Weekly Photo Challenge: Lunchtime

Lunchtime lately has been from the students’ cooking at the Carrick Cafe.  You’ll see a couple of orders in takeout boxes and containers below. I thought this week’s challenge a fun one to create.

WordPress is hoping for some “offbeat interpretations, mouthwatering photos”.  The photos are supposed to be taken with a phone.  I got that about half right. Once I started searching I had to just stop as there were too too many images of meals consumed at lunchtime!

I think of lunchtime as a short time, dictated by bells.  Here is a lunchtime medley from the archives.  Some shots I probably would not have blogged before.

And from the online etymology dictionary 

lunch (n.) “mid-day repast,” 1786, shortened form of luncheon (q.v.). The verb meaning “to take to lunch” (said to be from the noun) also is attested from 1786:

But as late as 1817 the only definition of lunch in Webster’s is “a large piece of food.” OED says in 1820s the word “was regarded either as a vulgarism, or as a fashionable affectation.” Related: Lunched; lunching. Lunch money is attested from 1868; lunch-time (n.) is from 1821; lunch hour is from 1840. Slang phrase out to lunch ”insane, stupid, clueless” first recorded 1955, on notion of being “not there.” Old English had nonmete ”afternoon meal,” literally “noon-mea

 

 

 

The Deli Counter at La Groceria Italiana (shot on Friday March the 15th with an iPhone)

 

 

 

 

 

Fish Tacos with a fresh lime

 

 

 

Ohio State Fair Food Booth

 

Star Shaped Peanut Butter and Jelly onWhole Wheat   Columbus Ohio

Food Truck Festival Columbus

Steak Salad at Silky’s in Sharpsburg PA

Another shot at the Food Truck Festival

Extra Pickles

Ahhh, Onion Rings

New York City Hot Dog Carts

Blackened Catfish, Rice and Beans and Cornbread Lunch from the Carrick Cafe

Maura has a lunchtime picnic at Grandma’s House

Lunch at the Museum of Modern Art  New York City

Hmmmmm What’s for lunch?  says Mar

Soup and Sandwich in Stamford , Connecticut

A Slice of Pizza

Thelma’s for lunch in Roanoke Virginia

Lined up for Fries at the Potato Patch, Kennywood

Lunchtime on Fellow Bloggers Blogs

I think Francine in Retirement  had a wonderful offbeat interpretation of the zoo animals enjoying their various lunches!  (click here)

and Angeline M shows the pans behind a local taqueria in her post    

See some greens on Chronicles of Illusions

and after Kayaking around Manhattan check out Wind Against Current

Figments of a Dutchess  or check out Falafel in Switzerland

Patricia pretty salad lunches while playing WWF

and a few more

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March 15, 2013 | Categories: Weekly Photo Challenge | Tags: Columbus OH, dining, family, food, food truck, iPhone photography, NewYork City Hot Dog Cart, Ohio State Fair Food Booth, phoneography, photography, pizza, postaday, Roanoke VA, sandwich, Thelma's Cafe, travel, Weekly Photo Chalenge:Lunchtime | 30 Comments »