⚠️ School Lunch ⚠️

[saxitoxin]

What's your favorite item on the school lunch menu?

[saxitoxin]

chicken tenders

(that was before I was vegetarian)

[mookiemcgee]

[Silvertop]

broodje martino
Google it if you want to know what it is. It's in Dutch by the way

[jusplay4fun]

Back in "the good old day" the ladies in our school cafeteria BAKED bread, likely from "scratch" and made all the rolls for hamburgers and such. (It was easy to determine that as the rolls had rather irregular shapes.) I would often buy JUST the fresh baked roll and get a pat of REAL butter, for about 10 cents, as I best recall. I still LOVE fresh baked bread, with real butter.

[Dukasaur]

Christine

[jimboston]

mystery meat

[HitRed]

cornbread

[Pack Rat]

Debbie

[saxitoxin]

LOL I forgot about the square pizza

[mookiemcgee]

Christine

I was gonna try and answer pussy also

[KoolBak]

In grade school?

Damn....if we're going high school / college, it's gonna be a long list!

[Pack Rat]

In grade school?

Damn....if we're going high school / college, it's gonna be a long list!

Jack, John and Bill?

[mookiemcgee]

In grade school?

Damn....if we're going high school / college, it's gonna be a long list!

That's why i ended up going with square pizza lol

At least no one went with ass! I'm not judging girls that are into that, but hopefully they were waiting for highschool or college for that level of experimentation.

[saxitoxin]

broodje martino
Google it if you want to know what it is. It's in Dutch by the way

Okay, that actually looks strangely appealing. I have never heard of this sandwich before. I need to try it.



(But how is Tabasco a traditional Nederlandstalig food?)

[Dukasaur]

In grade school?

Damn....if we're going high school / college, it's gonna be a long list!

I assumed we meant high school, which is where I first encountered a school cafeteria.

In primary school we were expected to bring our own lunch, or to go home.

[KoolBak]

My bus ride to school was over 1.5 hours each way. Ain't no going home for lunch

And I'm assuming it was a requirement of public schools to provide a lunch...

EDIT: a little bit of research turns up that Canada does NOT have a national requirement to provide a meal in primary school. And it looks like pretty much ONLY Canada is that way. Weird ...?

[jusplay4fun]

My bus ride to school was over 1.5 hours each way. Ain't no going home for lunch

And I'm assuming it was a requirement of public schools to provide a lunch...

EDIT: a little bit of research turns up that Canada does NOT have a national requirement to provide a meal in primary school. And it looks like pretty much ONLY Canada is that way. Weird ...?

When I went to public school in Kansas, I walked home to Lunch everyday (it was about a 10 minute walk home, as I recall).

I did not encounter School Lunch program again really until attending a public High School. I assume some students got such a free or reduced Lunch, but it was NOT big, as most of my fellow classmates just did a "Brown Bag" lunch that most Moms packed back in the "Good Old days." I would often buy a special lunch, such as the Pre-Thanksgiving meal with Turkey and some dressing and gravy. I rarely bought lunch and nearly always "brown bagged it."

Some facts about the USA School Lunch Programs follow. I did NOT (until now) know it began in 1946; I has assumed that it was part of LBJ's Great Society programs. I knew that it was a USDA Program.

1. What is the National School Lunch Program?
The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) is a federally
assisted meal program operating in public and nonproft
private schools and residential child care institutions.
It provides nutritionally balanced, low-cost or no-cost
lunches to children each school day. The program was
established under the Richard B. Russell National School
Lunch Act, signed into law by President Harry Truman
in 1946.

About 7.1 million children participated in the NSLP in its
frst year. Since then, the Program has reached millions
of children nationwide: 1970: 22.4 million children; 1980:
26.6 million children; 1990: 21.1 million children; 2000:
27.3 million children; 2010: 31.8 million children; and
2016: 30.4 million children.

2. Who administers the NSLP?
The Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) of the United
States Department of Agriculture (USDA) administers
the Program at the Federal level. At the State level, the
NSLP is administered by State agencies, which operate
the Program through agreements with school food
authorities

https://www.fns.usda.gov/nslp#:~:text=T ... in%201946.

[HitRed]

We bought yellow lunch tickets that got punched. They were good for breakfast or lunch. Later on they would keep the tickets as kids would forget it or accidentally have it washed, destroying the ticket. Breakfast was worth going early for.

[Dukasaur]

My bus ride to school was over 1.5 hours each way. Ain't no going home for lunch

And I'm assuming it was a requirement of public schools to provide a lunch...

EDIT: a little bit of research turns up that Canada does NOT have a national requirement to provide a meal in primary school. And it looks like pretty much ONLY Canada is that way. Weird ...?

Yeah, my bus ride was over an hour each way, also. So I was the one of the ones that had to bring a lunch. Some lived closer and did have the option to go home.

