Dining al fresco, or outdoors, can be delightful when the weather’s nice.
Dining ‘al desko,’ or eating at the office desk where you spend 40 hours a week, isn’t always pretty.
There’s even a website, Sad Desk Lunch, that lets people upload photos of dreary desktop dining: canned salmon eaten off aluminum foil, blueberry Eggo waffles straight out the plastic sleeve, and ramen noodles cooked inside the office coffee pot, captioned, “Someone did it. Someone really did it.”
But solutions exist, ranging from stocking a desk-drawer pantry to using such gadgets as the George Foreman grill, which for $13 comes in a small size ideal for cubicle use.
“I turned my rather ordinary brought-in, turkey-and-cheese sandwich on wheat bread into a nice grilled, turkey-and-cheese sandwich that melted in my mouth,” wrote a blogger who calls himself the “cubicle cook.” “I got a wet paper towel and the grill was cleaned off in seconds. No mess. No grease.”