.

Anyone who pays £2.50+ for a pre-packaged semi-fresh sandwich where you have no idea where the ingredients come from obvioulsy has more money than sense.

Exactly. People harp on about local sandwich shops in England, but the good ones are few and far between. Most of them sell mayo sandwiches, with some sort of protein-based filler to make the mayo a bit less gloopy. I can't get over how awful Pret is, and EAT's not far behind (as other people have said, their pies, soups and breakfasts are ace). Honestly, most of the time Subway is the best bet.

 

[KellyDJ]

Eat!!

I bought a salad in Pret last year and the pitta bread was all mouldy Not just a little bit either, the whole thing on one side was green.

 

[rennie]

I went into Pret today n it's pricey!!! I will continue to bring food with me from home. so much healthier too!

 

[BEARBOT]

i dont like sandwiches much AND these shops arent cheap at all for what you get IMHO
there is nothing you couldnt make just as well at home,the sandwiches/salads arent special
or complex at all! exceptions being the baked goods or the sushi(baked goods especially arent quick and easy to make at home)

.....freinds who do like sandwiches tell me TREATS(lots of branches in central london) is a lot CHEAPER.. im long term unemployed so i have time to prepare food at home

orang is right ...it is BULLSHIT when offices wont provide a fridge/microwave(or better still a cooker,cos microwaves kill the vitamins in food many people think)
i wouldnt come down on people who prefer to eat at these chains(esp if they dont have a kitchen at work)when you work its kind of a way of treating yrself to eat in them...

never tried EAT
so the only thing ive ever eaten at pret was takeaway sushi twice(was not bad)