Lunch Judgment, Week 4: Tell Jon about your lunch, and he will rate it from 1 to 10

Hello, everyone, and welcome to Week 4 of the 2013 season of LUNCH JUDGMENT! I hope that I enjoy myself.

If you’re new here, this is how it works:

1. You leave a comment below, describing the lunch you have eaten or are eating today.

2. Time permitting, I will respond with a comment of my own. I will rate your lunch on a scale of one to 10, and I will do my best to explain my rationale.

3. You will accept this ruling as accurate, absolute, and superseding of all municipal, state, and federal rulings.

**SPECIAL STIPULATION**

If you submit a photo of your lunch in your report between now and 4:00 Eastern, you will be guaranteed a rating (max. 10 lunches). I realize that I am springing this rule on you quite suddenly, and that you perhaps already ate your lunch and didn’t think to take a photo. I am sorry. Remember this stipulation for next week.

The logic behind this rule, frankly, is that I have grown suspicious of you. Your lunches have become so great that I think you’re fudging. I think you’re describing a lunch you had a day or a week or a year ago. There’s no way 70 percent of you are eating a god-dang shrimp cocktail, you dig? This is my solution toward curbing all this tomfoolery.

I will start by sharing my own lunch. You can see a photo above: three (3) scrambled eggs on toasted sourdough bread. I first let some minced garlic simmer in a half-tablespoon of butter for a minute, then put in the eggs and slowly scrambled them for a good 7-8 minutes on low heat until they came together. When they did, I finished them off by adding another half-tablespoon of butter, placing them on a thick piece of sourdough toast, and seasoning with salt, pepper and chives.

This is a Breakfast Lunch. I had it with coffee. It was not complete, but Lord, was it tasty, and Lord, was it exactly what I wanted. I will award myself an 8.0/10.0 rating. There is absolutely nothing wrong with a Breakfast Lunch.

And now it’s your turn.