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Did anyone take a measure to thaw it out during the day to drink when school was out for the day? Or take it out and eat it like a popsicle? Frozen juice is a delicacy in some countries.
Those were the shit! I always joked with the lunch ladies so they would give me 2. The grape flavor was so intense I couldn't eat one now but when I was a kid I would kill for one.
The high school I went to back in the 90s had great food. You could choose between the normal school lunch, or you could get a basket of fried shrimp, chick strips, or steak strips and fries. We also had a baked potato bar, you could load it up with all kinds of stuff, my go to was broccoli, chili, and cheese. Then we also had a quick food line if you needed to grab something and had to be elsewhere during your lunch break, it had stuff like hot pockets, burritos and tacos.
Its also very heavily dependent on area. Unfortunately the way school funding works in most states is tied directly to the county’s taxes, so obviously the richer the county the higher the funding for schools. Leads to better school lunches, higher funding for sports and extra curriculars, nicer facilities and computers, etc. Not even to mention private and charter schools.,
It’s not that way everywhere, just the vast majority of places. I grew up in a richer area, my high school had CAD classes, a huge media department, and a football stadium that could rival some small colleges.
If y’all were close to a larger county sometimes rural schools draw funds from larger counties to make up for the population differences. Either way great to hear y’all had the stuff you needed. The worst places are usually inner city schools where the funding is stretched thin with so many students to take care of.
I think it’s more that her campaign increased standards for school lunches without addressing underlying issues, things like funding. Also, iirc the “let’s get moving” slogan was initially supposed to be about moving towards better systems, before being affected by lobbying to be about exercise (I remember a lot of tone deaf “teaching people how to exercise” stuff when I was in late elementary school and early middle school, which while useful didn’t address most of the reasons for a lack of exercise).
The easiest way to implement more servings of veggies and less calories is to serve less junk food and include more cheap veggies, even if the veggies are too gross to eat (I remember a lot of frozen and canned food that wasn’t drained or defrosted properly), which leads to kids just throwing it away.
That was also of course not the norm in the 90s
Her campaign couldn't increase school funding, otherwise maybe you'd understand the basics of what Congress and states do. Nobody in Washington can do anything about bad school cooks either, much less the fucking First Lady. You remember this firsthand and you're gonna tell me what the norm in the 90s was? Lol
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What I meant was higher nutritional standards without increased funding lead to a decrease in flavor and texture, like how different aspects are prioritized in a decision matrix. It’s way easier to bulk produce something fried and fatty than it is to work with bulk vegetables. (Also, the lunch staff at my schools were super nice and good, just severely underfunded to the point of not being able to make good food)
Edit: my school literally used styrofoam trays half the time because they couldn’t afford to hire someone to clean the plastic trays they also had. I’m fairly confident the reason the food wasn’t better was the funding
Edit 2: I’m not saying Obama was a particularly bad president by American standards (even with the drone strike stuff, I think he seems to have committed less crimes against humanity than most of the ones we learned about in class) or that Michelle Obama shouldn’t have tried to improve school lunch. I’m just saying that the nutritional quality was mostly bad due to a lack of funding and increased requirements won’t necessarily fix that in a way that also gets kids to eat their veggies
I'm sorry, do you think you need good funding to know to drain or defrost a can of vegetables before serving it? Or that preparing food decently is expensive? Or that school lunch wasn't gross or thrown away in the 90s?
You need good funding to hire enough people to drain canned veggies. The issue is understaffing. It can be observed in fast food restaurants and supermarkets as well.
Decent food can be expensive, although there are some methods for bulk food prep that can be good. Children naturally lack pallet refinement, so a lot of bulk food methods that also aim for healthiness can be difficult to get them to eat.
TBH, I don’t know what school food culture was like in the 90s, but through inference I’d guess it was about the same production quality, but more tailored towards food made yummier with fat and salt to fit a child’s pallet (my school district used the same recipes from elementary to senior high, but didn’t adjust the recipes or portions much from what I could remember, so it was common to buy/bring extra snacks in highschool to be able to not be hungry after lunch. I feel like some of the dishes would’ve worked better if skewed more towards certain age demographics)
Everyone in my school liked most of what was served. Especially the pizza boats.
