Favorite school cafeteria food?

[ohiosmith]

Mac-n-cheese

Mini-pizzas: grilled hamburger bun half topped with tomato sauce, slice of american cheese and three pepperoni slices.

[gollygee]

1. When I was a kid it was the spinach

isn't that weird? I always loved cafeteria spinach.

[ohiosmith]

4. We never had anything green in our cafeteria except the day old mini-pizzas.

[Drum]

2. Hot turkey sandwiches with gravy and mashed spuds.

I could eat 'em alllll day!

[geardaddy]

20. Turkey commercial?

That's what we call 'em here.

There's also the beef commercial. YUMMY!

[bertha katzenengel]

3. Cat food burrito. n/t

[ohiosmith]

5. Is that food made from a cat, or for a cat?

[bertha katzenengel]

8. Ha. It's just what we called them. The innards were the consistency

of canned cat food. Tasty, though. :9

[RebelOne]

6. You expect me to remember that far back?

I only remember that I could buy Fritos in the cafeteria.

[Iris]

7. peachy-fudge

well, it wasn't my favorite. Not really. But I've never seen it anywhere other than the school cafeteria!

[Connonym]

11. you can't NOT explain WTH that is!

come on!

[Iris]

12. The thing is, I can't really explain it!

Not being from a family that "does fudge" I have little to no experience with the normal kind of fudge! But it was kind of like this square of play-doh-ish tan-colored peach flavored concoction. I believe there were bits of peach in it so the tan was sort of polka-dotted with orange. I think I had this in Washington County schools in Maryland. But it could have been in Georgia, where I went for 8-12.

[Connonym]

9. Gotta be tater tots

except actually, I went to Catholic elementary school and we had a crabby old Italian lady who cooked our food mostly from scratch. She made the best chili and spaghetti w/meatballs. Man, we even had real plates and silverwear. And fruit and veg at every meal which the nuns made sure we ate goddamnit!

Then we moved and I went to public school and that was quite a shock. The tater tots were the only thing worth eating.

[ohiosmith]

21. The Catholic kids got all the breaks.

[Richard Steele]

10. Ours had "pizza burgers"...

The usual dogfood-grade "beef product" as the regular burgers,
but with some pepperoni ground into it and cheese in the middle.

DAMN me if they weren't tasty.

[Iris]

30. was that in the 70s?

oh, dear god. Can you imagine the outcry if they served something called "pizza burger" these days?

[Richard Steele]

31. Yup. Late70s/early 80s. You KNEW it had to be! nm

[Dora]

13. peanut butter bars n/t

[dolo amber]

14. I loved those rectangle pizzas with rabbit-pellet sausage

Always underdone, too. :D

[libnnc]

15. In elementary school we actually had real food

way back then. They had real homemade rolls that were sooooo tasty. Also the mashed potatoes were real too.

This was before ketchup was made into a vegetable.

[Roon]

16. Pig-in-a-blanket

and pizza was my fav.

[Inchworm]

17. rectangular flat pizza n/t

[DS1]

18. Steak-ums

put me right to sleep just in time for law class

[geardaddy]

19. Tater tot hot dish

Or dog food hot dish

Only in Minnesota! :)

[Nikia]

22. We had a sandwich they called "pizza bobz"

It was a grilled sandwich on bread consisting of some kind of white cheese, pizza sauce, ham, and pepperoni. It was good stuff.

[Reverend_Smitty]

23. My high school only had one food worth eating...

tacos. I don't know if they were so good because it was the only edible food in the caf so good by comparison or that they were actually a tasty meal. All I know is that I looked forward to taco day every month and would sprint to the cafeteria to get in front of the line because the only day that had a longer line than taco day was pizza Fridays (where they got semi-warm pizza from Dominoes :puke:)

[geardaddy]

24. My college cafeteria's chicken parmesan

was referred to as "elephant scabs"

It was pretty good though.

[Whoa_Nelly]

25. Back in the '60s, REAL food was cooked all morning for our cafeteria lunch

and we had two entree choices, 2-3 veg choices, fresh hot roll, butter, a couple of fruit choices, and 2-3 dessert to choose from.

I liked the days we had fried okra. True down home Okie food!
(hated the days grits were on the menu x( )

[Red State Rebel]

26. Peanut Butter & Honey Sandwiches!

[Shakespeare]

40. I just saw this! Check my post downthread.

They always gave us peanut butter & honey sandwiches with chili or brunswick stew. Something about that combination was sublime. :9

[Blue Diadem]

27. lemon fluff

and I've never found a recipe that tastes like the one we had at school.

[Iris]

29. ha!ha! Well, if you find a cookbook that has it, please look for "peachy fudge" as well!

(See my post further up!)

[Blue Diadem]

38. peachy fudge?

Sounds interesting, but I can't imagine the taste. I wonder if it was one of the cook's personal recipes. I think the lemon fluff recipe came with one of the cooks because I don't remember it after elementary school. Even though our elementary, jr high and high school were all on the same grounds, each school had their own cooks/kitchen.

[AlCzervik]

28. tater tots and slab o pizza.

[seaglass]

32. Baconburgers. I don't think there was actual bacon involved

and I'm not sure what kind of meat they were...but yum.

When my daughter was in middle school (she went to the same school I did) I gave her extra lunch money to bring me a baconburger lunch home. It was still goood!!! Still don't know what it was.

[zonkers]

33. grill-cheeze for lunch. hot chocoate and sugared donuts in the a.m.

[querelle]

34. Never Ate At The Cafeteria

I lived less than three blocks from school so I went home everyday for lunch. Good thing I was able to do so from what the other kids told me. A nice hot lunch made by Mom was always the best, followed by a half hour of the Flintstones before heading back to school for the afternoon.

Q

[terrya]

35. Gotta be sloppy joes.

[ohiosmith]

36. One of the classics.

[BarenakedLady]

37. Pizza and tater tots (n/t)

[Shakespeare]

39. brunswick stew, a peanut butter & honey sandwich, and a big yeast roll--all homemade

Growing up in the south did have some bright spots. Our cafeteria food was almost always good. And I'd give anything for some of those fresh-baked yeast rolls right about now...

[Brigid]

41. Sloppy joes.

Yum, yum!

[driver8]

42. Our school cafeteria used to make these steak sandwiches that

were absolutely amazing!

Their turkey and gravy was pretty awesome, too.

[Beausoir]

43. Egg salad sammies with tomato soup. Food of the gods.

[ceile]

44. Mexican pizza n/t

[deepthought42]

45. TURKEY DAY!!!!

Dude...every other Thursday was turkey day... you had run to the cafeteria on those days... Mmmmmm... :9

[Bunny]

46. Johnny Marzetti

Which is basically beef-a-roni, and very tasty. They used to serve the most delicious home-made rolls with it, too. To die for!

[ohiosmith]

47. I haven't heard that in years. We had it in Ohio as well.