Kyuushoku for 3 June

Thursday

Bread roll with grapes（小ぶどうパン）

Milk（牛乳）

Marinated white fish（白身魚のマリネ）

Vegetable tomato stew（野菜のトマトスープ煮）

Sweet summer Satsuma（あま夏みかん）

814 Kcal

34.5 g of protein

First off, the good things:

The tomato soup stew was pretty good. This actually resembled the pork and beans thing. A couple of the teachers were utterly confused at what this soup could be if it wasn’t pork and beans. I think the lunch ladies just added a few more vegetables to their already interesting enough “pork and beans” recipe and called it something else.

The marinade on the fish was good. Usually the lunch ladies can’t do a marinade to save their lives but they pulled through this time. If only they could remember to pull out the lemon rinds.

Now for the failures:

Although the marinade was good, through laziness or some idea that fish scales are a healthy usually wasted ingredient, the fish scales remained attached to the fish. This was not good. At all. Japan, get your skin off my chicken and get your scales off my fish.

The bread roll was supposed to be “grapes” but as the cavemen who discovered the miracle of raisins can tell you, a hot dry climate for an extended period makes raisins. The inside of an oven usually mimics this mysterious raisin making condition. Japanese has a word for raisins, but they still maintained the bread’s “grape” status. Lies. Keep your raisins out of my bread.

Coinciding with an apparent orange equality celebration day, we had the “sweet summer Satsuma”. Nothing about this orange except “summer” is appropriate. It’s sour, hard as a rock and tastes nothing like a mikan. To make it worse, the lunch ladies cut it into fourths which is impossible to eat. Try eating a normal orange like this. It’s too big to put in your mouth like an orange slice and it’s too small to properly peel. Instead everyone picks at it and we all end up with sticky sour orange juice hands.

3 shishamo