I crave a tuna melt like never before.

So Kevin and I were just talking about our shared love for tuna melts. More specifically, the tuna melts they make over at the New York Street Cafe, which is half a block from our TechTV studios. For some reason, these tuna melts take an exceptionally long time to make (15 minutes of salivation is just unnecessary, don't you think?), but oh, the reward is so very satisfying.

Now, because of our conversation, I must have a tuna melt before I wither up and die right here. Hold the onions, please.

I've gone back and forth from love to hate and back again with the local restaurants and cafes around our offices and studios. Inside our main office building is a basic run-o-da-mill breakfast/lunch cafe called Cafe Moda. When I first started working here, I was totally dependent on Moda to keep me alive, for I had absolutely no time to actually venture BEYOND my building for nourishment.

Problem with captive audience cafes like this is everything inside them is too expensive. I grew to like Moda less and less. $6.00 for half a spinach salad? Hell no, I won't pay! And I didn't want anyone else to either. So I founded a company-wide protest group, TSAM (TechTV Staffers Against Moda). Many joined, but quickly fell from TSAM grace as their bellies ached and clocks ticked. TSAM is now officially on review with the Board of Directors because of insider trading (yes, I crossed the picket line. I was so hungry!). So, Moda's back. I love spinach salads. Whatever.

Then there's the NYSC across from the studios. They, too, have what I consider to be ridiculous prices when it comes to simple avocado sandwiches. For a good month, I refused to enter their premises. I chose instead to live off the soda crackers and Cup-o-Soups stocked inside our studio kitchen. But slowly as my body began to eat itself in protest of salt-in-a-cup snacks, I gathered up my pride and slithered back to NYSC for an avocado sandwich. Now, I'm in there almost every day. Sometimes for just a sumptuous peanut butter cookie, other times to devour the mighty tuna melt. Today is all about the latter.

So anyway, I think the moral of my story is that I'm weak and lazy and choose to spend my hard-earned $$ rather than pack a lunch. But I'd like to think I'm also paying homage to my local cafe. I don't know... I'm just really hungry and I need a f***ing tuna melt before I freak out.

Today's pic clearly represents my endless enthusiasm for my job, and of course the nook game we like to call "King of the Hill. " Two people stand on the edge of the nook. They push each other till someone falls. The winner does a little dance. I'm really good at this game.

Comments

[Mark]

Wow Sarah, you are so in love with the Dark Tipper.

[Tammy]

yeah, she is.

[Yoshi]

Yeah - I see it all day long - I need someone

[Jason]

SarahI find myself in a similar dilemma when it comes to finding cheap healthy food on the fly. My office sits above a McDonalds and a Subway. After working here for several years the mere scent of CrapDonalds makes me want to spew chunks and Subway is plain gross after a week or so.

Lately my solution to this problem has been bringing breakfast cereals to eat. The nice thing is that there is a wide variety of them out there and some are healthy. Cereal sometimes isn�t enough to fill my ponch so I buy a box of granola bars. This helps to floor my cravings and a box usually lasts all week. Bringing bottled water is also key.

The Screen Savers rocks! I�m a huge fan of TechTv. Keep up the good work.

CiaoJason in Toronto

[Mean Gene]

Nothing like a little Yoshi humor to brighten anyone's day.

I have that Whoa-oh Black Betty bam-a-lam song going through my head now. How'd that happen?

[Dan]

they have a subways inside where i work very confinent except it cost $7 to get a 6" sub bag of chips and a med soda. seeing as im a volunteer and theres always a long ass line theres no way in hell i will ever go there when i can go to the kfcs down the block and get chiken strips potatoes a biscuit and soda and still have $ left or theres burger king where i can get like 2 combos. so im 2 young to give a rats ass bout eating healthy and way under payed to go to overcharged subways. thank god fast food joint places prices r always the same

[Patrick]

Simple solution: Get the recipe and make yourself a few hundred of thos tuna melts. Then eat them as your only meal for a week. You'll run for a cheeseburger just for the chage of pace!





:p

Seriously, to eat healthy, pack your own lunch. Only way I can find.

[A 14 year old]

Sarah began to eat herself? interesting.

[Ted]

How down to earth and refreshing you are. If I ever make it out there I�ll have to bring you one of our avocadoes. They�re my favorite food when in season and they�re the best!!! I always thought everyone that works there didn�t really have to make a living. Not that I think you guys don't have drive. just guilty of assumption I guess. I only finished paying off my cards last year. I hate to think of the waste. These days if I can�t afford it I don�t buy it. So I guess you do rule. Or at least you�re from the same planet anyway.

[eggbert]

i must say i was pretty grossed out by tuna melts for a LONG time, but now thanks to me being very very polite and accepting one from someone so kind to make one for me at 3am (ok, i was a little drunk), my world has changed. it used to be that i would have a filet o' fish over a tuna melt anyday. what an idiot i was.

[Sue]

Good picture! It almost looks like you're trying to persuade Kevin to get up and dance in the Nook. :)

[Vicki]

mmmm.... tuna melts. it is 6:14 am here and I am on my way to make them for breakfast (ever have a tuna melt with avocado? The best! Thanks for the inspiration :)

[John P]

Your mama's gonna wash your mouth out with soap girl...(prolly still smell like tuna though :^D)

[Jonathan]

All this talk about food is only making me hungry! Sometimes you just gotta eat junk food and forget the healthy stuff. Usually while watching TSS!:) Oh yea, got my blog up and running (www.ransbottom.com). Visit!!!

[Shmatt]

Must be nice to be able to eat lunch. *daydreams*

Ah, the "joys" of working in Systems in a Distribution Center startup.

They need to distribute food. awww yeeeah.

[slane]

Hey guys, because of people falsely posting as me, I'm going to refrain from commenting in the comments section as of now. That way, if you see something from me, you'll know it isn't me. I'll still be reading your comments, so keep up the positive energy!s

[Jimmy]

I think it's unprofessional for you to be involved with someone else on the same show. If you and Kevin are getting it on, fine.. just keep it to yourself. His little comments about you on the show are very unprofessional. It's like he's never had a girlfriend before and feels the need to brag about it on national TV.

[idiot]

Jimmy, you act like TSS is a real TV show.

Kevin looks like the that punk who was picked on in High School and spent all his time in the computer lab playing Doom with that Foreign Exchange kid from Lithuania because thats the only place he wouldnt get his ass kicked.

"Yeah he knocked my books out of my hands and made me eat paper in front of the classroom but I bet he doesnt even know A+, what a loser" --- Kevin (10th grade)

[Jesse]

Sarah Lane is hot

[MeOfCourse77]

Yes, she is hot...but was that really her that said she wasn't going to post, or was it an imposter?!?!?

How hot does a tuna have to be before it melts?

[Jimmy]

Kevin thinks he's a leet haxor. But he ain't. His week of xbox mods was so full of errors I laughed out loud. I think all he did was read a faq on how to mod and then ordered up some chips.

[Ness]

Sarah...lets remember..they charge more at NYSC becuase they use the name New York...everything is more expensive here!!!

But what can I say...Nothing is better then a New York sandwich!

[Jacobi]

Sarah you are lovin kevin soooooo muchTechtv rocksWe need more Sarah on screen savers look jessica got to host an episode why not sarahOat meal it will solve any food delema

[Kevin]

I LOVE YOU SARAH

[tim ransbottom]

who the heck are you? and are you related to me?

[online roulette]

great blog!

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