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Subject: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: ultraviolet52 on 09/15/05 at 1:25 am

I know there is a common hatred for cateteria food, but sometimes I get cravings for some of the things I used to eat! Strange. Does anyone have a favorite cafeteria food they used to eat?

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: Miss Tainted on 09/15/05 at 1:40 am

Nachos and cheese, yummy.  ;D

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: CeramicsFanatic on 09/15/05 at 1:49 am

I can't remember that far back!!  :-[ :D

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: Philip Eno on 09/15/05 at 1:50 am

I never had school dinners

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: GoodRedShirt on 09/15/05 at 1:53 am

We never had school lunches, but I swear the food they dish out at universites are just as bad as the crud that would be served at a school cafeteria. For double the cost as well...  :P

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: CeramicsFanatic on 09/15/05 at 2:11 am


I never had school dinners


Did you attend school at night, Phil?  :D

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: bookmistress4ever on 09/15/05 at 2:45 am

Gosh that's so long ago, I'm lucky to remember what I ate yesterday.

I *think* we used to get Salisbury Steaks, (that probably explains why I like the t.v. dinners today.)

I remember eating lots of chunks of cheese in high school.  I swear I have mouse genes in me.

Also remember eating tacos in high school.  Yummy, but not as good as a real Mexican restaurant.

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: ktelqueen on 09/15/05 at 3:24 am

my schools didn't have cafeterias prior to highschool  :)

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: NullandVoid on 09/15/05 at 4:06 am

Fish and Cheese ROCKS!!!

I'm kidding. When it comes to New York City schools, everyone knows the golden rule DON't EAT the FOOD!!!

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: karen on 09/15/05 at 4:09 am

very rarely ate school dinners and didn't at all at primary school.  I usually went home for lunch.  If I had a club (recorder lessons for example) then I would bring my own sandwiches in.  You had to pay for meals weekly so you couldn't buy in for just one day.

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: Bobby on 09/15/05 at 4:42 am

Yep! Sponge with jam on the top sprinkled over with coconut. It was a regular thing when I went to primary school.

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: mandamoo on 09/15/05 at 4:44 am

Fairy bread  :D

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: Apricot on 09/15/05 at 5:00 am

When they make either some sort of breaded chicken or Grilled Cheese.. oh God, it's the best.

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: karen on 09/15/05 at 5:37 am


Fairy bread  :D


what is that?

My daughter kept going on about the 'fairy dust' they had at school.  I worked out it was the cooks word for any sort of chopped herbs that they had.

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: danootaandme on 09/15/05 at 5:56 am

Tuna sandwiches and potato chips(crisps) on Friday was always a big deal.  My mother always packed our lunches, but sometimes she let us buy the friday tuna.  For some reason it was a hit with all the kids.  I remember a kid once invited a few of us to his house and he said his sister was gonna make tuna sandwiches "just like the ones in school because she worked in the cafeteria and knew how"  That set it, we all went.  Oh yes, and we always put the chips(crisps) in the sandwich, I've heard that that is not common everywhere.

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: quirky_cat_girl on 09/15/05 at 7:11 am

I used to like when they had the salad bar set up.....also, we all used to get french fries and dip them in ranch dressing.....they had the best ranch dressing!



Erin :)

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: whistledog on 09/15/05 at 9:41 am

there was never a cafeteria at my elementary school  :(  I had to take my own crappy lunch from home.. PB&J

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: Howard on 09/15/05 at 3:46 pm

Cheeseburgers
beef patties
french fries

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: MidKnightDarkness on 09/15/05 at 7:06 pm

I always liked Pizza day, because it was the only thing that wasn't made by the lunch lady.



Beth

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: ultraviolet52 on 09/15/05 at 7:27 pm

Well, I guess it's my turn -
Early Elementary - kindergarten-4th grade -(1986-1992) I went to a Private school, and they didn't have a cafeteria during the time I attended. But, they would treat us every once in awhile for some nachos or order out pizzas for us, or even a bunch of burgers at the local hamburger stand.

Late Elementary - 5th-6th grade (1992-1994) - I changed to a public school and was introduced to "real" cafeteria food. It was actually very good!  They served us either water, juice, milk or choc. milk and they had a daily menu for us. There were several items I couldn't wait to eat a second time..

