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Brings to mind a question for those under 20, in school or just graduated - what did your lunch consist of? I am class of '87, and then we had fries and burgers and all that, as well as vegetables and fruit. Many kids went to fast food places (school allowed us to leave campus for lunch).

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horatio said:

and your answer to the question is...?

eaglebear4839 said:

oh probably my favorite, chilli and peanut butter sammitch

my mum used to give me a cheese sandwich with no butter, and an apple wrapped in tin foil with a juice tetrapak

it was ALWAYS the same:

baloney sandwich with miracle whip on white bread
banana
little debbie swiss roll

unless i complained about having to eat the same thing every day for months, in which case i got

peanut butter and jelly on white bread
banana
little debbie nutty bar

and when i complained about that, it was back to the baloney and the swiss rolls.

though i think one time i pitched a big enough fit that my mom was all "to hell with it" and she just gave me money for the school cafeteria. VICTORY!

ZombieKitten said:

a friend of mines mom always made him a velveeta cheese and mayo on white bread sammitch
EVERY damn day!

Ugh. when I was in elementary school, my parents would make me egg sandwiches, but the egg would be running. It was gross and embarrassing. Plus they didn't taste great after 4-5 periods.

I had to have school lunches...my Mom never packed my lunch unless it was a field trip, and even then it was only meat/cheese sandwich with mustard, chips, cookies, and a drink.

When I was in high school, there were two dynamics:

Kids who had cash would always go to the "A la carte" line -- Domino's Pizza personal pan pizzas, real 6" inch Subway sandwiches made from the local Subway chain, nachos with hot cheese, freshly baked chocolate chip cookies, Doritos/Lays/Cheetos, Twix, etc. We had 6 soda machines and there were lines @ lunchtime if you wanted 20 oz. Coke, Hawaiian Punch, etc. This was the most popular and the lines were huge.

Kids who didn't do a la carte or relied on what we called "lunch tickets" would go to the regular school lunch line and that's where you'd see the can mixed vegetables, generic chalupas, frozen meat patties, etc. Really generic, blah food.

In the four years I was in high school, I was never in the regular school lunch line. The meals weren't fresh, the food tasted bland and stale. I primarily went to the a la carte line and when I was a senior left campus and went to Burger King or the mini-mall with all the fast food chains.

I used to get a Subway turkey sandwich everyday and a bag of chips with a soda.

We were allowed to drink soda/juices/water in the classroom.

One more thing, LOL I remember when I was a senior we got a Nissin Cup of Noodles machine my senior year and it used to stay empty because it was so popular. We had, like, 6 flavors in it lollll It was like the cool thing to get a Cup of Ramen Noodles @ my high school and eat it on the Quad. And it would dispense hot water and everything. lollll

But you were like so upperclassman/"bougie" if you brought Taco Bell, McDonald's, Burger King, Jamba Juice smoothies, anything from off-campus to school.

Cheerleaders eating Taco Bell [@ an age when that meant something]. lollll

I still laugh when I hear Fergie's Glamorous "...I still go to Taco Bell, drive-thru, raw as hell." That is SO L.A.

Ahhh, Los Angeles high schools *sigh* lol
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i dont remember ever eating in high school.

maybe cause i got the munchies after school.

i do remember a mashed potato incident during the lunch hour .
it involved a friend putting some mashed potatoes in another girls purse then a fight in the parking lot with someones head mashed into the asphalt and some broken arcylic nails. This was all over some unpaid Avon items.
a classic.
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we drank milk out of clear plastic bags when i was in school. we had to puncture the bags with pointed straws in order to drink out of them. did anyone else have these?

Chocolate milk + ham sandwich

Alej said:

now that i think about it, giant bottles of Mountain Dew was the only thing i 'ate'

I ate whatever the school was dishing up. What is funny. I am a teacher now, and 2-3 times a week, I sit with my students in the lunch room, eating whatever they are eating. Today we had Sloppy Joe (my favorite), fruit, milk, and a salad.

we had the most fantastic thing in my school district. it was called "peanut butter square". the bottom layer was something made out of peanut butter and... i don't know, but it had the consistency of wet cement with pea gravel thrown in, topped off with creamy chocolate frosting.

they'd have it as the dessert every few weeks. then, in high school, it was like a dream come true, when lunch was a la carte, and i could just skip the lunch and get the pb square every day.

say what you want about school cafeteria lunches, but it was the only time in my life when i was able to eat apple brown betty AT LEAST once a week.

In elementary school I went home for lunch, so it was always something hot....maybe left-over hotdish, soup, or hash.

In junior high school I ate at the cafeteria. I just remember eating macaroni and cheese alot and hot dogs and beans

In high school we were allowed to go off school grounds, and a bunch of us often went to fast-food places.

Carlllon said:

OMG, I was a "lunch ticket" kid

that slimey-ass pizza that tasted like yogurt, cold-ass fries, and the fried shrimp (where no actual shrimps where included)

...at least the fruit basket was always right on time

we had an a la carte line too, but it was kinda expensive, and back then in my heavier days it took alot of food to sustain me so I just ate the crappy, free stuff

...
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eaglebear4839 said:

Bastards.
My school doesn't even allow us to sit in the halls for lunch.

