Cafeteria Delicious-ness? Or not?
Now that I'm a grown up I miss the days of cafeteria lunches. Well, until I eat in one. What cafeteria meals make your stomach growl? How about groan?
Oh the choices!
The monthly menu.
Beefaroni
(aka goulash). Always served with a slice of white bread with butter. Beefaroni sandwiches for the win!
Open Faced Turkey Sandwich
The gravy? Always congealed and lumpy. The bread? Mushy in the middle with perpetually stale crusts. The rock in my stomach? Heaven!
Tater Tots
TOTS! YUM!
Whenever I tried to make these at home, they don’t end up the perfect crispy/mushy combination that they always were at school. :(
"Mexican" Pizza
It came in a hexagon shape, which I LOVED. What comes in a hexagon?!? Absolutely magical. What made it Mexican? I don’t know. Basically, it had cheddar cheese, spices and (I think) sausage. There was minimal to no sauce. Tasty.
WAWHO Spaghetti day! It was tied for the favorite lunch day with the turkey day. It would come with frozen peaches that I don’t know what was so special about but i would beat up kids for their spaghetti and peaches!
ANY FOOD I CAN ADD KETCHUP
FRIES! HAMBURGERS/CHEESEBURGERS! HOT DOGS! HASHBROWNS! ETC!
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cab27 12/26/2008
Pierogies!
I miss school lunches, even almost 10 years after having one. Nothing like getting an entire meal for $1.25 and then super sizing it (getting doubles or triples) for only 1 dollar more. There wasn’t one meal I didn’t like, or at least wouldn’t eat, but pierogies had to be my favorite. Extra butter please!
Mixed Vegetables
shudder
My mom had to have a meeting with my third grade teacher because every ‘mixed vegetable’ day I ended up in the nurses office with a stomach ache.
Ham Patty
Usually on a roll. However, this picture appropriately induces a gag. I ate them religiously until I violently vomited for an entire 48 hours.
Chicken Pot Pie
Oh, I love me some chicken pot pie. I would bring my lunch every day, peanut butter and jelly day in and day out, with the exception of the rare and glorious chicken pot pie day. Yum.
School Pizza
I think that it was some twisted school administrator that actually came up with the idea for pizza in school. They had to think of something that conformed to the high standards of then president Reagan, who stated that ketchup qualified as a vegetable in a school lunch. So voila! Pizza! Not only was it like eating the actual box that pizza would come in, it can be theorized that the “cheese” was possibly obtained from questionable milk sources. (See Simpson’s episode from 1998 when the mob runs the school lunch program and decides to give the kids rat milk in order to save money)
Don't forget:
All cafeteria food is eaten with the fabulous spork.
added by
mswen 12/26/2008
Second on the pizza. If you didn’t get pizza on pizza Tuesdays at my grade school, the cool kids would make fun of you.
Peanut Butter Balls!
YUM! YUM! YUM! The best cafeteria dessert EVAR!
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