Junior high (1994-1996) These were also good foods, too. They had a salad bar, pre-made sandwiches, chilled drinks, and also a pizza hut stand outside. They had some great french fries!

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: Apricot on 09/15/05 at 7:33 pm

Elementary- Chicken. Our school makes great chicken.. used to be my favorite.

Middle School- Still Chicken, But I'm digging the Grilled Cheese a lot more.

High School- Grilled Cheese, and the salads are superb.

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: YWN on 09/15/05 at 7:48 pm

Hamburgers and fries were my fave in the fifth grade.  I recall better cafeteria food that year.

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: shiprunner12 on 09/15/05 at 8:24 pm


High School- Grilled Cheese, and the salads are superb.


Grilled cheese and tomato soup is by far the best meal at our school. It's probably one of the biggest meals as well.

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: Dominic L. on 09/15/05 at 8:33 pm

Mozerrella cheese sticks and chicken soup... the ONLY good school lunch. Otherwise, it sucked.

The funny thing was the lunch lady, she had the classic creepy voice a lunch lady is supposed to have

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: jackas on 09/15/05 at 9:10 pm

I used to like their oatmeal cookies and rolls.  Like Beth said, pizza day was always a treat.

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: MidKnightDarkness on 09/15/05 at 9:16 pm


I used to like their oatmeal cookies and rolls.   Like Beth said, pizza day was always a treat.



Hahaha...I just noticed that you're ass (donkey) is walking to the beat of "You can call me Al"... ;D



Beth

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: YWN on 09/15/05 at 9:26 pm



Hahaha...I just noticed that you're ass (donkey) is walking to the beat of "You can call me Al"... ;D



Beth

I haven't heard that song, but...

Awesome, Beth!  I was trying to find a way to get past the censors!

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: jackas on 09/15/05 at 9:35 pm



Hahaha...I just noticed that you're ass (donkey) is walking to the beat of "You can call me Al"... ;D



Beth


LOL  I have a cool ass.

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: MidKnightDarkness on 09/15/05 at 9:37 pm


LOL   I have a cool ass.



Fo' Sho'  ;D



Beth

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: jackas on 09/15/05 at 9:43 pm



Fo' Sho'  ;D



Beth


I say hey sky, s'other s'ay I wan say :P ;D

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: Marty McFly on 09/15/05 at 10:52 pm


Mozerrella cheese sticks and chicken soup... the ONLY good school lunch. Otherwise, it sucked.

The funny thing was the lunch lady, she had the classic creepy voice a lunch lady is supposed to have


I agree on both points - was she like the "Lunch Lady" from the Simpsons? ;D

Well, I pretty much avoided the school cafeteria in Elementary school on regular lunch days - alot of it grossed me out! But as others have pointed out, I tended to like more "snack-ish" foods, like salads, pizza, nachos, etc.

Things started to improve around high school, though.

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: ADH13 on 09/15/05 at 10:53 pm



Elementary school... wow... so long ago.  I don't believe I ever ate cafeteria food.  I seem to remember carrying a metal lunchbox to school every day.

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: mandamoo on 09/16/05 at 7:10 am


what is that?

My daughter kept going on about the 'fairy dust' they had at school. I worked out it was the cooks word for any sort of chopped herbs that they had.


Nothing like that !

See the link below  ;)

http://www.zdesign.com.au/eva/food/fairy-bread.html

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: karen on 09/16/05 at 7:32 am


Nothing like that !

See the link below  ;)

http://www.zdesign.com.au/eva/food/fairy-bread.html


healthy then!!

I like instruction number 6

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: mandamoo on 09/16/05 at 7:46 am


healthy then!!

I like instruction number 6


Aah yes....strange but true....! ;D

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: karen on 09/16/05 at 7:57 am

It reminded me of a recipe I have in a children's cookery book for sugar toast.

