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| Tuesday, December 19, 2006 |
| Ata and the Lasagna |
Today, Ata went to the cafeteria for lunch. This is not unusual - she has been to the cafeteria for lunch everyday that she has been working at the hospital - that is a total of seven days, now.
The cafeteria serves three choices of main meal, and every day they are different. Additionally, once you have been served your choice of hot food, you may select salads, chips, wedges, cooked vegetables, and the like from the cabinets as you please before going to pay for your meal. Ata likes to have cooked vegetables, and just a few chips, with gravy. The salads are mostly uninspiring, although the potato salad looks alright.
On the day in question, Ata chose vegetable lasagna. Having been handed her share, she proceeded to the vegetables, and served herself some vegies. She noticed that, just above the wedges and to the right of the chips, there was a tub of warm cheese sauce. Usually there was only gravy to spread on your chips and vegies. Perhaps it was because of the lasagna, thought Ata. It does look a little dry - perhaps one is supposed to put cheese sauce on it oneself.
So she lifted the ladle experimentally. The sauce seemed a little thin, but evenly textured. Ata decided that just a little would be nice. As she began carefully drizzling, a cafeteria lady yelped at her - and then Ata realised her foolish mistake.
It was not cheese sauce.
It was cream of chicken soup.
Startled by her own lack of common sense (had she not, everyday, seen a tub of soup in that exact location? Usually pumpkin soup, but it does vary), Ata promptly forgot her personal rule - that is, when one is caught doing something silly, the best course of action is to make a startled face, admit the mistake, and laugh as if one is amused rather than mortified. Instead, she stammered something about just wanting to wet her lasagna, and escaped to the checkout. Ignoring the fact that the checkout lady was smothering a grin, Ata and her wounded ego stalked to a table near the window and hid in the book she had borrowed from the extra gifts cupboard.
Tomorrow she shall have to take sandwiches. |
posted by Ata @ 5:44 pm  |
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*snorts* Ah that's hilarious.
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Bwa-ha-ha.
Now I want to know what lasagna is like with a chicken soup sauce.
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Yes. I too want to know what the lasagna was like.
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Actually, it was fine. Probably would have been not-so-good if it were chicken noodle soup, but then I wouldn't have mistaken chicken noodle soup for cheese sauce. So for future reference, cream of chicken soup makes a suitable, if slightly salty, sauce for lasagna.
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*snorts* Ah that's hilarious.