It’s the little things….

The other day at school lunch I was very pleasantly surprised to find on my tray what appeared to be cool-whip fruit salad. Other items on the tray included a thicker stew I hadn’t seen before and two hamburger-type-looking buns. I wasn’t interested in eating the buns plain, so I thought I’d try eating the stew inside them like sloppy joes. Not an unreasonable deduction, I think, by American standards. As I bit into my stew bun, I looked around the table at the Japanese teachers I was seated with and noticed that they were stuffing their hamburger buns with the cool-whip salad. Ah, cultural differences.