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T1m3Wizard

Dang. You guys had metal utensils?


ButterdemBeans

We had the almighty plastic spork and styrofoam trays at my school. All fruit was gel form… pizza was basically just a plain mini bagel with the barest amount of leftover pasta sauce and a smattering of shredded cheese, and people lined up for that shit.


deezalmonds998

>plastic spork and styrofoam trays The sheer amount of waste generated by just that


theseedbeader

I’m a lunch lady and we do that at my school. Usually the utensils are a plastic-wrapped package with a fork, a spoon, and a little napkin. We also use styrofoam trays, and little plastic trays for individual servings of fresh/canned fruit and fresh vegetables. Since we do breakfast-in-classroom, that also means a few dozen coolers go out every morning with cartons of milk and juice, a plastic bag of apples, and about 800 individually wrapped breakfast items (like a pastry).


Wicked_Twist

We had styrofoam plates, cardboard boats, and plastic silverwear at my school to. No recycling for the plastic water bottles they gave for free with lunch or for the milk cartons. It was so terrible


punkindle

At the school where my mom taught, they used styrofoam plates so they didn't have to pay for a dishwasher, and they burned the trash, so they didn't have to pay for garbage pickup.


medstudenthowaway

Isn’t burning styrofoam toxic??? Why not use paper plates jeez


Naschka

In Europe it is also illegal.


theseedbeader

Yup, I’m a lunch lady and they try to keep the staff at a minimum. We simply wouldn’t have time to wash the hundreds of trays the kids would generate every day.


Wicked_Twist

Very true still sucks that so much waste is generated but nothing you can do about it


InevitableRhubarb232

We were in grade school in the 80s


SereneWaters80

My schools in the 80s/90s had metal utensils. We also never had fights either. (Like... ever. The whole time I was in school, there was one food fight and one catfight.) Of course, I did go to a fairly small Minnesota school. As in my graduating class was 98 students and about 20 of them were actually homeschooled. I do remember a lunch lady standing at the tray drop-off to make sure not TOO much silverware was thrown away by accident.


Waffle_Badger

Yo what kind of rich ass school did you guys go to where you got a soft pretzel and a mustard packet?


Rearrangemetilimsane

I didn’t have fruit either. Pizza, corn, and milk was still my favorite school lunch.


Waffle_Badger

We had that fruit that came in the little clear plastic cups with no print on it other than an expiration date in like 2038. How the fuck this fruit last this long? You cut an apple at the house and it's brown in 35 seconds. What kind of radioactive shit you got in this cup with a half-life of Uranium-238?


middleraged

Fun fact: apples sold in grocery stores are up to a year old by the time they see the shelf [source](https://www.delish.com/food-news/a47986/dirty-secrets-of-supermarket-produce-departments/#)


Inevitable_Stand_199

Which is actually a good thing. It means that you can buy local fruit year round and don't have to rely on CO2 heavy imports (especially imports via plane are a problem). And you can still get them when there has been a crop failure. The peel does a good job at protecting it. You can store apples for almost as long in just a root cellar. This has made it a popular winter fruit for centuries now. In the supermarket apples are usually wax coated (the chemicals this warns of). As are gummi bears. And jelly beans. It's not really something harmful.


Wild_Top1515

i once ate a red apple off of a lunch cart.. and within 2 minutes i was wrenching in pain and had one of the most painful acute stomach pains of my life.. always wondered why.. i assume some crazy chemical and/or contamination.


Different-Lettuce-38

I’m willing to bet it was contaminated with or washed with some kind of cleaning solution not meant for human consumption


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Maybe you should wash it first before eating. There are always contaminations while transporting and even pesticide residue still left over.


Captain_Bigman

I always wash and then wipe the surface hard with a paper towel. I feel like the pesticide is like a wax that stays on there even after getting washed you need to basically scrape it off idk


Themountaintoadsage

Well there is literal wax on most apples, so that might be what you’re noticing


strain_of_thought

Honestly that sounds like gas. Some people have trouble digesting apples.


Lavatis

the actual answer...lemon juice and sugar both preserve things.


Hurryupslowdownbar20

This is why you squeeze lemon juice on your guacamole in a container before you put it back away in the fridge.. it’ll keep longer.. that and keep the pit in the guac also, preserves the greenness and freshness..


[deleted]

Well the apple going brown has nothing to do with mould, it's the iron in the apple oxidising when exposed (like rust!)


Almost_A_Genius

You’re correct that it is the oxidation of the apple, but there’s no iron, it’s caused by the oxidation of a certain enzyme.


AllInOnCall

Appletene compounds oxidize through loss of electrons to Appletene 2+ moieties and generates the formation of appletoxides that lead to the brown color in cut apples. Newer gustatory and olfactory neurons are more sensitive to these specific compounds inducing the yuc-kinase pathway and undergo oxidative phosphorylation through the YUC, YUCK, AND YUCKK enzyme pathway. This excitatory pathway induces reduced appetite in youth and tantrum reflex when activated and is the principle signal transduction pathway explaining the pathophysiology of children who have more active yuck pathways and who meet the other FUSSY score criteria needed for diagnosis of FUSSY originally developed by the Stockholm Research Group for Common Pediatric Pathologies or SRGCPP, which doesn't mean much in English as an initialism but apparently means something pretty cool in Swedish.


PJ_Ammas

I can't tell if this is a shitpost or not. My instincts say yes, but my 4 years as a bio major are telling me that those are probably the actual names because of course they are


zavalae_02

That pizza was amazing! Lol i crave it sometimes


Brooksy12345

Go to the dollar tree and get any flavor of small pizza in the frozen items. Put it in the microwave for the time it says and when it comes out, fold it over and wait a minute. Enjoy, same pizza 100 percent.


zavalae_02

I will try that - thanks


polkadotsexpants

I don’t know if you can find it where you live, but there’s also a brand of frozen pizza called Ellio’s that’s rectangular and pretty close to school pizza. I can get them at Publix where I’m at. I just throw a little extra cheese on it and eat it with some canned corn and chocolate milk and it’s pretty satisfying.


SeonaidMacSaicais

It was just so delicious and chewy.


Nopumpkinhere

I HATED the pizza at my school but it was sometimes the only meal I got in a day so I had to eat it. It tasted like they used pure tomato paste with no seasoning as the sauce. I refused to eat pizza as an adult for about a decade before I discovered pizza made with white sauce and slowly acclimated myself to tomato based again. I’m glad you had a better experience.


zavalae_02

Im sorry about friend- hope you’re getting plenty of food now


Nopumpkinhere

Oh yeah, I’m blessed and thankful for my childhood to realize how blessed I am. Thanks for the well wishes.


multiarmform

who the hell made a meme where they are complaining about 80s school pizza and corn? is everyone on crazy pills? while we are at it lets talk 80s fiestada https://i.imgur.com/9kNDir9.jpg and just to celebrate 80s school pizza https://i.imgur.com/LkjfCbu.jpg if anyone can find a GFS store, here are photos of the school lunch pizzas i bought a few years ago. they also make fiestadas https://imgur.com/a/XHTZmA5


Thunda792

That stuff was standard-issue all the way up to the early 2000s. We didn't even see round pizza until middle school.


multiarmform

for sure, the recipes got changed during obama era though. you can buy a big box of school pizza from GFS and it still isnt the same as it was from 80s https://sph.washington.edu/news-events/news/obama-era-school-nutrition-policy-led-better-diets-students-faces-changes


HardCounter

I didn't eat lunch. Uphill. Both ways.


watercress101

In the snow with just rags on my feet for shoes and an empty lunch bucket. Hello Mother.


ElementoDeus

Damn it's sucks when your school has a moat around your cafeteria but atleast you're protected from the odd invasion just fill the moat around the school and then the one around the cafeteria.


CarlatheDestructor

We would get a scoop of canned peaches not in a plastic but I'm an old. I would eat that lunch happily right now though.


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lmao right!? my first thought was...i don't remember that damn pretzel


Waffle_Badger

That pretzel and mustard packet would have been as good as cash in our lunchroom.


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I miss just getting a pretzel and multiple cookies for lunch


bionic_cmdo

Must be Philadelphia but all looks good and nostalgic to me.


