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I can honestly say that, aside from "good pubs", Pret a Manger is the thing I miss most having moved from London to San Francisco. There's just nothing like it for quick, easy, good coffee-and-premade-food (or I just haven't found it - in which case, please consider this a masterful invocation of Cunningham's Law).

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I think SF is more of a burrito and onigiri type of town. Some of my favorite grab and go spots are Asian grocery stores.

Burritos make an excellent substitute for Döner.

Onigiri look like what happens to picnic loaves when they reach islands at the other end of eurasia?

I think of onigiri as a Japanese variant of the Cornish Pasty. I imagine it does have similar roots: making an edible wrapper for food that preserves it until lunch.

And it's very good indeed at those things!

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