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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 1

BLOB EATER (11/24/2016)
GilaMonster (11/23/2016)
robert.sterbal 56890 (11/23/2016)
What is on your menu for Thanksgiving?
Office coffee and probably a sandwich for lunch from one of the nearby shops.
This is my lunch everyday. I have stopped with the shop bought coffee, rather have my own filtered.

My office kitchen has three types of instant coffee, a pot of brewed filter coffee and a coffee machine for fancier coffees, so I'm not short of options.

Gail Shaw
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Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 173068 More actions · Answer 2

Coffee... <shudder>

Much prefer chocolate or herbal tea (decaf).

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 3

Brandie Tarvin (11/24/2016)
Much prefer chocolate or herbal tea (decaf).

The office kitchen also caters to stranger tastes, with 3 types of tea (two black tea variants and rooibos), Milo and hot chocolate.

What can I say, good company, well stocked kitchen.

Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

We walk in the dark places no others will enter
We stand on the bridge and no one may pass

BLOB EATER SSChampion Points: 14609 More actions · Answer 4

GilaMonster (11/24/2016)
Brandie Tarvin (11/24/2016)
Much prefer chocolate or herbal tea (decaf).
The office kitchen also caters to stranger tastes, with 3 types of tea (two black tea variants and rooibos), Milo and hot chocolate.
What can I say, good company, well stocked kitchen.

Sounds amazing, I have to bring in my own tea bags. They sound like a company that also provides fresh fruit?

Thomas Rushton SSC-Insane Points: 22649 More actions · Answer 5

BLOB EATER (11/24/2016)
GilaMonster (11/24/2016)
Brandie Tarvin (11/24/2016)
Much prefer chocolate or herbal tea (decaf).
The office kitchen also caters to stranger tastes, with 3 types of tea (two black tea variants and rooibos), Milo and hot chocolate.
What can I say, good company, well stocked kitchen.
Sounds amazing, I have to bring in my own tea bags. They sound like a company that also provides fresh fruit?

Sounds like a vast improvement over a previous company, which thought that a Maxpax machine was a suitable substitute for coffee...

Thomas Rushton
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Neil Burton SSC-Insane Points: 23001 More actions · Answer 6

ThomasRushton (11/24/2016)
BLOB EATER (11/24/2016)
GilaMonster (11/24/2016)
Brandie Tarvin (11/24/2016)
Much prefer chocolate or herbal tea (decaf).
The office kitchen also caters to stranger tastes, with 3 types of tea (two black tea variants and rooibos), Milo and hot chocolate.
What can I say, good company, well stocked kitchen.
Sounds amazing, I have to bring in my own tea bags. They sound like a company that also provides fresh fruit?
Sounds like a vast improvement over a previous company, which thought that a Maxpax machine was a suitable substitute for coffee...

We all chipped in and bought one of those Tassimo machines. It saves arguing over coffee if we're all buying our own pods.

On two occasions I have been asked, "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
—Charles Babbage, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

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Gazareth One Orange Chip Points: 27737 More actions · Answer 7

BWFC (11/24/2016)
ThomasRushton (11/24/2016)
BLOB EATER (11/24/2016)
GilaMonster (11/24/2016)
Brandie Tarvin (11/24/2016)
Much prefer chocolate or herbal tea (decaf).
The office kitchen also caters to stranger tastes, with 3 types of tea (two black tea variants and rooibos), Milo and hot chocolate.
What can I say, good company, well stocked kitchen.
Sounds amazing, I have to bring in my own tea bags. They sound like a company that also provides fresh fruit?
Sounds like a vast improvement over a previous company, which thought that a Maxpax machine was a suitable substitute for coffee...
We all chipped in and bought one of those Tassimo machines. It saves arguing over coffee if we're all buying our own pods.

Ha, me & a mate did that at my last place. H&S flipped out because we had it on our desk next to our PC's/plug sockets :exclamation:

Current place has nespresso machines, and yes, fresh fruit.

