Kyuushoku for 11 June

Friday

Bean Day

Rice with soybeans（大豆ごはん）

Milk（牛乳）

Little marinated horse mackarel（小アジのマリネ）

Miso soup with seaweed（わかめのみそ汁）

Plum（すもも）

787 Kcal

35.0 g of protein

Ugh.

That’s all I should say, but I can’t let them get away with this.

These marinated fish are perhaps the foulest thing served in the school lunch. Absolutely foul. The marinade does nothing to hide the taste of spiky fish bones and instead, the marinade makes it worse. The taste is so terrible that you want to just swallow them whole, but swallowing those demon fish would definitely cause choke-age. Words really can’t describe how truly offensive this dish is to every sense. The fish themselves are too big to be considered bite size yet too small to cut up. Let them enjoy their life in the rivers.

To make matters worse, the miso soup, a usually pretty standard escape from the occasional horrors of school lunch, was terrible today. I don’t know what they did to it, but it was awful. Screwing up miso soup is like failing to make good mac-n-cheese: heresy.

The rice with soybeans was good, but that’s a lot like putting caviar next to a steaming pile of filth. You might as well just go with the day’s theme “horrid” and forgo anything that tastes decent.

Then there was the plum. The plum itself was good. But on the kyuushoku handout, where the lunch ladies usually describe the day’s meal, they wrote about the differing varieties of plums of the world. Using any example to set Japan apart from the western world, the lunch ladies wrote that the western plum is called a “prune”. FAIL. There are plenty of prunes sold in supermarkets all over Japan with “THIS IS A DRIED PLUM” written clearly on the package somewhere. Try reading something besides “how to make people nauseous AND insert a nationalistic agenda at the same time”. That book has sold too much already.

Ugh.

-1 Shishamo (-1 for the lies)