My junior high school cafeteria served the world's best rolls

Cafe Society
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What alternative universe did you all grow up in? The high school I went to, part of the Buffalo public school system, had traditional lunch ladies (humorless, stocky, homely German-American women in their late 50s and early 60s), and food even the British would find terribly bland. The thoery regarding the cafeteria’s pizza was that it was shipped in from Canada – if you grew up in Buffalo, and experinced pizza on both sides of the border, you’d understand.

One of the on-campus restaurants at Buff State served incredible chicken wings, though.

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The high school didn’t have cinnamon rolls, but the junior high did. Only it wasn’t for lunch it was for ‘nutrition’: a break after the second class, midmorning. There were two kinds, traditional round cinnamon and a kind of strudelish square roll, baked in big sheets and cut.

Both were extremely well-iced and sweet. But you had to run to get far enough up in the line to get one before nutrition was over. It was a short break.

If anyone knows the recipe(s), don’t tell me. It would be deadly. Those things were huge.