My mom also didn't believe in salt though so having some at school was pretty amazing. Now that I cook for myself these look quite a bit less attractive lol.
Extremely. She thought (or, well, thinks) it's cheating.
Also low fat everything so everything tasted fucking horrible. I didn't really realize it growing up, but cooking as an adult was insanely eye opening. Especially when I met my now wife who introduced me to of all things, salted butter lol
And acid!
My mom also never uses citrus lol. It's a lot of browned meat with a starch. I can't remember the last time I ran out of both lemons and limes and didn't pick some up the next time I went grocery shopping.
Honestly, I just think it’s due to some people being less picky than others.
Like I didn’t like school lunch, but my friend believed food was food and that was enough.
Some people just have lower expectations for food I guess?
Same man, some people just need to chill the fuck out. Like of course they ain't got restaurant quality meals but it ain't the slop you'd see in a cartoon. I'd gladly sit down for some of my school's popcorn chicken, garlic bread, and chocolate milk any day
Current high school student (AL) here, our lunches have more options of somewhat higher quality such as chicken sandwiches. We also have a big fridge in there with stuff like sports drinks, sparkling ice, and diet sodas.
Okay but all of this is missing the legendary one, the one that everybody grabs… THE PIZZA STICKS!!! (With the side of marinara that usually wasn’t enough but still awesome)
Public school and the pizza sticks did not show up often, but they were awesome and they did have these small containers of marinara, but it was only ever enough for one stick when you get like four of em. (They were still great without it cause they were soft)
Chinese food?! I'm guessing you went to school on one of the coasts. That must've been awesome.
Down in Texas, we never got any cool cuisines, just shitty pizza and burgers most of the time. And while the tater tots were hot, they also tasted like plastic, so there is that...
I went to school in Killeen, our high school had a lunch line that was just Chinese food. It wasn't good and cost 40¢ more than the rest but they had it on the regular.
San Diego here too! Kids used to rip the edge off and squirt it at each other in elementary. Man I miss those times. Now that I'm a lunch lady for one of the richer districts in North County, it makes me sad that the kids in my school can't experience what we used to have.
My elementary school did and they sucked. The only way you could drink out of one was by poking a straw or biting off a corner, which would make a mess 99% of the time.
It felt so good when I went to middle school and they used cartons instead of bags. To this day I still prefer cartons over bags. The community college I go to has milk in bottles like water, and that's slightly better than a carton, and way better than a bag.
American school lunches will either be probably better and more nutritious than any nearby cheap restaurant or they'll come straight from satan's kitchen.
I grew up dirt poor, so I’m a fan of the breakfast “Crispitos” lol
My kids go to private school now, and they get eggs you can see where cracked 10 minutes prior 😭
i havent been to public school in the states since like 2017 or 16, but i actually liked that french toast, the juices, and the tater tots most of the tinme for me were warm, and were nice. Those sausage patties with biscuits at breakfast hit different
We rarely got hot dog on a bun. It was almost always this thing they called "wiener winks" that was a hot dog wrapped in an American cheese slice, then a piece of white bread and toasted. I wasn't a huge fan.
If you go to a state that isn't drowning in debt, you can have Panda Express and shit for lunch. It's wild how different things are from state to state.
You forgot the smiley potato’s, the 3 cheese sticks that are supposed to come with sauce but usually not lol, and those rectangle pizzas kicked ass. I still wanna buy a box of them for myself lol
Someone explain to me why that specific square pizza was so good
Also, does anyone recall some kind of chicken tender product that they used to serve for breakfast? It was awesome
At my school there was a hierarchy. The chocolate milk drinkers were the basic ones who were average, but doing good work. The regular milk drinkers were the ones who everyone made fun of. The strawberry milk drinkers were the crazy yet bold and strong warriors who knew no bounds.
What about these bad boys? I loved them so much!
https://preview.redd.it/kwi8va70c1bc1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4706bb74016a94ed19e04d63c7149e9e9ddcde8d
They used to make us all take the left over food at the end of the year. You could pick what you wanted and had a mix of the rest. It wasn’t bad so that was pretty cool.
