School Cafeteria Memories?
K.Kosuge
The other Soccer Moms and I were chatting today about our why we all
tend to serve certain foods together, i.e. tomato soup and grilled
cheese sandwiches. We came to the conclusion that it's because it was
served to us that way in school cafeterias for lunch. We got to
talking and laughing about other lunches we remembered from
school--some of them, we still even serve at home! For instance:
Chili with peanut butter sandwiches--most people around here can't
imagine having chili without a peanut butter sandwich just as we ate
in grade school.
Something called Yon Mazetta--a combination of skroodles, a can of
Campbell's cream of celery soup and one of tomato soup, and a jar of
Cheeze Whiz. (Yuck! I don't remember this one, but they swear the
kids love it.)
Tuna Bumstead Sandwiches--Sort of a hot tuna sandwich with cheese
served on a toasted hot dog bun. This was actually not bad.
The lunch memory that made us all groan was the special Friday lunch.
They knew we loved hamburgers and fries, so that was the Friday
special. We even got a cup of ice cream for dessert. Unfortunately,
they served the burgers and fries on a plate with canned spinach. The
spinach seeped into the buns and fries, making everything gross.
Does anybody else have any memorable school lunches to share?
Karen K.
Planet
HI Karen-
We had something affectionately referred to as Gravy Train. It was
crumbled hamburger with some sort of sauce served on a bed of fake mashed
potatoes. We all loved it. One time, our school served red kidney beans
as the vegetable, and NOBODY touched them. This was back in the 60's
before they became common. I wish the schools would serve my kids a real
meal instead of the junk food smorgasbord they pass off as lunch now.
Planet
sgjg...@pipeline.com
In article <324a255a...@news.stlnet.com>, K.Kosuge writes:
about school lunches
((school lunch rememberances snipped))
I was lucky enough to have mom make us lunch (take that either good or bad)
but on the occasions we did "dine" from the cafeteria I remember the pizza
was good (for school pizza, when I was in high school Hungry Howie's--a
chain--bought the rights to serve it).
There was Beefaroni and the infamous "green" salad, which was all iceberg
lettuce and 1 slice of tomato and always Italian dressing.
TATER TOTS!!! I ate those enough of those things I could've become a giant
potato...I promised never to serve them to my kids. Let them experience
the culinary wonder when their ready for school.
Julie
Rdwhah
Does anyone remember those disgusting purple apple slices? They sometimes
came in a disgusting bright fake green color. I don't remember what they
called them but they were too sweet and mushy. What is wrong with a fresh
apple?
Tzymei Alexasia Shih
When I first moved to the US I didn't know any English, and the only food
I was able to pronounce/recognize was "hamburger." I had no idea how to
say or read anything on the "daily special" board let alone what the food
was and how to eat it (and they don't teach you food names in classes, I
learned all the names of the states, though). So, for about a month all I
had for lunch was hamburgers, fries, and milk. I do remember this lady
who recognized me as the kid who always said "thank you," and occasionally
she'd give me "by mistake" two bags of fries (they were in these sealed
plastic bags with holds, and were connected like a chain).
Alexasia :)
Ramone
Green peas. But we didn't eat them. We placed a pea on the end
of a fork and whacked the tines real hard and the pea would fly up and
stick on that fiberboard ceiling. Then in a few days they'd turn black
up there. When you walked into the cafeteria and got your tray of
food, you had to watch out where you sat, because when a pea dried up
enough it would fall (leaving a little black pockmark), and if you
happened to be sitting under it, it could fall in your plate, rendering
your entire lunch inedible. Once, the cafeteria workers caught on to
us and quit serving green peas, so we took up a collection and bought a
can of our own. Tradition welds a strong bond.
Thirty years later, they held our high school reunion in that
cafeteria, and I was amazed at the number of little black pockmarks
that were still on the ceiling.
Nancy Dooley
In article <324AA1...@worldnet.att.net> Planet <M-Ha...@worldnet.att.net> writes:
>From: Planet <M-Ha...@worldnet.att.net>
>Subject: Re: School Cafeteria Memories?
>Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 08:31:15 -0700
>> Something called Yon Mazetta--a combination of skroodles, a can of
>> Campbell's cream of celery soup and one of tomato soup, and a jar of
>> Cheeze Whiz. (Yuck! I don't remember this one, but they swear the
>> kids love it.)
>>
We called it Johnny Mazetti. It was cooked macaroni, steamed ground beef,
tomato sauce and layers of shredded cheddar cheese. Bake at 350 for about 30
minutes, or until the cheese is melted.
We thought our version was pretty tasty - the one you describe sounds pathetic.
Nancy Dooley
"Celebrate our State." Iowa's Sesquicentennial year, 1846-1996.
Nancy Dooley
In article <52e6a8$a...@newsbf02.news.aol.com> rdw...@aol.com (Rdwhah) writes:
>From: rdw...@aol.com (Rdwhah)
>Subject: Re: School Cafeteria Memories?
Cinnamon apples - red or green, usually a garnish for a ham or pork dinner. I
loved 'em.
Holly Golightly
i remember two things.....
putting blue food coloring in my tuna fish sandwiches and telling
david rogerson that it was squid. he was very gullible and the object
of many jokes when we girls were not panting after him.
and then throwing pennies up and making them stick in the acoustical
tiles.. it was the rage and i of course got caught - but being a model
student (hard to believe..right) i was told let off the hook with the
warning not to throw anything less than a quarter into the ceiling.
i won't discuss the bra snapping in junior high or the time Lynn
Seidman's garter belt was tossed around the school yard.