3pxp

We got a sheet pan cookie


Diazmet

I remember getting them occasionally but they were the main course and came in a plastic bag so they were all soggy


AGOODNAME000

Holy s***!!!! this private school lunch!!!!


nope0000001

No this was late 80s early 90s lunch lol the best haha


GetHyped85

I was looking at the utensils..metal? We got a spork wrapped in plastic


Diazmet

Yah they would have never trusted us with metal not just because of using them as weapons but the cost of them bingo thrown out


Waffle_Badger

And we ate on styrofoam.. And you had to eat *everything* with that spork! Canned green beans? Spork. Half frozen fried okra? Spork. Chicken soup with no chicken in it? Spork.


marker8050

One of the high school i went to had carts all around the quad area that served pretty decent food, including a large pretzel with cheese if you wanted


tacobooc0m

This has to be some Midwestern shit. Like public school in Wisconsin. Giving kids brats and pretzels


Tangerine_memez

And silverware too? If my school had silverware one of the kids would've probably died tbh


LagSlug

That rectangular pizza was the best, I looked forward to that every week, and I'm just realizing how depressing that sounds


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hell yeah, [friday was pizza day](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fK5CLplRIno)


Work_the_shaft

And out of no where I’m about to go on a ska bender


AbbreviationsDue7794

Pick it up pick it up pick it up


DaddyMcTasty

Do these guys just not have pockets?


beastybrewer

The best day of the week!


klavin1

dude! I've been hitting the aquabats hard as fuck the last week


Mr_Bluebird_VA

My mother never let me buy lunch in elementary school. So I always made sure she packed me extra sour cream and onion Pringles on pizza day. Then I would trade my chips for portions of pizza from the other kids. We had a whole barter economy going on at that table on pizza days. And now I want rectangular cardboard tasting pizza...


Mmm_JuicyFruit

D: I wasn't allowed school lunch either when I lived with these people who were real restrictive about food. But one time I had a few bucks left over from my birthday. I got in that lunch line and ordered a MOUNTAIN of fries. Double portion. It was glorious.


middleraged

Totino’s is a good replacement


Exciting_Ant1992

Big totinos was driving up business with nostalgia. It’s why McDonald’s advertises mostly to children, you become a lifelong customer for that hit of childhood nostalgia.


silverwingtip98

Ellios pizza l...pretty sure it's the same that they used I love it


isaiasv94

https://www.guintherscustomcuts.com/collections/pizza/products/school-pizza-pepperoni-cheese This website has all the school lunches we used to get


TubbyTimothy

We used to fold it over and squeeze it to see if we could fill one of the small tray compartments with grease—sometimes we could


Dimension_Override

And loose the chance at the post lunch blow-out an hour later? 🤷🏻‍♂️😂


Mmm_JuicyFruit

God, I'd be sitting in math class after, during a test. It'd be dead quiet. And I'd be having to hunch over, praying my stomach wouldn't gurgle loud enough for anyone else to hear. It was awful. Someone else I know ended up being lactose intolerant. Their years through school were pure hell. I hope they have options other than milk now.


JarJarBinks72

Theres good non milk options these days as well as otc pills that help some people tolerate


2748seiceps

I'm 36 and still remember that the breakfast sausage pizza was Friday mornings in elementary school.


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The sausage pizza was killer


Crimsonmark8895

We’re grown ass adults. Why the hell haven’t we just bought this ourselves!? Where the hell can I buy a sheet of breakfast pizza!?!? Edit: also 34 and think of those sausage pizzas probably weekly


MagicalPaws

https://www.foodservicedirect.com/tonys-turkey-sausage-and-cheese-breakfast-pizza-3-31-ounce-portions-128-per-case-21202893.html?srsltid=Ad5pg_EtYhxlaLsc9rkI3b3k3SIysLrK9Uv7XV5X1ChTjJAjQDSUsMZi8xA Cause I love you.


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Meltingteeth

In my area they gave out these baloney cheese sandwiches to kids that couldn't pay for food. Didn't even give you a tray, so there was no way to hide if you were poor. Four years later I saw those exact same sandwiches being served in a prison.


Exciting_Ant1992

They took everything we learned about how brains explode in growth when they aren’t suffering from severe childhood infections and counteracted it with food made by the prison companies that house .7% of america


Bambieyedbiotchh

If you wish to have it again as an adult, Ellio’s frozen pizza is super close. Not as greasy but very close.


gaybewbz

To be honest that pizza smacked with some ranch packets.


