What are you eating?

[Buffalobiian]

We don't get food served like that here.

It's all either packaged uncooked foods (bags of chips), prepackaged cooked foods (pies in a plastic wrapping, sausage roles in a paper bag, or handmade foods put into takeaway containers (pastas, curried rice, sandwiches). Everything is take-away and self-paid. Nothing gets washed, and tables for eating are limited, let alone designated undercover eating tables. In fact, rather than "canteens which imply food being served with washable utensils and an area to sit, school eateries here are called tuck-shops where you just buy, leave and eat somewhere.

edit: that said, I think I like the option of having one single large serving of something instead of having bits of everything. I'm not really one who likes to have bits and pieces, but would rather eat one thing today, and another tomorrow. Maybe I'm just weird like that, but not having a full serving of something makes me feel like it's incomplete, even though I can fill myself with another half of something else.