I dialled 8-MCDO and had my lunch ordered in today. I've grown weary of the canteen food being served at the 3rd floor here in Alabang, and for those like me who grew up eating food served in the school cafeteria and at a Bank canteen, just the thought of seeing the same fare daily laid out behind glass panes has put me off. So today, instead of the usual rice, pork adobo (believe me, there's not much else to choose from), ampalaya and sabaw ng sinigang, I had chicken nuggets, fries, burger mcdo, coke and an apple pie. Now, I feel awful....all those saturated fats competing for space in my arteries. YIKES!! Oh, never mind. Live a little, die a little. The wonderful thing about the human body is that it is so efficient in disposing waste. Every 7 years, from the moment we were born, we have replaced all the old cells with new cells and its an entirely new body! Hmmm, let's not pursue this topic as a lot of us have passed 30 already. Hehehe!!!
Let me tell you a little about the cafeteria food in St. Scho, circa grade school-high school (1980-1986). By 10am, you can already smell the sauteeing onions, tomato and garlic wafting from the cafeteria as the caf was located at the ground floor and the classrooms were on the 2nd and 3rd floors and in the adjoining buildings. The lunch bell will ring at 11:30am and all the kulasas troop to where the smell is. Soup is made of pinakuluang buto ng baka, with pepper, salt and vetsin to taste with konting dahon ng sibuyas to give it a little kick, porkshop where the meat is 3/4 and the fat is 1/4. When we'd complain, one of the Manangs would say, "...mga bata pa kayo, ok lang yan..." You'd think the fried chicken is heavy with meat but it would turn out that there's just a lot of bread crumbs hiding the skinny chicken underneath. Lumpiang shanghai are as thin as our fingers. The measured adobo and menudo viands as well as pinakbet are staples in St. Scho.
But there would be days when the heavens would smile upon us and food at the cafeteria is bountiful and we would eat our fill. Latecomers have the usual asado as the nuns would bring this viand out last for those who would wait until the lunch hour crowd has come and gone, usually to play agawan base or return to their classrooms to nap a while. Now, when I eat asado, I associate it with being late for lunch.
Back to the present. Its funny when you think back how you can't wait to get out of school and now, the memories of the cafeteria brings a smile, and the smell of pinakukuluang buto ng baka brings my mind back to my old school and I'm 12 again.
Anyway, masarap naman ang Mcdo, wag lang palagi.
Anyway, masarap naman ang Mcdo, wag lang palagi.