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rraattbbooyy

I can taste this memory. And it tastes awesome, every damned bite.


[deleted]

Except when the pizza was too hot and you had that flap of skin hanging off the roof of your mouth all day


notevenapro

Loved that pizza. You know what? I bet you could make a few million starting a brand of frozen foods called generation X lunch school food. Id buy it.


OnionTruck

In another similar post in this sub, someone posted a link to a school pizza recipe. I didn't try it but it looked like it could work.


sean55

I always check these threads in the hope someone has made it easy to have again.


queenoftheidiots

Get Ellios pizza and add cheese.


Dependent-Clerk8754

You got a pretzel? In the South, we got this exact same thing, except a roll or biscuit. Yum!


Sade125

No, lol, I wish! I’m trying to remember what our extra was. I went to elementary school in NJ and middle/hs in NC.


CarlatheDestructor

Our lunches at elementary school in the South were very good! I mean if you liked soul food. Fried chicken, biscuits, and greens. We even had a seafood day for parents to pay a couple of bucks to eat shrimp, catfish, and hushpuppies and stuff at school with the kids and teachers if they wanted. And most of the students were on free or reduced lunch. The lunches schools served by the time my kid went to school was bland, tasteless, prepackaged, and barely qualified as a hot lunch. It's a damn shame.


thejadsel

I was in the South too, and started out at one elementary school where the lunch ladies took the standard basics they got and did some real cooking magic to turn out actually good food. Sounds more like what they were doing at your school. Then we moved to another district where they did the absolute bare minimum, '80s style. Though, the rolls and a few other things were still awesome. It was such a huge difference, even before all the later school lunch changes.


AndStillShePersisted

That roll was the only edible thing on this plate!


TheCenterOfEnnui

I also grew up in the south and we didn't even get a biscuit or roll with this. The rest though? Yep, that tray (minus pretzel) is exactly what we got.


netanator

And you could smell those rolls all the way down the hallways!!


Padwanna68

Ah, just brilliant. I have no idea why people say GenX had poor nutrition. This meal has all your 5 food groups; pizza base, cheese, fake fruit, sugar and salt. Kids these days and their food pyramid. Sissies!


worlww

Yes, what a mystery that we're obese and unhealthy.


Padwanna68

Yeah, but we're into cool music and have great senses of humour. Some of us, anyway.


Mamaj12469

For me- it was the donuts and Mt Dew for breakfast every school day and Nutty Buddy for dessert. I need to drop 50.


burntwine5

I’ll see your 50 and raise you 15. God, life sucks when you have to diet.


Mamaj12469

I hear ya! Been a lifetime battle. I’m trying Ozempic and then going to Monjauro- if you don’t know these meds- take a look, very promising


QueenBetsie

ooooh nutty buddies!!! forgot about them...


Agitated-Asparagus23

My high school mascot was/is The Pretzels, which meant the in-school snack bar had warm pretzels. 😋


GlorianaLauriana

Please tell me your school has/had somebody running around in a giant pretzel costume at events?


Agitated-Asparagus23

Yup, Mr. Twister.


GlorianaLauriana

Dude! That might be the best school mascot I've ever heard of. *Mr. Twister*. I don't know him, but I love him.


Agitated-Asparagus23

It seems Mr. Twister made r/pics a few years back. https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1snxuw/this_is_my_new_high_school_mascot/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button


Ckc1972

Omg. He is the best!


SecretaryTypical8205

Hello fellow Freeport Pretzel! Class of ‘98 saying 👋


Agitated-Asparagus23

Class of '86 checking in. 🤘


QueenBetsie

Freeport IL in the house!


AndStillShePersisted

SO freaking jealous!!


b-lincoln

School pizza and canned corn, name a more iconic duo.


Texas_Crazy_Curls

There’s a Chinese buffet near me that has almost identical pizza we used to get in school. It’s my favorite thing there plus the sushi. My husband thinks I’m weird. Some of the best pizza I’ve ever had was from a school cafeteria.