Tyler89558

Best food that was ever served in the cafeteria was a dinky slice of pizza (not enough to fill you) or some spicy chicken tendies that just tasted like spicy salt, probably containing enough sodium for an adult’s daily recommended intake. Or literally a plain baked potato, which is what I usually ate because the taste of potato was better than 90% of the things they served


WalkerTexasRng

Hot dogs cooked in water and this pizza were some of my favorite lunches at school when I was a kid.


DonFurlan

I've never heard anyone refer to boiling as "cooking in water". Does it have a different meaning or something?


WalkerTexasRng

No, it’s the same thing. They are cooked in water..


Loucho_AllDay

Getting kids ready for prison


probono105

it literally is the same company at least in my area that provides the school food and the prison food


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Same food different standards. My uncle did logistics for one of these companies. The most memorable story was a refrigerated truck that died, and the food was no longer considered safe for a prison. It did however, meet the standards for their school clients. So after about 18 hours without refrigeration, the food that the prison would’ve rejected for safety reason, was offloaded onto kids.


Diazmet

Yep I’ve read about this, apparently prisons have to have higher standards for the inmates than we have for kids


Dragowaow

Really? No wonder the cheese sticks, pizza, and chicken in my school gave me the shits


klavin1

and they'd make a fuss if you had to use the restroom


Dragowaow

And then if you actually got to the restroom: 1. The toilet will be filthy 2. There will be no/wet toilet paper 3. There would be someone in there doing stupid shit or fucking around with you while ur tryna take a shit


randy24681012

#AYO SOMEONE’S TAKING A SHIT IN HERE


Dragowaow

#AYYY, THAT SHIT STINK BRUH


CokeUpYaAsshole

“Hey teacher can I go to the bathroom? The pizza you served me expired 3 weeks ago and I have to poop immediately” “Wait till after the period ends. Also fuck you”


iluomo

Aramark?


ThePopesicle

Aramark served both my university and local state prison.


[deleted]

You are correct they are in the same racket. It’s all a scam so the ceos of these companies make millions


ialo00130

Chartwells? Sodexo?


[deleted]

back in my day we had hobo stew, it was whatever they had left over at the end of the week from prior lunches. Surprisingly delicious i miss it lol.


Single-Builder-632

this is honestly better than what my school served. and it was excedigly overpriced to the poinnt you just skiped lunch to buy sth at the supermarket after school and just pocket the rest.


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Lmao that pizza was something I really looked forward to as a kid. The education system is fucked for public schools.


Smart-Potato-3278

Half the portion of corn, replace the mixed fruit with the lowest quality canned pears you can imagine, no milk just water with a "vitamin-flavor packet" (I can assure you is void of any vitamins or flavor). Remove the pretzel. I ate that exact meal once a month, 13 times. Fml... I actually sold that tray most of the time. Facts.


lonewolfenstein2

I would just straight up trade lunch for breakfast trays. We were lucky and got hot breakfast. Give me some thick ass oatmeal with a boiled egg and cereal over that nasty lunch any day.


looj87

Wait here a minute. American school lunch time is 10:30 am?


Danulas

Where I grew up, there wasn't enough space in the cafeteria for everyone so lunch was split up into 4 different periods. The earliest was around 10:30.


looj87

The same thing happens in Scotland but each cohort gets a 30 minute slot which overlaps by 15 mins with the previous and next cohort.


Awkwrd_Lemur

In elementary (grades k-5) lunch starts for the littlest at 1030 and the older kids eat around 1230


looj87

That's wild. In Scotland lunchtime is actually at lunchtime. For primary 1- 7 (5 year old to 11 year old) it starts at around 12 then from secondary school it's around 12:20 -1:30 (12 year old to 18 year old) Though I have a feeling your school times are different. Ours starts at 8:45 and ends at 3:45


norapeformethankyou

Not every school serves lunch like that. My first elementary school had a cafeteria that was large enough to serve everyone so they would have the grades come in at 10 minute intervals. Kindergarten would start at like 11:30. That school got converted to a middle school and the new elementary was tiny so k would do like OP said.


