I think the best school lunch ever
is tacos and refried beans. One thing I
love about this meal is that it stimulates all five senses while you are eating
it. Let’s start with the refried
beans. Your first impression is the look
of it. It resembles a steaming scoop of
chocolate ice cream that never melts; if anything it grows. When you smell it, you’ll realize with
disappointment that it is not ice cream, as it smells not of cream, but of
everything else forged in the cafeteria.
The fact that the refried beans resemble ice cream will give you an
experience similar to eating a pizza flavored donut. As you fork the beans into your mouth and chew,
you will become aware of the texture:
lukewarm; gritty in some spots yet mushy in others, like a cold pool
with pee floating in it. Then your
tongue does its thing, and taste flavorless beans with a hint of sweat, like
the breath of your long-lost uncle who lives in the woods.
Yum!
The only thing I love better than
the school’s refried beans is their tacos.
The sight of it is a limp tortilla that is flopped over a spoonful of
drab brown meat that’s temperature is fading quickly, like a dying man in
freezing temperatures, slitting open his horse and crawling inside as a last
resort of warmth. As you pick up the
taco, a long trickle of orange grease spills onto your tray. Biting the end of the taco off, the meat instantly
becomes mush, yet the tortilla remains stiff, breaking like a wannabe
nacho. You grab your “milk”, which is
fitted with a straw hole that is impossible to punch through, and flush down
the food in your mouth. Of course, it’ll
come back later, but that’s just another reason I love the meal so much.
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