Kyuushoku for 10 Feb

Wednesday

Bean Menu

Rice with soybeans（大豆ごはん）

Milk（牛乳）

Chinese cabbage and fried tofu stew（白菜と厚揚げの煮物）

Marinated pond smelt（ワカサギのマリネ）

Ponkan orange（ぽんかん）

853 Kcal

35.7 g of protein

The lunch ladies have been on a roll lately. Today’s marinated pond smelt was just as delicious as it sounds. To make matters worse, these fish seemed extra scaly. The marinade was pretty much just oil and according to the supplementary menu, the tiny fish were fried. So it was just a oily mess of fish bones and scales with some carrots thrown in there for colour. Luckily there was enough rice to shove into my mouth along with the fishy marinated mess to fool my taste buds into not telling my body to vomit.

The stew thing was good, a very welcome distraction from the disaster next to it. The rice with soybeans was a nice touch as well. I always enjoy the kyuushoku days when the lunch ladies decide to spice it up by adding something to the rice. These two things could have saved today’s lunch, but no matter how strong your chain links are, if one is weak you will still feel nauseous.

And of course, today was another orange affirmative action day today. The other teachers commented on how no one actually eats ponkans except for in kyuushoku. My ponkan today seemed to have extra seeds to spite me. Ponkan skin is also a lot tougher than mikan skin, which leads to extra juice all over everywhere.  Further proof that this orange is better suited for juice, not in school lunch with 100s of already messy enough kids.

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