Cafeteria food

The other day I had lunch with some friends at our student cafeteria. One of them had veggie sticks while the rest of us chose a dish with meat because we were afraid of what the cafeteria would present as veggie sticks. The friend with the veggie sticks told me a fter his first bites: "They are actually quite good. Do you want to try some?"

He gave me a bite of his sticks and after chewing them, I noticed:" They taste like guinea-pig food!!" That exclamation of mine, of course let to the question: "Why do you know how guinea-peg food tastes like?"

So, I had to tell them the whole story:

Once upon a time, there was a 7-years-old girl, who wanted to have a Lego horse and whose best friend owned 3 guinea-pigs. One beautiful day, the friend's older brother dared her to eat a spoon full of guinea-pig food. He would give her his Lego horse, if she did. Of course, she accepted that bet.

The older brother was, just like all older brothers, quite mean. So, he told all his friends, that I would eat guinea-pig food, if they offered me their Lego horses.

That episode had two advantages for me, in the end: First of all, after a while, I had a stable full of Lego horses. And secondly, nobody can fool me with guinea-pig food disguised as veggie sticks.