Lunchblog: Pupusa

"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura) 10/25/2016 at 15:22 • Filed to: None

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More of a bean-and-cheese burrito than a pupusa , but not bad. I bought a plate for myself to try it out, for $2.50. Not bad. The fun part was eating with a table of sixth graders and having them watch me eat each bite as if they’d never seen a human eat before. Maybe they’d never seen a teacher eat before. Then the lunch lady yelled at us and made us put our heads down and miss lunch recess. :/

ttyymmnn > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 10/25/2016 at 15:34

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A smattering of grapes, jalapeños, and some sort of festering sore. What the heck is that in the middle?

crowmolly > ttyymmnn 10/25/2016 at 15:39

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Looks like foodservice salsa.

AfromanGTO > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 10/25/2016 at 15:45

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I had leftover teriyaki chicken and fried rice from the hibachi restaurant from last night.

DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 10/25/2016 at 15:47

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That’s a lunch? How do we have an obesity crisis again?

ttyymmnn > DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time 10/25/2016 at 15:59

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I’d be interested to see the calorie count on that tray.

ttyymmnn > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 10/25/2016 at 16:01

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If your school is anything like mine, the teachers use the lunch period as a break and, once they drop the kids off at the cafeteria, they are gone until the period is over. I never see teachers eating with the kids, except for kinder and special ed. So your sitting with the 6th graders must be a novel experience for them. I think it’s brilliant.

I love interacting with the kids at lunch. It’s the one time, apart from recess, when the kids can relax and not be under somebody’s thumb.

E92M3 > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 10/25/2016 at 16:12

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That’s it? I’d be hungry again after 30 mins...

Rico > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 10/25/2016 at 16:23

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It’s not that they’ve never seen a human eat it’s that they have never seen someone actually enjoy eating that mass produced factory food.

Klaus Schmoll > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 10/25/2016 at 17:38

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Hello fellow teacher! Our school lunches aren’t much to write home about. I never felt the need to actually try them, as I usually bring a home-made sammich and that’s it. But offering this to kids....

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 10/25/2016 at 18:02

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Man, California (I think that’s where you are) schools are starting to get really creative with the watered down takes on ethnic foods. This looks a hell of a lot better than the “egg rolls” they tried to pawn off on us in the 1980s (we were a mexican part of town rapidly turning into an asian part of town, so they added some kind of nasty mass-produced “egg roll” to the menu as a nod to diversity, but nobody ever ate them because they were disgusting). If they upped their game on the sides (some onions and cilantro? curtido?), it might even be enjoyable.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > crowmolly 10/25/2016 at 19:07

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And the salsa was remarkably not bad.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Eric @ opposite-lock.com 10/25/2016 at 19:11

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It wasn’t bad. Like I said, it leaned toward the bean-n-cheese burrito, but it was okay. As that sort of thing goes...

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ttyymmnn 10/25/2016 at 19:12

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I’m going to make a point of eating with them periodically. It was delightful.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > E92M3 10/25/2016 at 19:12

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Yup. Institutional food. Fresh grapes, though...

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 10/25/2016 at 19:17

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They always seemed to do burritos right. Or at least right enough for them to be edible. This is a little more creative in that it is wrapped in corn masa dough instead of a flour tortilla.

Die-Trying > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 10/25/2016 at 19:31

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but how was the milk? was it COLD?........... and like RICO said, its just that the kids have never seen anyone EAT the food. the grapes are for flicking, you fling the jalapenos with the plastic spoork, you roll up bits of the breaded beans into small round blobs to toss with the spork........

......have you ever watched the kids “eat”?..........

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Eric @ opposite-lock.com 10/25/2016 at 19:35

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Yeah. That’s my take exactly. Many of them went in the trash...

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Die-Trying 10/25/2016 at 19:36

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Man, those lunch ladies would be on them like stink on shit if they threw anything. The lunch ladies don’ play.

Die-Trying > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 10/25/2016 at 19:51

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youre not “playing”............... youre defending your own personal honor, and questioning theirs ........

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Die-Trying 10/25/2016 at 20:00

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I get that, but the lunch ladies are cray-cray.

Die-Trying > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 10/25/2016 at 20:14

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you just got to show them that youre not afraid of their ordinary plain jane garden variety crazy, that you’re that primo, high grade, crazy.

start by staring them down...... like this vvvvvv .........

dont forget to sharpen the end of your spork. you might need it to shank a lunch lady. i hear they are a bit unstable where youre at.......

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Die-Trying 10/25/2016 at 21:29

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LOL Nope.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 10/25/2016 at 22:19

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I haven’t done anything with the van yet, but dream about it. Do you think 250 horsepower is realistic from a 250 straight-six? I think with that much horsepower and a four-speed, it might be a fairly spirited ride. I’d like to be able to get some posi-track wheel spin.

I’ll document anything I do. Polishing compound will be the first thing.

wafflesnfalafel > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 10/25/2016 at 22:30

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That looks pretty good actually, (but that is a lot of jalapenos!) And i know the ‘teach needs a break but having one eat with students sometimes is a great positive influence - kudos.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > wafflesnfalafel 10/25/2016 at 22:44

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Thanks; really. Breaking bread -- or pupusa -- with the kiddos is uplifting. Even after I ate, and after I got caught up in the Lunch Lady Surge, I still had 15 or 20 minutes to myself in my classroom. Teaching is a wonderful career if you’re cut out for it.