Diane
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In article <324ad45f...@news.mont.mindspring.com>,
Holly Golightly <Breakfast@Tiffany's> wrote:
>i won't discuss the bra snapping in junior high or the time Lynn
>Seidman's garter belt was tossed around the school yard.
>Diane
<Mark is getting overheated....he decides to post on topic for a change
and see if it helps...>
I remember a mysterious green dessert smelling vaguely of mint which we
all to this day swear was made out of Crest. Since eating it was clearly
out of the question, a number of us combined portions and made a vaguely
obscene-looking sculpture.
<still didn't help....oh well...>
M
David Wright
Kko...@stlnet.com (K.Kosuge) wrote:
>Does anybody else have any memorable school lunches to share?
Every Wednesday was Mexican food day, from 1st through 12th grade. I'm
getting pretty close to 60, and I still think of Wednesday as "Mexican
food day." So I make it.
David
amanda toering
Frito Pie and chicken fried steak gathered the longest lunch lines around
here. Not surprising, huh?
To me, the strangest combination was anything "italian" (spaghetti, pizza,
or anything else that contained a tomato sauce) and canned corn. I like the
two together now, but it does seem strange.
amanda
sch...@in.net
>Kko...@stlnet.com (K.Kosuge) wrote:
>>Does anybody else have any memorable school lunches to share?
Okay, you guys, this one is not for sissies, so if you get queasy
easily...
Went to Lakenheath American High School, Suffolk, England, in the
mid-'60s. It was a boarding school, so we're not just talking about
lunches. We're talking three meals a day from Sunday afternoon to
Friday afternoon.
First, there were the AFEX ladies (Armed Forces EXchange) who were our
"cafeteria ladies." Their goal in life was to see how many military
brats they could poison. (Their brief may have been underwritten by
our parents.) Then there was the fact that all our food was shipped in
from Denmark (and do not bother asking why this was so - it was the
military, fer cryin' out loud - no logic applies) and not always, uh,
fresh. Then there was the fact that we were all teenagers and,
therefore and by definition, major pains in the collective tuchus.
We had a "mystery meat" that no one *ever* was able to identify. We
didn't even know whether it was pork, chicken or beef. Had some sort
of gelatinous gravy on it that looked and tasted like axle grease.
Breakfasts always included reconstituted eggs, reconstituted milk and
something they called bacon, but looked an awful lot like a Play Doh
rendition of it. Do not *ever* wish to recall the exact texture of the
oatmeal <shudder> Had reconstituted mashed potatoes that we used to
dip our straw wrappers in and blow up at the ceiling. By the end of
the year the whole ceiling was a forest of straw wrappers. Every
Friday, without fail, we were served what the AFEX ladies called "chow
mein." This was the leftovers from the whole week drooled over rice
and drowned in a "teriyaki" sauce (thereby confusing *three* cultures
- Chinese, Japanese and a buncha American kids).
And, lest we forget, the time we all got food poisoning and they had
to bring in medics from all over the UK.
Oh, and I'd like to thank you kind American tax payers for my
excellent education...you may want your money back.
Squeaks
Proud alumna of Dept. of Defense Dependent Schools
and an *Overseas Brat*
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Scott Hysmith
K.Kosuge wrote:
> Does anybody else have any memorable school lunches to share?
>
Why this sticks out after (ahem) so many years is a mystery, but at
our junior high we had this concoction called (for no particular
reason) "Cheese Zombies". It was basically a layer of corn bread
dough, a layer of cheeselike material, another layer of corn bread
dough, brushed liberally with some vague buttery oil and baked until
lunchtime.
Usually served with tomato soup, as I recall.
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Ken Gorski
OHHHH dejavu..we had a scallloped potatoes with cheese and ham...that to
this day I still crave..despite a ci training background.
Mary Ash
bleck...@monmouth.com wrote:
>
> > Kko...@stlnet.com (K.Kosuge) writes:
>
> > Does anybody else have any memorable school lunches to share?
> >
> > Karen K.
> >
> >>>>
> Friday, alternating with Macaroni & Cheese.
>
> I don't have a clue what type of fish they used, but they covered
> it with something that vaguely resembled white glue and served
> the mess on a ladle of damp rice. Needless to say most of us
> brought lunch from home on Fridays.
>
> Barbara
My favorite memories are carmel apples, ranger cookies, wonderful yeast
rolls, dream bars. The main courses were usually less than adequate but
the schools usually made decent sweets or brought them in.
Mary
spa...@austin.ibm.com
I taught junior high for 7 years. The cafeteria doubled as the gym.
I have fond memories of eating Frito Pie with the smell of sweat socks
hanging in the air and the sound of basketballs bouncing agaist the
teacher's lounge wall.
Jeanne
--
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(formerly Jeanne Smith)
jks...@austin.ibm.com
Planet
Nancy Dooley wrote:
>
> In article <324AA1...@worldnet.att.net> Planet <M-Ha...@worldnet.att.net> writes:
> >From: Planet <M-Ha...@worldnet.att.net>
>
> >> Something called Yon Mazetta--a combination of skroodles, a can of
> >> Campbell's cream of celery soup and one of tomato soup, and a jar of
> >> Cheeze Whiz. (Yuck! I don't remember this one, but they swear the
> >> kids love it.)