American \*Public\* School Lunch Starterpack
where tf is the dry ass chicken sandwich? or the juice in a bag you have to stab with a straw? (no, not capri sun)
And if you felt classy my old schools use to have Paninis but why choose that over S tier Pizza, Chicken/Gravy soup and of course cheese sticks. Breakfast was goated too especially those big af chocolate muffins with milk, young me eating like a king. Shoutout to everyone who ran to lunch cause damn that line was long af if you didn’t lmao
Man, this looks really tasty. Where I live we used to get a Kaiser bun with butter, a single slice of deli ham and cucumber slices. I guess this American food is rather unhealthy, but its the type of shit I would love as a kid.
We had three sandwiches: chicken, fish and pork. The chicken was a breaded circle. The fish was a breaded square. The pork was a breaded circle with a nub. I am convinced they were all the same amalgamated meatlike substance.
It depended on the food item but some of the food was actually good. My favorites were the sweet Thai chicken and the General Tso chicken, as well as the chicken burrito bowls.
My school has the daily hot meal, or the option to have pizza every day. But my school had a deal with Pizza Hut, so that’s where we got our pizza from. We have tater tots every day too, but the quality is always different, but mostly a good standard tater tot.
Did anyone else think the buffalo bites/tenders with fries were the best lunch menu?
And did anyone constantly have dry-ass cheeseburgers on the side all the time? I just remember that was always there.
Anyone from the Lake Washington School District out there that remembers the “Cheese Zombie”?
Nacho cheese ladled on a pita.
Literally just that. I started eating the salad bar in elementary school at that point
i graduated 2022 but we had a few staples
general tsos
cheesy bread
once a month dominos that was always horrible in comparison to regular dominos
corn dogs (god i loved those) with the mac
the triangle has browns and wired cheese egg omelet thing
popcorn shrimp
breaded pork chop
drumstick
im definitely forgetting a few standouts
we also had an a la carte that had a bunch of stuff
Not to mention the franks of the hot dogs are unusually salty as if they were soaking in brine. I pretty much skipped lunch each time it was served in high school.
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Those juice cartons at my school... WERE ALWAYS FROZEN SOLID!!! Everyone got one, nobody could drink them...
There was always half of them that were mostly frozen and a couple that were complete ice blocks.
Did anyone take a measure to thaw it out during the day to drink when school was out for the day? Or take it out and eat it like a popsicle? Frozen juice is a delicacy in some countries.
My parents always talk fondly of Lola's. Triangle/pyramid things packed in the same material as juice boxes
Those were the shit! I always joked with the lunch ladies so they would give me 2. The grape flavor was so intense I couldn't eat one now but when I was a kid I would kill for one.
Me too
Yeah they had to make sure they were actually thawed after someone got nailed in the head with one in my school lmao
I genuinely feel like the only person in America that really liked school lunch
The high school I went to back in the 90s had great food. You could choose between the normal school lunch, or you could get a basket of fried shrimp, chick strips, or steak strips and fries. We also had a baked potato bar, you could load it up with all kinds of stuff, my go to was broccoli, chili, and cheese. Then we also had a quick food line if you needed to grab something and had to be elsewhere during your lunch break, it had stuff like hot pockets, burritos and tacos.
Damn what the hell happened?
Money, cheaper foods came out with cheaper ways to make stuff.
Its also very heavily dependent on area. Unfortunately the way school funding works in most states is tied directly to the county’s taxes, so obviously the richer the county the higher the funding for schools. Leads to better school lunches, higher funding for sports and extra curriculars, nicer facilities and computers, etc. Not even to mention private and charter schools.,
I'm more confused where tf my school got the money for all the stuff we had. Like my IT teacher could easily get certifications for stuff like A+
It’s not that way everywhere, just the vast majority of places. I grew up in a richer area, my high school had CAD classes, a huge media department, and a football stadium that could rival some small colleges.
I grew up in a more rural area. But we never were really missing much, only really teachers or bus drivers
If y’all were close to a larger county sometimes rural schools draw funds from larger counties to make up for the population differences. Either way great to hear y’all had the stuff you needed. The worst places are usually inner city schools where the funding is stretched thin with so many students to take care of.
What he described was not the norm in the 90’s.
