School lunches
By Sissy15
@sissy15 (12290)
United States
October 21, 2020 4:12am CST
Some friends and I were talking about school lunches growing up. I don't know about in other countries but the US is notoriously known for their bad cafeteria food. We had some really crappy options but some of it despite not looking visually appealing and probably not being the most gourmet wasn't bad. One of my least favorites was the school pizza. It is a very unpopular opinion. They were these rectangular pizzas with horrible cheese and sauce and kids went crazy over them. I used to remove the cheese from the pizza and discard it and eat the pizza without cheese. The cheese was nasty in my opinion.
We got three options we had an option A which changed daily an option B which stayed the same all week and option C which was always the same thing Peanut butter and jelly. I have a question for those of you from the US because I've seriously googled this question and I've asked so many people and have yet to find an answer. Did anyone else get their peanut butter and jelly wrapped up with a slice of cheese and if so do you have any clue WHY there was cheese with the peanut butter and jelly? I seriously don't understand why this was a thing.
I hated the cheese they put with that too. I am not anti cheese just anti nasty cheese. I love good pizza. The schools now just order pizza from somewhere in town now and they did this when I got in jr. high and high school too but the elementary schools when I was younger served the crappy rectangular pizzas.
Two of my favorite school lunches were pizza bobs which I have since learned isn't something most schools had. It was basically a pizza grilled cheese and the fiestada which is sort of a Mexican pizza. I loved them. We also had foot-long hotdog day which was always a hit so was taco day and corn dog day. Tacos were top three for my favorite elementary school lunch day.
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@Cheyee (8344)
• Pakanbaru, Indonesia
21 Oct 20
Here in my country pizza, burger and hotdog count as fancy food (not really fancy, but still fancy). Back then when I was in high school we don't have cafeteria, just canteen. They served instant noodles (like ramen), fried rice and some fritters.
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@sissy15 (12290)
• United States
21 Oct 20
@Cheyee Ramen is fairly normal here. It's really cheap so people who have a low income often eat it. College kids eat ramen, kraft mac n cheese, hot dogs, pasta, and rice among other things. People here are actually turning ramen into gourmet dishes and there are restaurants themed around it albeit not everywhere and not around here but I believe New York has some restaurants where they're centered around ramen dishes.
@GardenGerty (160626)
• United States
21 Oct 20
Never had options when I was in school, and I liked the rectangular pizza, but I am much older than you and the cheese may have been real. Our school I work at is part of a program that generally would have hot lunch one and two and a salad bar, except that during covid they have one option and it is put in styrofoam containers and they pick it up and eat in classroom. My kids may be about your age and they had "ala carte" options starting in junior high and high school. Never heard of cheese on pbj, just on fish sandwiches. Do not like that.
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@sissy15 (12290)
• United States
21 Oct 20
My parents never had options either. I'm 33 so I mean I'm not super old but definitely old enough to see the changes schools have made over the years. Our school is all homeschool right now but the schools are still offering lunches people can go pick up but I don't use that service. The cheese thing was just an odd combination in my opinion whether it was to add nutrition or not I don't know but it was such an odd thing to throw in there. My husband said when he was in jail (he was having issues finding a job and couldn't pay child support so they threw him in there) they had cheese put in with their PBJ too which is sort of odd.
