-- How did you handle your Lunch situation in Grade School?
 

Which did you like -or- which do you pick, describing your historic choice(s) going WAY back to Elementary School?



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dud, really?

Nuggets + potatos + copious amounts of BBQ sauce

Usually we had lunch schedules where we could see what we were having on that particular day. If it was something like pizza or chicken nuggets you eat in the cafeteria. If it was chicken salad you brought your lunch from home (Usually a lunchable)

Is it the off season already?

i remember buying dessert tokens for huge cinnamon rolls.
i think extra chocolate milks were 25 cents
and the dinner rolls were the best i can remember
i don't really remember the lunches that much

I killed and ate the ROUS that roamed the hallways. Those giant reference books in the library made great fire starters.

Chicken nuggets for life!

Is that a pizza Friday lunch from Berlin? A pretzel with mustard?

IIRC, I believe the way I handled my lunch in grade school was to eat it. And drink that little carton of milk. I don't remember now much about the menus. A lot of the time, I remember, carrying a lunch box.

I also remember that we had to walk 5 miles in the snow up to our waists barefoot, uphill both ways. Of course.

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During the 50's and 60's lunchboxes were made of a metalic substance called "steel". That's how I rolled. Sangwich, chips and juice. Once in a while I slummed it in the cafeteria.

Not Berlin, or it would have a beer on the right.

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This is the way it worked with me.

Square pizza was a must. Ham and cheese roll-up days were special too. Corn dogs too.

The sandwich days were the worst. There's nothing appetizing about a school burger/chicken/whatever patty.

Oh, and chocolate milk.

All day, errr day.

And higher quality mustard, and a more efficiently engineered tray.

That pizza does look familiar though, we didn't have the pre-packaged fruit cocktail though, it got dumped on like the rest. Some favorites of mine were the burrito (typical frozen burrito similar to a Texas Tom's burrito) which had almost this Taco Via-like sauce that was quite nice. I was also fond of the salisbury steak sans gravy and of course the Mr. Rib (McRib knockoff).

I brought my lunch in my Speed Racer lunch box. It was usually a sandwich of some sort with chips and fruit. I do remember eating in the cafeteria when they had turkey and mashed potatoes. Oh, and I bought milk at school for a nickel.

I would constantly forget to give the lunch lady a check that my mom wrote and routinely ran a negative balance. They still gave me lunch of course.

I also recall at the beginning of the day, the teacher would ask all the students whether or not they had a "hot lunch" or "cold lunch"

No chicken fried steak, mashed taters & gravy and corn option?

Epic poll fail!

Rib-B-Q on bun was the bomb.

(like a McRib)


I'm guessing that is the Ribette...

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Also, no poll option with lima beans should receive votes.

I put Sriracha on it.

A ham and cheese sandwich with "no name" soda

damn...thanks for bringing back those miserable childhood memories.

Have you watched the games?

bak when i went to school ya ate what they served .. or ya brought ya lunch . usually samwich chips cookies ...

well, it was a long time ago. i'd usually skip lunch and go out to the bus shed and smoke.
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Since when did lunch become "a situation?"

Soggy sandwich out of a brown paper bag :(

Chicken nugget day was incredible at my school.

It was like crack for kids...mix the yellow gravy with the nuggets and mashed tators....

I'd still eat that today if it was in front of me....that shit was good.


Anyone remember the triangle shaped frozen push pops?

Ta-daa! We didn't have choices.

I went to a KC School District Public Grade School in the 1960s.
The trays were beige, the tables were beige, the floor tile and the walls were beige, the food was usually beige too.

I remember we had this weird stuff called "John Marzetti" that was like a goulash, but was made with mystery meat. Scary stuff. They also did that mixed vegetable stuff with square cut cubes of carrots, peas and corn all mixed together, served in a watery broth...yuck. The best thing was they had chocolate pudding, really yummy. And the milk was in orange and white "Foremost" cartons. No missing children on the side, either.

my favorite was anything with mashed potatoes and gravy with a roll. We had 2 lines, a lunch line with whatever they were serving and a burger line. Then my Senior year they added a salad line I think but never used it.

