Hard to believe isn’t it? My public school hot lunches must have 700-800+ calories, and being an athlete, I sometimes ordered two!
EXACTLY!!
My favorite was the open faced roast turkey sandwich. The pizza was good. I also liked the turkey tetrazzini.
Usually, they would have one of my favorites and another meal I would like. Sometimes, I was "stuck" getting 2 hot turkey sandwich dinners.
I ate at the last lunch period and the lunch ladies knew what I liked, usually holding stuff in back for me, when things were getting low. They always had 6 cartons of chocolate milk waiting for me. 1 sometimes 2 pieces of pie. my favorites were banana and chocolate cream. Coconut cream was good too.
I'd have 2 trays loaded with food.
I worked at a Chinese restaurant on Friday and Saturday nights. After work was done, they'd feed us chop suey, with white rice or fried rice. I'd LOAD a 10" dinner plate with rice and a cook would LOAD me up with chop suey. (The cooks liked me. I obviously liked their food). Usually, my 2 buddy's that worked there couldn't finish their plates, so they'd give me the rest of theirs. So basically, 2 full plates of food.
You know what they say about Chinese food and being hungry 30 minutes later?
It's true.
Or at least it was then.
Unfortunately, that restaurant is no longer around. They had such good food.
One time, in college, I was probably 18 or 19. My buddies and I were at McDonalds. I ordered my usual 1-2 Big Macs and 1-2 QP w/cheese (3 sandwiches), 2 large fries (todays medium size) and 2 large cokes (again, todays medium). After getting my food, I turned to get a table and my buddy stepped forward to order his food. The girl behind the counter thought that the order was for the 2 of us and asked my buddy if I was going to eat all that by myself. His response was "Yeah! He'll just eat everything and spit the bag out when he's done."
My buddies nicknamed me asbestos mouth, because we'd order 2 extra large pizzas for the 3 of us, and my buddies would burn their mouths eating, because they knew as soon as I was done eating 1 pizza myself, I would be starting on theirs.
I didn't get over 200# until I was 26.
200# at 6-0, with a 48" chest and 32" waist.