To eat al desko is a joking term for having lunch at work without leaving the office. It’s a play on al fresco, meaning “in the openair.” This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Al Desko”
Maybe everybody knows this term, but I just learned it, al-desco.
Do you know this term?
Yes.
If you eat al-desco, it’s when you eat your lunch at your desk.
That’s right.
Don’t do that.
Get up.
At least go to the conference room.
It’s not healthy.
But sometimes you can’t help it.
But what I didn’t realize was that that term has been around since the 1980s,
And I’ve had plenty of times when I’ve dined al-desco,
That is A-L, separate word, D-E-S-K-O, Aldesco.
And it’s play off of Alfresco, which is outdoors.
Yeah, but I’m dining Aldesco.
Yeah, you know, it’s funny.
I should look that term up and find the history of it because it has the sound of this funny little term that will never last.
But here we are talking about it 30 or 40 years later.
