Chebucto Regional Softball Club

@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.

@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.

@Meowthias

"school pizza" has nothing at all to do with any other dish that might go by that name.

it's a different food basically.

@MCDuncanLab @llewelly

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.

@MCDuncanLab @llewelly

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