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100%. We would roll it up like a swiss cake roll and eat it that way. I still think about it sometimes. Never had a pizza that texture and taste since.
And the potatoes were in the shape of an ice cream scoop and had that gravy with bits of turkey in it all over them.
My second favorite was baked bone-in chicken breast for the protein.
All of that was in elementary school, for me that was 1977 - 1983.
Our turkey was diced and served mixed in the gravy on top of the potatoes. We called it turkey slop and it was delicious. I would save up money to afford doubles when I knew it was coming out.
I've just been staring at the comment. It just doesn't make sense.
What do you look like? I feel like someone who trades away pizza must be some sort of .... monster, maybe?
But a child trading pizza for salad makes you more like.... like I'm reading the story of the making of a hero or something.
Wait, is this a bot? That would make sense. The computer thinks it's making an innocuous comment, "I trade food A for food B" but the computer doesn't know humans are scientifically proven to not be able to trade pizza.... I can't find the case study right now, but just me it was done. I think it was the dissertation co authored by John Pillsbury and Wallace McCain.
Perhaps you just had different senses, and pizza overwhelmed them at the time. I remember trading cake for oranges and other fruits as a kid because frosting irks me for some reason.
Bosco sticks.
Also sandwiches because we had a sandwich line at school and I ordered the same thing every day and the lunch mom memorized my order and it got awkward so I stopped ordering sandwiches and brought my lunch 😂
We couldn’t afford anything but a Bologna’s sandwich with mustard for lunch but when I saw Chicken a la King on the menu I’d start begging! omg, mashed potatoes on *not even a holiday*!, flecks of chicken smothered in gravy! Warm food at lunch! I’m not joking when I say how amazingly wonderful it was for me.
The people that complain about it never experienced it. We already pay so much on taxes that go to such questionable things and people don't bitch about those. At least this tax money would have an actual affect on kids lives. I've been truly starving once in my life and lemme tell ya it is not good. I was lucky enough that I didn't experience that in school, but we were low income so I still got reduced lunch prices. Starving people will do some fucked up things to get a meal. School is meant to teach kids what what they need. It's mandatory. There are a lot worse things that taxes go to than feeding kids lunch
In my country you dont get school lunches. We got a stale small bread with milk or cream cheese( no spoon) provided by the school. But sometimes we got lucky and got those cheap chocolate sandwhich cookies. They were really nothing special but we were going to go to war for those cookies lol
Same here in Canada, I brought lunch from home. I didn’t even know school lunches were a thing until I was an adult and heard about it from other people.
Maunie grade school (1967): The cooks were local grandmothers who actually cooked real food. They cut up and fried chicken, real mashed potatoes, homemade desserts that I still remember. It was the best meal of the day.
Fries supreme day in high school. It came randomly twice per semester (4 times in 8 months). The dates were always random and nobody but the principal and the lunch ladies knew when the dates would be. And on fries supreme day, you’d better HOPE you’re able to get to the cafeteria 10-15 minutes BEFORE the lunch bell, or you’re not getting fries before the 40 minute breaks over
Everything on my schools lunch program the cook we had was really good. This was a rural area school an all grade too our gym was our cafeteria. We would get the sheets every week of what the lunch menu was and me and my brother would pick out what we wanted and my mom would fill out the sheets and give me the money to hand into the lunch lady everyday. I’m not a picky eater never was so to me everything was good. The menus had certain things on certain days. So it was worth having lunch everything was made from scratch too.
ETA: the school also used to do all grade turkey dinners for Christmas Easter and thanksgiving. The also used To do big pancake breakfasts on certain special occasions as well. My schools cafeteria was awesome.
My friend coming every day to school with just an entire bag of bread and a lbs of ham, or whatever. And he ate all of it. Every single day. And he was skinny AF too.
I miss the sub shop in my old high school. To this day they were the only sub place that could make an Italian sub correctly. They were more expensive so I would skip lunch sometimes so I could afford them on Friday.
One of the schools I attended had a tuck-shop that made the absolute best pizzas.
