Post 20, all about my lunch

I've mentioned the canteen previously, I think.
Usually, one can expect moderately good food--mashed potatoes, grated beet, cabbage or carrot salad, a piece of breaded and fried meat. Once, they served blini with fruit. Only one time have I regretted spending my $1.30. It was soup--clear vegetable broth with little things swimming in it, and topped with odd, yielding white cheese. It was hideous.
Today's lunch trumps the bad soup. I got a heaping plateful (I think the cook always gives me extra--I'm not sure why) of lightly salted, very starchy noodles, flooded with a puree of frozen strawberries. I was so horrified, I ate most of it before it dawned on me that maybe I didn't have to clean my plate. Shockingly shockingly awful. The canteen has betrayed my trust.