Saturday, April 22

Not just rice and fish

ME: (pointing at a sauce-covered something on my tray) What's this?

Lunchroom Lady: Oishii mono (literally, "a delicious thing")

ME: Is it meat?

LL: Yes.

ME: What kind of meat?

LL: Liver

ME: (trying not to grimace) What? Beef liver? Chicken liver?

LL: Nope, beef liver is dangerous right now. Its pig's liver. Can you eat it?

I wanted to say "Not without gagging" but instead I mumbled a "Sure, no problem."

It turned out to be not as terrible as I expeceted (and better than beef liver), and I managed to eat it all, alternating bites with the egg-salad sandwiches, but I would never go so far as to call pig's liver a delicious thing.

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