We always had a choice of a carton of chocolate milk in Elementary School. I’d like one right now! (not shelf stable … right out of the cooler, please. With a straw. )
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30 pieces? For kindergarteners? Maybe 10 pieces for a carb lovin’ needy high schooler.
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The dinner rolls which were served at the high school summer school I attended, a different high school (not for remedial, but so I could have a 4 period day in senior year and get the he:ice_hockey:
outta there) were ethereal. You had to get them before 8:30 am before classes started and usually they were gone by 8:10 am. We were SOL if the bus was late!
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Wow, chocolate milk! Lucky! Not in our school district when I was a youngin’. Our rectangular ‘pizza bread’ was sprinkled with cheese (jack?) and definitely no sausage crumbles or salami or pepperoni slices. Deprived!
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Cromulent. I don’t think I’ve heard that term since high school!
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You had a tray that big with all those goodies and parma dust? I’m pretty sure our schools had just enough funds to provide as much carb and sugar items to keep the kids happy.
I don’t think wheat bread was ever seen in my elementary years. Not until late high school when ‘Diet for a Small Planet’ came out and we all got ‘educated’.
In grade school everything was homemade including the bread.
The aroma of baking bread would spread throughout the classrooms so we were always primed to eat.
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Well, this was a VERY long time ago, so I could be wrong, but I don’t remember it being white bread.
At my private school, us 6th graders were charged with distributing the milk to the lower grades. I remember regular, chocolate, and orange milk, which I’d not seen before and haven’t seen since. (This was 1981/1982.)
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Most of my freshman 15 can be attributable to the turkey dinners they had at one of my college cafeterias. Apparently I’m a sucker for stuffing and gravy.
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Our milk machine at the school where I was for primary grades, had whole milk, 2 %, chocolate milk and orangeade in 250 ml/ 1 cup cartons. 25 cents. Each day, I had a quarter taped to my lunch box.
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I have never seen orange milk, although I have seen strawberry milk (can you even buy Strawberry Quik anymore?). Did orange milk it taste like a creamsicle?
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I think it was called True Moo. Flavored and unflavored milk in cartons.
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When I started first grade, a carton of milk for lunch was 2 cents. Yes, I’m that old.
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Same! But I think it might’ve been subsidized.
Loved French Toast Sticks and then Domino’s Pizza on Fridays while in elementary school. Everything else was vile. Always was, always will be (probably). The chicken patties were grotesque as were the steam-table hamburgers. I cannot recall much else being particularly standout.
Our high school cafeteria actually had a made-to-order deli for subs but the line was always too long. Hard to wait 20 minutes for food when we were only given 28 minutes to be there. The personal pizzas they had were good but only if burnt.
90% of lunches throughout my life were the good, old fashioned PB & J. Even now as an adult, I eat this for lunch most days because it is one less thing I have to think about or plan.
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In elementary school, I walked home a block away for lunch. In middle school, I remember the salisbury steaks. We didn’t have the square pizzas–ours were round personal-size. I liked them. We also had some unusual things, like NY-style “chow mein”, diced chicken and celery in a gloppy cornstarch sauce on rice with dried noodles sprinkled on top. I never tried it. We also had lox and bagels. I don’t remember a thing about high school meals.
