Our school lunches, I had to conclude,
Simply weren’t up to scratch as health food,
With potatoes rock hard,
Dodgy meat which was charred,
Worst of all, brussels sprouts which were stewed.
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Mister Bump 
How posh! You were served meat? We were served cubes of wobbly fat. 🤣
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Haha, hiya Misk
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Hi, Pete. You keeping well?
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Good thanks Misk. Been hot today, though, but managed to mow one of the lawns. You?
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Good thanks, we’re just back from two weeks with family in Denmark. Perfect weather.
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Oooh, lovely. Yeah, nice time of year to be up there. I’m waiting impatiently for the end of September, I’ve booked to go back to one of my old haunts – Rouen.
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Perfect, Pete. Glad to hear that. We’re heading to Loire Valley in mid-September for a week.
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oh excellent, chateau country! Fond memories.
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Give me a homemade lunch of a PB&J sandwich everyday instead instead of a school lunch.
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Bad memories all round I think
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Never had a school lunch.
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Sounds like you’re one of the lucky ones
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Lol!! It was not a thing here.
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Gosh, I only ever had school dinners, never packed lunches.
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I guess that’s the perk of living in a first world country. 😂
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ewwww
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Hiya Sanjeet, how you doing?
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Good sir. Yesterday was fine but in general good. Hows the weather there sir
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Changeable! When it getys hot it’s humid too. Always is, at this time of year, it’s better in May pr June. But today looks like it’s gonna pour with rain!
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The rain is gone sir. Its hot here too and keeping me inside.
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Ah! The Master returns. Happily consumed the ditty, while disagreeing on “institutional” food service, and by the way, I love brussels sprouts, spinach, kale, and other ingestibles considered foul by most.
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So you’re the one 🤣
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Guess. Also like working up a good honest sweat, stupid BBC comedy shows, baling hay, and a good joke. Mea culpa.
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They tried to sell that Britbox nonsense to us but I already paid a license fee. Used to, anyhow. These days I stream everything.
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😂 That’s why I didn’t like Brussel sprouts until I was a grown-up and made them for myself. We were actually given a letter to take home, when I was in elementary school, explaining to parents why the hotdogs were green. 🤣
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Ha! Whatever the reason, that can’t have been good 🤣
Though I did learn that the “pink” of hot dogs is all due to colourings. Naturally they should be white – bratwursty. Kinda makes you nervous, doesn’t it?
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Nervous? Not me, I eat veggie dogs. 😅 Right you are – they were disgusting. 🤢
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I used to love ’em with onions and ketchup but mostly can’t handle the bread any more. There’s a place I like to eat sometimes which does beef dogs. I tried veggie dogs when I sidn’t eat meat – I hope they improved!
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They are not that exciting – just an easy lunch and toppings are a must!
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When I was first veggie the options really weren’t good. I went to a restauranr when over in DC once and asked what they had that was vegetarian. The only thind they had was the green salad!
I tried to go veggie a few years back – this time for environmental reasons – and while the plant-based food is far better it was all so processed… I think the sipermarkets hide from us just how much carbon is used to create this food.
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You do have a valid point, although there are more options now, “healthy” labels can be misleading. Most of my market purchases are made in the produce department. 🥦
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Yeah that was my conclusion, too. Life started to become tricky when I no longer had access to a supermarket every week, so had to start stocking up frozen food.
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That would be a tricky situation. Stocking up is smart in the “best” of times. 👍🏻
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