In a way, this kind of meal is like a "smash and grab," except that I would call it a "snap and grab." You see, I snap a picture and then let anyone who wants to grab (some of) my food.
I guess Wednesday's meal would have been a better qualifier for the "snap and grab" award, because today all I gave away was the main dish, but still, I think you get the point.
After ridding myself of the "hot mess," I hesitated for quite some time before I finally started to eat the salad, since I was worried that the creamy-looking stuff was mayonnaise, which would have ruined the salad for me. I have no idea what the sauce actually was, but at least it wasn't the dreaded mayo. With every bite I took, I kept imagining I was going to taste mayo, however, so it was hard to really enjoy the salad. I basically had to keep telling myself, "It tastes fine, really. It tastes fine."
The other thing about the salad was, as you might have guessed, the fact that it contained cucumbers, even though it was called "macaroni salad." I asked some of the kids I was sitting with what was up with that and the main answer I got was that Japanese regularly eat cucumber. You could have fooled me!
As for the bread, well, it was as bland as it could be, and it had no trace whatsoever of cheese, even though it was supposedly "cheese bread." Yeah, sure. Whatever you say, Lunch Lady.
Luckily, the "meal" ended on a good note, with dessert in the form of "calcium yogurt."
While eating the good stuff, however, I gave some of my tablemates grief for using paper spoons to eat theirs, rather than the spoons they had already used to eat their "hot mess." After quite a bit of back and forth, the conclusion on the part of the paper-spoon users was that they are not wasting the paper spoons, since the spoons will be tossed into the garbage whether they are used or not. I find that hard to believe and ended the discussion by saying that the Lunch Lady shouldn't even be buying paper spoons in the first place.
Unfortunately, none of the kids I discussed the matter with told me that they would stop using the paper spoons in the future, so I guess I will have to try again some other day to get them to see the light.
At the very least, you could say today's lunch was educational, so I'll add a point for that!
Total points: 5
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