Posted on 08/29/2023 5:54:29 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Sicilian slices at Manne's Bakery in Revere, and battered fish bites at Jasper White's Summer Shack
Food cravings can be triggered by stress, hormones, and sometimes childhood memories. Reminiscing about lunch lines and lunch ladies might even spark a hankering for those distinctive, lukewarm pizza slices we thought we loved. Thankfully as adults, we can satisfy our nostalgic needs in places other than a school cafeteria.
At Manne’s Bakery in Revere, their chewy, cheesy, Sicilian-style pizza slices are the most popular thing on the menu. A far cry from the frozen, square variety once served up in schools.
Jasper White’s Summer Shack has found a way to make fish sticks fantastic. The secret? Light batter with panko bread crumbs.
Sometimes the pizza was ok. Sometimes it was like tasteless cardboard though.
“The essence of patriotism is realizing at 50 that you enjoyed the lunch your mother made for you at age ten.”
Antony Burgess
Our cafeteria was making fish sandwiches (filet o fish) before McDonald’s. The lunches were really good. They even made holiday ones with turkey and stuffing.
Before McDonald’s introduced the bfile o fish, they were planning to introduce a slice of pineapple in a bun.
Is that what you had for school lunch?
At Jefferson Davis my friends assumed I was Catholic, as I always had the fish on Fridays.
Nope. I just liked the fish, it was the most edible thing all week...
No. I remember the cafeteria had something we called, “Gross beef,” but I don’t remember exactly what it was. Maybe something like sloppy joe. But maybe not, since I think they did have sloppy Joes. I think we had tater tots occasionally, and we definitely had the flat square pizza.
I remember goulash and cheese enchiladas.
Our superintendent was a devout Catholic, so we always had fish on Fridays.
I only bought lunches occasionally. When they had good stuff: fish sandwich, square pizza and the holiday meal days. Otherwise it was brown bagging.
I almost always brought a lunch in high school, actually the pizza I was thinking of was the dorm food service pizza at my university.
I still remember going to elementary school at a small southeastern Colorado town
They served a side of hominy with lunch. Never had the stuff before. That and apple butter.
Liked hominy, did not like apple butter.
They tried it. The dude that invented the fish sandwich told Ray Kroc about it. Kroc said they would try both and see which sold better. I think we can figure how that worked out.
That cafeteria square pizza made in a sheet pan was always Bisquick Pizza in my lexicon. Because that’s what you made the crust from.
“Gay Fish” Live at South Park The 25th Anniversary Concert
Language Warning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgElKGDkmE4
There are few people older than me and I see no relevance to “square” pizza being “old school”...
I usually went home for lunch in high school, as we lived very close. There were 5, short time segments over the lunch hours. Everyone would have 2 of the slots, for lunch. If you were lucky or scheduled carefully (or were in good with the counselors), you could get 3 of the segments, so plenty of time to go home and make a sandwich or can of soup.
BUT, when I did eat at school, my favorite was the macaroni salad. Just elbow macaroni, chopped celery, cheese chunks, sliced green olives, and mayo. YUM
Not at my school. The lunch ladies back then ('60s) made everything, including the pizza, from scratch.
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