My school's food is shit. Cold burgers, half cooked canned vegetables. Fake mexican food everyday...and you can tell the days that they forgot to order a shipment of food, they'll raid the snack machines and sell it in the cafateria.. *shudder*
Sometimes the food is spoiled. yuck.
I pack my own 90% of the time.

It makes me wonder what they're blowing my parent's money on.

oh my fucking god!!!!! This morning I was just thinking of asking orgers this exact same question, before I logged in and saw this!!!!

Telepathy my friend....


In Finland, I think that we've always had healthy school lunches... And it's totally free! Potatoes, sauces, caserols, rice, pasta, soups, always salad or something green and different kinds of bread..

We didn't get vending machines in schools until recently I think, prob. like 5yrs ago or so...

In Holland everybody brings their own lunch, mostly sandwiches.

Of course, most people would toss it and get fries.

Kindergarden in the 70's was a pure lunchbox affair...usually P&J, pork chop sandwiches, bologna sanwiches or fried chicken. Traditionally on my birthday since I was old enough to realize I like it, I get an oversized Rachel or Rueben sandwich with a garlicky sour pickle and a piece of rugelach pastry. That started in kindergarden and went through elementary no matter what they served in the cafeteria.

Elementary school lunches were heavy on salisbury steaks, peanut butter & jelly cookies, chocolate milk, tater tots, and other forms of mystery meat.

Junior high...the only thing I remember was the FRENCH FRIES. I don't know what manner of crack cocaine they were cooked in, but I seriously sustained myself on those damned fries and grape juice boxes for my entire junior high experience. You can't even remotely compare any fast food joint to how good those fries were..somehow I can still smell their aroma gently wafting into my nostrils as I type this

High school---I went to a private colllege preparatory and the school chef was formerly a head developer and menu planner for Stouffer's Frozen Foods. We had breakfast and lunch. I don't remember breakfast much, because I always ate at home. Lunch time consisted of a kosher food station, a dessert table (always just simple coffee cakes or "kuchen"), a bread table (I used to inhale sheets of matzoh slathered with butter ), a self service salad bar with assorted lettuces, fruits, veggies, nuts, 3 salad dressings and sliced chicken breast, .. .Then at the hot station we were served simple cuts of poultry breast or beef with a veggie and starch ( like broccoli and roast potatoes)... otherwise they would usually go heavy on pasta & Italian American dishes: Lasagna, Turkey Tetrazini, Spagetti Bolognese, Stuffed Canneloni in Creme Sauce. Alot of that stuff was straight up ripss off of menus she designed for Stoffers in the late 70's... Also, the Hot station would swith things up by season or holiday, or by lobby from the International Student Club. So during Hannukah roast beef and latkes would show up. Winter days meant monthly servings of Welsh Rarebit. Cinco de Mayo meant Mole. There was paella, Chinese New Year food...or during Black History Month fried chicken, with black eyed pea salad, sweet potato fries and stir fried collards.

One of my favorite memories of Black hstory month menu; I remember I used to kinda sulk over to the kitchen staff window and meekly ask for extra hot peppers in my greens. The staff in the kitchen were serious, NO-NONSENSE black grandmas that could send fatal death glares into your eyballs...they would put juuust enough hot pepper seasoning in my greens and pretend to be mean " you don't need to much of that, it's gon upset your stomach durin' class " I would just say "yes m'am" and slink away quietly...but satifisfied because I CANNOT.EAT.BLAND.COLLARD.GREENS. Whenever there was a menu celebrating black or southern food I was ALWAYS the one asking for more hot pepper on whatever I was eating, they got very used to my hot pepper begging ass over time

...I miss those women....alot...

From the UK.....

Gypsy tart

Sponge with jam & coconut on top with custard

Oh the good 'ole days
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I always got a PB&J on whole wheat bread with natural peanut butter (no salt, sugar or added fats) and homemade jam. Then I'd get a Capri Sun a piece of fruit and usually a Little Debbie cake.

* Up through 1st Grade, I always had a peanut butter and balogna sandwich on wheat bread. That began to earn me weird looks, so thereafter it was assorted coldcut sandwiches with a slice of Velveeta. Never any dressings, sauces or condiments.
* Always one of these:

* A small baggy of chips or 3-4 cookies
* A piece of fruit

There was also a period in the mid '80s where there was a sort of black market for strip cheese. I was never without a pack.

Elementary school - usually ham and cheese sandwich, turkey sandwich, or soup.

Middle school - I was allowed off campus for lunch. I usually had pizza or I went and got a sandwich and fries. Then I'd spend the rest of my money on candy or ice cream

High school - There were two lines for lunch at my high school... the sandwich line and the hot lunch line. I almost always got a sandwich. The only hot lunch I'd get was when they'd have pizza bagels, tater tots, and burgers.

horatio said: