I have the rather unfortunate luck of working in Park Royal. For the uninitiated this is actually the largest industrial park in Western Europe and a rather grotty place just next to Acton in NW London. I have been working here for just over two years, previous to that I was working on New Bond Street, two places which couldn't be more different if they tried. Lunch breaks are pretty non existent as there is not really anywhere to go, there isn't even a blade of grass in sight, let alone a park (Park Royal is a very misleading place. Similar to the first time you get taken to Piccadilly Circus and realise you are at a junction and not a circus at all. CRUSHING DISAPPOINTMENT).
Lunch options are predominately either the caff, the other caff or the Lebanese caff. Not actually sure how one spells café pronounced without the e but I'm going with caff. There is, however, one giant feature of Park Royal that you can't ignore which is the giant 24 hour Asda opposite Central Middlesex Hospital; do hope I'm doing all of this justice. Asda gets seriously dull after a while as there are no cooking facilities to speak of at work unless you fancy losing a few kilos through contracting a combination of Norovirus and Lymes disease from the mouse infested kitchen. This means options are limited and laziness usually leads to a bog standard pre packaged sandwich. I can't complain, these are really cheap, but really not that nice, so yesterday I took the not particularly interesting or brave move to Pimp My Sandwich.
Construction Recipe:
1 Asda ham and mustard sandwich
A pot of Bromley's Pickle Company Tomato and Chilli Jam
1 packet of 'Real Ox' Crisps - (in light of recent discoveries they are probably on to a good marketing ploy putting 'real' in front of their animal ingredients....)
1 plastic knife (for fear of kitchen contamination one must only use ones personal plastic knife)
Combine.
NB: Please note that the knife is only for spreading and is not for eating.
Eat.
It doesn't actually taste that great but is a darn sight better than the un-pimped version.
No photo is necessary. Seriously.
Lunch options are predominately either the caff, the other caff or the Lebanese caff. Not actually sure how one spells café pronounced without the e but I'm going with caff. There is, however, one giant feature of Park Royal that you can't ignore which is the giant 24 hour Asda opposite Central Middlesex Hospital; do hope I'm doing all of this justice. Asda gets seriously dull after a while as there are no cooking facilities to speak of at work unless you fancy losing a few kilos through contracting a combination of Norovirus and Lymes disease from the mouse infested kitchen. This means options are limited and laziness usually leads to a bog standard pre packaged sandwich. I can't complain, these are really cheap, but really not that nice, so yesterday I took the not particularly interesting or brave move to Pimp My Sandwich.
Construction Recipe:
1 Asda ham and mustard sandwich
A pot of Bromley's Pickle Company Tomato and Chilli Jam
1 packet of 'Real Ox' Crisps - (in light of recent discoveries they are probably on to a good marketing ploy putting 'real' in front of their animal ingredients....)
1 plastic knife (for fear of kitchen contamination one must only use ones personal plastic knife)
Combine.
NB: Please note that the knife is only for spreading and is not for eating.
Eat.
It doesn't actually taste that great but is a darn sight better than the un-pimped version.
No photo is necessary. Seriously.
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