It's middle school in the 90s or 80s and it's PIZZA DAY.
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It quickly came to: "if you really want to have a bagged lunch you need to make it yourself."
I was excited to try!
It was a disaster!I think I gave up after a few months. But the strange little plastic containers and boxes I found hung around in the kitchen for years.
Later I was obsessed with a "factory lunch" and using the old lunch pail that belonged to my grandfather when he worked in the mills.
That went a bit better.
@futurebird @MCDuncanLab @llewelly The book "Bread and Jam for Frances" was aspirational in my making-lunch-for-my-kids years.
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I'd never thought of this before but I was sent to school every single day with a lemon curd sandwich on white bread. Like a VICTORIAN CHILD. This is how I find out my mother didn't love me.
@TheBreadmonkey @futurebird
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@TheBreadmonkey @futurebird
Lemon curd on white bread sounds delicious.It was rather nice
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@futurebird @MCDuncanLab @llewelly Once I hit fourth grade I was responsible for my own lunch.
Things I learned:
You can generally substitute cream cheese for mayo in sandwiches as a bread spread and it's often better.
A sandwich consisting entirely of bread and mayo is not good.
This started because one day I was having trouble finding ingredients and decided to try a sandwich containing only white ingredients: white bread, mayo, and cream cheese. Do not recommend.
A "c" sandwich containing cucumber and cream cheese, on the other hand, is really good.
@robotistry @futurebird @llewelly
In high school, I made some of the most amazing lunch sandwiches (kind of guided by my mom). One of my favorites was pita, cream cheese, sliced black olives, cucumbers (peeled and sliced futurebird), and roasted red peppers.
Gosh, it was so good. I bet it's amazing with home grown peppers and cucumbers. I should definitely try it this summer when the garden is in full swing.
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@robotistry @futurebird @llewelly
In high school, I made some of the most amazing lunch sandwiches (kind of guided by my mom). One of my favorites was pita, cream cheese, sliced black olives, cucumbers (peeled and sliced futurebird), and roasted red peppers.
Gosh, it was so good. I bet it's amazing with home grown peppers and cucumbers. I should definitely try it this summer when the garden is in full swing.
@robotistry @futurebird @llewelly
By the time I got to high school, my parents were much better off so we had all those high-end ingredients. Well, I think they are high end, even if the black olives and roasted peppers came giant can or jars from costco that we *had* to eat once we opened it
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@futurebird @MCDuncanLab @llewelly The book "Bread and Jam for Frances" was aspirational in my making-lunch-for-my-kids years.
@epicdemiologist @futurebird @llewelly
A very good one. She has a soft-boiled egg in that one right?
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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.
@futurebird
It can be surprising how swapping bits of odd meals can liven up each end. But it is good children share and help. -
@llewelly @jgordon @futurebird
Seriously? I thought it was chemically modified vegetable oils.
Nah I just looked it up, they stopped using whale oil shortly after wwii at least in the us.
@MCDuncanLab @llewelly @futurebird Phew! I was about to check …
Yes. We are a lot of margarine
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Chewing and chewing with watering eyes "they serve these at country clubs, you know? you have to cut the crusts off..."
*chew chew chew*
Just thick chunks of cucumber with the skin on and nothing else but the wonder bread.
@futurebird I really thought for a second this was Yeats parody
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@victorvonvortex @Meowthias @futurebird Every now and then we had hotdog day. It's pretty sad what kids will get excited about.
You just reminded me of corn dog day!
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@epicdemiologist @futurebird @llewelly
A very good one. She has a soft-boiled egg in that one right?
@MCDuncanLab @futurebird @llewelly Among many other delicious things, yes! I wonder whether it is in some way a reply to Harriet the Spy and her tomato sandwiches.
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Chewing and chewing with watering eyes "they serve these at country clubs, you know? you have to cut the crusts off..."
*chew chew chew*
Just thick chunks of cucumber with the skin on and nothing else but the wonder bread.
@futurebird @Sharksonaplane
Cucumber sandwiches are so good with cream cheese.My mom would sneak Gerber baby plums in my lunch in a yogurt tub or something. It was like applesauce but with plums. So good but I was embarrassed to let my friends know it was baby food
I had a metal lunch box in plaid that I loved. The latch broke and I had to hold it closed. I don't remember the metal ones being very well made.
Pizza day always included corn and chocolate pudding, too. Always.
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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?
Pizza days in schools in Finland mean a rectangular pizza bolognese with rectangular premade slices. It's a very industrial setup, where you have something of an endless flow.of smallish pizza squares appearing on the serving table. No bubbles.
But, if there ever was a bubble, it would not have affected my choice of pizza piece.
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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.
@futurebird @MCDuncanLab @llewelly
I brought my lunch because our school system would serve dishes such as "potato turbate".
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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?
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@futurebird pizza day was only for kids whose parents had money for pizza
That sucks.