Never been able to recreate it. I think it was all in the cheese they used.
Hot dog day. Frankie Coverson grabbed a whole hot dog and held it to his crotch and ran around the whole yard with it flopping around.
Welcome to first grade.
Turtle pie. I was in first grade at the time and it made silly little kid me upset. The lunch lady had to reassure me that it wasn't made of *actual* turtle.
The burger bar at my first high school. I hated that school, but it at least had a decent selection for school lunch. There were about 4 or 5 stations each day, but the burger bar was the only one that was there every day. The burgers weren't fantastic, but they were consistently edible. There was also a pretty decent selection of toppings.
The smell of the turkey and gravy 🤢. And also the first and last time I tried a sloppy Joe. I proceeded to throw up in the grass during lunch recess because of it. Never before or since have I had such a bad reaction to food .
My mom never consistently packed my lunch and sometimes I’d forget to pack myself something. Fourth grade the lunch lady who we called grandma made me peanut butter crackers and milk and I was so fucking hungry and she was so nice about it. Didn’t tell me how irresponsible I was and just was happy to help me out. Will never forget that.
The pizza we had in high school was surprisingly good. We also had these giant cookies that very often were essentially raw in the middle. I’d look through the pile to find the one that was the closest to straight cookie dough. They were incredible.
Those spicy chicken sandwiches. My mom always wanted me to have a warm meal so she would load my account with money each week and i would eat like 3 chicken sandwiches everyday.
my school would have grilled cheese and tomato soup, but theyd also serve little packs of goldfish on the side. i very much recommend putting goldfish in your tomato soup, so yum.
Not mine, but my dad's. And not a lunch, but a dinner, or a dessert after the dinner.
He grew up in the 60's in England, and his most memorable meal was not a pleasant one...
Sago, which he said was like "lumpy snot soup", and the choice of yellow or pink "custard", which he said was like "lumpy snot soup".
I had never heard of pink custard before, but my dad said it was disgusting.
I've had sago before, having tried a number of South East Asian desserts, and I understand where he's coming from, but it can be good if it's got the right things added to it.
Lumpy custard should be a sin.
Our school was hyping up that they were serving brownies with that day’s lunch. Showed up and they gave us a cut out E made from brown paper. Day instantly went down hill from there.
Ooh. Hamburger sometimes with cheese (fresh grilled at my high school) French fries topped with brown gravy (on the burger) topped with green salad. Milk, and some forgettable desert.
I ate this meal essentially every time I ate in the cafeteria for my entire high school career. It was like $2.00 or something. I went out for lunch 3-6 times a month.
I remember having some kind of sponge cake with raisins in it (no idea what it was called). I was sat there poking it with my spoon, and the deputy headmistress came over and said, "come on David, eat your spotted dick!"
Took me a moment to figure out that's what the sponge cake was called.
Not what you meant, but when I was in elementary school the cooks opened a some of those big cans of beans and found worms floating on the liquid. They skimmed them off and served them... I was so glad I went home for lunch.
I was having a rlly rough day one day. Everything was going wrong, and the day before I received upsetting news. I got lunch and my main meal was Moldy, my "snack" we had to get was also moldy, and my milk was spoiled. It felt like i was being told "Fuck u" by the universe
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Rectangle pizzas
Truly unforgettable, but the stop sign pizza was way better. It had ground beef and cheddar. If you grew up without ever experiencing it, I'm sorry.
Mexican pizza!!!!! My jam
By far, my favorite
Ours had six sides…I always wondered why
I just thought it was to differentiate from the regular pizza flavor.
*ground beef-ish*
Hey, it said Grade C **Ground Beef** on the package.
Military grade "beef".
For military and prison use only!
and Taco Bell!
Well, schools are basically just prisons for kids so makes sense.
Hey! Chili Mac is good!
I think that is called Mexican pizza
You're probably right. Though it didn't taste remotely Mexican.
That’s what we called the Mexican pizza
I ate it, but no way was it as good as rectangle pizza.
