L.R. Burt

Telling Stories

Name That Food

February13

What, my friends, is this?

Well, I know it’s a lunch from the Greenville High School cafeteria back in 2000, when I was a senior, but what is it? Pizza, maybe, but what’s the half a hamburger bun about?  And who eats tater tots with pizza?  (Okay, some high school students…)  But if it is pizza, what’s it topped with?  Rabbit turds?

I polled a few friends and got these suggestions (arranged from least to most likely):

- tomato pie (badly burned)

- something involving tomato puree

- open-faced sandwich with black beans

- barbecue chicken

- barbecue barf

- out of control Sloppy Joe

- chili mac

- lasagna

- roadkill

- an alien from one of the old Star Trek episodes

- Scrounge-Up-Your-Cash-and-Head-Across-the-Street-to-the-Valero Lunch

What do you think?  GHS alumni, I’m counting on y’all to identify this!

Or maybe the real question is:

How did we ever make it out of there alive?

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Storytelling is second nature to me. When I was three, I told stories about Rainbow Brite. Now I’m quite a bit older than three, and I tell stories about people I make up. And about people I don’t make up. And especially about myself and my (mis)adventures as a writer, wife, mommy, and Walmart shopper. Because life is just a collection of stories. Sometimes, it’s far stranger than fiction…

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