Toast one side of bread then butter the plain side and sprinkle it liberally with sugar.  Pop it back under the grill until the sugar melts and browns slightly.  Then eat it.  It tasted delicious but is probably not something a dentist would recommend

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: Howard on 09/16/05 at 3:29 pm

The lunch lady always served us french fries every single day. :P

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: nally on 09/22/05 at 1:40 pm

Hamburgers, on top of everything else. I also enjoyed hotdogs and chicken patty sandwiches...even into junior high. (In fact, I ate from the cafeteria every day in junior high; if there was anything that didn't appeal to me, I'd just get a sandwich or go to the hash lines.)

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: Howard on 09/22/05 at 3:32 pm

The pickles and salad

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: nally on 09/24/05 at 12:41 am


The pickles and salad

No offense, but I never really cared for pickles. :P I never liked the way they tasted.

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: Howard on 09/24/05 at 6:06 pm


No offense, but I never really cared for pickles. :P I never liked the way they tasted.



What was wrong with the pickles?

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: Marty McFly on 09/24/05 at 6:08 pm


No offense, but I never really cared for pickles. :P I never liked the way they tasted.


Same here Jeff - I still can't stand 'em. Whenever I get a sandwich at Togo's, for instance, I always pick 'em off. ;)

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: nally on 09/24/05 at 6:30 pm


Same here Jeff - I still can't stand 'em. Whenever I get a sandwich at Togo's, for instance, I always pick 'em off. ;)

Whenever I order a hamburger from Burger King or Carls Jr, I always ask them to hold the pickles. If they disobey and I see pickles anyway, I just pick 'em off and throw 'em away. It's that simple.

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: ultraviolet52 on 09/29/05 at 2:13 am

Pickles are pretty good if they're marinated right. I use to love sweet pickles but now I prefer dill. I like them crispy, though, not soggy.

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: rich1981 on 09/29/05 at 2:14 am

Beef and Bean Burritos with cheese and mild salsa

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: Paul on 09/29/05 at 6:58 am

For the life of me, I cannot remember anything that I would call a 'favourite' (or, for that matter, nutritious) whilst in Primary...

...but I do vividly remember the mashed spud with added 'stringy bits and lumps' and also a vile custard which was meant to be strawberry flavoured, but looked (and tasted) like someone had just thrown a pink felt-tip into the mixture!

By the time I hit Secondary, I got wise and took my own lunch in - despite the fact that my Ma was doing the dinners there at the time!

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: agoraphobicwhacko on 09/03/11 at 2:44 am

The two elementary-junior high schools I went to had excellent food. I always considered the near universal hatred of cafeteria food to be amusing. Wish I could have went to one of the schools that fed kids garbage for awhile just so I could have experienced it.


Chicken Fried Steak: Ever ate at Grandy's? Was similar quality

Turkey noodles and mashed potatoes: Even my grandma couldn't make it as good as they did

Yeast rolls: DELICIOUS!

Submarine sandwiches: They were a bit dry but the quality of the meat made up for it.

Pepperoni pizza: Whoever made this should have opened up a chain of pizza parlors.

Cinnamon Rolls: These were so good that some kids would offer to buy your roll for a dollar.

Hamburgers: Excellent except the buns were toasted for too long making the outer part of the bun hard. I used to tear that part off and devour the rest.

Strawberry Shortcake: 20+ years later I still haven't ate any that rivaled theirs.

Tuna Pita Pockets: My mom got to try one of these when going on one of our field trips. Couple months later when it was on the menu, asked me to wrap mine up in a paper towel and bring it home so she could eat it when she got home from work.

Spaghetti- Way too saucy but the sauce was restaurant quality. When my school would have its annual "Spaghetti Feed" charity dinner, there were literally lines down both streets. My school took advantage of knowing people loved it by charging six bucks a plate, which was a lot in the mid 80s.


Not everything was amazing. Their pinto beans were bland and the trash cans would be full of that crap. Crazy how they never removed it from the menu. The corn dogs were average at best and were probably the ones you buy in the store. While the cooks made award winning pepperoni pizza, their peppers and cheese pizza was horrific. Their fried chicken was decent but was usually overcooked. I didn't like their hot dogs either.

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: danootaandme on 09/03/11 at 5:34 am

^  WOW!  :o Where did you go to school? 

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: Howard on 09/03/11 at 7:20 am

The franks and fries.

