School Lunches

[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.

[Great-Kazoo]

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

Forgot about those, another lunch mom excelled at. Open can drain liquid, hope links didn't drop in trash.

[theGinsue]

I believed our mother excelled making PB&J's. Which is another thread i'll do soon.

As I recall, I had to make my own lunches since I was in the 4th grade. I didn't get to choose what I got, other than to refuse something I was allowed.

90% of the time my lunches consisted of:
2 - Sandwiches; Crunchy Peanut Butter with grandma's homemade grape jelly. I've always hated crunchy peanut butter but since my dad & brother preferred it, I never got creamy. My grandmothers grape jelly was good, but after 2 sandwiches x 5 days a week my entire life until I was 18...... I hate grape jelly now.
4 - slices of canned peaches (in a reusable container), or 1 piece of fresh fruit
SOMETIMES, and I mean sometimes, we got a snack cake (never brand name like Hostess), or 4 cookies - unless the cookies were homemade, then we only got 2 cookies.
1 - 1/2 pint of school milk. Dad was pissed when they raised the price to $0.12

I envied the kids who got to buy school lunches. I don't know if we were eligible for subsidized lunches or not, but even if we were, my folks were too proud to ever take advantage of that. I graduated HS @ 6'0" and just 138lbs. Within 3 months of graduation, after lots of working out and controlling my diet with 10x the calories I was used to, I'd gained 25lbs of muscle. It appears my body was craving lots more food.

[rockhound]

we had the school lunch side and the burger joint side of the cafeteria, basically a cheap burger king inside the school,

the food wasn't too bad, junior and senior year we could go off campus for lunch, so we would head out in my truck or a buddies cars for lunch, if you brought the Leroy, parking lot guard, a burger he would let you back on campus when you were late (we were late a lot), I had a job after school and on weekend so I usually had a buck or two to spend on my own lunch.

The school district where I grew up served milk shakes every day, they had milk, but the kids were more likely to drink the shake and get some calcium in them. Michelle O, would have a fit over that one.

We played outside you know, a few extra calories wouldn't hurt us....

[Great-Kazoo]

We played outside you know, a few extra calories wouldn't hurt us....

ON A PLAYGROUND, with swings seesaws, monkey bars. THE HORROR. Good thing no one was injured or anyone watched someone get hurt. OH THE TRAUMA . Having to live the rest of your life like that. After seeing someone get their teeth knocked out standing to close to the seesaw or swing. Counseling is > that way.

[rockhound]

ON A PLAYGROUND, with swings seesaws, monkey bars. THE HORROR. Good thing no one was injured or anyone watched someone get hurt. OH THE TRAUMA . Having to live the rest of your life like that. After seeing someone get their teeth knocked out standing to close to the seesaw or swing. Counseling is > that way.

yeah, one girl got hit in the head with my aluminum bat one day at recess, the kid swinging it let go and the thing t-boned her square in the forehead. I remember it like it was yesterday.

[Irving]

yeah, one girl got hit in the head with my aluminum bat one day at recess, the kid swinging it let go and the thing t-boned her square in the forehead. I remember it like it was yesterday.

I remember my friend was being chased by someone with a handful of gravel ready to throw at him. My friend was running ahead, but looking behind him. He ran full on into a steel ladder. Good times. He grew up to be a D-bag anyway.