Wow, I googled it also. I knew school lunch programs were pretty rare around here, but I didn't know how rare.

[mookiemcgee]

My bus ride to school was over 1.5 hours each way. Ain't no going home for lunch

And I'm assuming it was a requirement of public schools to provide a lunch...

EDIT: a little bit of research turns up that Canada does NOT have a national requirement to provide a meal in primary school. And it looks like pretty much ONLY Canada is that way. Weird ...?

Yeah, my bus ride was over an hour each way

Did you have christine for breakfast and desert on the bus too?

[saxitoxin]

We bought yellow lunch tickets that got punched. They were good for breakfast or lunch. Later on they would keep the tickets as kids would forget it or accidentally have it washed, destroying the ticket. Breakfast was worth going early for.

We had ID cards with barcodes that got scanned, at least in high school (I don't remember about middle school and, in elementary school everyone brought lunch from home). Though, in high school once you or one of your friends got his driver licenses you could go off campus usually a few days per week for lunch. But everyone went to Arby's for the Arby's 5 for $5 which created a long line, so you usually wouldn't have enough time to go off campus unless you could get your schedule arranged so you had a study period adjacent to lunch, which meant a two-hour lunch. But some people preferred either the last period of the day or first period of the day as study period so they could arrive or leave early. But neither of those worked for me as I had jazz before school M-R (in "zero period" which started at 6:30 a.m.), and music theory on Friday in zero period, and then wrestling after school 3 out of the 9 months, and jazz sectional after school on Thursdays the other six months. So I always did study period adjacent to lunch.

[mookiemcgee]

We bought yellow lunch tickets that got punched. They were good for breakfast or lunch. Later on they would keep the tickets as kids would forget it or accidentally have it washed, destroying the ticket. Breakfast was worth going early for.

We had ID cards with barcodes that got scanned, at least in high school (I don't remember about middle school and, in elementary school everyone brought lunch from home). Though, in high school once you or one of your friends got his driver licenses you could go off campus usually a few days per week for lunch. But everyone went to Arby's for the Arby's 5 for $5 which created a long line, so you usually wouldn't have enough time to go off campus unless you could get your schedule arranged so you had a study period adjacent to lunch, which meant a two-hour lunch. But some people preferred either the last period of the day or first period of the day as study period so they could arrive or leave early. But neither of those worked for me as I had jazz before school M-R (in "zero period" which started at 6:30 a.m.), and music theory on Friday in zero period, and then wrestling after school 3 out of the 9 months, and jazz sectional after school on Thursdays the other six months. So I always did study period adjacent to lunch.

We had a similar thing in high school where we had 30 minutes, and if we had a car we could leave and come back as long as it was within 30min but all the fast food/affordable food was 10-15min drive away so while there was a convenience store 5min away most people were just leaving to smoke pot because that is all they really had time to do.

[saxitoxin]

We bought yellow lunch tickets that got punched. They were good for breakfast or lunch. Later on they would keep the tickets as kids would forget it or accidentally have it washed, destroying the ticket. Breakfast was worth going early for.

We had ID cards with barcodes that got scanned, at least in high school (I don't remember about middle school and, in elementary school everyone brought lunch from home). Though, in high school once you or one of your friends got his driver licenses you could go off campus usually a few days per week for lunch. But everyone went to Arby's for the Arby's 5 for $5 which created a long line, so you usually wouldn't have enough time to go off campus unless you could get your schedule arranged so you had a study period adjacent to lunch, which meant a two-hour lunch. But some people preferred either the last period of the day or first period of the day as study period so they could arrive or leave early. But neither of those worked for me as I had jazz before school M-R (in "zero period" which started at 6:30 a.m.), and music theory on Friday in zero period, and then wrestling after school 3 out of the 9 months, and jazz sectional after school on Thursdays the other six months. So I always did study period adjacent to lunch.

We had a similar thing in high school where we had 30 minutes, and if we had a car we could leave and come back as long as it was within 30min but all the fast food/affordable food was 10-15min drive away so while there was a convenience store 5min away most people were just leaving to smoke pot because that is all they really had time to do.

Thirty minutes seems short --- thanks, Schwarzenegger! Our lunch was a regular period in length (50 minutes) IIRC.

[DirtyDishSoap]

My bus ride to school was over 1.5 hours each way. Ain't no going home for lunch

And I'm assuming it was a requirement of public schools to provide a lunch...

EDIT: a little bit of research turns up that Canada does NOT have a national requirement to provide a meal in primary school. And it looks like pretty much ONLY Canada is that way. Weird ...?

Back in my day, we had to walk to school. In the snow, up hill, both ways!
Y'all are soft!
School lunch? We didn't get lunch, we'd get whippings!