> >>
> We called it Johnny Mazetti. It was cooked macaroni, steamed ground beef,
> tomato sauce and layers of shredded cheddar cheese. Bake at 350 for about 30
> minutes, or until the cheese is melted.
>
> We thought our version was pretty tasty - the one you describe sounds pathetic.
>
> Nancy Dooley
>
Sounds like evryone has something they fondly remember, and something
they can't forget, try as they may. If some enterprising person could
collect recipes from the cafeterias of America's public schools, there
may be a cookbook in there somewhere. I'd buy it! We had some bar cookie
with powdered sugar on top. They called them Snickerdoodles, but they
were nothing like the Snickerdoodles I've seen in cookbooks. I'd REALLY
love to have that recipe.... Planet
Elizabeth Pruyn
> Kko...@stlnet.com (K.Kosuge) wrote:
>
>Does anybody else have any memorable school lunches to share?
Hi there,
Looking back, I remember being envious of those getting to buy their
lunches in school. They got fussed over and got to choose from really
nifty things while I got sandwiches, apples, etc. from home. Oh well, the
grass is always greener... Now I teach in an elementary school and I have
to be pretty hungry to eat the food that they serve. Though I will buy
lunch on pizza day...
Yours,
Elizabeth
Ted Samsel
My first cooking job was in 1966 at a Boy Scout camp in Texas.
I had been hired that summer to be a dishwasher, but one of the
school lunchroom granny ladies who was a cook there, keeled over and
died, falling face first into a tub of mystery meat. The head
of the camp was at a serious loss, but I said, "I can do this!"
and was hired on the spot as a cook.
We found her false teeth in the tub of mystery meat later in the day.
Nothing like cooking for 350+ from the word go.
--
Ted Samsel....tejas@infi.net "Took all the money I had in the bank,
Bought a rebuilt carburetor,
put the rest in the tank."
USED CARLOTTA.. 1995
Dana Erin Mcdaniel
I was lucky enough to go to a farm community school. It was the farm
wives who came in and cooked in the cafeteria...Not some government "food
service" program.
We had real fried chicken, real potatoes, homemade soups, beef 'n
noodles, and occasionally, (seasonally, really) fresh vegetables the
women brought from their own farm gardens.
This was of course before the days when catsup was declared a vegetable
serving, and turkey wasn't pressed into a roll.
Also, when we were done, there was a trash can for waste, and a can for
"slop". All the uneaten food went in that can, and it was divvied up by
the women, to take home to their hogs. Health regulations have stopped
that practice now...but it was always nice to know there was so little
wasted.
Dana
and remember...No woman ever shot a man while he was doing the dishes.
Nancy Dooley
In article <324B57...@cibola.net> Ken Gorski <kgo...@cibola.net> writes:
>From: Ken Gorski <kgo...@cibola.net>
>Subject: Re: School Cafeteria Memories?
>OHHHH dejavu..we had a scallloped potatoes with cheese and ham...that to
>this day I still crave..despite a ci training background.
I think I've mentioned my junior high's infamous offering - "Spinach Loaf."
Aside from the fact that most kids won't eat spinach (even if they don't know
what it tastes like, they've heard about it) -- this creation was baked on
loaf pans and in the middle center of each helping, was a soft-cooked egg. You
just can't imagine....
Heather Allen
All I can say is my high school had the *best* rolls. I have tried for
years and years to duplicate them, but I can't. Well, that's not all I can
say. The thing I cannot forget is my elementary school, yuck, had these
things they called porcupine balls, it was awful. They were large meatball
type things with rice poking out all over it, but it wasn't seasoned well
and there was something just not right with the texture. Even my father,
the music teacher, wouldn't eat it, and he was a big supporter of eating
in the cafeteria because it was cheap.
Heather
David Wright
msd...@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Dana Erin Mcdaniel) wrote:
>I was lucky enough to go to a farm community school. It was the farm
>wives who came in and cooked in the cafeteria...Not some government "food
>service" program.
>Also, when we were done, there was a trash can for waste, and a can for
>"slop". All the uneaten food went in that can, and it was divvied up by
>the women, to take home to their hogs.
When I was in first or second grade I learned that the cafeteria
workers ate the leftovers from lunch, so I always left something on my
plate for them. It shocked me that the man who worked the window
scraped whatever was left on my tray down a hole where everything was
mixed up. Didn't look very good to me, but I kept doing it till one of
my teachers asked me why I didn't eat all my lunch and I explained.
She did a very good job of keeping a straight face, but I'm sure I
made "story time" in the teachers' lounge.
David
Fowler_Barry
I didn't eat in the cafeteria hardly at all. I was used to real food.
One time, I recall ordering tacos. I came from a family that ate lots
of Mexican food.
Their rendition of "tacos" was a floppy, greasy tortilla with some
hamburger and lettuce with *catsup* as a sauce.
I think that was the last time I ate at the cafeteria.
Oh yes. We did the "green pea catapult thing" too. The peas were canned,
and mushy of course and olive drab in color.
amanda toering
In article <iteach-2709...@sf-pm5-8-40.dialup.slip.net>,
ite...@slip.net says something like...
