@llewelly @MCDuncanLab @futurebird If you've ever pulled a sandwich from a bag, and seen the apple shaped dent of grape jelly pressed through the bread like a nasty bruise, you know exactly what I mean by 'mac'

pretty sure I have ptsd from this sandwich

@jgordon @futurebird @llewelly

Yeah neither her nor my mom are reliable witnesses when recalling which of them caused what family drama.

I’m sure there was an incident probably standard stubborn kid stuff, mom over reacted, sis over reacted and as a consequence my brother and I are making the only sandwiches 2nd graders can make somewhat reliably.

Although it is something of an art to get peanut butter on bread without tearing the bread, as I recall.

@futurebird @jgordon @llewelly

I realize I totally hijjaked your thread with sandwiches. I’m sorry. 🥺

@Wyatt_H_Knott @llewelly @futurebird

Yeah I don’t get the Mac reference, but I do know the apple indent in a sandwich.

I did eventually graduate to ham sandwiches and an apple dent in a ham sandwich was quite the tragedy, all crushed lettuce and slimy mayo bread.

@MCDuncanLab
Heh. Without recognizing it as drama my mother happily relates how the "kids make their own lunches" protocol happened in our family. Apparently when my elder sister was 6 she was taken to task for bringing her sandwiches home uneaten for a week. She countered with the sandwiches not being made the way she liked them (maybe it was margarine not butter?) and from that day on lunch making became the kid's job. Including our eldest sister, who was not involved in the exchange at all. When the younger siblings started school we got our lunches made for us for a week. I recall a lot of margarine and marmite sandwiches. On brown bread.
@jgordon @futurebird @llewelly

@MCDuncanLab @Wyatt_H_Knott @llewelly

Macintosh apple?

@futurebird @mina We originally got standard sheet-pan pizza (corners and all) and didn't really have much bickering over which bits of it (You could ask for a specific type of piece if you wanted, but most people didn't care that much) but around my junior year they switched to a different supplier that appeared to just be segments of a continuous conveyor-belt pizza with only two "crust edges" (It looked like someone took a rectangular pizza and sliced the crusts off the short ends). Given that the crust on the old stuff were both A: enormous, and B: practically made of granite, the new stuff was objectively an improvement...

@MCDuncanLab
Heh. Without recognizing it as drama my mother happily relates how the "kids make their own lunches" protocol happened in our family. Apparently when my elder sister was 6 she was taken to task for bringing her sandwiches home uneaten for a week. She countered with the sandwiches not being made the way she liked them (maybe it was margarine not butter?) and from that day on lunch making became the kid's job. Including our eldest sister, who was not involved in the exchange at all. When the younger siblings started school we got our lunches made for us for a week. I recall a lot of margarine and marmite sandwiches. On brown bread.
@jgordon @futurebird @llewelly

@RedRobyn @jgordon @futurebird @llewelly

Dang, your mom and mine were cut from the same cloth.

@MCDuncanLab @llewelly

Thing thing about only "poor kids" bringing their lunch wasn't really true at our school. Most of the kids who brought a lunch just had very fussy mothers who thought the cafeteria food was terrible.

They were not totally wrong.

But my lunches... they were worse. I have memories of friends taking up a collection to feed me because I'd brought something that made no sense... like two cups of white rice with ketchup and nothing else.

@RedRobyn @MCDuncanLab @jgordon @llewelly

I remember doing "margarine and marmite" well... just marmite. But it was another attempt at "exotic food" no one in Ohio knows about marmite but my grandmother had some for some reason and let me take the jar.

I'd read about characters in some book eating "marmite on toast" so I brought that for lunch one day.

It was VERY sticky and got stuck in the little plastic sandwich bag. "This is what they eat in LONDON"

It's middle school in the 90s or 80s and it's PIZZA DAY. Yay!

One of the square slices behind the counter has a bubble. The dough has somehow acquired an air pocket. It's huge. The size of a tennis ball.

Everyone is talking about "The Bubble"

How do you feel about the bubble?

@futurebird @MCDuncanLab @Wyatt_H_Knott
that must be it, because the only other macintoshes are the boots and the computers, and presumably neither boots nor computers would be in school sack lunch, being too tough for youngsters to chew.

@futurebird yikes that’s bad. How did that happen?

@llewelly @futurebird @Wyatt_H_Knott

Funny I grew up in Washington state and literally the only apples we ever got were gross red delicious.

In high school, I had a fancy Fuji apple and thought I was in heaven.

@fivetonsflax

I found some descriptions of Japanese packed lunches that said you needed a bed of rice then to add "pickes" but the images showed red things (I now understand that things can be pickled other than cucumbers)

I reasoned that ketchup was a bit like relish so could work as a "red pickle"

... it did not work.

@MCDuncanLab @futurebird @llewelly

Nuts are no longer allowed in school.

@Meowthias @futurebird

I was on the east coast back then and in addition to pizza day we also had fiesta pizza day which was basically an Old El Paso taco on a piece of crust. Fiesta pizza day was only slightly behind regular pizza day for the best day of the week.

@futurebird That’s much better than what I was imagining. Kind of adorable actually.