Kyuushoku for 14 May

Friday

A Taste of Home

Rice with green peas（えんどうごはん）

Milk（牛乳）

Grilled salted trout（マスの塩焼き）

Fish paste tube thread with lemon dressing（糸かまぼこのレモン和え）

Gojiru Soup（呉汁）

762 Kcal

35.9 g of protein

There was another panic at school today. The tea lady (the lady which handles all things lunch related) wasn’t sure if there was enough milk cartons to go around today. This happens a lot since I visit schools all the time and someone is bound to mix up a schedule at some link in the chain of command. Not having milk doesn’t really bother me since I don’t drink it anyway. I always just take it home and use it to cook. I’ve tried to tell the tea ladies at all of the schools that if the milk doesn’t come, it’s not a big deal. Unfortunately the Japanese language isn’t designed for such directness. “It’s not a big deal, don’t worry” is just a polite way of saying, “get it done, you lazy good-for-nothing cow.” I’ve given up and just let them scuttle around like fish gasping for air on dry land to find the spare milk carton that I’ll just take home and turn into yoghurt.

The fish paste tube thread salad was pretty good, as sketchy as it sounds. It’s basically just like the fake crab stuff they sell in the US without the red dye. The lemon dressing was take quite literally. The dressing was...a lemon. I accidentally bit into a bit of the rind but the odd taste added to the odd dish. It worked somehow. Along with the fish thread was cucumbers, cabbage, carrots and white radish.

Gojiru soup appears to be regular miso soup with a lot of ground up soybeans. I approve.

Today the menu called for “grilled salted trout”. But the trout definitely had something else on top like sesame seeds and soy sauce or something. It was pretty good but no one could figure it out. The vice principal guessed “a particularly dry saké” while the nurse suspected “a very salty soy sauce”. I’m sticking with my “dregs of yesterday’s meal” theory.

The rice was pretty good today. The lunch ladies put green peas in the rice and none of the teachers complained. There is always one redneck teacher that will sit there and complain about anything that isn’t plain white rice. Their shpeel usually turns into a poorly veiled racist tirade and everyone leaves a bit damaged. However, the green peas pleased everyone, even the latent racists.

5 shishamo