Eirikur Eiriksson SSC Guru Points: 182912 More actions · Answer 8

Gazareth (11/24/2016)
BWFC (11/24/2016)
ThomasRushton (11/24/2016)
BLOB EATER (11/24/2016)
GilaMonster (11/24/2016)
Brandie Tarvin (11/24/2016)
Much prefer chocolate or herbal tea (decaf).
The office kitchen also caters to stranger tastes, with 3 types of tea (two black tea variants and rooibos), Milo and hot chocolate.
What can I say, good company, well stocked kitchen.
Sounds amazing, I have to bring in my own tea bags. They sound like a company that also provides fresh fruit?
Sounds like a vast improvement over a previous company, which thought that a Maxpax machine was a suitable substitute for coffee...
We all chipped in and bought one of those Tassimo machines. It saves arguing over coffee if we're all buying our own pods.
Ha, me & a mate did that at my last place. H&S flipped out because we had it on our desk next to our PC's/plug sockets :exclamation:
Current place has nespresso machines, and yes, fresh fruit.

Unfortunately, I've found the English coffee culture being almost no better than the American, totally inadequate, must say that it's not my cup of tea. Have resorted to Percol instant Espresso when too lazy/busy to walk to the next proper Italian Caffè, Caffè Vergnano 1882 which is in my mind the best in London.

😎

BTW: it does take me about 90 seconds to get there from the office:-D

Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 9

BLOB EATER (11/24/2016)
GilaMonster (11/24/2016)
Brandie Tarvin (11/24/2016)
Much prefer chocolate or herbal tea (decaf).
The office kitchen also caters to stranger tastes, with 3 types of tea (two black tea variants and rooibos), Milo and hot chocolate.
What can I say, good company, well stocked kitchen.
Sounds amazing, I have to bring in my own tea bags. They sound like a company that also provides fresh fruit?

Yes, there's a fruit bowl in the kitchen. Usually just apples and pears, sometimes plums, bananas and others. There's a biscuit jar, usually half full, box or two of rusks in the cupboard, packets of chips, popcorn and dried fruit sticks on the counter.

And this is with an office that's got about 10 food places within walking distance, most of whom deliver.

Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

We walk in the dark places no others will enter
We stand on the bridge and no one may pass

Y.B. SSChampion Points: 11649 More actions · Answer 10

Damn....we have a water dispenser. LOL :w00t:

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Eirikur Eiriksson SSC Guru Points: 182912 More actions · Answer 11

Y.B. (11/24/2016)
Damn....we have a water dispenser. LOL :w00t:

No cooler? No sparkling water?? No bubbly wine??? No waiter???? No sommelier?????

😎

Gazareth One Orange Chip Points: 27737 More actions · Answer 12

Eirikur Eiriksson (11/24/2016)
Gazareth (11/24/2016)
BWFC (11/24/2016)
ThomasRushton (11/24/2016)
BLOB EATER (11/24/2016)
GilaMonster (11/24/2016)
Brandie Tarvin (11/24/2016)
Much prefer chocolate or herbal tea (decaf).
The office kitchen also caters to stranger tastes, with 3 types of tea (two black tea variants and rooibos), Milo and hot chocolate.
What can I say, good company, well stocked kitchen.
Sounds amazing, I have to bring in my own tea bags. They sound like a company that also provides fresh fruit?
Sounds like a vast improvement over a previous company, which thought that a Maxpax machine was a suitable substitute for coffee...
We all chipped in and bought one of those Tassimo machines. It saves arguing over coffee if we're all buying our own pods.
Ha, me & a mate did that at my last place. H&S flipped out because we had it on our desk next to our PC's/plug sockets :exclamation:
Current place has nespresso machines, and yes, fresh fruit.
Unfortunately, I've found the English coffee culture being almost no better than the American, totally inadequate, must say that it's not my cup of tea. Have resorted to Percol instant Espresso when too lazy/busy to walk to the next proper Italian Caffè, Caffè Vergnano 1882 which is in my mind the best in London.
😎
BTW: it does take me about 90 seconds to get there from the office:-D

Being in Camden, that's maybe just a little far any time I want a coffee 🙂

But if it's really that good I may make an exception!