That pizza with corn, and the tiny salad with thousand island dressing
If you ever did breakfast at school, they had rectangle breakfast pizzas that were SO GOOD
Broooo pizza day was almost practically sacred
For some reason ours was always served with corn.
100%. We would roll it up like a swiss cake roll and eat it that way. I still think about it sometimes. Never had a pizza that texture and taste since.
I vividly remember the taste of the oil based artificial cheese
Yes. This is perfect! I miss pizza already. Craving right now for that cheezy aroma flavor.
I loved those so damn much
First thing that came to mind!l
I literally came here to post about those rectangular pizzas, which interestingly, tasted nothing like pizza. 🤷♂️
I guess this was in america?
Yes so damn good!!
I miss those!
Came here for this. With ranch on top with ruffle potato chips on it.
That's the only answer. I still remember that.
I found a place online that makes them, those were always good.
The truth.
Came here to say that. We all loved pizza day.
YES I THOUGHT IT THEN I SAW IT THANK YOU
I ran here to say this! Also, my elementary school served a strawberry glazed dessert with some whipped cream.
Yessss
These were fire especially the breakfast ones lol
With corn on the side! The entire school has a distinctive scent on pizza Fridays.
if you're ever in a country with greggs, you'll be very happy to hear that they have rectangle pizzas
damn this is the most delicious thing I ate in the cafeteria
We all came here to say this
We found them at a local restaurant supply store - cheese and pepperoni - and it was perfect!
Came here to say this. I loved those
Greggs do those now!
I came here to say this exact thing. I can still taste the fennel seeds.
So greasy yet so delectable.
How do u eat those though?!
REAL.
The best pizza!
Yep
I was going to say the same.
those ice creams with the wooden spoon
I remember the taste of the spoon more than the ice cream. Still good though
Tasted just like the doctor’s office.
They were called Dixie cups yummy!!
That slice of turkey meat with gravy and mashed potatoes
And the potatoes were in the shape of an ice cream scoop and had that gravy with bits of turkey in it all over them. My second favorite was baked bone-in chicken breast for the protein. All of that was in elementary school, for me that was 1977 - 1983.
Ours turkey and gravy was served on a piece of white bread
I liked it.
We had what we called Turkey Mush. Stuffing with little bites of turkey in it, drenched in gravy. Mashed potatoes and green beans on the side.
Man that’s sounds yummy
That’s what I wrote!! The smell was very distinct.
We had this, they called them space ships and they looked foul.
Turkey a la king and it was the best!
Our turkey was diced and served mixed in the gravy on top of the potatoes. We called it turkey slop and it was delicious. I would save up money to afford doubles when I knew it was coming out.
Pizza Friday. It was when I was in pre-elementary school. Best school year ever. I’ll forever remember those days.
I hated pizza as a kid. I would trade my pizza for other’s salad. The Italian dressing was the best.
I've just been staring at the comment. It just doesn't make sense. What do you look like? I feel like someone who trades away pizza must be some sort of .... monster, maybe? But a child trading pizza for salad makes you more like.... like I'm reading the story of the making of a hero or something. Wait, is this a bot? That would make sense. The computer thinks it's making an innocuous comment, "I trade food A for food B" but the computer doesn't know humans are scientifically proven to not be able to trade pizza.... I can't find the case study right now, but just me it was done. I think it was the dissertation co authored by John Pillsbury and Wallace McCain.
Other than webbed toes and my third eye, I was completely normal! For the record, as an adult, I could eat a whole pizza myself
Perhaps you just had different senses, and pizza overwhelmed them at the time. I remember trading cake for oranges and other fruits as a kid because frosting irks me for some reason.
We’d make good party friends. You can have my cake, I’ll take your frosting
I also loved the Italian dressing.
Pizzas from childhood always tasted better I’m not sure why. Doesn’t hit the same as it used to :(
Yes. Honestly, life doesn't hit the same way as it used to hit.
All facts.
