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[vanillafluffy]

If you ate school lunches as a kid, what menu item did you most dread seeing on the week's menu list? Or, if you more often brought a lunch from home, what did you hope wasn't inside your lunchbox or bag when you opened it up? What made this item so revolting for you?

Mostly, I brown-bagged it. Sometimes I'd have school lunch (You could sign up ahead of time, and I'd nag my mom if there was something "good" on the calendar). I avoided the Salisbury stead, but I adored fish sticks. And it seems to me that the chicken was pretty good. Alas, somewhere around seventh grade, they stopped cooking in the cafeteria and brought in pre-made meals ala TV dinners.

Unfortunately, my mom wasn't terribly inventive when it came to lunch. Peanut butter, peanut butter, peanut butter! (and jelly). Not every day, but an awful lot. It was years before I could eat peanut butter after grade school! Or, worse, a slice of American cheese between two slices of white bread. Ugh! Nasty yellow wax! Sometimes there'd be leftovers, like a roast beef sandwich, or meatloaf. Those were the good days!

I liked tuna, but she was always worried that it would spoil if the weather was warm. This was long before the days of insulated coller bags and those plastic freezer cubes. I did have a wide-mouth thermos, but it tended to leak, so that didn't get used much.

And now I'm craving fish sticks, which I don't have on hand....

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[thru-the-blinds.livejournal.com]

I've always loved tuna and my mom had no issue with brown bagging it for me. I quickly learned, however, that the lingering aroma in my locker wasn't worth it, which is the same reason I won't take it to work with me. Nothing like smelling fish in the office for days on end! LOL

On another note: my mother grew up loving Braunschweiger on bread and at least once a month she'd send my brother and me to school with the same. UGH. I can *still* smell that stuff in my minds-eye and I'm turning green even while typing this. I was happy to go hungry when I found that stuff in my lunch box!

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

My dad loved Braunschweiger/liverwurst, I thought it smelled like something died. But it was great for giving Lady pills or luring her into a bath.

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