納豆美味しい? Exactly: Not(!) 美味しい!

As soon as I realized that today's meal included liver, I knew that going to the cafeteria today was going to be a mistake. Nevertheless, for the sake of this blog, I went and had lunch.

The salad was practically a repeat of yesterday's salad both ingredients-wise and taste-wise. Hint: Not great.

The soup was pretty bad. I just don't understand the point of miso. I picked out some of the tofu and some of the eggplant, but gave the rest of the soup away (not to one of my usual "vacuum cleaners," however).

As for the main dish, well, luckily there was some chicken and potato wedges in there or I really would have gone hungry. The carrots and those green things were just okay.

Because the guy sitting in front of me liked liver, I gave him everything that I didn't eat and went back for seconds, hoping beyond hope that the lady serving me would scoop up only chicken and potato wedges. Since this isn't Hollywood, however, my dream did not come true. As a matter of fact, I got mostly everything that I was trying to avoid.

Go figure.

Once again, I picked out the good stuff and gave the rest to the guy in front of me. At least he was a happy camper.

The other story of the day was the mounds of natto (納豆) that were consumed at my table. I sat with six students and five of them had that awful fermented bean concoction. What's worse: I think all of them had seconds, and one guy even had a whopping five(!) portions of the stuff (including three at once, as seen in the picture). I'll never understand what anyone finds appealing about fermented soybeans.

Oh, and I also got a mini lesson on the difference between two types of natto.

Isn't that great?

Today's meal might have sucked, but at least it was educational!

Total points: 4 (3 for the food, plus 1 for the entertainment!)