What was your favorite school made lunch? Mine was a Salad. from the Salad Bar.

[debm55]

[eShirl]

1. pigs in a blanket, hands down

they used some kind of handmade yeast roll dough, and regular hotdogs that cooked sealed inside

[debm55]

4. Thank you eShirl, I remember them.

[brush]

2. Welcome back. Mine was mashed potatoe scoops with brown gravy with ground beef bits.

[SARose]

3. Meat loaf, mashed potatoes, green beans, roll

With chocolate pudding for dessert.

This would be my last meal. I love it!

[debm55]

6. Thank you very much brush.

[hueymahl]

5. Rectangle pizza

Would get two on those days, plus two whole milks.

[debm55]

8. Thank you very much hueymahl.

[hlthe2b]

7. Salad Bar? I wish. We had cooked meals but they sort of resemble that fed prisoners--

everyone gets the same from someone pretty much "slopping it out." I guess because it was home-cooked there, it might have been healthier than one might imagine, but it didn't seem very appetizing. So the home-packed sandwiches looked a lot better.

[debm55]

9. HAHAHAHAHAHAH, U was starting to look like a rabbit and began taking my own sandwiches.. Thank you hlthe2b.

[Beatlelvr]

11. Same here

Not much healthy stuff in late 50s and 60s. Mostly grilled cheese sandwiches and hot dogs.

[Diamond_Dog]

10. You had a salad bar in the school cafeteria??? Wow.

When I was in high school you could buy French fries and a slushy for lunch if you didn’t like what was being served that day. Eventually some parents complained so they got rid of those.

The only thing to me that was palatable was the tomato soup and grilled cheese. I packed my lunch most days.

[pandr32]

12. We had hot cheese buns in our Canadian school.

Cheddar, of course. They were crisp on the outside and tender inside with melted cheddar. I adored them. Also, we never bleached flour as in the U.S. then.
It is nice to see you posting, debm55. I hope you are feeling better.

[Paladin]

13. Wednesday Mexican food lunch, Texas public schools.

One of the big reasons there are so many Texans who are Mexican food addicts---yours truly, very much included...

[sorcrow]

14. Chicken croquettes with gravy

Either that or burritos

Best regards,
Sorghum Crow

[Dorothy V]

15. Thank goodness for my lunchbox!

Being an Air Force Brat, I went to nine different schools in twelve years. The best school food was in Arizona, and if the cafeteria meal of the day didn't look good, they had a snack bar. Good burritos.
The worst was California. They put tuna where tuna never belonged. Nothing smelled or looked right. To this day I can't abide the smell of tuna cooking. Then there was something I reckon was supposed to be beef stroganoff. Whatever it was, it was gray. All of it, the meat, the sauce, the noodles. Ugh!

So happy you're back! Hope every day finds you feeling better!
Thanks again for the dmail!

[KitFox]

16. Yay! You're back! I hope this means you are feeling much better!

Chili and cornbread. Though I usually brought lunch or went home for lunch. Keep resting and take special care!😊🩷

[mwmisses4289]

17. Welcome back! Fish sticks, maybe? Don't remember that I had a particular favorite.

Do have a funny story about school lunch. One year in high school, my brother and I had the same lunch period, and since we had several friends in common, we gathered around one of the larger round tables in the cafeteria commons. This particular day, dessert had been several choices of which chocolate pudding was one. Of course, all of us being chocoholics, we had all grabbed some. My brother was joking around about something, stuck his spoon in the bowl of pudding and turned it upside down. Several of us said his name in exasperation, as we were expecting the pudding to fall and make a mess. Imagine our surprise and consternation when the pudding stayed in the bowl! Its looked rather like an umbrella, lol. We stared at it for few minutes, then we all pushed our bowls to the edge of our trays. Needless to say, we never got lunchroom chocolate pudding after that!

[catbyte]

18. I can't remember any "good' lunches, lol, but I remember the bad ones.

Greasy hamburger gravy over wallpaper paste, er, "mashed potatoes," along with mushy things that used to be vegetables. That's where my hatred of canned vegetables began. Fishy "fish" sticks with soggy french fries. Blech. Actually, I usually brought my lunch because my dad made the best bread on the planet. By the time I got to high school, we'd skip out and go to the Dairy Queen just across the football field for loose meat sandwiches, burgers, etc., which were usually less than buying a lunch ticket.

So glad you're back!

[OldBaldy1701E]

19. Hamburgers!

They had a 'hot lunch' each day, but also had the usual 'grill' type stuff... hamburgers, hotdogs, fish sandwiches, French fries, grilled cheese, etc. Oh, and a soup of some kind.

[ProfessorGAC]

20. Good Question

No cafeteria in grade school (all bag lunch).
We had a really good cafeteria in HS.
I guess the grilled cheese sandwiches with tomato soup, or the beef stew, or the burgers were the best.
No salad bar, but they did put fresh tomato slices on the burgers.

[Wicked Blue]

21. Mac and cheese with stewed tomatoes at my high school

I figured out how to make something very close to it, and my family loves it.

[Doc_Technical]

22. No cafeteria in High School

We had vending Machines.
I always brown-bagged it.