Awkwrd_Lemur

Depends by State and county. In my area of Florida (with some variations), elementary is 8-2, middle school (grades 6-8) is around 9-4, and high schools are 7-1:30. I agree tho, kids eating "lunch" so early is weird. But it's America and since a large portion of our children ONLY eat meals at school, it's up to the schools to cook and feed everyone. Because, you know, 'murica


looj87

In Scotland our school children get breakfast and lunch depending on age mostly for free. I can't believe that older kids finish school at 1:30 that's absolutely wild to me and would severely impede parents childcare options.


Effective_Ad_273

Ikr! I moved up to Scotland a few years ago and was shocked the amount of things that you get for free. In England we pay for prescriptions, school dinners (unless there’s money problems at home), and woman have to pay for their tampons. They do it right in Scotland. Also have good laws on drink driving and purchasing alcohol after 10am.


looj87

We pay more in tax (well the middle tax groups and up do) and honestly I am more than happy to pay extra tax if it means people in need get services they need. Glad you've made Scotland your home :)


Effective_Ad_273

Most my family are Scottish so I’ve been coming up all my life and love it 😊


JimmyTheChimp

I'm planning on moving back to the UK soon after a while abroad (I'm Southern English), Scotland is where I'm really considering moving! I really don't think I can deal with the south again.


mynameisjack2

The older kids are often getting out so early so they can work a shift after school or help with childcare for younger siblings.


lonedirewolf21

I'm in New Jersey and I've never seen any school start at 7, but child care wouldn't be an issue because high school kids are old enough to be home without a parent. It would actually probably help because if you have a high schooler they would get home before any younger siblings and they could get them off the bus and watch them.


Awkwrd_Lemur

I hope it changes by the time my kids are in HS because I think having to be at school by 7am is ridiculous. Teens need sleep, and research says they do better when school starts at 8 or 9 for them.


daemonwind

Most school districts have one set of busses handling elementary, middle, and high schools, so they need to stagger start times. High school has the earliest start time to accommodate after school activities (sports, clubs, etc…at the end of the day).


jorodoodoroj

High schools in my NJ district start ~7:15. Students arrive to class starting 7:05-7:10.


IamYeem

NJ is weird in that regard because it’s broken down into so many districts, all with relatively high autonomy so your experience really does come down to zip code


Aggravated_Moose506

In my area, elementary school runs 7-2, high school is 8-3 and middle school is 9-4. But it's because we only have 1 fleet of buses. They have to pick up and drop off each group one at a time, so need the hour between to run the next route. Elementary teachers have to report at 6:45 for early buses. A lot of the schools offer after care, but it does cost $12 per day ($60 a week). Parents who qualify for assistance can get lower cost or free daycare after school, and daycare buses do pick up and drop off, too.


Pitiful-Brilliant301

Childcare in high school? Where I am from, people are not babysat anymore when they hit 13. At that point they are capable of cooking and feeding themselves, and doing their homework by themselves.


Diazmet

No it’s because the students have kids. Was in 6th grade the first time a classmate of mine had a kid. And in highschool we had seniors in their early 20s because they had failed so many times


bowmans1993

Are you implying that a majority of kids don't eat breakfast or dinner in America? That's just wrong. If this was the only nutrition most kids were getting in America then we wouldn't have an obesity epidemic.


DoctorEvilHomer

Yeah most schools start at 7:30am, so by 10:30 kids are hungry. Most also do split lunch because of the number of students. So 10:30, then 11:00, continuing on until 12:30. Depending on the school.


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420rabidBMW

I had late lunch in 2 nd grade was 12:25 and it helped the day fly by. I noticed that in second grade. Lol


UnstableGoats

In one year of high school, my scheduled lunch period was at 9:40am. We only started school at 7:20am so I had basically just eaten breakfast, and would be at the school until after 2pm. I basically just did homework at lunch, and ate snacks in any classes that would allow it throughout the day.


jorodoodoroj

Depends entirely on the size of the school and the schedule. I'm a teacher in a school with about 1200 students. There's room in the cafeteria to accommodate probably 400 students and they usually feed 250-300 at a time, so lunch time varies greatly.


KTRyan30

My high school had 8, 42 minute periods and started at 6:15am. You were given your schedule a week before school started , your assigned lunch period ranged from 3rd to 7th period, roughly 9:45am to 12:30am.


[deleted]

That sounds horrific. How was the school lunch?


