Not Just Ninjas

I am so happy, I could cry. Somewhy, somehow, we were served Indian food for lunch at my podunk Junior High School. We don’t even have any Indian food in town. I think the closest is like an hour’s drive away. Perhaps it was supposed to balance out the uber-Japanese meal we had yesterday: seaweed sauce on rice, sanma, miso soup with every Japanese vegetable I can’t name in it, and shredded salad of the same. But today! Oh gloriousness! There were lentils! Indian curry (kind of!) and Naan! Which was great not only gastronomically, but also comically, as anyone with a passing knowledge of Japanese can attest to:

Kore wa nan desu ka? (what is this?)
Kore wa naan desu. (this is naan)
Kore wa naan desu? (this is naan?)
So. (you betcha)

And then we all laughed for days. Nothing like a good language joke to really bring everyone together, you know?

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