“Vegetable soup and grilled cheese. No one brought their lunch when that was on the menu.”
“I always brought my lunch — peanut butter and jelly.”
“Whatever the generic McRib was.”
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Comments
Gart 9 months, 1 week ago
A brown bag surprise from my mom at Centennial Elementary School when I could not have a "hot lunch." Still remember the metal pudding cup for dessert that flicked stuff on the other kids when opening.
Back then, though. For hot lunch, would have to be goulash (sp.?). - I sure do miss Mr. Lloyd.
Gart 9 months, 1 week ago
Hmm... Just watched the closing of the Olytimtics. All the great English/Brit singer/songwriters were included except for "Madge" - A.K.A. Madonna. Is she no longer a Brit? Maybe she went back to Detroit. Have heard she may be French now. . . .
emily_litella 9 months, 1 week ago
The rich kids got to eat lunch, I didn't. But guess what? They're all fat adults now.
RoeDapple 9 months, 1 week ago
mystery meat chili.
misterlee 9 months, 1 week ago
red snapper or lamb, neither of which I eat anymore.
snap_pop_no_crackle 9 months, 1 week ago
Lily is a lousy, rotten spammer posting lousy, rotten spam.
RETICENT_IRREVERENT 9 months, 1 week ago
I only ate school lunch when I was on safety patrol duty.
LadyJ 9 months, 1 week ago
Not my favorite lunch, but my mother would make us balogna sandwiches with butter and Miracle Whip on them. Why on earth would you put fat on fat?
Cant_have_it_both_ways 9 months, 1 week ago
Eating at the hamburger stand across the street and playing pinball.
Andini 9 months, 1 week ago
The butter squares I scraped from the ceiling.
Paul R. Getto 9 months, 1 week ago
Chili and homemade cinnamon rolls at THE Lawrence High School back in the 1960's.
Ceallach 9 months, 1 week ago
Didn't see your entry when I was browsing the list before making mine post -- they were the best!!
trinity 9 months, 1 week ago
Favorite lunch to "diss" on-potato boats. Whoever in their right mind would plop a scoop of mashed taters on top of an icky warm piece of baloney and top it off with shredded cheese?? On the other hand-sauer kraut. Oh man I loved it then&love it now! Small parochial school, one dear German lady and one sweet Hispanic lady cooked all our stuff from scratch! Including the fluffy high melt in your mouth rolls. Siggghhh....
Paul R. Getto 9 months, 1 week ago
Both schools where I was an administrator were rural and made homemade bread, even hamburger buns. This is still true in many smaller schools.
DoubtingThomas 9 months, 1 week ago
Ah! Who could forget the Chili Cheese Coney Dogs? I had my first case of heartburn and the Runs with one of those.Oh the memories of school days past.
CWGOKU 9 months, 1 week ago
Gruel
I actually liked the chicken fried steak and mash potatoes
somedude20 9 months, 1 week ago
We use to go to the pipe and our lunch was Beast or Miller and a marijuana cigarette then maybe have a big cookie
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Topple 9 months, 1 week ago
Those hexagon fiesta pizzas.
The mashed potatoes and chicken gravy was good too, especially to dip chicken nuggets in.
Edit Anything with pink slime!
rockchalker52 9 months, 1 week ago
wafer ham sammich
MarcoPogo 9 months, 1 week ago
Rectangular pizzas and the good ol' Chickenwich!
RoeDapple 9 months, 1 week ago
Apparently snap_pop_no_crackle never has liked spam . . .
;-)
snap_pop_no_crackle 9 months, 1 week ago
Treet was the mystery meat of choice in my childhood. It was pretty lousy also.
eotw33 9 months, 1 week ago
Spicy chicken sandwich at freestate
milkman_dan 9 months, 1 week ago
Bierocks made by real Germans, but not the ones with organ meat or brains that lector liked. more onion & pepper and no cabbage. these things sure soak up a lot of alcohol.
RoeDapple 9 months, 1 week ago
Happy International Left Handers Day . . . .
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riverdrifter 9 months, 1 week ago
We had open lunch as well back when the dinosaurs roamed. I'd go for lunch at the Dari Ring a block away and have a burger or porktender with fries and a coke. Small cone for desert. Cafeteria food at school was always a last resort.
rockchalker52 9 months, 1 week ago
Indyan seems a tad impatient considering that 17 days is an eye blink of his lifespan.
I have never taken my left-handedness internationally except for that one time in Juarez.
RoeDapple 9 months, 1 week ago
School lunch was 30 cents but if you went to Griff's, for 50 cents you could get . . . . Griff's. (burger, fries and a small coke)(make that "Coca-Cola")
riverdrifter 9 months, 1 week ago
Yep. Man, I loved Griff's. Hey, I'm a lefty. I didn't know it was our day today.
CWGOKU 9 months, 1 week ago
What, no mention of pigs in a blanket?
I write and bat left handed, everything else, right handed
rtpayton 9 months, 1 week ago
I'll shake your left hand then!
George_Braziller 9 months, 1 week ago
We had great school lunches. I can't think of anything I didn't like. One of the cafeteria staff's primary responsibilities was baking so we had freshly baked bread, rolls, or cinnamon rolls every single day.
And no this wasn't a private school, it was a small 1-A public school in central Kansas.
rtpayton 9 months, 1 week ago
Do they still serve sheee...t on a shingle?
pace 9 months, 1 week ago
Well, fifty years ago Dawson School had the best cook in the district. Mrs. Roudibucsh made her own noodles and chicken on mashed potatoes for 90 students, every other Friday. The alternatives Fridays were home made cinnamon rolls Every Friday our school was "inspected" by any school official who could find an excuse. They included the school into the city system, left it open one year then transferred the students to another school utilizing portables.
Great cook, never a dull meal. I was ashamed of the food I let my daughter and son eat at their schools. Officially slop. At least they usually had a bit of fresh vegs,and fruit, from home. my daughter was more willing to take a lunch than my boy.
George_Braziller 9 months, 1 week ago
I had great cafeteria food in grade school and high school but in junior high it was horrific. The fifth through eighth grades were bussed to another town because it was a small town unified school district.
It was disgusting. The worst offense was "Baloney Boats." A chunk of of it crammed into a muffin tin, a scoop of instant mashed potatoes put inside and then some really greasy cheese sprinkled over the top then thrown into the oven and burned at a high temperature.
Before even attempting to eat it you had to pull off the burned plastic so you could dump out the grease at the bottom.
It was disgusting.
Ceallach 9 months, 1 week ago
Lawrence High School's chili and a big cinnamon roll! (Of course, that was so far back, staff members actually prepared the food in the school.)
chucklehead 9 months, 1 week ago
My Middle School lunch ladies made bierocks for us at least once a month. They were amazing, and made with love. I hated leaving to go to the high school, where they still loved us and made real food, but no bierocks. And YES to chili and cinnamon rolls. Those ladies made em for us Kindergarten through 12th. Fantastic!
My son takes his lunch because he hates the frozen and heated up processed food that schools around here offer.
LadyJ 9 months, 1 week ago
Little known fact, Lawrence elementary students can go home for lunch. We did it for years in the 90's, doubt they have changed it. In fact, most of the principles don't know the students can leave for lunch, must sign out though.
HootyWho 9 months, 1 week ago
i went to West, does anybody remember the snow capped weiners?and the chef salads and fruit plates??? i have to admit i liked the char burgers and tater tots,,,i'd never had a tater tot till i went to junior high
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