# School Lunch, what do you miss? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 26, 2007, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/school-lunch-what-do-you-miss/389492 "2007-01-26T00:38:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Epimetheus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c4cdca/32.png) [@Epimetheus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Epimetheus)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2007, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/school-lunch-what-do-you-miss/389492/81 "2007-01-27T16:07:43Z")
[QUOTE=StuffLikeThatThere] And I really like that stupid plain cheese pizza that comes in rectangular slices. I know it’s not gourmet cooking, but I really used to love pizza days. [/QUOTE] Oh, I loved those! We used to fold em in half and dip em in Ketchup! MMMM. Haven’t found any little pizzas that are half as good as I remember them. ---
**Author:** ![badkittypriestess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8baadc/32.png) [@badkittypriestess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badkittypriestess)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2007, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/school-lunch-what-do-you-miss/389492/82 "2007-01-27T16:38:13Z")
[QUOTE=Kalhoun] Help is just an Ebay purchase away! [http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?from=R40&satitle=vintage+lunchboxes](http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?from=R40&satitle=vintage+lunchboxes) [/QUOTE] Thanks shweetie! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kitchen\_Wench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f08c70/32.png) [@Kitchen\_Wench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kitchen_Wench)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2007, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/school-lunch-what-do-you-miss/389492/83 "2007-01-27T16:44:54Z")
Ok, we really need to find out who supplied those rectangle pizzas. I looked on the Sysco website and they don’t have anything like them. Unfortunately, I don’t know of any other vendor names. Along with the rectangle pizza, I loved the “Mexican Pizza.” Same soft crust as the rectangles, but it was cut into a hexagon, had some kind of meat/sauce substance on it and was covered with cheddar cheese. That was yum. In elementary school, my favorites were chili served with carrot & celery sticks, one cheese stick and a killer home made cinnamon roll. We also ate awesome mac & cheese (I think it was Stouffer’s) served with little smokies, some kind of veg & a fruit. Chicken patties, mashed potatoes and that flourescent yellow gravy already mentioned were always a hit. Then of course there was chicken fried steak & mashers. We also had corn dogs, and not-so-hamburger hamburgers with tots. The last year of my elementary school career, the cafeteria implemented a self-serve table. We’d pick up our tray with the main part of our lunch and walked to a salad bar type table to dish out our own vegetables and fruits. I suppose this cut down on waste. I was one of the few kids who’d actually stop to get a serving of tossed salad, peas, mixed veggies, cooked-to-mush carrots and spinach from a can. None of the “cool” kids ate veggies, though. God forbid a student to drop his or her tray-- the applause from fellow students could make one want to melt into the floor from embarassment. Oh, and we had one lunch lady who walked around the gym/cafeteria with a slightly bleachy smelling cloth to wipe up milk spills, help us with stubborn banana peels & occasionally ushering off a puker to the nurse’s office. Her name was Virginia. Sweet old lady. ---
**Author:** ![badkittypriestess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8baadc/32.png) [@badkittypriestess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badkittypriestess)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2007, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/school-lunch-what-do-you-miss/389492/84 "2007-01-27T16:50:21Z")
Looking at ebay for the lunch boxes is sooo much fun!!! Thanks Kalhoun! ---
**Author:** ![Epimetheus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c4cdca/32.png) [@Epimetheus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Epimetheus)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2007, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/school-lunch-what-do-you-miss/389492/85 "2007-01-27T23:18:50Z")
[QUOTE=Kitchen Wench] Ok, we really need to find out who supplied those rectangle pizzas. I looked on the Sysco website and they don’t have anything like them. Unfortunately, I don’t know of any other vendor names. [/QUOTE] [These](http://www.nardonebros.com/Products/~rectangle.html) are pretty close. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2007, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/school-lunch-what-do-you-miss/389492/86 "2007-01-27T23:40:06Z")
[QUOTE=Kitchen Wench] Ok, we really need to find out who supplied those rectangle pizzas. I looked on the Sysco website and they don’t have anything like them. Unfortunately, I don’t know of any other vendor names. [/QUOTE] I made another call to my mother, and she said that the brand of pizza they buy is called Tony’s and they get it from a supplier called [Martins Brothers](http://www.martinsnet.com/). I think [this](http://www.tonys.com/) is the pizza, as they say they were one of the first companies to provide pizza to schools on the brand history page. I don’t know how the pizza available in the grocery stores compares to the stuff served at school. She said it is most definitely not Tony Roma pizza, though. ---
**Author:** ![zoogirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9bd4f/32.png) [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2007, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/school-lunch-what-do-you-miss/389492/87 "2007-02-07T07:58:22Z")
[QUOTE=winterhawk11] I’ve got one with Alice Cooper on it that I’d let you have cheap. I don’t think he counts as a superhero, though. At least not for most people. 🙂 [/QUOTE] How much is cheap?! :eek: (frantically searches change purse…) Do you take Canadian Tire money?! ---