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: King Tut on 09/03/11 at 3:24 pm

Our cafeteria food was just terrible. The foods we looked forward to (once a month) was miniute steak with fries, or macaroni with a sauce that tasted like spaghetti sauce with too much of a tomato taste. As the head/leader of our table of 8 at school, it proved so difficult to encourage the little ones to eat the food (?) they served. Oh the trials I remember!
2 of the kids (grades 1 and 2) always cried when I served them the food (?) which the cafetieria workers created.

The napkins and tissues ( I gave them to stop crying) had better nutritional value, and better taste than the actual food.  ;D

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: nally on 09/03/11 at 5:45 pm



The napkins and tissues ( I gave them to stop crying) had better nutritional value, and better taste than the actual food.  ;D



LOL... they probably did. :D I never thought of that.

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: danootaandme on 09/03/11 at 6:15 pm

I believe the guy who ran our food service was eventually indicted for theft of funds.  Happens all the time.

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: Howard on 09/03/11 at 6:21 pm

the worst food I was served were those horrible beef patties but I enjoyed the delicious pickles.

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: agoraphobicwhacko on 09/04/11 at 1:45 am


^  WOW!   :o Where did you go to school? 
Salida and Keyes, both in central California.

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: Howard on 09/04/11 at 6:45 am

I did enjoy the delicious dessert that was served after lunch.

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: lorac61469 on 09/04/11 at 12:02 pm

I hated the school lunches in both elementary and Jr. High, I packed every day. My H.S. didn't offer much for lunches since it was a small private school but every day they had a selection of fresh bagles and soup.

My kindergarten had the BEST crackers, we would get one and a small carton of milk.  The crackers were savory but just slightly sweet.

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: amjikloviet on 09/04/11 at 7:34 pm

When I was in Kindergarden to second grade I would bring my own food in a small lunchbox. After that I only had food from the cafeteria. Some of the food was horrible but not all of it. The worst I think were the chicken patties, we would always find small bones or something in them then we called them pattie's bones lol. It was disgusting. Then when I went to Jr high the food got better too.


In elementary school I think my favorites were the desserts, like the brownies they were really good.

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: loki 13 on 09/04/11 at 7:45 pm

French fries and eggs but then grades 1 through 8 I was in a Catholic School so I went home for lunch every day. It wasn't until
High School that we had cafeteria food. It was a Vocational & Technical school so the food was prepared by the students, needless
to say I didn't indulge much. They made a really good Spanish rice dish but other than that I had 4 packs of Handi Snacks cheese
and crackers and 3 Vanilla ice cream cones. Unless I took my own lunch, then it was bologna & cheese.

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: 80s_cheerleader on 09/06/11 at 11:48 am

My kids will all say their "favorite elementary school cafeteria food" was "fun lunch" because their "cafeteria food" doesn't exist on the elementary school level. ;D Every other week, the PTO brings in food from various places around the community and parents can "order" their kids lunch (you order for the entire semester at the beginning), but other than that, it's "brown bag" or nothing (although milk is available for purchse daily). No "hot lunch" until Middle School.

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: lorac61469 on 09/06/11 at 12:03 pm


My kids will all say their "favorite elementary school cafeteria food" was "fun lunch" because their "cafeteria food" doesn't exist on the elementary school level. ;D Every other week, the PTO brings in food from various places around the community and parents can "order" their kids lunch (you order for the entire semester at the beginning), but other than that, it's "brown bag" or nothing (although milk is available for purchse daily). No "hot lunch" until Middle School.


Wow!  That's cool.

My kid's school serves breakfast and lunch every day, even on days we have early dismissal (they rush to get all grades to lunch) because we have many kids who are a free or reduced meal program and sadly these kids might not eat if they didn't eat at school.

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 09/06/11 at 8:06 pm

Grade K-5 I went to a Waldorf School.  No cafeteria.  Typical lunch packed for Maxwell:

PB & J on wheat
GORP (granola oatmeal raisins peanuts)
8 oz cartoon of yogurt
10 oz bottle of apple juice or OJ (thermos of cider when it was in season)
Cookies (Tollhouse or storebought, wolfed down before a classmate could ask me for one)
Fresh fruit sometimes (preferred oranges or apples; bananas got weird in the lunch bag)
Carrot sticks and/or celery sticks (casually discarded)

The earthy-crunchy Rudolf Steiner people forbade candy and soda pop on school premises, but we sneaked them in anyway!
http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/10/vampy.gif

Favorite public school hot lunch items grades 6 -8:

Chicken cutlet, pizza, tater tots, Jello, burgers, dogs, roast beef sandwiches, meatloaf, baked beans, chili.  But...