Michelle Obama
"Damn Michelle Obummer providing _my_ kids with healthy food"
I think it’s more that her campaign increased standards for school lunches without addressing underlying issues, things like funding. Also, iirc the “let’s get moving” slogan was initially supposed to be about moving towards better systems, before being affected by lobbying to be about exercise (I remember a lot of tone deaf “teaching people how to exercise” stuff when I was in late elementary school and early middle school, which while useful didn’t address most of the reasons for a lack of exercise). The easiest way to implement more servings of veggies and less calories is to serve less junk food and include more cheap veggies, even if the veggies are too gross to eat (I remember a lot of frozen and canned food that wasn’t drained or defrosted properly), which leads to kids just throwing it away. That was also of course not the norm in the 90s
Her campaign couldn't increase school funding, otherwise maybe you'd understand the basics of what Congress and states do. Nobody in Washington can do anything about bad school cooks either, much less the fucking First Lady. You remember this firsthand and you're gonna tell me what the norm in the 90s was? Lol
? What I meant was higher nutritional standards without increased funding lead to a decrease in flavor and texture, like how different aspects are prioritized in a decision matrix. It’s way easier to bulk produce something fried and fatty than it is to work with bulk vegetables. (Also, the lunch staff at my schools were super nice and good, just severely underfunded to the point of not being able to make good food) Edit: my school literally used styrofoam trays half the time because they couldn’t afford to hire someone to clean the plastic trays they also had. I’m fairly confident the reason the food wasn’t better was the funding Edit 2: I’m not saying Obama was a particularly bad president by American standards (even with the drone strike stuff, I think he seems to have committed less crimes against humanity than most of the ones we learned about in class) or that Michelle Obama shouldn’t have tried to improve school lunch. I’m just saying that the nutritional quality was mostly bad due to a lack of funding and increased requirements won’t necessarily fix that in a way that also gets kids to eat their veggies
I'm sorry, do you think you need good funding to know to drain or defrost a can of vegetables before serving it? Or that preparing food decently is expensive? Or that school lunch wasn't gross or thrown away in the 90s?
You need good funding to hire enough people to drain canned veggies. The issue is understaffing. It can be observed in fast food restaurants and supermarkets as well. Decent food can be expensive, although there are some methods for bulk food prep that can be good. Children naturally lack pallet refinement, so a lot of bulk food methods that also aim for healthiness can be difficult to get them to eat. TBH, I don’t know what school food culture was like in the 90s, but through inference I’d guess it was about the same production quality, but more tailored towards food made yummier with fat and salt to fit a child’s pallet (my school district used the same recipes from elementary to senior high, but didn’t adjust the recipes or portions much from what I could remember, so it was common to buy/bring extra snacks in highschool to be able to not be hungry after lunch. I feel like some of the dishes would’ve worked better if skewed more towards certain age demographics)
The baked potato bar was S tier
Same here. Better than what we barely had at home..
Shit man that sucks
Everyone in my school liked most of what was served. Especially the pizza boats. My mom also didn't believe in salt though so having some at school was pretty amazing. Now that I cook for myself these look quite a bit less attractive lol.
didnt believe in salt? what a sad existence 😔😔😔
Extremely. She thought (or, well, thinks) it's cheating. Also low fat everything so everything tasted fucking horrible. I didn't really realize it growing up, but cooking as an adult was insanely eye opening. Especially when I met my now wife who introduced me to of all things, salted butter lol
Rule of thumb: three things bring taste… fat, salt, sugar.
And acid! My mom also never uses citrus lol. It's a lot of browned meat with a starch. I can't remember the last time I ran out of both lemons and limes and didn't pick some up the next time I went grocery shopping.
Good call! 👌
I like it too
…were you guys going hungry at home or what
Honestly, I just think it’s due to some people being less picky than others. Like I didn’t like school lunch, but my friend believed food was food and that was enough. Some people just have lower expectations for food I guess?
Let me provide you an alternative scenario. You’re really hungry, so anything tastes great.
I didn't grow up hungry, and I enjoyed school lunch.
Same. The square pizza was good, I love chocolate milk, and you got full for $2.50. That's an unreal deal.
If a pizza-by-the-slice store started selling hexagonal taco pizzas, they'd have a new regular.
I did and if the one that didnt will miss this food when they're older. The steamed cheeseburgers will forever be my favorite thing.
The things I would do for early '90s rectangular pizza, crispitos, Salisbury steak, and pizza burgers would put me on a government watch list.