Eirikur Eiriksson SSC Guru Points: 182912 More actions · Answer 13

Gazareth (11/24/2016)
Eirikur Eiriksson (11/24/2016)
Gazareth (11/24/2016)
BWFC (11/24/2016)
ThomasRushton (11/24/2016)
BLOB EATER (11/24/2016)
GilaMonster (11/24/2016)
Brandie Tarvin (11/24/2016)
Much prefer chocolate or herbal tea (decaf).
The office kitchen also caters to stranger tastes, with 3 types of tea (two black tea variants and rooibos), Milo and hot chocolate.
What can I say, good company, well stocked kitchen.
Sounds amazing, I have to bring in my own tea bags. They sound like a company that also provides fresh fruit?
Sounds like a vast improvement over a previous company, which thought that a Maxpax machine was a suitable substitute for coffee...
We all chipped in and bought one of those Tassimo machines. It saves arguing over coffee if we're all buying our own pods.
Ha, me & a mate did that at my last place. H&S flipped out because we had it on our desk next to our PC's/plug sockets :exclamation:
Current place has nespresso machines, and yes, fresh fruit.
Unfortunately, I've found the English coffee culture being almost no better than the American, totally inadequate, must say that it's not my cup of tea. Have resorted to Percol instant Espresso when too lazy/busy to walk to the next proper Italian Caffè, Caffè Vergnano 1882 which is in my mind the best in London.
😎
BTW: it does take me about 90 seconds to get there from the office:-D
Being in Camden, that's maybe just a little far any time I want a coffee 🙂
But if it's really that good I may make an exception!

Worked in Camden few years back and IIRC, Camden Coffee House, just opposite to the St Michael's Church on Camden rd does a descent Caffè, not as good as 1882 but descent enough.

😎

But then again, going out for Caffè in London is like going for a Pub in NYC, futile exercise

Y.B. SSChampion Points: 11649 More actions · Answer 14

Eirikur Eiriksson (11/24/2016)
Y.B. (11/24/2016)
Damn....we have a water dispenser. LOL :w00t:
No cooler? No sparkling water?? No bubbly wine??? No waiter???? No sommelier?????
😎

Yeah, they had to let go of the sommelier a while back...

Meh at least the pay is good.

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Gazareth One Orange Chip Points: 27737 More actions · Answer 15

Eirikur Eiriksson (11/24/2016)
Gazareth (11/24/2016)
Eirikur Eiriksson (11/24/2016)
Gazareth (11/24/2016)
BWFC (11/24/2016)
ThomasRushton (11/24/2016)
BLOB EATER (11/24/2016)
GilaMonster (11/24/2016)
Brandie Tarvin (11/24/2016)
Much prefer chocolate or herbal tea (decaf).
The office kitchen also caters to stranger tastes, with 3 types of tea (two black tea variants and rooibos), Milo and hot chocolate.
What can I say, good company, well stocked kitchen.
Sounds amazing, I have to bring in my own tea bags. They sound like a company that also provides fresh fruit?
Sounds like a vast improvement over a previous company, which thought that a Maxpax machine was a suitable substitute for coffee...
We all chipped in and bought one of those Tassimo machines. It saves arguing over coffee if we're all buying our own pods.
Ha, me & a mate did that at my last place. H&S flipped out because we had it on our desk next to our PC's/plug sockets :exclamation:
Current place has nespresso machines, and yes, fresh fruit.
Unfortunately, I've found the English coffee culture being almost no better than the American, totally inadequate, must say that it's not my cup of tea. Have resorted to Percol instant Espresso when too lazy/busy to walk to the next proper Italian Caffè, Caffè Vergnano 1882 which is in my mind the best in London.
😎
BTW: it does take me about 90 seconds to get there from the office:-D
Being in Camden, that's maybe just a little far any time I want a coffee 🙂
But if it's really that good I may make an exception!
Worked in Camden few years back and IIRC, Camden Coffee House, just opposite to the St Michael's Church on Camden rd does a descent Caffè, not as good as 1882 but descent enough.
😎
But then again, going out for Caffè in London is like going for a Pub in NYC, futile exercise

Cheers, I'll check it out!