I gotta say it was all pretty rank and in high school I submitted it was not even worth the 75 cents.  I either brown-bagged something from home or just John Bendered it, to coin a phrase!

"You always got these very lumpy mashed potatoes on steak night, and for dessert you got Brown Betty,
which nobody ate, except maybe the kids in the lower school that didn't know any better – and guys like Ackley that ate everything."

-- J.D. Salinger

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: watertowater on 10/03/11 at 8:03 am

Damn, I hate the food in my school. I don't eat school lunches at all, but I could tell from the looks and the smell of them that they probably suck.  8-P

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: Brian06 on 10/22/11 at 8:50 pm

I used to go home for lunch in elementary school, the school was real close to my home and a lot of kids went home/out for lunch. I stayed a few times when they had pizza days.  :D In high school I went to public school and we couldn't go home, and the "food" they had was terrible.  8-P

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: Howard on 10/23/11 at 6:51 am

I loved the french fries,good with some ketchup and salt.

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: Ashkicksass on 11/22/11 at 4:57 pm

I loved spaghetti, mashed potatoes, and chocolate cake.  I miss school lunch!

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: Howard on 11/22/11 at 7:48 pm

the hamburgers and cheeseburgers were good.

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: apollonia1986 on 12/07/11 at 7:01 pm

I went to two different elementary schools.

Grades Pre-K thru 2nd, was the thick ham and cheese sammie on a burger bun that came in a sack lunch you got when you were going on a field trip, with a cookie and milk and a baggie of chips. So good.
Grades 3-5 was the chimichunga, a big crispy fried burrito. Years later I got to volunteer at the school and it tasted the SAME.  ::)

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: whistledog on 12/08/11 at 1:06 am

I never knew they had cafeterias in elementary school until I saw it depicted on TV.  I was going to say "Must be a U.S. thing", but I just realized I'd seen an elementary school cateteria depicted on "Degrassi Junior High"

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: apollonia1986 on 12/09/11 at 1:03 am


I never knew they had cafeterias in elementary school until I saw it depicted on TV.  I was going to say "Must be a U.S. thing", but I just realized I'd seen an elementary school cateteria depicted on "Degrassi Junior High"


Where did you eat lunch? I remember my dad said when he was in school, they'd leave to go home for lunch. I couldn't do that. Go home where tv and cartoons were, I'm not going back to school! LOL

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: Ashkicksass on 12/16/11 at 3:37 pm


I never knew they had cafeterias in elementary school until I saw it depicted on TV.  I was going to say "Must be a U.S. thing", but I just realized I'd seen an elementary school cateteria depicted on "Degrassi Junior High"



Where did you eat lunch? I remember my dad said when he was in school, they'd leave to go home for lunch. I couldn't do that. Go home where tv and cartoons were, I'm not going back to school! LOL


Yeah, where did you eat?

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: bookmistress4ever on 12/20/11 at 5:02 pm

I went to 5 different schools before I went to high school, my schools in kindergarten 1st grade did not have cafeterias.  Sometimes we would eat on long folding tables in the hallway, and in 1st grade, we'd eat at our desks in the classroom that we stayed in all day.  I brought my lunch in cool lunchboxes.  I think in Kindergarten that we only went half a day, so that we didn't really get lunch.  Might have had milk and cookies or something.  Been awhile (37ish years) so it's all a bit fuzzy now.

