Chebucto Regional Softball Club

@aburka @paco @grumble209

Really? No no no. We still have them.

@aburka @paco @grumble209

We also had the scroll. Very happy memories of watching it as snow caught on the window panes and blocked the back door. That was Ohio. Lake effect snow.

Maybe we'll have a NYC snow day yet. They are so terribly rare.

My husband works for the MTA so he HATES snow storms (It makes so much work for the subways) and is annoyed by the way I get excited about them.

@MCDuncanLab @ned @llewelly

Most schools I've encountered will have a strict nut and/or peanut ban if there are YOUNG kids with those allergies. And it's sensible.

There is no reason to have a ban if that isn't the case. The other case may be high sensitivity students ... then the ban may last longer.

Hilariously I'm deadly allergic to sunflowers and sunbutter. Eyes itch if I'm near it... but not peanuts.

@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.

@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"

@MCDuncanLab @Wyatt_H_Knott @llewelly

Macintosh apple?

@MCDuncanLab @jgordon @llewelly

I'm learning so many things, and remembering others.

@Sharksonaplane

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.

@Sharksonaplane

This is why I have soft spot for strange somewhat hard headed kids. TBH.

@MCDuncanLab @jgordon @llewelly

"fruit preserves have too much sugar ... yes butter is much healthier?"

I mean, it's good I guess.

@Sharksonaplane

I can still taste that dry chewy horrible "cucumber sandwich"

@nazokiyoubinbou @MCDuncanLab @llewelly

effort isn't always a good thing.

@MCDuncanLab @llewelly

At least it amused my friends to watch me unpack the box (which I pretended someone else made for me) and explain how it was going to work.

@MCDuncanLab @llewelly

I had the vague notion that a lunch should have such things. But I would end up with a can of creamed corn, a can opener, candied ginger from the back of the kitchen cabinet, a pack of hot chocolate, a thermos of water too cold by lunch to make the coco, a slice of white bread with thick slices of cucumber on it (since I read about "cucumber sandwiches" in a book but didn't know how to make them.)

I had this idea that it was a "fancy lunch"

It was awful.

@Jestbill

Just... in general? Or as a school lunch food?

@imthebeetleking

Is this an ivy root? or... what kind of vine was this?

@corbden @MCDuncanLab @llewelly

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)

@jimbob

This is amazing. I love things like this.

It makes you wonder about how it all came to be.

@llewelly @MCDuncanLab

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.

@Meowthias

They made ours from scratch with government cheese I think.