mmmm tater tots.

BlorfMaster: mmmm tater tots

the little potatos, or the little schoolgirls?

I don't remember cardboard pizza. I remember soggy, green pizza. And the "wart lady" that served us.........(shiver)...

Blah blah subby's mom blah blah Meat Surprise.

say what you will about cafeteria food, but my schools always had the most awesome Turkey Tetrazzini. To this day I cannot recreate it (probably because I use real ingredients)

Don't forget 'chuckwagon'.

It's not going to make a damn bit of difference.

Our problem with obesity isn't that people don't realize the greasy pizza had 600 calories per slice. It's that people don't care.

Happy Labor Day, guys!

monday: hot dogs
tuesday: tacos
wednesday: hamburgers and chocolate milk
thursday: sloppy joes and burritos in a bag
friday: pizza day, the best day of the week, it always came with salad and a side of frozen beans

Hooray for pizza day... the best day of the week

/Aquabats

reillan: say what you will about cafeteria food, but my schools always had the most awesome Turkey Tetrazzini. To this day I cannot recreate it (probably because I use real ingredients)

i still go an buy their beef chili every couple years. it is still a fantastic chili 30 years later.

That freshly-made, disgusting frenchbread pizza with the quarter-inch of orange grease floating on top is still one of the greatest foods I've ever tasted.

OnmyojiOmn: That freshly-made, disgusting frenchbread pizza with the quarter-inch of orange grease floating on top is still one of the greatest foods I've ever tasted.

At my HS it was a full array of tex-mex food that was quite tasty. My favorite was a microwaveable, individual-sized pizza that I'm told they actually sell in stores now.

And of course, Friday was Chik-fil-A day with "you're robbing me blind" prices. The school has since gone to a menu format.

/excelente historia, ese

We didn't have pizza... we had fiestados

Eating at my home was even less healthy than our school lunches growing up. Not sure how I'm still standing.

The writer was able to find a few students who seemed to care, but knowing how they work, they had to talk to a number of students or gather up those whom the faculty already knew took an interest in this.

I say this because, let's face it, kid's don't care about their diet the way adults do. I'd be surprised if 5% of them even glanced at the caloric contents of their selections, let alone those who actually cared.

Dow Jones and the Temple of Doom: We didn't have pizza... we had fiestados

We had both. One Wednesday a month was fiestados, the other 3 were rectangular pizza. I think the only difference was the shape and color of cheese

Dow Jones and the Temple of Doom: We didn't have pizza... we had fiestados

That looks like a bagel bite.

Courtesy of TGS #8 (new window)

I once took a bowl of macacroni and cheese in High School, held it upside down and watched in fascination as it failed to fall out of the bowl.

heinekenftw: I once took a bowl of macacroni and cheese in High School, held it upside down and watched in fascination as it failed to fall out of the bowl.

Exciting! LMAO

What would be wrong with only serving foods that fall into the category of "good choices?"

Dow Jones and the Temple of Doom: We didn't have pizza... we had fiestados

Ah, the "Mexican Pizza".

The first time I encountered one, I took my little milk-cube and squished it down into the middle, then pulled it out. A lake of oily grease formed in the depression.

I didn't eat a school lunch for the entirety of junior high and high school. I figured that going hungry was a better option.

Tomorrow my son, in 6th grade, has the following choices:

Spicy Oriental Chicken with brown rice
Veggie Burrito
BBQ Cheddar Chicken
Hamburger/Cheeseburger
Chicken nuggets
Greek Pizza
Cheese Pizza
Pepperoni Pizza
Beef bagel Chicken
Thai Chicken Salad

Mandatory in any skool lunch discussion:

Pizza Day by The Aquabats, as invisioned in a Zimmy world. (pops like a milk box)

Sometime you feel like a nut

SharkTrager: Tomorrow my son, in 6th grade, has the following choices:

Spicy Oriental Chicken with brown rice
Veggie Burrito
BBQ Cheddar Chicken
Hamburger/Cheeseburger
Chicken nuggets
Greek Pizza
Cheese Pizza
Pepperoni Pizza
Beef bagel Chicken
Thai Chicken Salad

Public school?

