On the heels of the OP about chili served with cinnamon rolls, I ask: What other items or combinations were your favorite items and why? Were they standard fare or the whim of the cook? Did you even KNOW the cook, or did your food magically appear on a conveyor belt or through a pass-through?
My favorite was Wiener Winks. I think I also remember creamed chipped beef, aka SOS. Never got pizza.
Pizza, tacos, fries, Hostess fruit pies. Normal kid stuff.
I had none of those things. I guess itâs a age thing.
Maybe geography, also.
Could be. We had all those things, just never from the school cafeteria.
Back in the Early Pleistocene when I was in school, maybe the cook could do as s/he wanted (within budget) unmolested by the administrators or board. My supposition is this is the true origin of the chili-n-cinnamon roll pairing.
The only odd pairings I can remember were the ones made by the kids, like that weirdo who used to pour milk in his Jello.
Tuna fish sandwich on a hamburger bun, potato chips and Mrs Shipleyâs cole slaw, which she made right in the cafeteria., was my favorite. Iâm old. We always had fish on Fridays - the other fish was fish sticks. It was a public school, btw. Not being Catholic, I never realized the fish on Friday thing had a meaning until I was much, much older.
I know Iâve mentioned Mrs Shipleyâs cole slaw many times. It is my dream. My quest.
I only remember the rectangle pizza portions. Nothing else really sticks in my mind as tasty.
I was lucky enough to live in Hawaii for 2 years (Navy kid) 1957 or so. My school once a week had sushi brought in. I had never heard of sushi, not even close. I didnât like the kind wrapped in seaweed, but loved the inari sushi. I still now make it all the time at home.
I remember those pizzas
I also remember the Sysco taco meat.
What freaks me out is the fact that I would eat that pizza or those tacos with CHOCOLATE MILK. The thought of doing so now brings and immediate, HARD âno!â
I brought lunch from home 95% of the time. PB sandwich (JIF creamy, no jelly) or Oscar Mayer bologna on white bread, mini-bag of some frito-lay product and a can of Snack-Pack chocolate pudding in a metal can with a pull ring peel off lid, which you had to lick carefully to get the pudding off it and not cut your tongue.
Iâm pretty sure I had a Space 1999 lunchbox at one point, but mom ended up getting me THIS:
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vintage-1970s-green-plastic-earth-day-1803019023
which wasnât exactly the envy of the lunchroom. I switched to brown bags the next year.
My lunchbox just had the American Flag on it. All the other kids had TV shows. When I said something to my mother about this, she said the American Flag is on TV every night (this was when they used to sign off the TV stations at night)
Spaghetti with meat sauce, and if it was a PE day with game of handball, a âspaghetti sandwichâ with said spaghetti with meat sauce in between two slices of white bread.
I feel like I saw this somewhere this week
And I am all for it
Or a Taiwanese potato salad sandwich.
I am a fierce champion of carb on carb on carb
Carb on carb violence.
How can you go wrong.
Pasta on pizza does not have the problem of filling getting squeezed out
As starving college students, we used to make Saltine Sandwiches, and if it was a good $$ week, we might even splurge and make Wheat Thin Sandwiches.
