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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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Comments

[pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com]

Thankfully there wasn't an entree I couldn't bear to eat in elementary school, but the frequent appearance of turnip greens as a side dish was BLECH! Almost no one ate them because cooking them stank up the cafeteria for hours beforehand. The pizza we got was rather weird, kind of like a Bisquik hamburger pie instead of having a yeasty crust, but it was edible. The hamburgers were actually soy burgers, but put enough ketchup on anything and children will eat it. :D

One thing I loved about elementary school lunch was the desserts: a slice of cake or a big cookie every day. We rarely got desserts at home, so that was a major treat.

I usually brought my lunch in high school, as the food wasn't that good and the lines were so long that we had to bolt it down once we got our trays.

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

Hamburger pie! Geez, I haven't had that in years! Heck, probably not since high school, come to think of it. Add it to the list of things I've got a sudden craving for.

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