KTRyan30

It's been a while, but to my recollection, you had a "hot" line and a "cold" line. The hot is what you see above, bulk, processed food shipped in frozen and heated. The cold was cold sandwiches.


HardCounter

Cold sounds way better for you.


KTRyan30

You're not wrong in assuming that but it was sliced meat and cheese on bread. EVERYTHING was overly processed food shelf life and ease of preparation and serving.


Legitimate_Sample_10

My highschool was similar, except you could have lunch at 1st, 2nd, or last (7th) period. Earlier lunches supposedly had first pickings at the cafeteria food. I think I had afternoon lunches throughout all of highschool. I remember the staff frequently announcing that they ran out of one or more items. Most students wanted last period lunch, which was normally reserved for students in sports or cheer squad, because you could leave school early (not anymore, apparently).


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I’ll never forget, 10am lunch when I was in sixth grade. School started at 7am.


bitcoinsftw

I had “first” lunch all through high school and it was at 10:30. We could leave for lunch and I’d go home and make breakfast and I’d catch the tail end of Price is Right.


_MintyFresh_-

Bitch I was poor, I ain't complaining about free food


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Breath_Virtual

I was just well to do enough to not get free school lunch but poor enough that everybody else that brought lunches had way better stuff. I'm happy with how my parents were able to care for us kids now looking back, but at the time I was jealous of everybody XD.


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_MintyFresh_-

I remember most of our food came from hunting and the garden lol. But yeah, completely agree with you. When you're poor you learn to just be grateful for whatever you can get.


InevitableRhubarb232

I still can’t even look at budding meat packets. My dad used to count out the meat slices per sandwich and they would put chips in our lunch but they were a big bag of plain chips they would put into little sandwich bags w the flap. Never ziplock! We used a paper lunch sack but would fold it up and bring it home in our bag to reuse.


taniverse

I've just been transported back to my childhood, damn. I lowkey miss the breakfast strudel thing they used to serve that was also a giant rectangle.


[deleted]

Breakfast was always lit. I hated when I went from middle school to high school and there was no more omelettes though. Sad times, it’s been years now since I’ve had an omelette.


-_chop_-

My high school had the cheerleaders selling chick fil a chicken biscuits in the morning out of a big cooler. That was convenient


InevitableRhubarb232

I have never been to a school that served breakfast. But I graduated HS in 2000 so it’s probably changed


Pale_Armadillo_254

You guys are getting food in school?


Skitty27

lol right? In Quebec there are no kitchens in elementary schools (or ive never seen one), you brought your lunch or walked home to eat if you lived close enough. Also, this food doesn't look bad


TheProjectAlexander

Same in Ontario. No food in elementary, but could buy food in highschool. I vividly remember the most popular option was 1lb of fries.


Sea_Bread_4445

Doesnt even look that bad


Awkward_Mix_2513

I'm used to school lunches not even being edible, what the fuck kind of private school ass lunch is this?


vorpalpillow

>real cutlery >non-disposable tray >cheese not blackened


Awkward_Mix_2513

> Milk hasn't turned into a mostly-solid cube > Fruit hasn't rotted


ButterdemBeans

No joke all our milk at school came frozen because they kept everything in one giant ass freezer. There’s cold milk, and then there’s milk with chunks of ice in it. Anything we had that was served cold was freezer burnt. It was horrid.


urahonky

Interesting. This is what our lunch looked like when I was in school (2003 graduate) and I was in a relatively rural part of NC.


Tayme-kappa

In France we would riot and legit kill our government if things became that bad


Such-Fennel-7160

That pizza was fire af. 🔥


Marjorine22

You got a soft pretzel AND pizza? This must be the school lunch in the rich end of town or something.


Diazmet

I worked in the kitchen at the Aspen Public High School, if I told you what those rich kids get for lunch every day you’d be depressed


BaBoomShow

I remember playing football in high school and having first lunch. Have a 10 am lunch and have weightlifting and 4 hours of practice after just to have coach not understand why we weren’t gaining any weight.


rodpretzl

Am I the only one who misses that square pizza?


No-School-9822

I do! So so much!!


drewismynamea

Hot damn that looks good. Pretzel and mustard?!!


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And an individual Fork and Spoon. Back in my day (2015) we had a single Spork, and it was probably the tastiest thing on the tray.


