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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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Date: 2012-05-28 07:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vanillafluffy.livejournal.com
Sounds great. I love a *good* cafeteria. I miss Piccadilly! Dad and I used to go there after church a couple times a month. I usually had the fried chicken, and he always got the egg custard. Comfort food....

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Date: 2012-05-28 09:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ang5fam.livejournal.com
I adored Piccadilly! Usually got the veggie plate with a cornbread stick and strawberry pie. Fried chicken and trout almondine were also faves~ with mac and cheese. can't understand why it closed down as it was always busy.

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Date: 2012-05-28 11:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vanillafluffy.livejournal.com
My guess would be the Mall got greedy. Whatever Piccadilly was making serving affordable meals was swallowed up by whatever rent they werre getting skinned for. Or, they demanded Piccadilly recorate/update or the like---that was why Lane Bryant left; M.Square wanted a remodel, and they refused.

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Date: 2012-05-29 05:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ang5fam.livejournal.com
Seems like that tired, old mall would be happy to have tenants, esp a nationwide one like LB.
Makes you wonder~~

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Date: 2012-05-29 07:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vanillafluffy.livejournal.com
Right?! Aside from the occasional movie, I go shopping at the mall maybe twice a year? Three times max. I went after Christmas and got some athletic shoes, and browsed a little before my movie last month (didn't buy anything). Maybe I'll wander around when they're doing tax-free in August, but I wouldn't Christmas shop there, for instance.

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