Japanese School Lunch: Week 20
Nov 23 2008 • Japanese School Lunch
Please note that the American menu provided is from my middle school in the US. It is meant to serve as a comparison.
The Japanese lunch menu was pretty standard this week but what’s up with the US one? October 16th’s menu is mostly fat - yogurt, which no doubt is chock-full of high-fructose corn syrup, cheese sticks, and strawberry shortcake! I don’t think we ever had cheese sticks when I went to that school! Cheese sticks were a bowling alley treat and only if you remembered to bring your allowance!
| October 14, 2008 | |
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| Japanese Menu | American Menu |
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Bread roll |
Taco salad with meat and cheese |
| Other Notes | |
| Cup egg is just a steamed egg with some parsley on top. Nothing special. | |
| October 15, 2008 | |
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| Japanese Menu | American Menu |
| Barley rice Mountain vegetable miso soup Masu salmon, fried Southern style Seaweed salad Milk |
Tuna salad on croissant |
| Other Notes | |
| Mountain vegetable soup sounds rustic and quaint but you never know what mountain vegetables they’ll be using that day. Sometimes it’s good, other times it’s an adventure. | |
| October 16, 2008 | |
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| Japanese Menu | American Menu |
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Elementary school: Pizza toast |
Yogurt |
| Other Notes | |
| The menu said banana, but we got a Mandarin orange. We also got mayonnaise as well. On the other hand, what’s up with the US menu? Cheese sticks and dessert? | |
| October 17, 2008 | |
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| Japanese Menu | American Menu |
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Onigiri |
Chicken patty on bun |
| Other Notes | |
| I made those onigiri. Not delicious either. | |
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@Ryan A: True - we don’t normally get sandwiches. Sometimes, the kids improvise a sandwich out of their meat/vegetable but it’s not officially on the menu. (I miss cheese sticks though.)
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16th seems a rather odd one for both menus ^^