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Eight-Six posted:texas public school, so......... Maybe in our case it was kosher? Hopefully I don't sound like an rear end in a top hat saying that.
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Our dinner ladies would occasionally bring leftover roast potatoes out to the playground, ring a bell and we'd all stop playing football or whatever and run over and queue for the roasties, they were always super crispy and salty, delicious. Very satisfying impact when thrown at someone's head too.
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Oct 15, 2022 19:23
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pizza and chikin fryz
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Oct 15, 2022 19:28
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Anne Whateley posted:I realize reminiscing about white rice is ludicrous, but I don't know what they seasoned it with that was just amazing. Forever chasing that dragon Sometimes a simple meal of white rice with butter, salt, and pepper (or soy sauce) is good for what ails ye.
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Oct 15, 2022 19:31
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Pimpcasso posted:Rectangle pizza was the GOAT it's great, but the hexagonal mexican pizza (apparently called a 'fiestada' now) easily clears the rectangle
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Oct 15, 2022 19:35
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Fridays' lunches were hamburgers, fries, and chocolate milk at lunch. Pancakes were served for breakfast. They would let you come back for seconds on the pancakes after the clock hit a certain time. Milk came in little cartoons. The carton usually had a cartoon dog printed on it with safety tips like using the buddy system. Your choices were Red, Blue, or Green(buttermilk). Everyone picked Red. Nobody ever got Green, so I don't know why it was offered. At breakfast we got little foam cups of juice as well. The grape juice was the best. They served the good stuff, so it wasn't in the rotation as often as apple and orange. I liked the grill cheese/veggie soup days. The sandwiches were real crispy from being cooked on a sheet pan in the oven. Dunking the sandwich into the soup to soften it was a futile effort. The soup was tomato broth, ground beef, mixed veg; and it was sometimes called hobo stew. There was a girl that didn't like the soup, so we would trade my sandwich for her soup if we were sat near each other. I didn't care for lasagna or spaghetti, but it came with a slice of garlic bread. It was great to gnaw on. Crisp, crunchy, and chewy! The rolls were also great, especially with mashed potatoes and gravy. The rectangle pizza was ok. It came either with ground meat or cubed pepperoni like a Totino's. Dessert was usually good. A cookie, square of cake, or at worst canned fruit. I hated Sloppy Joe day because of the smell, and I always seemed to get a piece gristle. I liked the steak fingers until a kid spit on my tray in first grade. Grossed me out after that. Even though we were just dumb kids, gently caress YOU FOREVER, BERNARDO!!! The other meal I still think about sometimes was another breakfast item. It was sometimes called cowboy bread. It was super dense, dark, chewy, and a little sticky. The stickiness may have been from syrup that usually accompanied it. It was more like a cake or brownie really. It was spiced with maybe some mix of cinnamon, clove, or nutmeg. It probably had molasses in it.
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Oct 15, 2022 19:43
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Ez8 posted:I would just live off candy bars and bags of nacho chips mooched off other kids. I just sit around all sweaty and lethargic.
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Oct 15, 2022 19:43
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It was every Thursday's lunch for me. It was always mashed potatoes, green beans, roll and fruit or cobbler along with one of the following main items:
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Oct 15, 2022 19:46
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Worst was a tofu hotdog (a notdog), I tried to enjoy it, but the texture was so wrong, I can still remember the texture and how I couldn't get through even one of them.
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Oct 15, 2022 19:57
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the school i work at went with "free lunch for all" last year but all anyone got was chicken nuggets, really wet spaghetti, or a salad. Kids complained a lot
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Oct 15, 2022 20:00
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my mom always sent me in with a sandwich, a plastic bag of chips, a small orange or grapes & generally SSIP's boxed iced tea. same lunch for 40 years now. everyday
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Oct 15, 2022 20:27
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kntfkr posted:my mom always sent me in with a sandwich, a plastic bag of chips, a small orange or grapes & generally SSIP's boxed iced tea. same lunch for 40 years now. everyday Omg SSSIPS I’m gonna be disappointed if I try it now aren’t I?