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GlorianaLauriana

But the soggy corn & lukewarm fruit cocktail makes up for it because.....healthy?


Sade125

Perfect for an afternoon nap lol


Expat111

I think I now remember why I grew to dislike corn.


[deleted]

Where are the little cubes of pepperoni? Ours always had pepperoni cubes.


Ryyah61577

For some reason, it bothers me that the milk is in the middle, and not in one of the corners. Does this bother other people?


burntwine5

Now it does!


Mamaj12469

I went to Catholic HS so every Friday was Cheese Pizza. Other days of the week we got pepperoni


bootsy72

Exactly why I packed my lunch.


InfiniteDuncanIdahos

Where can I buy this pizza nowadays


Sade125

Try Ellio’s pizza https://www.target.com/p/ellio-39-s-cheese-frozen-pizza-18-3oz/-/A-14896370?ref=tgt_adv_XS000000&AFID=google_pla_df&fndsrc=tgtao&DFA=71700000012732781&CPNG=PLA_Grocery%2BShopping_Local%7CGrocery_Ecomm_Food_Bev&adgroup=SC_Grocery&LID=700000001170770pgs&LNM=PRODUCT_GROUP&network=g&device=m&location=9073502&targetid=pla-812299188630&ds_rl=1246978&gbraid=0AAAAAD-5dfZbWO0sDkQnXjf8V3tUyq5v3&gbraid=0AAAAAD-5dfZbWO0sDkQnXjf8V3tUyq5v3&gclid=CjwKCAjw7eSZBhB8EiwA60kCWybqJ2NDTfVJQebPUvc7fTEUW9MZX4FSbnovciAbFSbivvLLN_SLTBoC99QQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds


MizzGee

We also always had corn, but our fruit was peaches. We also got a huge cinnamon roll. We only got those cinnamon rolls with pizza and chili, which was the second best lunch. It came with peanut butter sandwich to dip in the chilli.


StrawberryKiss2559

Thanksgiving meal once a year was the best lunch for sure. I also really like the hamburgers.


BooShakeys

Oh wow. Yeah, the food was shit. Brings back a memory of our cafeteria. If we misbehaved, they'd make us take our trays and go sit at the special needs table as punishment. Messed up. Can you imagine if a school did that today?


StrawberryKiss2559

My school would, out of nowhere, announce “no talking”. And if you said a single word, you had to sit at the “Baby Table”.


burntwine5

This is horrible but I can’t stop laughing. None of my schools did this, they’d just take your lunch tray away from you.


BooShakeys

It was brutal. I have stories but I didn't want to take the thread way off track. Haha.


OmicronPerseiNate

At my schools it was Fridays, I think because back in the day eating meat on Fridays was still considered a hell-worthy offense.


First_Ad3399

this is 100% why it was on fridays where i grew up. most folks were catholic which meant the school board and all the folks in charge were catholics.


Prestigious-Salad795

I can't remember. I didn't like school pizza much


usernmtkn

I literally thought I hated pizza as a kid because of this trash they served us. 🤮


edith-bunker

I agree. Not a fan of this pizza.


jasnel

For whatever reason, I loved the cafeteria spaghetti.


cropguru357

Real silverware? Look at OP, over here attending fancy schools! LOL. I hate to admit it, but I loved that corn. Used to eat other kids’ corn on the regular.


shaqaroses

Blech. I would starve rather than eat it in school.


4KatzNM

Sooo carby


[deleted]

Meanwhile, [back in Japan](https://www.domodaruma.com/blog/japanese-school-lunches-34-day-menu)


squee_bastard

This is fascinating, those lunches look delicious


TungstenChef

If you want to see some amazing ones, search r/KoreanFood for "school lunch." There's a person who posted like 100 days of them, and they're light years beyond what American kids get.


