Having The Urge For School Lunches

[Warstud]

I had a flashback today and was thinking of some of the good food I had when I was in school.

A few standouts were >>>>

1) Rolls..... Probably the best I've ever had.

2) Chicken and gravy over mashed potatoes. Delicious

3) Pizza... only because my mom always cooked our meals and never ordered anything to takeout.

4) Soyburgers...Not sure why I liked them....maybe because it resembled a hamburger.

 

[555]

I remember the chicken and gravy especially since the gravy was yellow.

 

[justintendo]

i feel you, some of the school lunch stuff was pretty good. also was because you are always hungry when lunch rolls around, lol

 

[GenesisGuy70]

So funny to get on here and see this.

Old friend and I were just talking about this last week.

Sure the food was just a few steps above garbage but man the lunch ladies had a way of making it tasty!

 

[oil_film_movies]

Originally Posted By: Warstud
4) Soyburgers...Not sure why I liked them....maybe because it resembled a hamburger.

They used to mix soy with real beef to stretch it, cheapen it, but they were pretty good. These days I don't see the mixed soy-beef types. I guess we could get some frozen soy crumbles and mix them with ground beef 50-50.

 

[Chris142]

We had the best corndogs.

 

[Skeet6]

Middle school... i remember our meatball subs - three meatballs and sauce, on a hard Italian seeded sub roll. Best 90 cent meal ever! Thanks for the odd memory.

Mike B

 

[Silk]

No lunches when I went to school, you took sandwiches. Then there were the swaps - a baked bean sandwich was worth 2 jam and cheese.

 

[jmaster]

Some collage town bars serve school pizza, the kind with the holes in the bottom.

I remember the nachos with beef were the best I've ever had.

 

[andyd]

Macaroni with celery in it. Fish sticks. Oven baked chicken, peanut butter, 1/2 pint cartons of milk.

 

[EdwardC]

I remember our chicken rings (with cheese dip) and slices of pizza. And of course the cartons of chocolate milk.

 

[PimTac]

I remember pronto pups. The most gawd awful food man invented. This was way back in the sixties.

I have not eaten one since.

 

[spackard]

Okay, So Cal weighing in.
Sporks. Part spoon, part fork. Lowest bidder.

Steamed pizza circles served in sealed plastic wrap. The toppings always stuck to the wrap and pulled away from the dough. Learned to avoid them.

Hot dogs that were a strange shade of gray, and if gray had a smell that would be it. Then they changed to a obviously dyed pinkish-red "meat" that many couldn't choke down.

Gray steamed hamburger. If you were more than 10 minutes late it would be cold, and out of mustard packets.

But, you're so hungry all the time you ate it. Rotated between "meat" dog and dough with a taste of toppings. At least the toppings were never gray.

 

[SZR48207]

I have actually been searching the internet for the dinner roll recipe from my grade school days. They always served the roll whenever the dish had mashed potatoes and gravy, and a fond memory of mine was to tear the bread apart and dip it in the gravy before eating it.

And the soy burgers were also a rather interesting memory.. I remember everyone acted so disgusted when we learned they contained soy, but if you dressed them up with enough ketchup and mustard, they were quite good.

I do recall that the supplier for my grade school cafeteria was Ben E Keith.. Maybe they have the recipes..?

 

[clinebarger]

My mother cooked a big breakfast every morning, So I never ate school lunches. All cafeteria food that I have eaten is pretty bad....I can't imagine school's being better than Luby's or Golden Corral??

 

[Srt20]

If you guys liked the dinner rolls, try King's Hawaiian dinner rolls. They are awesome.

 

[JHZR2]

Fortunately I could walk home every day for lunch.

Was ketchup considered a vegetable back then, op?

 

[aquariuscsm]

Ours was disgusting and on the verge of inedible. Maybe that's why all of us kids in the 70s were so skinny haha. The half pints of chocolate milk were the only good things. We were only "allowed" to have one,but we'd stuff several in our coat pockets haha.

 

[double vanos]

The chicken fried steak at my high school was great! And it came with the yellow gravy.

 

[BalticBob]

smoking that weed gives one the munchies, that's for sure!
(from what I have been told)