Dow Jones and the Temple of Doom: SharkTrager: Tomorrow my son, in 6th grade, has the following choices:

Spicy Oriental Chicken with brown rice
Veggie Burrito
BBQ Cheddar Chicken
Hamburger/Cheeseburger
Chicken nuggets
Greek Pizza
Cheese Pizza
Pepperoni Pizza
Beef bagel Chicken
Thai Chicken Salad

Public school?

Yup.

When I was in grade school in the far north suburbs of Chicago, they served something called "Johnny Marsetti". Has anybody else ever heard of this? If I remember right it was an elbow macaroni / tomato sauce / beef(?) dish.

I've always wondered where the name came from, but so far I haven't met anybody else who's even heard of it.

blowfish2000: What would be wrong with only serving foods that fall into the category of "good choices?"

Sometimes having no options is the best options. My elementary school we eat it or starved. Kids that truly needed free lunch ate it or they new they would starve. The onces that had options brought lunch.

What about "Johnny Marzetti?" Gaaaa... that was the nastiest faux-spaghetti thing I ever tried.

This won't do anything. Nothing prevents the fat chicks from adding 4 packs of sugar to their whole milk.

Don't forget 'Trail markers'

VictorOfBorge: What about "Johnny Marzetti?" Gaaaa... that was the nastiest faux-spaghetti thing I ever tried.

i think i mentally blocked that out of my childhood, it was so bad.

/thanks for bringing that up

I'm never the right choice.

here4few:
Sometimes having no options is the best options. My elementary school we eat it or starved. Kids that truly needed free lunch ate it or they new they would starve. The onces that had options brought lunch.

I kind-of agree. Bad trend to imply that the world is going to accomodate you: deal with it as best as you can. Eat the crap or bring your own.

Or sneak off school grounds to the pizza shop across the street and play video games until you realize that you've missed your next class. Whichever.

SharkTrager: Dow Jones and the Temple of Doom: SharkTrager: Tomorrow my son, in 6th grade, has the following choices:

Spicy Oriental Chicken with brown rice
Veggie Burrito
BBQ Cheddar Chicken
Hamburger/Cheeseburger
Chicken nuggets
Greek Pizza
Cheese Pizza
Pepperoni Pizza
Beef bagel Chicken
Thai Chicken Salad

Public school?

Yup.





At least they have a good menu...

/you're a horrible parent

Day_Old_Dutchie: Sometime you feel like a nut

Came for the assorted horse parts, leaving satisfied.

/wait, that doesn't sound right...

Whatever happened to shait on a shingle or period in a plate?

Jonathan Coulton (new window) expresses his opinion on the subject.

/my high school had decent pizza
//Suck it.

I spend a good deal of time at my kid's school. There are a few chunky kids, but no more than when I was a kid. Maybe because it is a rural area and most of them work on their ranch or farm after school. And the school serves ice cream every day.

Grobbley: SharkTrager: Dow Jones and the Temple of Doom: SharkTrager: Tomorrow my son, in 6th grade, has the following choices:

Spicy Oriental Chicken with brown rice
Veggie Burrito
BBQ Cheddar Chicken
Hamburger/Cheeseburger
Chicken nuggets
Greek Pizza
Cheese Pizza
Pepperoni Pizza
Beef bagel Chicken
Thai Chicken Salad

Public school?

Yup.

At least they have a good menu...

/you're a horrible parent

Nice try. My child spent the first 5 years in a private school with great test scores, so I've seen both sides. He's now in a school with a more challenging curriculum, better facilities and more diverse social interaction. The district consistently performs just as well as the best of the local private institutions.

But at least you have pretty graphs.

Dallymo: Except for the peanut butter thing. That was heaven in a little cube of sweetened peanut butter.

oh gods the plastic bain-marie of peanut butter with another bain-marie of "butter"(I suspected pure lard) complete with(another bain-marie of) thinly sliced baguettes, squeezey containers of honey and those silicone spatulas to spread it.......

/I like the word bain-marie
//I will agree that was the best damn peanut butter ever-it was powdered-did find powdered peanut butter at Hy-vee last week...