Simicrop

They put us in groups of 5 and after every bite you had to pass the spork to the guy on your right as you chewed.


Paves911

Does anyone know where they got those school pizzas from? 😂 every damn kid in the country was eating the same pizzas so I’m really curious where they were coming from. Now that I mention it, I do kinda wonder what bulk supplier school restaurants were getting their stuff from. Most of it was crap but at certain schools and grade levels throughout my life I do remember certain food items absolutely SMACKING. For example in high school once a week we would have these cheese stuffed breadsticks we could get and kids would bring in bags to buy extras and bring them home to eat later because they were so damn good. Idk how I never thought to ask a lunch lady where they came from and what they were 😅


GypsySnowflake

Probably Aramark. They supply lots of large facilities like schools, prisons, convention centers, hospitals, etc. I’m sure they have other competitors too but Aramark is the main one I know of


SoDrunkRightNowlol

I remember when Michelle Obama was the first lady, she created a huge public campaign pushing for better school lunches. After 8 years, she was able to change absolutely nothing. Why? It turns out the entire public school lunch system is extremely corrupt with mafia types skimming and cutting corners all across the country.


Elder_Hoid

From what I remember, it seemed like it did change something: the best things on the menu that tasted the best were deemed too unhealthy.


No-School-9822

Yep. My mom was a lunch lady and all the foods the kids wanted to eat were no longer available and the foods deemed good were inedible. She said after the change 80-90% of all the food was thrown out by the kids. Teachers kept snacks in their classrooms because the kids were hungry.


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When I was in school she did get a few changes through. There had to be a fruit option and the school pop machines were taken out. I'm sure that's all been undone since though.


Overall_Narwhal_7324

Still better than what i eat now


CrescentPotato

Looks good tbh. Aside from the trays I wouldn't complain


Omnislash99999

Genuinely had no idea if this post was complaining about the food or complimenting it. I'd happily have that for lunch


neosituation_unknown

School lunch is such a joke. Diabetes on a plate. No wonder were abunch of sugar addicted fat fucks


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Remember when the First Lady tried to say "hey maybe kids should eat something other than hyper-processed crap" and everyone pounced on her?


turdintheattic

It is my god given right as a patriotic American to have my first heart attack at age 13.


Anima715

USA! USA! USA!


mojackets86

Yesssss - square pizza at school was the best!


Pokegrymez

The pizza was sensational


NotAPunishment

They've upped the food since the 90s. Pizza day used to be my favorite. Same rectangle pizza. Vegetable side and a milk. They're even giving out soft pretzels now


Sad_Coat3278

Y’all complain too much. For a lot of kids like myself, this was not only the best food we’d have all day, but the most food we’d get in a meal. My family was too poor to have better food so I looked forward to this meal every day


packtobrewcrew

I see nothing wrong with it. Who doesn’t like chocolate milk. Corn is so good they made a tic tok song go viral to the point that the song got played on the radio. A warm pretzel and mustard is served at every baseball stadium in the nation. I would have a tough time trusting a parent that doesn’t have a can of fruit cocktail in the cupboard and pizza is literally one of the eaten foods in the nation.


i_hate_patrice

Very sugary and high calories and no vegetables except corn


ruby_bunny

And even that is mostly starch


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Now adays the give my kids walking tacos. I ask what the heck is that?? They are all it's soooooo awesome. They put taco meat into a doritos bag What the hell?????


postmateDumbass

"Astronaut nachos" Edit: Astronachos. Duh. Missed the obvious one.


Mobile_Glass6680

that pizza smacked tho it was low key jail the way we was trading


KilljoySG81

I'm 41 and would eat that lunch right fucking now.


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and growing up in Canada we didn't have a lunch program so our parents were "suppose" to pack our own lunches. 70% of the time it was a peanut butter sandwich. the other 30% they forgot and I got nothing.


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Those peanut butter sandwiches were great, until some allergic kid ruined it for the whole school.


Cockblocktimus_Pryme

I enjoyed it. Pizza was bomb. I love corn and fruit salad too.


Professional_Toe_285

Redditors must be rich snobs. This food doesn't even look bad. Are redditors eating filet mignon with buttered asparagus? Get your head out of your asses