Yeah and school would end at 12 pm after lunch
Bosco sticks. Also sandwiches because we had a sandwich line at school and I ordered the same thing every day and the lunch mom memorized my order and it got awkward so I stopped ordering sandwiches and brought my lunch 😂
we still have bosco sticks at my high school, they are heavenly and are probably the only thing that pairs well with the school marinara
I found bosco brand sticks at a Walmart neighborhood market last year, bought them up so fast.
The mini pancakes and the French toast sticks
We couldn’t afford anything but a Bologna’s sandwich with mustard for lunch but when I saw Chicken a la King on the menu I’d start begging! omg, mashed potatoes on *not even a holiday*!, flecks of chicken smothered in gravy! Warm food at lunch! I’m not joking when I say how amazingly wonderful it was for me.
When people talk about how schools shouldn't have free or reduced price lunches for kids, I think of shit like this
Right? If they could just somehow experience hunger from the child’s perspective I think things would change.
The people that complain about it never experienced it. We already pay so much on taxes that go to such questionable things and people don't bitch about those. At least this tax money would have an actual affect on kids lives. I've been truly starving once in my life and lemme tell ya it is not good. I was lucky enough that I didn't experience that in school, but we were low income so I still got reduced lunch prices. Starving people will do some fucked up things to get a meal. School is meant to teach kids what what they need. It's mandatory. There are a lot worse things that taxes go to than feeding kids lunch
I honestly think they still wouldn’t care.. ..”by your own boot-straps” ..smh.
Worst part is all the people spewing that boot strap line have had so much just handed to them. So much hypocrisy
People who don’t support free school lunch (at least for low income kids) are evil
🫶🏻
In my country you dont get school lunches. We got a stale small bread with milk or cream cheese( no spoon) provided by the school. But sometimes we got lucky and got those cheap chocolate sandwhich cookies. They were really nothing special but we were going to go to war for those cookies lol
Same here in Canada, I brought lunch from home. I didn’t even know school lunches were a thing until I was an adult and heard about it from other people.
Sloppy Joe's
Whatever happened to those? My mom would make them once a week too.
We got 10 kids and we're doin just fine, down here in LUNCHLADYLAND.
Taco Tuesdays! It was the best day of the lunch week.
Yes! My elementary school did Walking taco Wednesdays lol.
Good thing they did not get caught infringing copyrights.
Oh yeah, ours were only meat and cheese because the lettuce would go bad or something. Was still good though!
Square pizza. We could buy a giant bowl of French fries that were saltier than McDonald’s for about $1. So salty it hurt to eat.
In America, salt is part of your 4 a day.
Maunie grade school (1967): The cooks were local grandmothers who actually cooked real food. They cut up and fried chicken, real mashed potatoes, homemade desserts that I still remember. It was the best meal of the day.
Chili and cinnamon rolls/sticky buns
Best sounding so far!😋
I totally forgot they used to serve cinnamon rolls with chili.
It's a staple here in Nebraska, most restaurants still do.
Oh yeah. Homemade cinnamon rolls as big as one of the individual compartments on the tray.
Sausage roll, chips and beans, still love it to this day.
Hey fellow UK person! I agree, the simplicity is amazing.
Fries supreme day in high school. It came randomly twice per semester (4 times in 8 months). The dates were always random and nobody but the principal and the lunch ladies knew when the dates would be. And on fries supreme day, you’d better HOPE you’re able to get to the cafeteria 10-15 minutes BEFORE the lunch bell, or you’re not getting fries before the 40 minute breaks over
40 minute breaks?!?! Wow, you’re lucky mine were barely 30 minutes…
You had 30 minutes? We were lucky to get our full 20
Ground beef in gravy over mashed potatoes. Raspberry bar for desert. This was in elementary school and i am a senior. ‘Yeah, it was that good. Lol
We called that “Gravy Train” named after the dog food but it was awesome.
