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We had lunch boxes in elementary school. And I remember the plastic boxes coming out and thinking it was a major downgrade.
I think the selling point was you could put them in the dishwasher (but then the sticker would come off... sad times)
That sounds much more responsible. I didn't really have a planning skills to pack a lunch so I'd just... find things in the house, and around the house and put them in the box to figure out later.
They made ours from scratch with government cheese I think.
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.
"school pizza" has nothing at all to do with any other dish that might go by that name.
it's a different food basically.
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.
This surfaced forgotten memories. I was fascinated by the concept of "bagged lunch" begged my mom to let me have a bagged lunch. (I thought it was very exotic like in an anime)
My mom was so confused and annoyed to her "bag lunch" was for "poor kids" and she didn't work in the math mines all day to have her daughter eating out of a paper bag.
Also since she was a math prof she had no time to make a lunch ... and tried to get Dad to do it who was baffled.
something about a bearded British guy saying "dig a hole"
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#timeteam #minecraft #nonsense
I use those exact step up boards all the time! Not as decoration though...
"Always winter and NEVER Christmas"
"Always October but NEVER Halloween"
"Always a school day but NEVER a pizza day."
It's like you grew up in Narnia... but under the rule of the White Witch
RE: https://sauropods.win/@llewelly/115862569193448423
This is the saddest thing i have ever read.
Poor llewelly.
A youTube phone review channel. But the ONLY metric tested or considered is "how well can this phone take photos and videos of ants?"
Presented without ever once recognizing this might not be exactly a typical concern.
* The famous "queen in the tube" test to see how it handles photos through curved glass.
* Analysis of how well the form factor lets you get close to the subject.
* The fan favorite? "ant on the lens" test.
The goal? Phone manufactures will notice and be ... molded.
I phone air has no macro lens. So it can't photograph ants as well. I'd need to carry one of those clip ons again.
It's a nice size.
Some nutritionists worked very hard to design an inexpensive, easy to make, pizza that could fit into school lunch budgets which are absurdly small in the US. (What is wrong with us? Why do we hate the concept of "feeding hungry children." Anyway.)
Part of the design requirements is that everything is the same. No "corner slices" no nicest bit to squabble over.
So we squabbled over "The Bubble" --which I thought was awful. It was hollow! All the cheese would slide off.
The bubble teaches an important life lesson.
Thinking about it from the perspective of someone who didn't go through this stuff it must sound... crazy.
But across the whole country... same pizza. At least "pizza day" wasn't national and on the same day nation wide.
But it was on the same day across the city.
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?
@paulc The 17 I think?
The "pro" since I do want all the cameras but the small one since I hate how big all of them are.
It's just a little bigger than my 15 pro (also the small one)
I really loved the iphone SE it was the perfect size although the camera was just "fine" I had to use lenses with it.
I no longer need to have a pocket full of lenses just to live.