@llewelly @futurebird

Ok so picture this, there is pizza day, but your parents only let you bring a sack lunch.

(I actually didn’t like pizza, but it was sad for kids who did like pizza and had to eat a sack lunch…I just realized this is probably why me and my misfit of sack lunch eating friends tended to eat anywhere other than the cafeteria)

@MCDuncanLab @llewelly

This surfaced forgotten memories. I was fascinated by the concept of "bagged lunch" begged my mom to let me have a bagged lunch. (I thought it was very exotic like in an anime)

My mom was so confused and annoyed to her "bag lunch" was for "poor kids" and she didn't work in the math mines all day to have her daughter eating out of a paper bag.

Also since she was a math prof she had no time to make a lunch ... and tried to get Dad to do it who was baffled.

@MCDuncanLab @llewelly

It quickly came to: "if you really want to have a bagged lunch you need to make it yourself."

I was excited to try!
It was a disaster!

I think I gave up after a few months. But the strange little plastic containers and boxes I found hung around in the kitchen for years.

Later I was obsessed with a "factory lunch" and using the old lunch pail that belonged to my grandfather when he worked in the mills.

That went a bit better.

@llewelly @MCDuncanLab

That sounds much more responsible. I didn't really have a planning skills to pack a lunch so I'd just... find things in the house, and around the house and put them in the box to figure out later.

@futurebird @llewelly

My older sister was a pain in the butt, at one point maybe when she was in 2nd grade she pitched a fit about what my mom made. Mom said fine 2nd graders make their own lunches. When I hit second grade that meant me too.

I ate peanut butter and butter sandwiches every day probably until 6th grade.

We also got a gross red delicious apple, and two chocolate cookies, which my sister was in charge of making, and I did get a milk card.

@MCDuncanLab @llewelly

I had the vague notion that a lunch should have such things. But I would end up with a can of creamed corn, a can opener, candied ginger from the back of the kitchen cabinet, a pack of hot chocolate, a thermos of water too cold by lunch to make the coco, a slice of white bread with thick slices of cucumber on it (since I read about "cucumber sandwiches" in a book but didn't know how to make them.)

I had this idea that it was a "fancy lunch"

It was awful.

@futurebird @MCDuncanLab @llewelly Once I hit fourth grade I was responsible for my own lunch.

Things I learned:

You can generally substitute cream cheese for mayo in sandwiches as a bread spread and it's often better.

A sandwich consisting entirely of bread and mayo is not good.

This started because one day I was having trouble finding ingredients and decided to try a sandwich containing only white ingredients: white bread, mayo, and cream cheese. Do not recommend.

A "c" sandwich containing cucumber and cream cheese, on the other hand, is really good.

@robotistry @futurebird @llewelly

In high school, I made some of the most amazing lunch sandwiches (kind of guided by my mom). One of my favorites was pita, cream cheese, sliced black olives, cucumbers (peeled and sliced futurebird), and roasted red peppers.

Gosh, it was so good. I bet it's amazing with home grown peppers and cucumbers. I should definitely try it this summer when the garden is in full swing.