Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Breakfast
Something about waking up at 6am to
drink warm porridge with no flavor doesn’t really encourage much creative
thinking so I have little else to say other then that I drank some warm, bland
porridge. I will note though that residual porridge found in the cup the day
after when washing dishes leaves a nice consistency that would be excellent for
a food fight.
Lunch
With the frequency I have been (and will
continue to be) eating beans I think they’re due a little limelight. They’re your
normal, average beans, occasionally burnt, sometimes mushy from overcooking and
generally served in lots of water with scant traces of onions or mystery slimy
green vegetable and the occasional rock or stone. And salt, can’t forget the
salt. But today’s beans had a film on top like what you get on homemade pudding
if you let it sit for a while. It was a crystallized salty bean residue film.
One of my students told me that this is the most delicious part of the beans
because it’s sweet (though no one could confirm or deny the presence of sugar).
Dubious, I thrust my fork into the beans and removed a nice piece of the
crystallized salty bean residue film and fed it to the student to see if he’d
back out. He didn’t so I was compelled by the throng of students around me to
do likewise. It tasted just like what you’d think a crystallized salty bean
residue film would taste like.
Dinner
Tonight’s meal consisted of an exquisite
assortment of handpicked organic sweet potatoes and salt, with a non-optional
side of beans to accompany the salt. I’ve been assured that every single night
of the school year the students will be served sweet potatoes and beans. Good,
I can sleep easy tonight knowing that this flatulence inducing food won’t be
missing from my diet anytime soon.
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