# "Cafeteria school lunch" pizza from the 80's. Can an individual get this anywhere? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 4, 2018, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cafeteria-school-lunch-pizza-from-the-80s-can-an-individual-get-this-anywhere/825550 "2018-12-04T15:05:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2018, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cafeteria-school-lunch-pizza-from-the-80s-can-an-individual-get-this-anywhere/825550/61 "2018-12-05T13:46:30Z")
in the 70s in NC in junior high we had wonder bread topped with american cheese slice and a meat sauce. In high school we got rectangular slices that were a little better. ---
**Author:** ![Balthisar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/balthisar/32/2825_2.png) [@Balthisar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balthisar)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2018, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cafeteria-school-lunch-pizza-from-the-80s-can-an-individual-get-this-anywhere/825550/62 "2018-12-05T14:16:43Z")
Does anyone else remember the pizza crust having holes evenly spread throughout it? As if the dough were docked. I remember that distinctly. I don’t have fond memories of elementary or intermediate school pizza at all, except in the sense that it was better than the hamburgers, chicken burgers, and hotdogs we would otherwise get. Tater tots were always awesome, though. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2018, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cafeteria-school-lunch-pizza-from-the-80s-can-an-individual-get-this-anywhere/825550/63 "2018-12-05T14:23:38Z")
\*\* > [@](#): > > I don’t care if you find it revolting, I LOVED it and have a huge hankering for it. \*\* When I taught, the school I was at had that kind of pizza once a week. As a staff member, you could purchase a school lunch, and I always bought that pizza! LOL ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2018, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cafeteria-school-lunch-pizza-from-the-80s-can-an-individual-get-this-anywhere/825550/64 "2018-12-05T19:24:26Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > This Catholic school boy never got the cool lunch pizza, but that pic looks like Totino’s PARTY! Pizza. I was going to say the same thing - the Totino’s Party Pizza is the closest thing I’ve seen. The important part is that the sausage isn’t in chunks; it’s ground up fine, and is listed in the ingredients as “pork topping”, not “sausage”. ---
**Author:** ![Ashtura](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ashtura/32/2963_2.png) [@Ashtura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashtura)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2018, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cafeteria-school-lunch-pizza-from-the-80s-can-an-individual-get-this-anywhere/825550/65 "2018-12-06T17:16:35Z")
> [@Balthisar](#): > > Does anyone else remember the pizza crust having holes evenly spread throughout it? As if the dough were docked. I remember that distinctly. Yes, I remember that. Pinholes every inch or so. Anyways I bought some Ellios last night. It has the wrong type of pepperoni (round), but I will report the results when I can. I’ll get some Totinos too probably. ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2018, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cafeteria-school-lunch-pizza-from-the-80s-can-an-individual-get-this-anywhere/825550/66 "2018-12-06T18:28:00Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > This Catholic school boy never got the cool lunch pizza, but that pic looks like Totino’s PARTY! Pizza. Totino’s Party Pizza is my secret shame. I can’t say no to them, at all… ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2018, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cafeteria-school-lunch-pizza-from-the-80s-can-an-individual-get-this-anywhere/825550/67 "2018-12-06T18:38:47Z")
> [@Kron](#): > > Totino’s Party Pizza is my secret shame. I can’t say no to them, at all… I love those things! That and spaghetti got me through the vast majority of my 20s. They definitely shrunk significantly at one point; they used to fill the box but suddenly one day there was a lot of wiggle room in there, and now they’re rectangular pizzas packaged in a bag. I sort of prefer them to be round, but they still taste the same. ---
**Author:** ![BenedictusXIV](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b19c9b/32.png) [@BenedictusXIV](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BenedictusXIV)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2018, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cafeteria-school-lunch-pizza-from-the-80s-can-an-individual-get-this-anywhere/825550/68 "2018-12-07T16:20:26Z")
You can’t argue taste, but I would say melt anything from Wisconsin over a crust of old bread with some bifi salami and spam and you should relive your childhood culinary highlights. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2018, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cafeteria-school-lunch-pizza-from-the-80s-can-an-individual-get-this-anywhere/825550/69 "2018-12-08T20:27:10Z")
> [@DSYoungEsq](#): > > I ate that pizza daily at lunch all three years of high school in the mid-70s. Oh, the memories. Usually accompanied by a box of chocolate milk, and either a Cherry Hostess fruit pie or one of those absolutely wonderful “fudge drop” desserts. 😃 I didn’t care for school pizza all that much back then (Orlando’s, the local storefront pizzeria, was much more to my liking), but Hostess fruit pies were the absolute gold standard when it came to lunchtime trading. Man, you could _anything_ for a HFP. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cafeteria-school-lunch-pizza-from-the-80s-can-an-individual-get-this-anywhere/825550/70 "2018-12-11T00:40:26Z")
I loved it. At my school we had “pizza” and then we had “tostadas” which was just the pizza with leftover taco meat instead of the sausage or pepperoni. I remember the first time I ordered a tostada at a Mexican restaurant… it was the WORST! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cafeteria-school-lunch-pizza-from-the-80s-can-an-individual-get-this-anywhere/825550.md?page=3)