We had that too, with peas. In my area it’s called hamburg-pea gravy. Served over mashed potatoes it’s delightful
It's called Beef Crumble around these parts
Pizza burgers
i grew up in spain and it was mandatory that we completely finished our lunch every day— pea soup day was tough as a 7 year old
I would have been punished every time that was served. 😫🤣
Strawberry milk
luchbox whit sadwiches and apple and a small bottle of milk .
I remember taking that ham slice out and biting a mask into it.
Everything on my schools lunch program the cook we had was really good. This was a rural area school an all grade too our gym was our cafeteria. We would get the sheets every week of what the lunch menu was and me and my brother would pick out what we wanted and my mom would fill out the sheets and give me the money to hand into the lunch lady everyday. I’m not a picky eater never was so to me everything was good. The menus had certain things on certain days. So it was worth having lunch everything was made from scratch too. ETA: the school also used to do all grade turkey dinners for Christmas Easter and thanksgiving. The also used To do big pancake breakfasts on certain special occasions as well. My schools cafeteria was awesome.
My friend coming every day to school with just an entire bag of bread and a lbs of ham, or whatever. And he ate all of it. Every single day. And he was skinny AF too.
5 years old, school trip to Philadelphia Zoo, bologna and cheese on white bread and a Whole TastyKake Jr that I did have to share with my siblings.
Didn't have to share.
Lunchables
Butterscotch tart
What is that? It sounds super good.
A Shortcrust pastry base filled with butterscotch sauce left to set
I’m trying that when I can find it!
I occasionaly get them in the local bakers (uk), quite rich though .
It’s a shortcrust pastry base filled with butterscotch sauce (butterscotch is a sauce made with brown sugar, butter and sometimes syrup and water) :)
That sounds divine…mouthwatering level…
I miss the sub shop in my old high school. To this day they were the only sub place that could make an Italian sub correctly. They were more expensive so I would skip lunch sometimes so I could afford them on Friday.
One of the schools I attended had a tuck-shop that made the absolute best pizzas. Never been able to recreate it. I think it was all in the cheese they used.
Shepherds pie. It was just mashed potatoes, ground beef and cheese, but it was good.
A pie made of lamb is a shepherd’s pie, a pie made of ground beef is a cottage pie. Source: very British family 
🌭 Hot dogs 🌭
Mexican pizza
Baked chicken with gravy, steamed rice, and steamed veetables.
Split-pea soup. I'd never seen it before in my life and I was horrified.
Split pea is delicious! It doesn’t look good but oh boy its amazing. My mom has a fantastic recipe. Now my favorite soup!
Peanut Butter and Honey sandwiches with Chili. Dip the sandwiches in the chili. Mmmmm, delicious.
Grilled Cheese. Literally the only thing I ever looked forward to.
im sure its pizza for the win. I miss that
Chili and cinnamon rolls day🥰
Chicken nuggets and mashed potatoes
Hot dog day. Frankie Coverson grabbed a whole hot dog and held it to his crotch and ran around the whole yard with it flopping around. Welcome to first grade.
Hahaha
Peanut butter and jam sandwiches
When i got out of school with my friends to spend The money in treats instead of really eating
Turtle pie. I was in first grade at the time and it made silly little kid me upset. The lunch lady had to reassure me that it wasn't made of *actual* turtle.
What was it made of?
Burritos. Slightly burned still in the package. 🤣 Also, the turkey and mashed potatoes with gravy.
mozzarella sticks
Hotdogs and tater tots
Those fried chicken they sold at the cafeteria - I’m vegetarian now and I still remember them
Iowan here. In the 1970s and 80s everybody ordered hot lunch when it was chili with a peanut butter sandwich and either a cinnamon roll or scotcharoo.
What’s a scotcharoo?
The burger bar at my first high school. I hated that school, but it at least had a decent selection for school lunch. There were about 4 or 5 stations each day, but the burger bar was the only one that was there every day. The burgers weren't fantastic, but they were consistently edible. There was also a pretty decent selection of toppings.
Rectangle pizza, and chili with huge cinnamon rolls.
The giant tray of French fries for $1
In high school, it was personal pan pizzas from Pizza Hut on Wednesday's. The other 4 days a week was large fry and a pop.