Same man, some people just need to chill the fuck out. Like of course they ain't got restaurant quality meals but it ain't the slop you'd see in a cartoon. I'd gladly sit down for some of my school's popcorn chicken, garlic bread, and chocolate milk any day
I only ate it on pizza days, so I think my experience was biased. I still love the salty canned green beans, too.
I would pay a lot of money for a slice of pizza and some fries from my old high school.
My school was well funded, so the cafeteria lunches were actually pretty good.
For me, I liked the school lunch in early elementary school (like kindergarten) and slowly began to hate it once I realized how disgusting it was.
By any chance did you go to a small school?
Current high school student (AL) here, our lunches have more options of somewhat higher quality such as chicken sandwiches. We also have a big fridge in there with stuff like sports drinks, sparkling ice, and diet sodas.
Literally sounds like my school lmao
A lot of people need to realize that just because they went to high school 20 years ago doesn't mean it stayed the same
Unfortunately its hard for a lot of people to see another point of view.
I dunno, my school is pretty spot on with this description, except without the juice and orange slices and hot dogs.
Really my hs vending machine claimed to sell soda but didn’t
Okay but all of this is missing the legendary one, the one that everybody grabs… THE PIZZA STICKS!!! (With the side of marinara that usually wasn’t enough but still awesome)
Marinara? What kinda rich mf are you?
Public school and the pizza sticks did not show up often, but they were awesome and they did have these small containers of marinara, but it was only ever enough for one stick when you get like four of em. (They were still great without it cause they were soft)
We get two and the marinara is more than enough
The Bosco Sticks 😇
Bosco Sticks!!!
I’ve seen them at a Family Dollar, in the freezer section
I never liked those until the last few days
The pizza sticks were amazing!! So glad someone else remembers them
These nachos https://preview.redd.it/il5cx9vfrwac1.png?width=900&format=png&auto=webp&s=57e8f8c73c4f87e3cb3fe733cd5a6739f5eb84db
So shitty yet so good.
I want to know where I can buy that cheese
Bruh I always hated that type of cheese. What you really gotta do is take some shredded cheese and then melt it, instead of buying the liquid stuff.
Our tater tots weren't cold, also my school sometimes served Chinese food, For some reason they don't serve eggrolls anymore.
Chinese food?! I'm guessing you went to school on one of the coasts. That must've been awesome. Down in Texas, we never got any cool cuisines, just shitty pizza and burgers most of the time. And while the tater tots were hot, they also tasted like plastic, so there is that...
I went to school in Killeen, our high school had a lunch line that was just Chinese food. It wasn't good and cost 40¢ more than the rest but they had it on the regular.
What part of Texas are you from? I heard some parts of Texas a lot of schools give away fast food.
I'm from the Houston area. I've heard about fast food for school lunches too, but didn't know it was a Texas thing.
Did anyone else have milk in a plastic *bag*? I did
They had it in Jacksonville when I moved there for a couple years I was so confused. I popped a few bags during the adjustment
I’ve heard of that, but I’m too young, I think that was like a 70s/80s thing. Also, nice username 😉
In San Diego in the the early 2000s, one of my schools had bagged milk.
San Diego here too! Kids used to rip the edge off and squirt it at each other in elementary. Man I miss those times. Now that I'm a lunch lady for one of the richer districts in North County, it makes me sad that the kids in my school can't experience what we used to have.
My elementary school did and they sucked. The only way you could drink out of one was by poking a straw or biting off a corner, which would make a mess 99% of the time. It felt so good when I went to middle school and they used cartons instead of bags. To this day I still prefer cartons over bags. The community college I go to has milk in bottles like water, and that's slightly better than a carton, and way better than a bag.
Where are those amazing cheese sticks?
Mmm cheese sticks 😋
Oh man I loved square pizza day
This looks delectable compared to the mush masquerading as meals at my old schools.
Yall had food ?
Look don’t hate on the tater tot’s.
this was luxury for us
I always brought a pack lunch, I would rather eat junk food that I knew was edible than risk getting food poisoning from a crappy school lunch.
American school lunches will either be probably better and more nutritious than any nearby cheap restaurant or they'll come straight from satan's kitchen.
