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Photo Gallery: Kyushoku, School Lunch In Japan (給食)

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Japan has granted me the opportunity to experience school lunch in a third country, on a third continent (depending on how you classify The Americas, that is).

Weekdays in Japan I eat lunch at one of two junior high schools – the Japanese know this lunch as kyushoku (給食).

I eat alongside Japanese students who are required to eat all of their lunch (literally, all of it), and drink a small bottle of milk (the penalty for not finishing your food is still a mystery, but my money is on a stern yelling at).

That being said, I too am expected to eat every last dried fish or mystery pickled vegetable on my plate(s).

I choose my lunches a month in advance (there are four options per day), and due to my poor Japanese, what I can expect for lunch is always a mystery (basically the same feeling you get when you order something at McDonald’s).

When I show up outside the lunchroom, 90% of the students will be in line for one of the lunch options – this is how I know whether or not I have chosen the correct lunch each day (I have yet to get a student to trade with me post-lunch-retrieval).

So what are the children of Japan (or more specifically the children of Fukui) being fed on a daily basis?

If you guessed, “Japanese food”, you aren’t racist, you’re correct!

See if you can figure out what everything (anything) is – I usually can’t (even after eating it), but that doesn’t mean it isn’t (sometimes) delicious.

Kyushokyu 17
Milk. Soup. Broccoli. Two orange things. Purple stuff. White stuff. Fried circular thing.
Kyushokyu 1
Milk. Soup. Rice with what I hope isn’t fish. Ice cream? White stuff. Small, dried fish (not delicious).
Kyushokyu 3
Curry. Bread. Green stuff. Carrots. Spoon!
Kyushokyu 2
What’s in that bowl? And just one piece of broccoli? A third of a banana?
Kyushokyu 5
Ramen. Fake croutons. Orange stuff. Pink and green strings.
Kyushokyu 7
Apple sauce? Purple rice. Fish sticks? Soup. A tomato. More tiny fish.
Kyushokyu 4
Two bites of udon. More tiny fish. I have no idea.
Kyushokyu 9
Soba! Fried stuff? Mushroom looking things. Peaches and things.
Kyushokyu 11
Pasta! Soup. Brown and green stringy stuff.
Kyushokyu 6
Hot dog with corn. A piece of broccoli. A fried thing. Soup. Some squishy things. Some mush.
Kyushokyu 13
Udon! Tiny eggs. Some fish. Some green things. Carrots. A white cube.
Kyushokyu 15
Rice. Soup. Tomato. Broccoli. No idea.
Kyushokyu 8
Soup. Milk. Food? Sweet potato?
Kyushokyu 12
Rice. Soup. Chicken? Green stuff. Beans with green powder?
Kyushokyu 14
Bread! Tiny hot dogs. Carrots. Broccoli. Fake pasta? MORE TINY FISH!?
Kyushokyu 10
Milk. Soup. Tiny hamburger. Four and a half cold fries. Carrot. I don’t know.
Kyushokyu 19
Rice. Milk. Soup. Japanese stuff. Maybe chicken?
Kyushokyu 18
Rice. Milk. Soup. Tomato. Green. Other stuff.
Kyushoku-029
Pasta. Something fried. Mushy bread stuff. Green stuff. Soup. Milk. Carrot.

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