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: quirky_cat_girl on 04/25/12 at 8:04 pm

Salad Bar
French fries with ranch dressing  :D

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: bookmistress4ever on 04/25/12 at 11:35 pm

I do remember that my favorite lunch at high school was little sticks of Velveeta cheese and crackers.  I think they charged $1.25 for that 27 years ago.  I pretty much ate that every day.  I'd get a salad too on days that I'd want shrubbery.  Still sounds like a pretty good lunch to me.  ;D

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: warped on 09/30/12 at 7:47 am

I attended a school, and it had a cafeteria. Hamburgers every other week. Potato salad once every two weeks. The rest of the food was not edible. The mashed potatoes and the fried beans with bacon still provide me with awful memories. I can still smell them.  :(

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: Inertia on 09/30/12 at 9:44 am

To be honest, I disliked most the food served to me in the school cafeteria. I can't really remember what I ate in elementary school, but I can remember high school.

I mainly ate pizza, chicken nuggets, rolls, tater tots, french fries, turkey sandwiches, and ham sandwiches. Sometimes, on rare occasions, I might get salad, but it was usually on days I didn't feel like waiting in a long line. The hamburger line was probably the most popular at my school, but I thought the burgers sucked so I never got them. My senior year I basically ate nothing but pizza. Healthy, eh?

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: amjikloviet on 09/30/12 at 10:46 am


To be honest, I disliked most the food served to me in the school cafeteria. I can't really remember what I ate in elementary school, but I can remember high school.

I mainly ate pizza, chicken nuggets, rolls, tater tots, french fries, turkey sandwiches, and ham sandwiches. Sometimes, on rare occasions, I might get salad, but it was usually on days I didn't feel like waiting in a long line. The hamburger line was probably the most popular at my school, but I thought the burgers sucked so I never got them. My senior year I basically ate nothing but pizza. Healthy, eh?


Your High School menu was basically the same as mine but the hamburgers in my school were just awful. In our high school there was a time we could go out on lunch breaks and buy our own food. Then, by the time I was in my third year they didn't allow it anymore.

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: Inertia on 09/30/12 at 11:36 am


Your High School menu was basically the same as mine but the hamburgers in my school were just awful. In our high school there was a time we could go out on lunch breaks and buy our own food. Then, by the time I was in my third year they didn't allow it anymore.


The hamburgers in my school tasted terrible too. I swore they were made of soy products rather than real meat. I don't know how other students ate that processed junk. Yuck!

Anyway, I took journalism classes in high school and we had a nifty press pass that allowed us to leave campus during school hours to sell advertisements. We had the class not lunch before long period and normally went and ate at McDonald's or Wendy's after going to a few places. I loved that class so much. It saved me from the cafeteria food.

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: Howard on 09/30/12 at 3:53 pm


I attended a school, and it had a cafeteria. Hamburgers every other week. Potato salad once every two weeks. The rest of the food was not edible. The mashed potatoes and the fried beans with bacon still provide me with awful memories. I can still smell them.  :(


What was for dessert?

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: warped on 09/30/12 at 3:55 pm


What was for dessert?


I don't remember what we had for desert in elementary school. Jell-o? Pudding cups? 3 week old fruit?

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: Jenny1982 on 09/30/12 at 4:07 pm

Pizzas and muffins

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: Howard on 09/30/12 at 4:22 pm


I don't remember what we had for desert in elementary school. Jell-o? Pudding cups? 3 week old fruit?


I remember eating cafeteria dessert boy was it terrible. :P

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: amjikloviet on 09/30/12 at 5:21 pm


I remember eating cafeteria dessert boy was it terrible. :P


The only dessert I liked from my elementary school cafeteria were the brownies.

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: Inertia on 09/30/12 at 5:42 pm


I remember eating cafeteria dessert boy was it terrible. :P


I never ate dessert in the cafeteria. None of it tasted very good. :[

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: Brian06 on 09/30/12 at 5:57 pm

My elementary schools didn't have cafeterias,  I used to go home for lunch usually. Now my high school we had a cafeteria and I ate there and the food was all horrible. Their French fries were the worst French fries I ever ate,  the "chicken"  nuggets didn't taste anything remotely like chicken. I can't say I miss school cafeteria lunches at all.

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: warped on 09/30/12 at 6:07 pm


I never ate dessert in the cafeteria. None of it tasted very good. :[


We had to eat everything on our plate, otherwise we'd go on report. I attended a strict school, yeh.  :-[ 
Once we left elementary school, we had the option of bringing lunch from home, and we did. 

