[SamAdams76]

For years, I was sent to school with a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, some celery stalks and maybe a Ding-Dong or a Twinkie. All of which resided in my Partridge Family lunchbox. I also had lunchboxes of the Banana Splits, Speed Racer and Evil Knievel. I don't think they had a lunch box for Archie Bunker or I would have had that one too.

All this talk about how children are being denied "hot lunches" in school, like it is some kind of right, is laughable.

When I got to 8th grade, back in 1975, the school finally started offering "hot lunches" for something like 75 cents. On Mondays, you got a crusty fish stick. On Wednesday, you got macaroni. On Fridays, you got a gloppy square of pizza. I don't remember what they had on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

[boop]

Yeah what was the deal with school lunch pizza?

Ours always had a mushy crust. Terrible.

It takes a special kind of government involvement to foul up pizza.

Maybe it came in a can and was ladled onto the tray.

[workerbee]

All this talk about how children are being denied "hot lunches" in school, like it is some kind of right, is laughable.

I was in Catholic school for grades 1 - 8, and while there was a kitchen onsite for various church-related functions, we didn't have "cafeteria" meals. Everyone brought his/her own lunch, and we (gasp!) ate at our desks. We were even expected to clean up after ourselves!

So, yeah, I get where you're coming from. Maybe because I'm female, because I'm a mother, who knows.... I would have a really hard time seeing a kid being told "no lunch for you!" day after day, just because the parent was a jerk. So in that respect I'm glad (at least in our school system) there is some sort of provision for the no-pays (as I wrote earlier, cheese sandwich and milk). Of course, then there's the free breakfast.... ughh...

[workerbee]

p.s. My sister had that Partridge family lunchbox and thermos. I was soooo jealous.