I brought my own lunches, because the little backwater country school I went to served horrid slop that would make Gordon Ramsay faint. On chili day, they did have cinnamon rolls, which I would eat if I could get the lunch lady to give me one. Probably the worst they served was macaroni and paste, er I mean cheese, watered down green jello, and two Cajun mini sausages. I say Cajun because they were blackened... and true story, I brought two home (wasn't hard to get them off anyone's tray) and gave them to my dog, but he just sniffed them and backed away.

I remember screamed turkey(aka turkey slop) day was everyones favorite day. Teachers would damn near run to the cafeteria on turkey slop day.

Quesadilla day was my favorite. I'd get one or two of the free lunch kids(who ironically never ate at school) to get quesadillas and give them to me.
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Yeah that's pretty much all turkey slop was. But the gravy tasted better than most other gravies ive had. And a good amount of turkey in there.

****ing great. You had a 1 in about 25 chance of finding a hair in it so that was the big drawback in it lol.
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Odds are they were the same kids on free ritalin...

Oh man, I forgot all about turkey a la king. :drool:

I walked home for lunch in grade school (2 blocks). It was usually a balogna sandwich, potato chips and a glass of milk.

That rectangle pizza was pretty awesome.

And I was the kid selling candy out of his backpack.

Around junior high, they started selling those round Red Baron personal pan pizzas. Those ROCKED.

Anyone sit around the lunch table and blow lines of Smarties after Halloween?

Pixie Sticks.

Sloppy Joe....Sloppy Sloppy Joe!

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****ing turkey cubes over rice.

Did you save the money, or turn it into a good investment?

My favorite was grilled cheese and tomato soup.

That and this other one they called, "Meat and Gravy". Which was ground beef mixed with brown gravy spooned over a ice-cream scoop of mashed potatoes.

School Lunches
School Lunches
Fish and Chips
Fish and Chips
Soggy Macaroni
Soggy Macaroni
Makes me sick
Makes me sick
Bathroom Quick
Bathroom Quick

I honestly can't remember that far back. Did anyone else go to Franklin Smith elementary in Blue Springs back in the 70's? Maybe they can shed some light. My earliest memory of school lunches is 7th grade.

Why do lunch ladies always look the same? Are they clones?

I remember they had a second option if you didn't want the regular one- it was PB&J. It was a ton of the crummiest PB and a little bit of grape jelly in a hot dog bun, and then they wrapped it in saran wrap for some reason. So, the peanut butter would be smushing out of the roll and all over the saran wrap. So gross. I think they did it on purpose so no one would bother.

Olathe schools served all kinds of shitty shit. Sanchos (what the **** are those?), chicken sandwiches were decent, burritos were pretty decent. French bread pizza days were always big. They were few and far between though.

Nope, but it did get me a reputation with the teachers as a kid that was always "dealing" in things. Seventh-grade science teacher told my Dad that... at the time, it was legit. It was band candy for my brother.

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I don't remember those schools. Guess I'm getting old...

Oh, that makes sense. I don't think we ever traveled much around Blue Springs because our family at the time was mostly on the Kansas side.

I don't think I've even been to Blue Springs since 1977...

brown paper bag, with lunch made with love from mom

ROFL this x1000

oh the good ol days

So you remember the old lunch ladies, but not the lunches? :doh!:

Man, where the **** did you go to school?

We had no choice. There was one meal served to everyone. Some were better than others.

When I got to junior high they had a salad bar, you talk about some Frankenstein salads, man. Kids were going full suicide with the dressings.

Either square pizza days or chicken fried steak days.

I sold candy for a few weeks too. I usually made a profit of $50 per box of candy. Money was gone by the end of the week.

Square pizza was the shit until about 6th grade when all they had was a choice between cheese or cheese with one slice of pepperoni smack dab in the middle. Then it was just disgusting. Nobody ate it.

Do you own your own business now? Just curious if you carried on with entrepreneurial tendancies .

Lol nope. Just a lowly college student.

My mommy packed my lunch and sometimes I would forget it and I would call home and she would bring it to me.

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PBJ

Lays

During Jr High I started eating the school lunch.

Those square pizzas were the ****ing BOMB.

Also ice cream sandwiches mother ****ER.

Yeah, square pizzas were awesome back in the day. Probably taste like shit now, but in my mind it was the greatest.

I always brought my lunch the school food was disgusting and I saw a couple of times where kids would puke in their lunch trays and the school washed them instead of throwing them away. That was a big turn off.