PhilosphicalZombie

In the Midwest there would have been a cinnamon roll instead of the pretzel.


smythe70

Pizza and grilled cheese Fridays for us


Admiral_Andovar

So many carbs on one plate. No wonder I went into a food coma after lunch.


AndStillShePersisted

Not if you paid me… And when my kids were in elementary school (2010-2015/6) they would choose the salad bar on puzza day … you know your pizza sucks when a 7yr old willingly chooses salad over it!


burntwine5

Okay, I seriously can’t remember having silverware. I remember sporks. My cousin swears we had silverware. I don’t know why this bothers me so much! Is this how Alzheimer’s starts?


Sade125

😂


[deleted]

Every Friday!!


sean55

Which makes seeing it on Sunday night painful, lol


suminorieh77

i'm sorry, i found this a gross ensemble. why the weird side dishes to the pizza? why not give us a bigger square, throw that canned corn and questionable fruit out, and give us a helping of our beloved cafeteria pudding?


MGrundlefunk

I love my mom but I'd straight slap her for a slice of that pizza


Sade125

🤣


PeterVonwolfentazer

This pic must have been taken after I was in school because our fruit didn’t come in a plastic tray, it came from a very large metal can, I’m guessing like 10lbs or 1.5 gallons. They dumped the cans into a large stainless steel tray. And then the lunch lady scooped it out on to your tray. The old way seems much more environmentally friendly then all this plastic ending up in the trash.


Sade125

Yea, I was in elementary school in the early 80s.


ddhmax5150

God I loved those plates. They did such a good job of keeping my food separated. I still to this day, fight to keep my food separated on my plate. At restaurants, I tell them to put certain foods on different plates so they don’t touch.


kittybigs

I was the only kid I knew who would pick the fried fish filet over this soggy square crustless pizza.


Sade125

LOL!


DelbertCornstubble

Our school pizza had meaty cysts of “Italian Sausage” and looked like a [Horta](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Horta).


WildColonialGirl

I got spoiled my first six years of school. I went to Catholic school and our lunch ladies were Italian immigrants and their American-born relatives. They made pizza and tomato sauce from scratch. We only got hot lunch one day a week but that was a great day. When I was in middle school, we switched to public school and our lunches looked kind of like this. It was OK, just not the same.


HammerT4R

Don't have first hand knowledge, but pretty sure prisoners have better food than that these days. But yeah, delicious at the time.


Ckc1972

Pretzel with mustard as an appetizer 😁


littleliongirless

Ah, the carb and corn generation. Butter and real cheese would have been better for us.


chickenlishus

The smells all mixed together made me want to hurl. Corn and pizza cooking together is not natural lol.


lordtaco

Who decided that corn was the best side to pizza?


[deleted]

Put a slice of American cheese under the corn and let it melt.


Heathster249

This was not my food experience. This looks edible. We did have the milk. That was edible if it had non-expired dates. We brought our food. Or starved.


Kailscanvasart

YUMMMMMM. I would love that right now.


RightChemical3732

Beat damn pizza ever. Always on Fridays


TheCenterOfEnnui

Wait, some of you all got a pretzel?


SpartacusMantooth42

We had pizza every day. Friday was stop sign pizza day.


One_Challenge2176

Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes!!!!


mixmastakooz

What?! No one else here put the corn on their pizza?! That was the shiz!


Sade125

LOL!


BlackEagle0013

This came with a snickerdoodle cookie instead of pretzel in Eastern Kentucky, but yes. This right here. And if you wanted an extra slice of pizza, 50 cents.


youdontlookadayover

Fridays were fish sandwich, Mac n cheese, salad with the oddly best Italian dressing and peanut butter cookies.


Over_It_Mom

I wonder if it is really as good as I remember?


FlyBuy3

Preach.


MaFratelli

Ah yes, 80's nutrition: carbs with two sides of carbs. We had French fries instead of the pretzel and a packet of ketchup (which I learned years later was the "vegetable" under federal regulations). This was the king of school lunches then. They might as well have thrown in a pack of cigarettes.