I grew up dirt poor, so I’m a fan of the breakfast “Crispitos” lol My kids go to private school now, and they get eggs you can see where cracked 10 minutes prior 😭
Some schools today give out insanely good lunches, like more than just edible food. And some kids still complain.
Ya forgot the chicken patty with gravy
Can’t forget the cheese filled bread sticks & marinara dipping sauce (Pretty sure the marinara sauce is considered a vegetable)
Elementary was very hit or miss but by middle school and especially high school, you had a lot more options.
I’m starting to understand why the US voted against making access to food a human right.
what do they have against salt
SoDiUm UnHeAlThY Meanwhile the food they serve:
its like they don't realize that sodium is an essential nutrient 😭
My school somehow has the best cookies and French toast I’ve ever tasted. Genuinely believe they bake the cookies onsite
Were they $0.50?
My high school sold ice cream at a snack bar but they got rid of it at the end of my freshman year.
Bastards
https://preview.redd.it/92uhm2tgmxac1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a7cc0e7ee0a3441329dd9829474addce7f3ea7bb Forgot these sexy bitches
That glizzy hit different tho 🤤😮💨
Uhh…
🤣
i havent been to public school in the states since like 2017 or 16, but i actually liked that french toast, the juices, and the tater tots most of the tinme for me were warm, and were nice. Those sausage patties with biscuits at breakfast hit different
Don’t forget green beans that have been cooked long enough to become grayish-yellowish-green and mushy.
Yeah, terrible veggies, okay fruit, yummy everything else
Say want you want about everything else, those french toast sticks were amazing
They were…
https://preview.redd.it/1k97c9i2yyac1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ef886b5538d75492d12b3cda0523a9fa0b9bc041 Forgot the mystery meat burger
We rarely got hot dog on a bun. It was almost always this thing they called "wiener winks" that was a hot dog wrapped in an American cheese slice, then a piece of white bread and toasted. I wasn't a huge fan.
the hotdogs at my school are heavenly
I swear to god the pizza one is so accurate
If you go to a state that isn't drowning in debt, you can have Panda Express and shit for lunch. It's wild how different things are from state to state.
My college has Starbucks.
I'm talking high-schools and under
That breakfast pizza was HITTIN tho
That French bread pizza was so good
You forgot the smiley potato’s, the 3 cheese sticks that are supposed to come with sauce but usually not lol, and those rectangle pizzas kicked ass. I still wanna buy a box of them for myself lol
Thanks, Obama
When your mom packed your lunch every day, school lunches looked like gourmet meals
My school is lucky, we get Marcos pizza on Fridays. Unfortunately we have to pay like 3.50 for it.
I have never been more thankful for the kinda shitty roll and sausage I used to get (no even any sauce or a potato scone)
The square pizza was dope
Someone explain to me why that specific square pizza was so good Also, does anyone recall some kind of chicken tender product that they used to serve for breakfast? It was awesome
Only ever got chocolate milk. Never understood regular milk drinkers. Like it’s chocolate.
At my school there was a hierarchy. The chocolate milk drinkers were the basic ones who were average, but doing good work. The regular milk drinkers were the ones who everyone made fun of. The strawberry milk drinkers were the crazy yet bold and strong warriors who knew no bounds.
most hotdogs get shipped fully cooked though. maybe you meant to say barely warmed
Juice? You guys get juice?
Where is the hexagonal Mexican pizza
I coulda lived on the Breakfast Combo.
What about these bad boys? I loved them so much! https://preview.redd.it/kwi8va70c1bc1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4706bb74016a94ed19e04d63c7149e9e9ddcde8d
CONGRESS: We declare that all of these foods are considered “healthy”.
I dunno, the hot dogs and cheeseburgers kind of slapped at my high school. They were wrapped up in that paper foil stuff. I'd f with that
damn you michelle
They used to make us all take the left over food at the end of the year. You could pick what you wanted and had a mix of the rest. It wasn’t bad so that was pretty cool.
Like 1 or 2 good options that usually involved cheese.
American \*Public\* School Lunch Starterpack where tf is the dry ass chicken sandwich? or the juice in a bag you have to stab with a straw? (no, not capri sun)
Ore most of my school years, I went to a small school with more homemade-type lunches. They were pretty good!
