Lunch Boxes

Those were the times and those were the cheese sandwiches. Of course, we were young and we dared to try things that would have made older generations blush. We experimented with sweet pickle, cucumber, tomato and even – the more daring ones amongst us – lettuce.

There was even talk, late at night, of people who dared go beyond cheese on their sandwiches. Talk of tuna, salmon, beef, roast pork chicken and other such wild imaginings, far beyond anything we had known.

We were young then and knew little of the contents of other people’s lunch boxes or what secrets of the soul could be ensconced between two slices of bread.

Now, though, we are older and, if not wiser, at least able to talk the utmost bollocks with a fluency that would make our younger selves blush in self-consciousness, and we believe that we have seen all that can be seen put between two lightly-buttered slices of bread. We have even witnessed the horror that is peanut butter and lived to tell the tale, even if in a somewhat hushed and shell-shocked manner.

So, it is with some complete lack of surprise that we look upon the lunch boxes of those here gathered around us and find none of it that strange, not any longer, not even when you have cheese, but eschew the sweet pickle as the work of the devil.