Lunch at Boston Museum of Science
August 19th, 2006 | by Loretta |Day 2 of our stay in Boston entailed going to the Museum of Science. I highly recommend this museum to anyone with a curious mind. It has amazing exhibits that are informative and also very interactive. I was practically drooling at the Mathematica section, since they had moving models that explained linear/cicular motion, mobilus strips and conics. It made me wish I had already taken A-Calc and be registered for Topology already.
We also went to the Body Worlds 2 exhibit, which is much like the Bodies exhibit at the Seaport in NYC except I’m too poor to afford the latter on a whim. The former was possible, because my aunt and uncle are awesome– they’re members of the museum! 
The Body Worlds 2 and the Bodies exhibit is about the human body, featuring carefully dissected bodies that are also plastinated so that they can last forever. For some it’s varies from being grotesque to unethical; for others, it is inspirational and beautiful.
Anyway, after going through the exhibit in about 2 hours, we decided it was lunch time. My family and my uncle’s occupied a lunch table in the Museum cafeteria after selecting what to eat from the rather diverse food court.
The Boston Museum of Science served food that was catered mostly to kids, but it didn’t mean that there wasn’t anything for adults. They had sandwiches, a pizza/pasta station and a Mexican food bar. Oh, and an open salad bar and a station that made drinks as well as dessert.
After surveying the territory to see what we had to choose from, my brother and I decided to get a wrap and a sandwich, respectively. The bestest part about eating with my brother is that we can easily swap food. 
My portobello sandwich was the least ordinary one I could find. Other options included ham with cheese and, of course, peanut butter and jelly.
- Portobello mushrooms (I think they uses bellini
)
- Tomato
- Mozzarella
- Pesto (!!!)
- Roll (that was focaccia-esque, but not quite since it was a cold sandwich)
It would have been nicer if the bread was a little softer. Still, it was pretty satisfying, even though it probably had a max diameter of 5″?
Randy got a turkey wrap and gave me half. I gave him half of my sandwich and a chunk from my half since whoever cut it totally missed the diameter by a mile.
The turkey had very tender, moist and was sliced about 1/8″ thick.
- Turkey
- Provolone cheese
- American cheese
- Lettuce
- Tomato
- Tomato tortilla
Randy ate it by oozing a packet or two of Hellmann’s onto it. (Ew!) But then I did the same when I got around to eating it. Mustard would have been a good condiment as well. Eaten plain, it’s okay, but the tortilla was a bit thick in some parts, so it was nice to have something moist to go with it.
Some of the meals that others in our party of 8 got were complete meals, which included a piece of fruit and a drink in their order. There was extra chocolate milk from either Dad’s meal or my little cousin’s. I forget. Anyway, I had to take a few sips, since the last time I had cartoned half-pint milk was at least 7 years ago.
Do not be fooled. This was more than just a carton of milk. For me, it was a ticket to revisit my childhood. The taste is distinctly different when you drink from the carton rather than for a glass or mug, because–quite obviously– you taste the paper that makes the spout.
Ah, kiddie-sized portions are always a great reminder of how much fun being a kid really was.
Oh, one final note. As pointed out by our uncle: where is the meat in the chicken tender?
Really, I don’t know of any chicken that has that much empty space between their muscles. Sigh. The naturally separated muscle fibers reminded us of the Body Worlds 2 specimens. Maybe it was a limited-time only chicken tender.