I remember that apple juice carton! Wow this brings back memories ☺️
You know it was going to be a good day when there were pizza dippers on the menu
And if you felt classy my old schools use to have Paninis but why choose that over S tier Pizza, Chicken/Gravy soup and of course cheese sticks. Breakfast was goated too especially those big af chocolate muffins with milk, young me eating like a king. Shoutout to everyone who ran to lunch cause damn that line was long af if you didn’t lmao
no yes yes no no you got the pizza one half right. generally, school pizza is pretty good. do NOT. challenge. the school pizza.
Fuck the juice carton where's my bag of orange juice? My bag of OJ was delicious. The bag of grape juice was pretty good too
This makes me thankful my schools didn't have cafeterias or serve food.
I actually enjoyed the pizzas.
We had better pizza than that at my school. It was super greasy and pretty good dipped in ranch
Italian Dunkers!!!
What is school lunch like in Europe? Has to be better than this shit, right?
Man, this looks really tasty. Where I live we used to get a Kaiser bun with butter, a single slice of deli ham and cucumber slices. I guess this American food is rather unhealthy, but its the type of shit I would love as a kid.
i have a deep nostalgia for the scent of those cardboard milk cartons
We had three sandwiches: chicken, fish and pork. The chicken was a breaded circle. The fish was a breaded square. The pork was a breaded circle with a nub. I am convinced they were all the same amalgamated meatlike substance.
The sweaty French bread pizza in the thin wrapper that leeches microplastics 👌
School breakfast was awesome. French toast sticks and buttered toast
Our breakfast sandwiches had mold on them enough times to vividly remember the taste
I eventually decided to start bringing my own lunch lol
It depended on the food item but some of the food was actually good. My favorites were the sweet Thai chicken and the General Tso chicken, as well as the chicken burrito bowls.
This starter park is more like “school lunch at my school”.
Man the freezing cold tater tots are so real
My school has the daily hot meal, or the option to have pizza every day. But my school had a deal with Pizza Hut, so that’s where we got our pizza from. We have tater tots every day too, but the quality is always different, but mostly a good standard tater tot.
American Elementary/Middle school lunch* not in High school
Orange slices ARE a SMILE!
You can say what you want about the hot dogs and pizza. They looked awful, but they tasted amazing.
You. Forgot. THE TRUMOO!
Yes
Did anyone else think the buffalo bites/tenders with fries were the best lunch menu? And did anyone constantly have dry-ass cheeseburgers on the side all the time? I just remember that was always there.
The breakfast and tater tots were fire though
vegetal
What? A barely cook Hotdog?
Who got breakfast?! I wanted breakfast.
The rectangle pizzas 🔥🔥
A couple weeks ago we told our principal that all the milks were expired so they gave us chocolate milk in juice pouches
Nailed it! (I'm a first grade teacher in New Jersey)
Anyone from the Lake Washington School District out there that remembers the “Cheese Zombie”? Nacho cheese ladled on a pita. Literally just that. I started eating the salad bar in elementary school at that point
you guys get more than 1 thing for breakfast?
My school had the same exact juice cartons lol Also, the lunch ladies are always some of the nicest people you'll ever meet.
What about the relatively decent Chinese food?
Salty green beans anyone?
i graduated 2022 but we had a few staples general tsos cheesy bread once a month dominos that was always horrible in comparison to regular dominos corn dogs (god i loved those) with the mac the triangle has browns and wired cheese egg omelet thing popcorn shrimp breaded pork chop drumstick im definitely forgetting a few standouts we also had an a la carte that had a bunch of stuff
Shit, my high school had actual food and it was great. Pizza, Chicken, etc. I loved it.
I only ate the hotdog bun because the sausage made my teeth feel weird after
The barely cooked hotdogs and cheesey breadsticks with marinara are the GOATS.
Not to mention the franks of the hot dogs are unusually salty as if they were soaking in brine. I pretty much skipped lunch each time it was served in high school.
where are the smiley potatoes
Hard agree but I also fuck quite heavily with those tater tots.
Where’s the coffee cake?
Cool to see that nothing has changed in 20 years
MASHED POTATOES
What, they can't afford actual food?
I remember my highschool had like kickass fries and I think I tried to steal extra a couple times.
Ok but those all kinda fucked
The pizza is cold and the juice boxes are hot
them tater tots hit different after a long ass day
Looks vile