What are you eating?

[Animeniax]

For some reason, I really think that picture is more a stereotype, or at least carefully chosen, as I don't ever remember having artichoke as a choice throughout the 20 years I have been to school canteens (from kindergarten to Engineer degree). Mainly because it is not that easy to eat/handle.
A french humorist once said:
"Artichoke is truly for poor people. It's the only dish that has more of it AFTER you've you ate it"

Did you ever have a huge plate of freedom fries for lunch like in that picture?

[David75]

Did you ever have a huge plate of freedom fries for lunch like in that picture?

I admitt I had the same reaction the first time I've seen that pic, there's a contradiction beetween fries with ketchup and artichoke. It's just I forgot about that reaction.
In many canteens, you can chose exactly what you want. But that choice also would be weird. Or we have a vegetarian here, who didn't like the other veggies alternative that day.

[rockmanj]

I admitt I had the same reaction the first time I've seen that pic, there's a contradiction beetween fries with ketchup and artichoke. It's just I forgot about that reaction.
In many canteens, you can chose exactly what you want. But that choice also would be weird. Or we have a vegetarian here, who didn't like the other veggies alternative that day.

Sadly, I often feel like an asshole when I inquire about vegetarian options.

[darkshadow]

Did you ever have a huge plate of freedom fries for lunch like in that picture?

Huge order of fries only is actually very normal here, I actually did some research about this and it seems that our country has perfected the art of "serving" fries. I though it was pretty funny that a lot of different countries served fries more as a side dish, in small portions. Also the lack of diversty in sauces also really suprised me....but then again we have a nationwide system of fastfood "slang" used just to identify fries + a certain sauce.