{"id":7035,"date":"2025-11-15T01:21:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T09:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/eating-memberberries\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T01:21:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T09:21:35","slug":"eating-memberberries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/eating-memberberries\/","title":{"rendered":"Eating memberberries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I keep forgetting that I don&#8217;t like Swiss cheese all that much.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll happily eat a turkey and Swiss sandwich, but it&#8217;s not an enjoyable cheese.<\/p>\n<p>An enjoyable cheese is a cheese you would eat on some crackers. Or eat with some rice. Or cut up into cubes to munch on.<\/p>\n<p>When I was a kid, a Lunchable was a real treat to me. I only got them like a handful of times throughout my whole childhood, and every single time it was like I&#8217;d been given a special treat.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, I didn&#8217;t really like pairing my Lunchable with a class field trip. I would have rather enjoyed special food on a regular day so that I could more closely focus on munching on those crackers with meat, with cheese, and with a blob of Dijon mustard.<\/p>\n<p>I was such a big fan of those round pieces of lunch meat. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve found the exact same thing outside of a Lunchable.<\/p>\n<p>And if I have come across the same thing, I haven&#8217;t recognized the flavor because those Lunchables from yesteryear have the flavor of nostalgia.<\/p>\n<p>They were simple trays of crackers, cheese, meat, a single-serving of mustard, a napkin, and an Andes mint.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t need a Capri Sun in my Lunchable. I preferred the cracker meals and the Andes mint always brought me joy.<\/p>\n<p>I have a particular fondness for Andes mints. They were the after dinner candy our favorite diner would give out when we paid the bill.<\/p>\n<p>That restaurant is a core memory for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I keep forgetting that I don&#8217;t like Swiss cheese all that much. I&#8217;ll happily eat a turkey and Swiss sandwich, but it&#8217;s not an enjoyable cheese. An enjoyable cheese is a cheese you would eat on some crackers. Or eat with some rice. Or cut up into cubes to munch on. When I was a&hellip;<\/p>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/eating-memberberries\/\" title=\"Eating memberberries\" class=\"entry-more-link\"><span>Read More<\/span> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Eating memberberries<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"Layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-harperkingsley0-0","post-7035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pPoL-1Pt","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4177,"url":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/prompt-067\/","url_meta":{"origin":7035,"position":0},"title":"Prompt: 067. cheese and crackers","author":"Harper Kingsley","date":"March 8, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Prompt: 067. cheese and crackers 1. 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