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: Inertia on 10/01/12 at 6:35 am


We had to eat everything on our plate, otherwise we'd go on report. I attended a strict school, yeh.  :-[ 
Once we left elementary school, we had the option of bringing lunch from home, and we did.


That sucks. Did you attend a private school? o.o

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: Howard on 10/01/12 at 7:14 am


The only dessert I liked from my elementary school cafeteria were the brownies.


brownies were good then you had the fruit cup which was ok or sometimes they'd give you pudding.

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: warped on 10/01/12 at 8:10 am


That sucks. Did you attend a private school? o.o

That I did. A strict private school run by Catholic priests. Confession every week. Catechism classes. Glad I'm out of there.

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: Inertia on 10/01/12 at 9:16 am


That I did. A strict private school run by Catholic priests. Confession every week. Catechism classes. Glad I'm out of there.


I definitely would have dislike going there. :[

Not only am I not religious, but there is no way I would be able to stand abiding by such strict rules.

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: Howard on 10/01/12 at 7:28 pm

I liked the beef patty once in a while.

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 10/01/12 at 7:30 pm


That I did. A strict private school run by Catholic priests. Confession every week. Catechism classes. Glad I'm out of there.


Confession once a week? 
:o

Nowadays they're happy if you go once a year at Lent!

My dad went to Catholic boarding school in the fifties.  Benedictine monks.  Heavy duty old school business.  He's happy to talk Aquinas and Augustine for hours on end, but you couldn't drag him to Mass with a team of Clydesdales!

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: warped on 10/01/12 at 7:37 pm


Confession once a week? 
:o

My dad went to Catholic boarding school in the fifties.  Benedictine monks.  Heavy duty old school business.  He's happy to talk Aquinas and Augustine for hours on end, but you couldn't drag him to Mass with a team of Clydesdales!


I really was a pretty good child. I had to invent things when I attended confession (probably explains my vivid imagination now) , 4 times a month is too much! They really expected 7-year-old to attend confession with a priest every week, and expect the young boy to come up with (what he thought) was sin?  :-\\

Regarding Augustine, I actually read his confessions at some point. Now there was a man close to God. 
We were provided with more spiritual food there than real food.  :-[



Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: meesa on 10/02/12 at 12:52 pm

went to many different schools, one of them served these fantastic cinnamon rolls for breakfast. Great big rolls, dripping with icing and warm because they were fresh made.  :)

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: CatwomanofV on 10/02/12 at 1:55 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH8jAjtvc10



Cat

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: Howard on 10/02/12 at 2:14 pm


went to many different schools, one of them served these fantastic cinnamon rolls for breakfast. Great big rolls, dripping with icing and warm because they were fresh made.  :)


wow! cinnamon rolls. what kind of school did you go to Meesa?

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: amjikloviet on 10/02/12 at 7:44 pm


wow! cinnamon rolls. what kind of school did you go to Meesa?


I know right! The only really good dessert we ever got were brownies.

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: warped on 10/02/12 at 7:52 pm


The only dessert I liked from my elementary school cafeteria were the brownies.


I know right! The only really good dessert we ever got were brownies.


Better than these brownies?  ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwLRSKpSha4

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: Howard on 10/03/12 at 7:12 am


I know right! The only really good dessert we ever got were brownies.


we got chocolate chip cookies.

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: Inertia on 10/03/12 at 9:01 am


went to many different schools, one of them served these fantastic cinnamon rolls for breakfast. Great big rolls, dripping with icing and warm because they were fresh made.  :)


I almost forgot about cinnamon rolls. My school served these from time to time as well.

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: amjikloviet on 10/03/12 at 9:58 am


Better than these brownies?  ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwLRSKpSha4


IDKS:D

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: warped on 10/03/12 at 12:54 pm


IDKS:D


What's IDKS?

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 10/03/12 at 6:51 pm


What's IDKS?


DICKS
:-\\

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: bookmistress4ever on 10/03/12 at 10:17 pm

I wish lunch was this much fun at my school.  Alas, it wasn't, ever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2iQ8THWz5k

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: Howard on 10/04/12 at 7:43 am

Who here liked The beef patties?

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: meesa on 10/04/12 at 10:17 am

the cinnamon roll for breakfast school was a very rural community. The same lady made them, from what I gathered for years.

