"FAQs: School lunches" Topic

Do you have good or bad memories about your school lunch?

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Amicalement
Armand

Decent ones with the ones I took.

Bad, when eating in the cafeteria, since most was not fit for human, or even swine consumption.

About the only passable thing was the thin little burgers, overcooked to the consistency of shoe leather, luke warm or cold, and made with far too many soy beans in the mix, instead of beef.

Other stuff was usually worse.

Pizza shouldn't have been called that.

The tomato soup being cooked in the morning always smelled really good.

Never had a lunch program at school. No cafeteria. Brought my own from home. After 8th grade, I couldn't eat peanut butter for several years.

Very good memories – We always had multiple choices and great desserts.
However – I did go to a private school in England ,so my memories may not be the norm.

Rectangular pizza and fried bologna w/ mashed potatoes and cheese on top

We had "Lasagna" one time, it was served in a bowl. Mine consisted of a single lasagna noodle and the rest was tomato sauce.

My memory is a bit jumbled at 50+ years, but I think I ate more cafeteria made food as I got older.

The high school cooks made excellent hot dog buns on site. And once I convinced myself to try it, broccoli (probably overcooked and too loaded with butter nutritionwise) became a favorite.

I use to bring food from home in a thermos flask. Chow mien, curry chicken and rice, etc

Our cafeteria made all the food from scratch (Hamburger buns and bread slices). Their hamburgers were very good and spaghetti outstanding. My favorite was their Chili Mac and cheese grits in the morning ( yes they served breakfast).

I was thrilled when McD's started serving breakfast, since I used to go there before school, after swimming, to get a decent meal, since there wasn't time to go home, in the opposite direction.

Used to sneak out for lunch in high school, to get a decent meal, even though that was verboten.

I have fond memories of school lunches in elementary school. About the 5th or six grade we could eat off campus, so I went home or went out with friends.

Always had a home made lunch, no school lunches for me until high school.

My first lunch was at 7° Grade… first time in Argentina for Primary School… I still remember the dish… "Ravioli with Fileto"… I count them… seven Ravioli! (small ones)… and some tomatoe sauce (liquid)… it was so horrible!… First and last time I lunch there…

My little brother (he was at 1st grade) was not so lucky!… (smile)

Amicalement
Armand

In Denmark, we never had a real cafeteria, you were expected to bring your own lunch.
There'd be a program for cheap milk and yoghurt though.

High school (grade 10-12/13 I guess, for americans) had no food either, but we were adjacent to a shopping plaza where you could buy all kinds of stuff.
The pizza-by-the-slice shop there made bank on us.

In college, we had a little cafeteria.

When I visited the states, the friends of my future wife were moaning up a storm about the college cafeteria. To my eyes it was massively huge and the food was pretty decent, if kind of unhealthy.

When I moved out west, while in high school, I was shocked to see the availability of soft drinks and other junk food being freely sold by the cafeteria.

That wasn't available at my old school.

Our school dinners were dreadful. It was only after we amalgamated with a nearby girls' school, and they had to eat our horrible muck, that complaints were taken seriously.

Turned out the canteen staff were filling shopping bags with the good stuff and giving us what was left.

My first school didn't have school lunch. We had to bring lunch from home. I usually had a salami sandwich and a few cookies, and a dime for buying a little carton of milk.

Then we moved, and for last two years of grade school and all of junior high, I had regular school lunch. Some days were better than other days. Pizza days were probably the best. The lasagna and spaghetti weren't so good. I liked the meat loaf and mashed potatoes.

There was a little drive-in adjacent to my grade school where I got a hamburger and french fries once or twice a month. That was a real treat.

I don't think that I ever ate a school lunch in high school, but just brought a huge bag of food from home.

MMMM "The Educated Pizza",I know a deli that still sells something similar,and I think my local Sav-A-Lot does too.

the good thing was the occasional ice cream block, the rest was awful (eg: grey potato mash).

I had no complaints about the food. When the student body requested some music during lunch (this was the early sixties)the good sisters provided Mitch Miller and His Sing Along Gang!

It was OK. Not memorable as either especially good or bad