Reply #2: When I was in school, much of the lunches were made by

[shraby]

a cook using government surplus and a talent for cooking to make delicious meals. We got a meat, potatoes, gravy, vegetable, bread, milk, dessert type meals for 25 cents a day. If not meat, potatoes, gravy type meal, it was a soup worthy of a king. Anyone who cleaned their plate got seconds. Many high school boys often got seconds, plus whatever the younger ones didn't want..like the milk.