Comments on: Spew Shoku!

By: Ellie (alchymyst)

Ellie (alchymyst) — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 16:19:28 +0000

Haha, those look somewhat familiar… Though to be honest, I enjoyed my school lunches. Maybe it’s because I am very omnivorous, maybe it’s because that for the most part, the lunches did not suck. I didn’t have any ‘kujira’ or natto experiences. I didn’t really like the ones with bread, mostly because really, that bread was just dry and odd and had nothing to put on it. Who would eat just a giant loaf of bread? But most of the time it wasn’t bad at all.

I think it’s much easier to BYO if you work in high school. My now husband worked in high school, and he either went out or brought his own, since that’s what kids did as well.

By: GoddessCarlie

GoddessCarlie — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 07:33:30 +0000

Ah yes, well, it is always an adventure!

By: GoddessCarlie

GoddessCarlie — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 07:30:51 +0000

It’s not as easy as you think to bring my own lunch. Copy and pasted from Aux, above:

“I might be able to bring my own along, it is something that I dream about, however I would be the only person in the school not eating it, I would have to eat in the staff room by myself and miss out on this fun time as the kids can be different out of class. It would be a bit of the nail that pokes out, perhaps more of a pain than it is worth.”

Actually at my favourite school I have an “arrangement” where I actually get to serve my own food which is great and at the middle school you can eat as much as you want. From Jan onwards I’m at my middle school more which will be fantastic.

By: GoddessCarlie

GoddessCarlie — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 07:28:23 +0000

Good luck!!

By: GoddessCarlie

GoddessCarlie — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 07:28:06 +0000

I haven’t had a whale experience yet!

Maybe I should say that in Australia I didn’t have to do cafeteria food, we bought freshly made lunch from home, so I’m not quite used to the taste of the mass produced food and the quantity of food.

By: GoddessCarlie

GoddessCarlie — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 07:23:32 +0000

Not just babies inside but they eat the head and tail…. bones and all… :unko:

By: GoddessCarlie

GoddessCarlie — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 07:22:11 +0000

I’m not sure if the unflattering photos are because of the lighting or my lack of skill in photography!!

By: GoddessCarlie

GoddessCarlie — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 07:21:28 +0000

I might be able to bring my own along, it is something that I dream about, however I would be the only person in the school not eating it, I would have to eat in the staff room by myself and miss out on this fun time as the kids can be different out of class. It would be a bit of the nail that pokes out, perhaps more of a pain than it is worth.

By: jay

jay — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 02:24:06 +0000

Thanks a lot for writing this… I have only had occasion to try the Japanese lunches a few times (in 14 years living in Japan), but the images that talk of “kyushoku” conjure up for me are thoughts of kids with bandaids on their fingers sticking their fingers in the curry, the inevitable milk drinking showdowns between the smallest and largest kids in the class (and the resulting spillage down said students chins), kids sneezing into their facemasks while handling the food, and as you mention above, whale meat.

As you can tell, my few expeiences were doozies… and being a guest there, I really had no choice but to chow down praying that I’d find nothing other than food in my food.

By: Tara

Tara — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:13:23 +0000

Did you not expect this before you decided to go to Japan? Instead, why don’t you make your own bento to bring to school?