What do you remember about school lunches? I remember hating the canned slices of carrots that seemed to show up on our trays 'way too often; and liking the carton of milk with the little hole where you stuck in the straw; and taking the mashed potatoes and the canned corn and mixing them together. School lunches, back when I was in school (we used chisels and stone tablets and recess was swinging from the trees) were "healthy" for the day, but not very palatable. We took our lunches occasionally, but generally bought a lunch ticket for the week (it cost $1.25, as I remember).
Stewed tomatoes....I hated those but there they were at every meal in every school I attended. Except the 4 classroom, 2 outhouse school I went to in 2nd and 3rd grade. We only had a 'lunch building' no cafeteria so everyone brought their lunch but we could buy small bottles of milk for 10cents. The veggies were canned (but that's what we ate at home too) the meat dish was made on site (no frozen chicken nuggets, etc) and the desserts were made fresh every day too.
I remember the chocolate pudding, rice pudding, & vanilla pudding in their small bowls. If you turned the bowls upside down, the pudding wouldn't budge!
We had no school dinners so dear mother prepared me a sandwich (usually tomato, soggy in the bread by lunchtime) and a bottle of milk (directly from the cow the previous evening). The funniest was when school term ended for the summer and I would forget to empty my lunchbox. When school would start up again in September there would be a green moldy monster residing there!
Tapioca pudding. I still can't eat it to this day. It tasted, and looked, just how I would imagine frog spawn would.
I remember being hungry enough that ANYTHING was palatable by lunchtime....hmmm, breakfast would have been a welcome addition to the day, I think. Too bad it wasn't available or that we had time to eat in the morning. The only one I remember not being able to eat was the blackeyed peas. I think they were served ONCE in my entire 12 years of school.
My Mom used to pack me the most wonderful lunches! The other kids always begged me to trade, but I never would - Unless I grabbed my sisters lunch by mistake. She liked sandwiches that I didn't like.
I remember being served welsh rarebit for the first time. Thinking it was welsh rabbit I would not eat it, even as others ate their meal. They could not convince me that it was not a rabbit. Supper was a long way away that day. Jerry
Goodness! That was awhile ago. We usually carried our lunch or we walked home for lunch. I think, mostly peanut butter and jelly. If my mom wasn't working it might be soup or something she cooked. Egg salad,maybe, too. dooley
I was telling my husband about the school lunch discussion we are having here, and he told me about how his grandmother related stories about the one-room school she attended. She made it sound like the kids set rabbit traps before going to school, ran out and skinned the rabbit, rubbed two sticks together to get a fire going and roasted the rabbit for lunch. Then after school she walked ten miles home barefoot, all uphill. When she got home she did her chores and then studied by candlelight, writing on a slate with a stub of chalk. His grandma was a great story teller, but not always terribly accurate (she was born and raised in Columbus, Ohio, and even in the early 1900's, I think things were a bit more advanced than she related). Jerry, maybe she had Welsh Rarebit for lunch!
I remember mostly pb@j sandwiches, a piece of fruit, an apple probably. Our cookies were some times two squares of graham crackers with confectioner suger frosting between them.