>Hi there,
>
>Looking back, I remember being envious of those getting to buy their
>lunches in school. They got fussed over and got to choose from really
>nifty things while I got sandwiches, apples, etc. from home. Oh well, the
>grass is always greener... Now I teach in an elementary school and I have
>to be pretty hungry to eat the food that they serve. Though I will buy
>lunch on pizza day...
>
>Yours,
>Elizabeth
Ooh, I remember pizza day. Does anyone recall that stuff that they served
and called pizza? Ours was rectangular, the dough was thin and gooey, and
the cheese was sort of like plastic. Also they put some kind of "meat" on
top--I don't know if it was hamburger or sausage. The whole thing was
really pretty disgusting, but for some reason we loved it. I think we
thought we were getting away with something by eating it, when really the
school was getting away with something by serving it to us.
amanda
Anubis
In article <324AA1...@worldnet.att.net>, Planet
<M-Ha...@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>K.Kosuge wrote:
>>
>> ....
>> Does anybody else have any memorable school lunches to share?
> We had something affectionately referred to as Gravy Train. It was
>crumbled hamburger with some sort of sauce served on a bed of fake mashed
We had something similar in grammar school - crumbled fried hamburger in
some sort of brownish thickish sauce served over those powdered mashed
potatoes that you reconstitute and accompanied by watery canned julienned
green beans. The school called it "Barbecued Beef" - we, of course, called
it "Barbecued Barf." :-)
--
Larisa Anu...@Starbase.NeoSoft.com
"Yes, evil comes in many forms, whether it be a man-eating cow or Joseph
Stalin, but you can't let the package hide the pudding! Evil is just
plain bad! You don't cotton to it. You gotta smack it on the nose with
the rolled-up newspaper of goodness! Bad dog! Bad dog!" - The Tick
Bill Shoemaker
On 26 Sep 1996 22:19:59 GMT, mand...@bga.com (amanda toering) wrote:
>Frito Pie and chicken fried steak gathered the longest lunch lines around
>here. Not surprising, huh?
>
>To me, the strangest combination was anything "italian" (spaghetti, pizza,
>or anything else that contained a tomato sauce) and canned corn. I like the
>two together now, but it does seem strange.
Your school did it too? There must be a yearly convention among
school cafeteria cooks to compare notes. Or maybe <shudder> a high
school cafeteria cookbook.
It was a regular friday lunch, pizza with canned corn. If they didn't
have actual pizza (you know, the square kind that was probably
frozen), they'd make their own: a slice of white bread, some leftover
sloppy joe mixture on that, with that mild yellow cheddar cheese (or
maybe even Velveeta) on the top. Mmmmmm.....memories.
Bill
wen...@gwx.sis.lmco.com
In <52eua3$j...@su3.in.net>, sch...@in.net () writes:
>Went to Lakenheath American High School, Suffolk, England, in the
>mid-'60s.
I, on the other hand, went to the American school in Rio de Janeiro.
The food was delicious, frankly! College food was a shock.
Every day black beans and rice was an option (which is delicious),
and the fried shrimp were great! No one ever brought their lunches
there.
I guess there's something to be said for growing up where domestic
labor is cheap.
On the other hand, in junior high in the US, the only high point
was the brownies; the really solid kind, with a frosting on top
that was so solid you could peel it off and eat it alone (followed,
of course, by the rest of the brownie).
My son's elementary school served macaroni and cheese that was
inedible. I'm still not sure what they did to it besides cook it
too long, but it was disgusting. None of the kids would eat it,
and I couldn't blame them after I tried it one day.
Wendy W.
Lisa Dal Santo
Kko...@stlnet.com (K.Kosuge) writes:
>Does anybody else have any memorable school lunches to share?
I don't remember any of the stuff you mentioned ..maybe I'm
too young :) What I do remember is the rice they served ..it
was all stuck together and held the shape of the ladle forever.
The days they had chocolate milk in addition to regular milk ..
boy that was a treat. Sloppy Joes ..yum!
That's about all I can remember ..I must have blocked the rest
out.
Lisa
Aquari
I am so enjoying these stories!!
In elementary school, we didn't have a cafeteria and so we all brought bag
lunches and put them on the steps up to the classroom every morning when
we got to school. The problem was that my family lived across the street
from the school and every day our black lab, Bridget, followed me to
school....well, NO ONE had fences in those days! And so every morning
Bridget, being no dummy, helped herself to several lunches that smelled
particularly good to her. Then the phone would ring in my house, mother
would answer it, and the principal would say, "Betty, this is Miss
Fairchild calling (the principal) to tell you that Bridget ate 4 lunches
this morning." And so my mother, who fortunately for Bridget loved her as
much as she loved me, would make 4 new lunches, carry them to the school
office and then they would be delivered to the classrooms of the kids
whose lunches had been snatched! The kids who ate my mother's lunches
always wanted to know why my mother always put carrot and celery sticks in
their lunches instead of potato chips!
Libby
PS: In high school, I remember peanut butter and honey sandwiches at
break time.......
----Elizabeth Dean Brooks aka Aqu...@aol.com
thatjoeguy or Maven
>Kko...@stlnet.com (K.Kosuge) writes:
>Lisa
I shudder to remember my school lunches. Refried potato chips (to make
stale ones crisp again) the 1/4 inch of shortening on the bottems of
the brownies, the stew with the pools of orange grease, The head cook
was of the old school (fry it or bread&fry it)
To this day I look in revulsion at things like peanutbutter cookies,
salsbury steak, and chicken fried steak.At least her hamburgers were
edible.
