I remember getting picked on because my Mom made my sandwiches with whole wheat bread. I complained, and she bought a loaf of Wonder Bread-like the other kids had. It tasted like glue, and I figured out the other kids were pretty dumb…
Traditional lunch where? I admit it sounds good, but more like a description off a menu than a meal that has been in the Bermudez family for generations.
I was and remain a peanut butter sandwich luncher. Almost every day from the first day of first grade (kindergarten was half day, no lunch in school and I missed a good chunk of it as we moved in the middle) through the end of 9th grade I brought half a peanut butter sandwich with the crusts cut off (I called them the bones) to lunch for school – except for those days in school when it was Passover and both the bread and the peanut butter was no-nos (cream cheese on matzoh instead). In high school I skipped lunch and volunteered in a school office instead.
In normal times I bring a peanut butter sandwich (full size, with crusts) with me to eat for lunch in the car when I go to clients. Now that I have been stuck in the house for a year and almost a full month I have had a peanut butter sandwich for lunch daily, with the exception of, yes, Passover last month – when I had cream cheese on matzoh. (Last year during Passover I had the pb sandwiches as we did not have alternatives or matzoh in the house and it was not worth risking my life by going out to get same.)
Do note – that it is peanut butter, not peanut butter and jelly. I do not like jelly or anything else on the sandwich. When I went to day camp one summer the counselors would bring me the pbj and I would send it back – every day.
(I am not a kid, I am in my later 60s – when something is good, it is good.)
Templo S.U.D. about 3 years ago
what did Gracie’s classmates think she was eating? a torta de lengua fried in lard?
sergioandrade Premium Member about 3 years ago
When I was a high school student kids thought I was weird for eating linguisa sandwichs, a Portuguese sausage.
hildigunnurr Premium Member about 3 years ago
that’s a weird looking baguette. Did she get both ends? (actually my son wouldn’t mind that, he likes the ends best).
lms1231 Premium Member about 3 years ago
I remember getting picked on because my Mom made my sandwiches with whole wheat bread. I complained, and she bought a loaf of Wonder Bread-like the other kids had. It tasted like glue, and I figured out the other kids were pretty dumb…
Lawrence.S about 3 years ago
Traditional lunch where? I admit it sounds good, but more like a description off a menu than a meal that has been in the Bermudez family for generations.
Michael G. about 3 years ago
“I say it’s spinach, and I say the hell with it!”
Droptma Styx about 3 years ago
It was always this time of year the Jewish kids were eating their PB&J on those weird cracker things.
jamescordeiro about 3 years ago
In middle school, chourico sandwiches were a weekly thing.
MuddyUSA Premium Member about 3 years ago
A traditional Mexican lunch?
calliarcale about 3 years ago
Oh my sweet lord that sandwich sounds amazing.
TennesseeFran about 3 years ago
It sounds delicious to me, but Gracie’s classmates would probably still be disgusted by Brie, arugula and pesto!
Lightpainter about 3 years ago
Get rid of the brie and arugula; get some better cheese.
Cactus-Pete about 3 years ago
I don’t understand any of this one.
mafastore about 3 years ago
I was and remain a peanut butter sandwich luncher. Almost every day from the first day of first grade (kindergarten was half day, no lunch in school and I missed a good chunk of it as we moved in the middle) through the end of 9th grade I brought half a peanut butter sandwich with the crusts cut off (I called them the bones) to lunch for school – except for those days in school when it was Passover and both the bread and the peanut butter was no-nos (cream cheese on matzoh instead). In high school I skipped lunch and volunteered in a school office instead.
In normal times I bring a peanut butter sandwich (full size, with crusts) with me to eat for lunch in the car when I go to clients. Now that I have been stuck in the house for a year and almost a full month I have had a peanut butter sandwich for lunch daily, with the exception of, yes, Passover last month – when I had cream cheese on matzoh. (Last year during Passover I had the pb sandwiches as we did not have alternatives or matzoh in the house and it was not worth risking my life by going out to get same.)
Do note – that it is peanut butter, not peanut butter and jelly. I do not like jelly or anything else on the sandwich. When I went to day camp one summer the counselors would bring me the pbj and I would send it back – every day.
(I am not a kid, I am in my later 60s – when something is good, it is good.)