Kyuushoku for 28 Jan

Thursday

A taste of Awaji Island

Bread roll（小パン）

Milk（牛乳）

Chinese cabbage cream stew（白菜のクリーム煮）

Awaji onion croquette（淡路玉ねぎコロッケ）

Seaweed salad（海草サラダ）

Iyokan citrus fruit（いよかん）

810 Kcal

31.2 g of protein

Today on the Hyogo tour, the kyuushoku express stopped at Awaji Island. Awaji Island is south of the Hyogo mainland.

Awaji is famous for its onions and according to the menu, seaweed. I’ve heard a lot about these onion; they’re supposed to be sweet and juicy and all that. You can even get onion ice cream somewhere on Awaji.

The onion croquette was pretty good and very oniony. According to the menu today, the onions are supposed to be genuine Awaji onions. If they were, then they tasted pretty good. If not, they made normal onions taste pretty good. Either way, I’m impressed.

The stew and the salad were pretty good. Nothing bad or exceptionally good.

And then there is the iyokan. Me and another ALT have a theory that the kyuushoku centre has an affirmative action policy on its orange-like fruits. The Satsumas are the most common in Japan and that’s the orange you always see in the grocery stores. They have other oranges, but the Satsumas are definitely king. But then in kyuushoku, they always (but not so much lately…) put the other oranges in the menu. It’s like they feel that all of the oranges need representation in school lunch. I really wouldn’t be surprised if our theory is true either. I can imagine the lunch ladies in their hovel considering the needs of all citrus fruits, not trying to play favourites. (These are the same lunch ladies that get offended when seeing kids eating junk food at convenience stores…) I’m sure the oranges don’t really care. But we do. Iyokan oranges are just not that great, they’re hard to eat and get everything messy when you’re trying to open them. Satsumas on the other hand seem like the scientists who perfected their strain knew that people would be opening up skin to eat the sweet fruit inside without wanting to get all sticky. It’s the Japanese version of the atheist banana perhaps?

5 shishamo