Maven
jmo...@concentric.net
Buying a sqaure of ice cream (5 cents I think) and a package of graham
crackers (2 cents) and making a little ice cream sandwich...
Madeline
Tara Banfield
I remember this orangey-cheesey rice stuff that they plopped onto the tray in
a perfect scoop shape.....it had just a little tomato sauce in it and it was
yummmmmmy. Probably really bad for me too, but I don't care -- now that I'm
thinking about it, I think I'll go try to re-create it.
-Tara
Jonelle McAllister
I went to high school in the San Joaquin Valley in California, and on
Friday we had pinto beans and cheese enchiladas. We had an open
campus, but everybody ate in the cafeteria on Friday because they
were so good.
I married my high school sweetheart, and we still fix beans and
enchiladas, striving for the platonic example from Redwood High.
amanda toering
In article <00001f18...@msn.com>, Joni...@msn.com says something
like...
>
[schnip]
>... We had an open
Ah yes, the open campus. I find this amusing; it's something so many
school lunchers take for granted these days. We didn't have an open campus.
Why? We didn't have anywhere to go, except Dairy Queen. Sadly, I think
the school cafeteria was the safer choice.
amanda
Mijako
As a student nurse, our cafeteria was the hospital cafeteria (there's an
exciting thought!-hospital food, three meals a day for four years!).
Anyway, our most intriguing fare was called "veal birds" . Was it veal or
was it a bird? It was a chopped meat number that was wrapped around a
bread stuffing-therein lies the origin of the name. It was not, however,
a very popular dish.
One advantage to the hospital cafeteria was that it was open all night for
the night shift. So we would stop in at all hours for snacks (we were
gluttons for punishment, as well as for food). My best memory was their
bread pudding- a light concoction with raisins and a delightful vanilla
sauce-yum!
Kathy
Mij...@aol.com
LTB
I always hated that carrot/raisin stuff.
LTB
Seesa 2
Ahhhhh bring back high school memories and Horrors!
The Glenbard North campus had good and bad points as far as the cafeteria
food was concerned.
They had 2 lines..
Line 1 : The "SPECIAL" of the day.. You know the Tuna Surprise Melt, the
BBQ on Bun (Hamburger and Open Pit mixed)
Always with salad or veggie (I do recall corn with anything italian)
sometimes fruit cup or cokie/brownie for dessert.. usually $1.50 and
gross.
Line 2 (which 85% of the student body used) consisted of Burgers (Nasty
soy things), Hot dogs, Grilled Cheese, French Fries and the BEST Chili I
have ever eaten! ( and always try to recreate, but never get it quite
right)
I would always eat from line 2.. My senior year diet consisted of a bowl
of chili, French fries and either yogurt, an apple, or Ice cream sandwich
bar and 2 cartons of chocolate milk (Yes I ate this every day my entire
senior year with only vary of dessert choice and sometimes I included
fritos with the chili)
See...@aol.com
'You can't please everyone... so you've got to please yourself."
Penny Freshwater
I was so lucky, I lived in rural West Virginia where there were lots of
coal mines staffed with immigrant workers.....our cooks were Polish and
Italian and the food was just heavenly......I never knew that commodies
could taste like that...I'm sure that they were sneaking in garlic! My
mom used to worry that I wasn't eating dinner....I was too full from
lunch!
tam...@aloha.net
K.Kosuge wrote:
>
> The other Soccer Moms and I were chatting today about our why we all
> tend to serve certain foods together, i.e. tomato soup and grilled
> cheese sandwiches. We came to the conclusion that it's because it was
> served to us that way in school cafeterias for lunch.
> Does anybody else have any memorable school lunches to share?
Though I've found the recipes for many of the desserts served by
the Los Angeles Unified School District "cafeteria ladies," the one that
eludes me still is the flat-but-fudgy brownie square (if anyone has the
LAUSD brownie recipe, please post it and I'll be eternally grateful).
I never had to eat the elementary school entrees.
You see, I had a Mom so devoted to me that, on the colder winter
days, she would make a little beef or chicken pot pie, wrap it in foil
and then a tea-towel. My mom would actually walk five city blocks to
bring it to me, so that I could have a great-tasting hot lunch. . .
thanks Mom, I love you!
Claudia Hawai'i
tam...@aloha.net
They taste just like they used to -- here are three of the Los Angeles
Unified School District's cafeteria recipes:
#1
FLYING SAUCERS (Ranger Cookies)
This is the popular flying saucers recipe to which chocolate chips can
be added or used in lieu of nuts and coconut. Try it with and without.
1 cup butter
1 cup granulated sugar
1 cup brown sugar, packed
2 eggs, well beaten
2 cups sifted flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon soda
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups oatmeal
2 cups cornflakes
1/2 cup coconut
1/2 cup chocolate chips
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
Cream butter with sugars until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs. Sift
flour with baking powder, salt and soda. Blend into creamed mixture. Add
vanilla, cereals, coconut, chocolate and nuts. Mix until blended. Drop
dough by 2-1/2 tablespoonfuls onto ungreased baking sheet. Flatten to
4-inch diameter. Bake at 350 degrees 10 to 12 minutes. Cookies should be
slightly soft when removed from oven. Makes about 22 large cookies.