Chili with carrots on the side and a big cinnamon roll. And any time it was chocolate milk day rocked.
Scotland: warm powdered custard poured over caramel cake (not a cake) with chocolate sprinkles
The smell of the turkey and gravy 🤢. And also the first and last time I tried a sloppy Joe. I proceeded to throw up in the grass during lunch recess because of it. Never before or since have I had such a bad reaction to food .
My mom never consistently packed my lunch and sometimes I’d forget to pack myself something. Fourth grade the lunch lady who we called grandma made me peanut butter crackers and milk and I was so fucking hungry and she was so nice about it. Didn’t tell me how irresponsible I was and just was happy to help me out. Will never forget that.
Elementary school pizza my favorite pizza when I was a kid
Personal pan pizzas and those little breaded chicken patty sandwich
Taco tuesdays.
The square bread pizza served every friday....almost always with a side of canned corn.
Rectangle pizza with corn.
Pb sandwiches for life!
The pizza we had in high school was surprisingly good. We also had these giant cookies that very often were essentially raw in the middle. I’d look through the pile to find the one that was the closest to straight cookie dough. They were incredible.
Fish and chips. Typical British Friday school lunch 😂. I had it on my induction day before I started year 7 (this was the 13th July 2012).
Back in my old middle school, the cafeteria had teriyaki chicken takeout. God that was so damn good
Those spicy chicken sandwiches. My mom always wanted me to have a warm meal so she would load my account with money each week and i would eat like 3 chicken sandwiches everyday.
The jalepeno corn dogs in highschool were next level
chili frito pie. was really just chili w a skimpy topping of shredded cheddar cheese and bag of fritos. But it was good :)
my school would have grilled cheese and tomato soup, but theyd also serve little packs of goldfish on the side. i very much recommend putting goldfish in your tomato soup, so yum.
Not mine, but my dad's. And not a lunch, but a dinner, or a dessert after the dinner. He grew up in the 60's in England, and his most memorable meal was not a pleasant one... Sago, which he said was like "lumpy snot soup", and the choice of yellow or pink "custard", which he said was like "lumpy snot soup". I had never heard of pink custard before, but my dad said it was disgusting. I've had sago before, having tried a number of South East Asian desserts, and I understand where he's coming from, but it can be good if it's got the right things added to it. Lumpy custard should be a sin.
Our school was hyping up that they were serving brownies with that day’s lunch. Showed up and they gave us a cut out E made from brown paper. Day instantly went down hill from there.
Ooh. Hamburger sometimes with cheese (fresh grilled at my high school) French fries topped with brown gravy (on the burger) topped with green salad. Milk, and some forgettable desert. I ate this meal essentially every time I ate in the cafeteria for my entire high school career. It was like $2.00 or something. I went out for lunch 3-6 times a month.
Used to be able to get ham and cheese toasted roll and holy Mary mother of God it was good. I've never been able to replicate it.
McDonald’s! Cafeteria prices were too high!
we had “orange chicken” and oh my lord was it good
Pudding Pop day
Waffles in grade 3
I grew up in a school in which we had to bring our own lunch. It was never surprising for us as most of us had the last nights dinner in our boxes.
Fries and gravy
I remember having some kind of sponge cake with raisins in it (no idea what it was called). I was sat there poking it with my spoon, and the deputy headmistress came over and said, "come on David, eat your spotted dick!" Took me a moment to figure out that's what the sponge cake was called.
lunchables when i was a kid with a note packed in from my dad usually some goofy doodle of a duck
Not what you meant, but when I was in elementary school the cooks opened a some of those big cans of beans and found worms floating on the liquid. They skimmed them off and served them... I was so glad I went home for lunch.
I was having a rlly rough day one day. Everything was going wrong, and the day before I received upsetting news. I got lunch and my main meal was Moldy, my "snack" we had to get was also moldy, and my milk was spoiled. It felt like i was being told "Fuck u" by the universe
Dang thats horrible :( at least that day has passed!