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 10/04/12 at 9:07 pm

We used to get Jell-o.  There were always rumors there were boogers in the Jell-o.
:o

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: warped on 10/04/12 at 9:17 pm


We used to get Jell-o.  There were always rumors there were boogers in the Jell-o.
:o


Well, the kitchen staff nose knows.

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: Howard on 10/05/12 at 4:13 pm


We used to get Jell-o.  There were always rumors there were boogers in the Jell-o.
:o


but did you eat it?  ???

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 10/06/12 at 11:48 pm


but did you eat it?  ???


It helped wash down the semi-soy weave hamburger patty.
8-P

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: apollonia1986 on 10/07/12 at 5:04 pm


I wish lunch was this much fun at my school.  Alas, it wasn't, ever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2iQ8THWz5k


Now I got the urge to pop in my Fame DVD.

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: Reynolds1863 on 01/02/13 at 4:17 pm

Tasty Kakes and iced tea.  Tasty Kakes are kind of the local version of Hostess.

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: valleyroads on 01/27/13 at 6:18 pm

The cafeteria food in Eugene, Pendleton & Portland (where I've lived) universally sucked.

However each place had something decent as a side dish: in Eugene, there were cups of peach chunks, apple rings or diced pears that were served semi-frozen for some reason. In Pendleton, we had frybread with all of our lunches due to our proximity to the Umatilla reservation. And in Portland, we got Hostess fruit pies with lunch on Fridays or the days before long weekends.

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 01/29/13 at 12:20 am


The cafeteria food in Eugene, Pendleton & Portland (where I've lived) universally sucked.

However each place had something decent as a side dish: in Eugene, there were cups of peach chunks, apple rings or diced pears that were served semi-frozen for some reason. In Pendleton, we had frybread with all of our lunches due to our proximity to the Umatilla reservation. And in Portland, we got Hostess fruit pies with lunch on Fridays or the days before long weekends.


When I was a kid there wasn't any variety.  My podunk elementary school had hot lunch toted up from Milford with this lunch lady to dish it out who had a baritone voice and 24" arms  To quote Robert Klein, they give her a net so her hair won't get in the food; she has arms like an ape, but she's got no net on them!  Lunch was 75 cents and you couldn't pay more if he wanted!
:D

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: Stompgal on 06/15/14 at 4:20 pm

When I was at primary school, my favourite canteen foods were cheese and onion tart with chips and baked beans, Turkey Jetters with potato Smiles, jam and coconut sponge with normal custard and chocolate crunch with pink custard.

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: Visor765 on 09/23/14 at 10:46 pm

Tacos. Those were goOod!

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: Howard on 09/24/14 at 7:51 am

grilled cheese sandwiches.

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: Ripley on 02/28/15 at 7:36 pm

Chili with cinnamon rolls

Subject: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: Dude111 on 12/09/17 at 5:06 pm

I know there is a common hatred for cateteria food, but sometimes I get cravings for some of the things I used to eat! Strange. Does anyone have a favorite cafeteria food they used to eat?

Yes. I loved my schools food!!!!!!!!!!

1) Pizza (Regtangles)
2) Hamburgers - AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
3) Fish Sticks


I went to school in the 70s and 80s thankfully before they started ruining our food..........

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: nally on 12/10/17 at 10:31 am


Yes. I loved my schools food!!!!!!!!!!

1) Pizza (Regtangles)
2) Hamburgers - AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
3) Fish Sticks


I went to school in the 70s and 80s thankfully before they started ruining our food..........

Often times I would go for the hamburgers.

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: 80sfan on 12/10/17 at 10:49 am

Fries.

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: violet_shy on 12/10/17 at 12:25 pm

Our school's pizza was pretty good. But I loved it when we had those stuffed ravioli for lunch.

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: Howard on 12/10/17 at 2:39 pm


Our school's pizza was pretty good. But I loved it when we had those stuffed ravioli for lunch.


I used to like the beef patties.

Subject: Re: What was your favorite elementary school cafeteria food?

Written By: graciee on 02/25/18 at 1:30 pm

In my elementary school cafeteria we used to have pizza every Friday. But my parents stopped me because it is unhealthy T.T

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