Each cookie contains about:
272 calories; 187 mg sodium; 43 mg cholesterol; 13 grams fat; 37 grams
carbohydrates; 4 grams protein; 0.28 gram fiber.
Note : For smaller cookies, use rounded teaspoon, do not flatten and
bake at 375 degrees 8 to 10 minutes. Makes about 6 dozen.
* * * * * * * * *
#2
CITY SCHOOL PEANUT BUTTER CRUNCH
2-1/2 cups sugar
1-1/2 cups light corn syrup
3 cups peanut butter, warmed
1-1/4 (12-ounce) package cornflakes
Combine sugar and syrup in saucepan. Bring to fast boil, stirring
constantly. Do not overcook. Remove from heat and add warm peanut
butter.
Stir until well mixed. Pour over cornflakes.
Mix well, working quickly. (It's best to have some help with this stage
of operation as quickness is essential.) Pour into well-greased 15-1/2 x
10-1/2-inch pan, pressing lightly. Cut into squares. Makes about 24
squares.
* * * * * * * *
#3
SCHOOL DISTRICT COFFEE CAKE
4 cups flour
2 cups brown sugar, packed
1-1/2 cups granulated sugar
3/4 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons ground nutmeg
3/4 cup chopped walnuts, optional
1-1/2 cups oil
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon baking powder
3 large eggs
2 cups buttermilk
Combine flour, brown sugar, granulated sugar, salt, nutmeg, walnuts and
oil in large bowl. Mix until crumbly. Remove 1 1/2 cups mixture, stir in
cinnamon and set aside.
Combine remaining crumb mixture with baking soda, baking powder, eggs
and buttermilk. Blend gently. Do not over-mix. Pour into 2 greased and
floured 13x9-inch baking pans. Sprinkle evenly with reserved crumb
topping. Bake at 350 degrees 25 to 30 minutes or until cake tests done.
Cool slightly. Cut into squares to serve. Makes 24 servings.
Source of all recipes: LA Times
Matthew Pius
jmo...@concentric.net writes:
Hate to sound like a rude youngster, but 5 cents! Talk about
showing your age...
-Matt
(who can't rember EVER being able to buy anything
for 5 cents)
wen...@gwx.sis.lmco.com
In <52lbgk$2...@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, mij...@aol.com (Mijako) writes:
>Anyway, our most intriguing fare was called "veal birds" . Was it veal or
>was it a bird? It was a chopped meat number that was wrapped around a
>bread stuffing-therein lies the origin of the name. It was not, however,
>a very popular dish.
Ah, veal birds. We described it as watery bread goo wrapped in shoe
leather (actually, being college freshmen, we used worse terms than watery
bread goo).
It caused the only food uprising I ever saw; we gathered them all into
a garbage can, and threw them at the Central kitchen at Rice.
My mother never tasted those, otherwise she would have probably classified
them with hockey pucks ('bacon-wrapped filets'), as inedible. My mother
didn't believe in inedible....
Now understand, I love food. Any kind -- if there's something odd on a
restaurant menu, I'll generally pick it. But no more veal birds for this
girl!
Wendy W.
phy...@csc.canterbury.ac.nz
In article <52jpa7$b...@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, aqu...@aol.com (Aquari) writes:
> In elementary school, we didn't have a cafeteria and so we all brought bag
> lunches and put them on the steps up to the classroom every morning when
Yes, the school cafetaria is pretty much an unknown phenomenon here, or
at least was when I went to school.
Back in the fifties and sixties we had a standard school lunch-tin - a
tin box with a hinged lid and a handle which also served as a fastener,
just large enough to carry a child's lunch of sandwiches and a piece of
cake or fruit. My mother used to make delectable egg sandwiches, or
lettuce and marmite, or what we call Belgium sausage with relish. It
would have been much easier for her to make up sandwiches with cold meat
cut from the weekend roast, but the combination of bread, butter and
cold mutton or beef has always revolted me and I wouldn't eat them....
Our schools always had a cloakroom with hooks for hanging our school
bags (leather bags closed with a flap and equipped with a strap for
wearing over the shoulder) with our lunches and other possessions inside
them while we in class, so we didn't have to leave them on the school
steps. I can imagine the potential for disaster in that with all the
dogs and cats that used to wander around.
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Lyndon Watson L.Wa...@csc.canterbury.ac.nz
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Rdwhah
I remember in first grade we HAD to get a Bit O' Honey or a Mary Jane
candy bar (No Mary Jane Jokes please) after lunch. They lined us up in
the lunch room and handed them out as we went back to class! I hated the
taste of both but they forced me to take one! I took them home to my
sister. I guess someone on the Macon, GA schoolboard had a pal at the
company that sold these.
Susan
Mary Ash
How about a Buffalo Head nickel? I used to pay for milk and cookies with
one. I can remember buying Penny candy for a penny, school lunch for a
quarter and thought prices went sky high when school lunch was 30 cents.
Sigh...Today my kids pay $1.25 for an elementary school lunch and $1.75
at the junior high.
Mary
Nancy Dooley
In article <DyM6C...@umdnj.edu> piu...@umdnj.edu (Matthew Pius) writes:
>From: piu...@umdnj.edu (Matthew Pius)
>Subject: Re: School Cafeteria Memories?
>Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 20:31:20 GMT
>jmo...@concentric.net writes:
>>Buying a sqaure of ice cream (5 cents I think) and a package of graham
>>crackers (2 cents) and making a little ice cream sandwich...