**Author:** ![MovingTarget](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/edb3f5/32.png) [@MovingTarget](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovingTarget)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2007, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/school-lunch-what-do-you-miss/389492/88 "2007-02-07T14:00:07Z")
> [@](#): > > originally posted by **BluMoon** > Back in elementary school we had delicious hashbrown potato cakes. You can get these at Arby’s. They call them potato cakes. I still love these things. I wish I could find where my school bought their pans of pizza. Good god I miss that pizza. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2007, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/school-lunch-what-do-you-miss/389492/89 "2007-02-07T14:34:31Z")
[QUOTE=Snipe1978] You can get these at Arby’s. They call them potato cakes. I still love these things. I wish I could find where my school bought their pans of pizza. Good god I miss that pizza. [/QUOTE] My Mom was able to buy cases of that, in the 70’s, in the Waukesha/Pewaukee area. Some kind of generic/outlet grocery. ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2007, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/school-lunch-what-do-you-miss/389492/90 "2007-02-07T16:53:19Z")
We didn’t have a cafeteria until I reached high school but we’d have hot dog days - you pre-ordered them from the room mom’s and then once every few months they’d have a hot dog day. They always tasted special… ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2007, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/school-lunch-what-do-you-miss/389492/91 "2007-02-07T17:10:41Z")
Apparently, I’m not the only one who loved that pizza. I’d always eat all the cheese in one bite (using a fork, of course), and then scrape off the tomato sauce, eat that, and then roll up the remainder and dip it in my ketchup/mayo mixture that I had for my fries. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Tonya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/4491bb/32.png) [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2007, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/school-lunch-what-do-you-miss/389492/92 "2007-02-07T21:47:06Z")
I was reading this thread the other day and got nostalgic for this yummy casserole my junior high used to serve. Figured I’d try it at home and while the boyfriend gave me a dubious look, my fourteen year old loved it. Maybe you just have to be the right age to appreciate it? I made it as close an approximation as I could remember, browned hamburger mixed with green beans and corn and mushroom soup and a little milk, topped with cheese and then covered in the flat roundy tater tots. Turned out almost exactly the same as I remember it, little cheese oozies squeezing up between the round tater tots, yum! ---
**Author:** ![According\_to\_Pliny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@According\_to\_Pliny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/According_to_Pliny)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2007, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/school-lunch-what-do-you-miss/389492/93 "2007-02-07T22:08:53Z")
I never ate the school lunch. I brought my own jelly sandwiches. School lunch was always either “meatloaf swirl” (meatloaf and bread swirled together) or “turkey- spaghetti tetrazzini” ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2010, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/school-lunch-what-do-you-miss/389492/94 "2010-11-29T11:18:24Z")
Damn, I really feel out of place, my cafeteria might have been one of the best in the country. Our lunches were often from scratch and with TLC… Hamburegr, Chicken, and TurkeyGravy obver mashed otatoes, chili, celery, and cornbread, Fish Sandwich and Ketchup. BBQ and pickles. Johnny Marzetti, and Hamburgers with relsih Corn dogs and mustard and ketchup… ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2010, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/school-lunch-what-do-you-miss/389492/95 "2010-11-29T11:19:26Z")
Great chocolate cake and brownies. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2010, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/school-lunch-what-do-you-miss/389492/96 "2010-11-29T11:36:00Z")
The [cheese zombie](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=8191312#post8191312) is back. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Onimous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2010, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/school-lunch-what-do-you-miss/389492/97 "2010-11-29T13:41:09Z")
This looks like a fun thread. Please don’t zombify it. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2010, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/school-lunch-what-do-you-miss/389492/98 "2010-11-29T14:41:24Z")
Oh, yes. Johnny Marzetti and Hollywood Squares. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Onimous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2010, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/school-lunch-what-do-you-miss/389492/99 "2010-11-29T15:59:15Z")
Our high school had three food lines. One line was the regular lunch, which I went through when we had liver. I loved their liver. The third line was cold food: sandwiches, chips, ice cream, and the like. The second line, though, was my favorite. Hamburgers. For $2 a day, I got a cheeseburger, a double order of fries, and a glass of sweet tea. That was the best school lunch ever, ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2010, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/school-lunch-what-do-you-miss/389492/100 "2010-11-29T16:17:39Z")
40 years ago or so, in elemtary school at Indian Trail in Stow, Ohio. Mrs. Cleghorn was the lunch lady (I still remember!) luch cost 35 cents. Made fresh daily. I remember so many good things that my little body craved, particularly the sloppy joes. As lunch period was proceeding i would wheel and deal, trading cake, fries, chocolate milk, anything for more yummy goodness. By the end of lunch, on a good day, I would have 8 sloppy joes piled on my tray! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/school-lunch-what-do-you-miss/389492.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/school-lunch-what-do-you-miss/389492.md?page=6)