School Lunches

[Gman]

Elementary was whatever mom packed. Ate that for so long that I wanted hot lunches in middle school, so I worked in the cafeteria for half the lunch period scraping leftovers into food grade trash cans for pig feed. Got a free lunch if you worked in the cafeteria. Most of the food was pretty good back then since it was scratch made and didn't come out of a can or a box. Beef tips over noodles was one of my faves.

[Guylee]

Earliest I can remember is high school when I got a slice of pizza and french fries every day that I didn't bring a sandwich.

How you old guys can remember elementary school is beyond me. I can barely remember college...and that was only a few years ago!

[Gman]

I probably remember more of elementary school than college. I did a lot of drinking in college.

[Bailey Guns]

Yeah...a lot of brown bag lunches with cornbread to eat with a carton of milk from the cafeteria. When we were rolling in the dough I'd be able to bring a bologna sandwich. I ate so much bologna as a kid that once I moved out I wouldn't touch the stuff for 25 or 30 years. I've finally come to the point I can eat it again. I may not have had what I wanted but I never went hungry.

And, yes...Tater Tots. Still love 'em.

[sandman76]

I'm with theGinsue on the rolls. I loved those things. The pizza they had wasn't too bad. They would also make these mock drumstick things that had a wooden spike stuck through them. No idea what that meat actually was but it was always pretty tasty. I can remember parts of elementary school like it was yesterday. Weird to think I was in first grade 50 years ago.

[Great-Kazoo]

Earliest I can remember is high school when I got a slice of pizza and french fries every day that I didn't bring a sandwich.

How you old guys can remember elementary school is beyond me. I can barely remember college...and that was only a few years ago!

Was making some egg noodles to go with left over pot roast. It was one of those remember flashbacks. We didn't have any programs that allowed students to work the cafeteria. There was no subsidized lunch program, etc. Interesting that EVERYONE had a lunch, either from school or from home. I believed our mother excelled making PB&J's. Which is another thread i'll do soon.

[BushMasterBoy]

I remember eating in a military chow hall, I was 7 years old. I was the only kid and ate alone.

[thvigil11]

Fired Okra and Salsbury Steak

[rbeau30]

I'm with theGinsue on the rolls. I loved those things. The pizza they had wasn't too bad. They would also make these mock drumstick things that had a wooden spike stuck through them. No idea what that meat actually was but it was always pretty tasty. I can remember parts of elementary school like it was yesterday. Weird to think I was in first grade 50 years ago.

MOCK CHICKEN LEGS! OMGosh I totally forgot about those I gotta find them somewhere I remember getting them frozen at the store too in the meat counter.

[Ah Pook]

Our elementary principle's family owned the local bread bakery, so we always had dinner rolls. Still remember how they tasted. Salisbury steak and some kind of fried meat patty with gravy is about all I remember.

The first time school offered hamburgers was when I was in the 5th grade. Not like anything I had/ave ever tasted.

For the most part I took my lunch. Lots of deviled ham and vienna sausages.