>>Madeline
> Hate to sound like a rude youngster, but 5 cents! Talk about
>showing your age...
> -Matt
> (who can't rember EVER being able to buy anything
> for 5 cents)
Gosh, I remember a pack of gum for 5 cents (and first class postage was 3
cents. I may be old, but I'm immature.
Nancy Dooley
"Celebrate our State." Iowa's Sesquicentennial year, 1846-1996.
Nancy Dooley
In article <52rod0$6...@cisu2.jsc.nasa.gov> wen...@gwx.sis.lmco.com writes:
>From: wen...@gwx.sis.lmco.com
>Subject: Re: School Cafeteria Memories?
>In <52lbgk$2...@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, mij...@aol.com (Mijako) writes:
>>Anyway, our most intriguing fare was called "veal birds" . Was it veal or
>>was it a bird? It was a chopped meat number that was wrapped around a
>>bread stuffing-therein lies the origin of the name. It was not, however,
>>a very popular dish.
"City chicken" here...the ground meat is something I hadn't heard of, though.
City chicken is veal and/or pork and veal chunks on a wooden skewer, breaded
and fried, and it is very good.
David Wright
jmo...@concentric.net wrote:
>Buying a sqaure of ice cream (5 cents I think) and a package of graham
>crackers (2 cents) and making a little ice cream sandwich...
>Madeline
We could get a cup of ice cream for a nickle, with the bonus of a
picture, under the lid, of some movie star. You'd lick off the ice
cream and save the lids you didn't want so you could trade later for
Gene or Roy.
David
Nancy Dooley
In article <52u5oe$c...@news2.texas.net> dtwr...@texas.net (David Wright) writes:
>From: dtwr...@texas.net (David Wright)
>Subject: Re: School Cafeteria Memories?
>jmo...@concentric.net wrote:
>David
...and I learned to swim at the Coral Gables (municipal) public pool -
complete with caves, palm trees, islands and what have you. It cost 9 cents.
Rona H. Halpern, Ph.D.
In elementary school, there was a milk table. You pays your 5c and you
takes your milk. Then we lined up at the ice cream window. 6c for a cup
of ice cream. I'm still in search of ice cream as good as that
butterscotch ripple was. Eaten with a wooden flat spoon.
I got to eat in the cafeteria once in awhile. When I did, I aimed for
hamburger day. Hamburger day in the cafeteria was on Tuesday. I still
remember that great pickley sauce. The burger came with potato chips on
the side which I'd promptly throw on top of the hamburger under the
hamburger bun and scarf down.
Anybody remember having to raise your hand so the food police could
check whether you'd eaten all your food so you could be excused?
Whatever became of those people?
Best,
Rona
Lyndon Watson
In article <324DF9...@concentric.net>, jmo...@concentric.net writes:
> Buying a sqaure of ice cream (5 cents I think) and a package of graham
> crackers (2 cents) and making a little ice cream sandwich...
We buy those here - a little block of vanilla ice cream with a pair of
sweet wafers. They're called "Eskimo pies".
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Lyndon Watson L.Wa...@csc.canterbury.ac.nz
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eskimo ... esquimo ... esckimoe ... yoskimoo ... nothing looks right.
Joan Ellis
piu...@umdnj.edu (Matthew Pius) wrote:
>jmo...@concentric.net writes:
>>Buying a sqaure of ice cream (5 cents I think) and a package of graham
>>crackers (2 cents) and making a little ice cream sandwich...
>>Madeline
> Hate to sound like a rude youngster, but 5 cents! Talk about
>showing your age...
> -Matt
> (who can't rember EVER being able to buy anything
> for 5 cents)
Children should be seen and not heard.
Joan
M. Grey de Shirland
aqu...@aol.com (Aquari) wrote:
>I am so enjoying these stories!!
>In elementary school, we didn't have a cafeteria and so we all brought bag
>lunches and put them on the steps up to the classroom every morning when
>we got to school. The problem was that my family lived across the street
>from the school and every day our black lab, Bridget, followed me to
>school....well, NO ONE had fences in those days! And so every morning
>Bridget, being no dummy, helped herself to several lunches that smelled
>particularly good to her. Then the phone would ring in my house, mother
>would answer it, and the principal would say, "Betty, this is Miss
>Fairchild calling (the principal) to tell you that Bridget ate 4 lunches
>this morning." And so my mother, who fortunately for Bridget loved her as
>much as she loved me, would make 4 new lunches, carry them to the school
>office and then they would be delivered to the classrooms of the kids
>whose lunches had been snatched! The kids who ate my mother's lunches
>always wanted to know why my mother always put carrot and celery sticks in
>their lunches instead of potato chips!
>Libby
>PS: In high school, I remember peanut butter and honey sandwiches at
>break time.......
Has anyone ever had peanut butter and pickle sandwiches? I used to
take them to school and other kids were astounded and grossed-out.
Actually, with sweet pickles it's sort of like a crisp PB&J, but with
dill pickles...well, definitely an acquired taste.
MINXS "Every time I see Bill Bennett stick a cigarette into his
liquor-reddened face while he rants about drug use I want
to reach for my revolver."
Melinda Meahan
My favorite thing to eat at school was served
every other Monday. It was called 4-Way Casserole,
and I recreated it for my children, and it's their
favorite now.