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Oct 15, 2022 21:02
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I haven't seen SSIP's in forever. There's a change.org petition for them to use their original formula https://www.change.org/p/johanna-foods-bring-back-original-ssips-lemon-iced-tea?redirect=false
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Oct 15, 2022 21:05
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Haschel Cedricson posted:I don't remember the worst, but the best was definitely turkey gravy day. They removed it from the menu when I was in third grade for some reason, and I actually wrote a letter to the superintendent demanding they bring it back. Not only did the letter work, it also got a shout-out a decade later in one of the speeches a school board member made at our high school graduation. This is the cutest drat thing and I'm glad you kids got your turkey gravy back.
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Oct 15, 2022 22:24
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We had cooks who would hand make tasty breadsticks for the entire school maybe 3 or 4 times a year. They showed up at like 4AM to make it all happen. Even as kids, everyone knew that breadstick day was a hell of a good day.
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Oct 15, 2022 22:39
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Usually once every two weeks we’d have fried catfish nuggets in one of my elementary schools, and I loved those goddamn things. This was in a slightly affluent Michigan district in the mid-90s, and I never saw them served outside of it.
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Oct 15, 2022 23:37
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the holy poopacy posted:Everyone's favorite was these taquitos they'd make although technically I think they might have been flautas because they used big flour tortillas. The filling was standard lovely gringo taco mix but they were both crunchy and greasy so they had a certain appeal that most of the cafeteria food lacked. We had those taquito things, they were called crispitos. That day or chicken fried steak day were the best. Worst days usually involved fish. But I also found a water bug inside a tater tot once in elementary school and now I still don't like them. In schools in the south in the 1980s they served buttermilk next to the 2% and the chocolate milk cartons but kids would only drink it on dares.
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Oct 15, 2022 23:52
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Rectangular pizza and fried chicken sandwich were the best. I can't remember any of the ones I really hated though
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I remember in elementary school (early 90's) they gave us knock-off McRib sandwiches. No one liked them. The trash can was overflowing with them. Every one had a single bite taken out of them. That was the only time they served those.
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Oct 16, 2022 04:47
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This lunch was both, and it was mini cheeseburgers / generic white castle basically. Came 2 to a sleeve and people hated them Not me tho, which was great since I used to get as many as I wanted One time I had like 20 then went to baseball game in the city and had a ton of hot dogs there and my farts were so bad on the train after the game people kept like a 10 foot distance from me Which is really impressive on the green line in Boston @ Fenway after a game It was rather nice, I was the only person on the entire train with space to stretch E: one of my friends that was there says he remembered somebody gagging from the smell but I don't. I wouldn't doubt it though. It was easily the worst smelling and most potent gas I've ever had. Could taste it in the air
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Manto posted:Fridays' lunches were hamburgers, fries, and chocolate milk at lunch. Pancakes were served for breakfast. They would let you come back for seconds on the pancakes after the clock hit a certain time. .....You're a really good writer, this made me nostalgic for something I wasn't even there for
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Worf posted:This lunch was both, and it was mini cheeseburgers / generic white castle basically. Came 2 to a sleeve and people hated them I love ripping disgusting farts lol
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pencilhands posted:I love ripping disgusting farts lol
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Best was grilled ham and cheese. It blew my mind that you could put stuff other than cheese in grilled cheese and that is still one of my favorite meals. Second was these things they made called "veggie sticks" that were basically Veg-All that was batter-dipped and fried. They weren't around long because all the other kids hated it. Worst was thick processed turkey and canned gravy on soggy white bread. Also the weird off-tasting vanilla pudding.
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I was diagnosed with celiac disease when I was 12, so the only thing that I could eat at my school for like 90 percent of my lunches was ice cream.
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