When Rosheen Kaul first moved to Australia, she struggled to relate to Assorted Creams and cereal, but slowly she started to see the nuance
I hate salad sandwiches.
These are the words I scrawled angrily on every single page of my diary from 2006. I was 14, in the Victorian high country on a year-long school camp, forced to eat school camp food for 200 days. I felt like I was in one of the lesser-known circles of hell, where you’re presented with pre-shredded lettuce, machine-cut carrot, canned beetroot, bread and salad cream (not even mayo!) for eternity (daily) and forced to enjoy it. “Lunch,” they called it. I called it torture, and refused to eat it. Once I’d finished being dramatic, I’d eat instant noodles from a secret stash I kept in a hole in the ceiling. This went on for the entire year.
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