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I don&#8217;t eat many salads, but I don&#8217;t know how that can qualify as food. First off, it&#8217;s not a salad unless it has croutons. And spinach can&#8217;t ever serve as the primary attraction in any food.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it turned out that the lunch consisted of salmon, mashed sweet potatoes and some strange strawberry-looking sauce on the side. Hate the first, like the second OK and have no idea what the third was doing on a lunch plate since strawberry sauce only belongs on ice cream.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, I didn&#8217;t eat a whole lot. I&#8217;m sure some of you are laughing at me and telling me to just suck it up and eat what I get.<\/p>\n<p>But this was a lunch with several hundred people. I can&#8217;t be the only one who didn&#8217;t like salmon, which is the most polarizing fish out there. I have had salmon before and don&#8217;t like it.<\/p>\n<p>Besides, fancy lunches with impressive presentation are overrated. I sat at my place, picking at my food and silently cursing myself for skipping the chicken salad on a potato roll with macaroni salad on the side I passed up at another part of the gathering. They had chips and cookies too. What was I thinking?<\/p>\n<p>I need to take advantage of opportunities like this in the future to strike a blow for simple people all across the land. Instead of suffering through some frou-frou lunch without complaining, I need to stand on my chair and demand a reasonable alternative.<\/p>\n<p>I work with the people who planned the lunch, and I know they had good intentions, but I wish they would have tried to cater to the common folk instead of aiming to impress the crowd. Don&#8217;t they know some of us are impressed by simplicity?<\/p>\n<p>I shouldn&#8217;t have to suffer for my humble tastes. 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