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.
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.
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.
Sorry, but Old Forge has the best Sicilian pizza....Salerno’s and Arcaro & Genells.
In grade school we had sausage balls. Rumor was the cooks made them in their armpits.
pork pinwheels...