And then there is PHO... a delicious Vietnamese soup:
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at 08:57 PM, Ken Porowski ken.porow...@cit.com said:
If it came out of a vending machine it was edible and/or drinkable.
You must have had a better class of vending machines. The sandwiches
were soggy and the
He didn't say they were good, just edible. :-)
Rex
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'foo' is being denigated unfairly in this caption.
foo == fu is an important Chinese culinary term. Pork fu, for
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If it came out of a vending machine it was edible and/or drinkable.
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English fish and chips. Two lots for lunch, once for dinner and on the way
home from the pub was my record on one notable day.
In London, the doner kebab and pints of London Pride were the favoured food
of the early 80s.
On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 4:20 AM, Ed Finnell efinnel...@aol.com wrote:
Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
When I started with computers, programmers subsisted on a diet of pizza and
coffee. The new generation ate popcorn, which I find less satisfying than
pizza. At least one company collected recyclable paper and used the proceeds
to buy beer for a monthly party. I
W dniu 2014-04-07 12:31, Elardus Engelbrecht pisze:
Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
When I started with computers, programmers subsisted on a diet of pizza and
coffee. The new generation ate popcorn, which I find less satisfying than
pizza. At least one company collected recyclable paper and
On 5 April 2014 21:14, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote:
What data center food/drink customs have others encountered?
In my early days as junior sysprog we did a lot of late night testing.
In those days long predating the popularization of good coffee beans
and methods,
When I started with computers, programmers subsisted on a diet of
pizza and coffee. The new generation ate popcorn, which I find less
satisfying than pizza. At least one company collected recyclable paper
and used the proceeds to buy beer for a monthly party. I used to go on
periodic suganiyoth[1]
Pecan clusters and Peach Nehi were sustenance for systems types. Dr. H Pat
has a joke about them in one of his talks. Beanie Weenies and chili were
popular in cooler months. There was a discount gas station close to campus
and either Fritos corn chips or cheese sticks were popular snacks.
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