Kyuushoku for 16 March

Tuesday

Bean Menu

Do-it-yourself sandwich（セルフサンド）

-Bread roll（小パン）

-Pork ham（ポークハム）

-Cheese（チーズ）

-Boiled vegetables（ゆで野菜）

-Mayonnaise（マヨネーズ）

Pork and beans（ポークビーンズ）

834 Kcal

39.3 g of protein

(Today I was at the other side’s kyuushoku centre. I managed to find a menu, so I could get a picture.)

Before lunch even started, the vice-principal came up to me and announced that today would be “American foods”. Since I hadn’t seen the menu yet, I had no idea what that could mean. Since most Japanese people think that we eat steak with a loaf of white bread, I could only imagine what travesty would be coming. Luckily someone found out that we eat sandwiches in America. So today was the kyuushoku equivalent of a sandwich.

In the picture you can see two packages. The one on the right is mayonnaise and the one on the left is cheese. I couldn’t figure out what the cheese was at first. That is the strangest package I have ever seen. The sandwich itself was pretty good. Not exactly American, but it tasted a lot better than the poor excuse for food I’ve eaten in school lunches past.

The pork and beans is quite literally pork and beans. It bears absolutely no relation to the canned food we have in America. I don’t remember what it is, but I remember not liking it much. The pork and beans today was pieces of pork, boiled soybeans, potatoes and cabbage in a tomato soup.

After lunch, the vice-principal asked me to write a little something in the kyuushoku notebook that they send to the kyuushoku ladies every day. I guess the lunch ladies actually take feedback and adjust their menu accordingly. With my luck, my opinion will be printed up in the national kyuushoku journal as the official American opinion.

5 shishamo