On 1/24/2021 11:51 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 1/24/2021 9:57 AM, jmcquown wrote:
>> On 1/24/2021 9:14 AM, Gary wrote:
>>> On 1/23/2021 9:03 PM, jmcquown wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The school cafeteria was an unknown quantity.Â* I recall when I was
>>>> about
>>>> 7 years old and we lived in Vista, CA.Â* I saw a sign saying they were
>>>> going to be serving Tacos in the cafeteria.Â* I begged my mother,
>>>> could I
>>>> please buy my lunch?Â* She warned me, "They'll have lettuce on them."
>>>> Silly me, I don't know why but I thought going through the lunch line
>>>> would be like going to Taco Bell.Â* (Yes, my mother took us to Taco Bell
>>>> back in 1967 and she specified "no lettuce".)Â* I tried to say that and
>>>> the lunch lady looked at me like I was crazy.Â* She can't possibly NOT
>>>> add lettuce!Â* I was told here's your taco, now go eat it!
>>>>
>>>> I wound up sitting in the cafeteria after school waiting for my mother
>>>> to come pick me up because I refused to eat a taco with iceburg
>>>> lettuce.
>>>> Â*Seems I was just as stubborn as they were.Â* Why on earth would you
>>>> insist I eat something I don't like?Â* Why tell the staff they HAVE to
>>>> put shredded lettuce on every single taco ordered?
>>>
>>> That's actually a very odd story, Jill. Seriously.
>>> They made you sit in the cafeteria all the rest of the day and your
>>> mother had to come pick you up after school.Â* All because you refused
>>> to eat your taco?
>>>
>>> Also, why didn't you just pick the lettuce off of your taco?
>>>
>> I was six years old, Gary.Â* First grade, Olive Elementary School in
>> Vista, CA.Â* I don't know why I didn't pick the lettuce off.Â* I also
>> don't know why they insisted they had to put lettuce on the taco.
>
> Probably some stupid regulation.Â* Without lettuce it would not meet the
> standards for a nutritious meal.Â* Besides, you don't screw with the
> lunch ladies!

Regulations, exactly. I was six years old. Looking back I think they
thought they'd be depriving me of much needed nutrition if I got the
taco without lettuce. It was admittedly an odd situation. They never
even noticed what I brought for lunch before. PB sandwiches and chips.
This was the first time I'd ever paid for my lunch and they made it
into a big deal. I didn't understand it then and don't understand it now.

So sorry I disrupted the routine assembly line lunch ladies at Olive
Elementary School in 1966!

Jill