1 lb browned hamburger
4 c macaroni
2-lb can tomatoes, cut in eighths
2 c (1/2 lb) grated cheddar cheese
Place macaroni in pot with tomatoes, 4 c water,
and salt and pepper to taste. Bring to boil,
stir well, cover, and cook on LOW for 10 minutes.
Turn off heat, remove cover, stir well. Add
browned hamburger and stir well. Then add
cheese and stir until residual heat melts
cheese. EAT!!!!!!!!!
<sigh, floating on one of the few pleasant
memories I have from public school>
Jan Penovich
nancy-...@uiowa.edu (Nancy Dooley) writes:
>In article <DyM6C...@umdnj.edu> piu...@umdnj.edu (Matthew Pius) writes:
>>jmo...@concentric.net writes:
>>>Buying a sqaure of ice cream (5 cents I think) and a package of graham
>> Hate to sound like a rude youngster, but 5 cents! Talk about
>>showing your age...
>> (who can't rember EVER being able to buy anything
>> for 5 cents)
>Gosh, I remember a pack of gum for 5 cents (and first class postage was 3
>cents. I may be old, but I'm immature.
I remember 5 cents for a small glass of coke, 7 cents for a
large. An ice cream cone (sugar cones only) was 10 cents,
and 2 cents more for sprinkles.
A double feature at the Saturday matinee at the Graham Theater
was 35 cents for kids.
I am still young. :-) Now my mother, on the other hand, is old.
jan (one of the one in six Americans who knows someone, is
related to someone, or is someone from Brooklyn)
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jan penovich * Encore Computer Corp. not my employer's)
Nancy A. Howells
My fave three:
tuna sea dogs (a tuna melt in a hot dog bun)
hamburger gravy over mashed potatoes (don't know why)
fish burgers (because I found a penny in one once).
--Nancy
how...@mit.edu
Kari E. Benson
In article <52enst$8...@news2.texas.net> dtwr...@texas.net (David Wright) writes:
Kko...@stlnet.com (K.Kosuge) wrote:
>Does anybody else have any memorable school lunches to share?
Every Wednesday was Mexican food day, from 1st through 12th grade. I'm
getting pretty close to 60, and I still think of Wednesday as "Mexican
food day." So I make it.
David
I thought that Wednesdays were Prince Spaghetti Day ("Anthony, come
home...")... remember that?
Kari
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Lori M. Sulik
In article <32528F...@ridgecrest.ca.us>, sm...@ridgecrest.ca.us wrote:
>How about a Buffalo Head nickel? I used to pay for milk and cookies with
>one. I can remember buying Penny candy for a penny, school lunch for a
>quarter and thought prices went sky high when school lunch was 30 cents.
>Sigh...Today my kids pay $1.25 for an elementary school lunch and $1.75
>at the junior high.
>
>Mary
OK, probably won't seem like a big deal to most, but for me, I remember
buying a bottle of Pepsi for $0.40.. <sigh> In GLASS bottles, no less! (those
were the days, I tell ya! Just ain't the same from plastic/tin.. I could
barely drink it for months after they discontinued glass bottles!)
Snack cakes (Hostess apple pies, 2 pack cupcakes, etc) for 45 cents. (90
cents now?)
Or, Cigs for $1.10.. What are they now, $2.50?!?
Nickel candies.. (jaw breakers, etc). Dang, I just realized they're up to a
quarter around here!
OK, this last one isn't money related, but a sign of the times
none-the-less.. Cars that actually had steel bumpers! Instead of these
newfangled/useless 5 MPH bumpers, that crumple over 5 MPH.. :(
Lori
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Lynn Dasher
My Catholic high school cafeteria used to like to get cute with menu
names around holiday. I remember Blood Soup at Halloween.
I used to mingle my uneaten food into creative concoctions before I'd
return the tray. They retaliated by posting a sign stating that Jesus
didn't want people to waste food. I posted one of my own stating that
that's exactly what they were doing by the way they cooked.
They made something called Buttered Sauerkraut that was great. If
anyone knows a recipe, I'd love it. They also made a very good salad
dressing.
Lori Rizzo
In article <DyGyM...@eskimo.com> ter...@eskimo.com (Tara Banfield) writes:
>I remember this orangey-cheesey rice stuff that they plopped onto the tray in
>a perfect scoop shape.....it had just a little tomato sauce in it and it was
>yummmmmmy. Probably really bad for me too, but I don't care -- now that I'm
>thinking about it, I think I'll go try to re-create it.
>-Tara
Tara,
I liked that stuff too!!! We also had something like that SOS hamburger stuff
on top of a scoop of mashed potatoes -- liked that too.
Lori Rizzo
lar...@bihs.net
sgjg...@pipeline.com
In article <KARI.96O...@niko.unl.edu>, Kari E. Benson writes:
>
> Every Wednesday was Mexican food day, from 1st through 12th grade. I'm
> getting pretty close to 60, and I still think of Wednesday as "Mexican
> food day." So I make it.
>
> David
>
>I thought that Wednesdays were Prince Spaghetti Day ("Anthony, come
>home...")... remember that?
>
>Kari
it edible food. They made tacos and burritos from this soy based "meat
product" it was so tasteless and awful that kids would actually have to
sneak in packets of Taco Bell (hey--we were kids) hot sauce just to liven
it up. The cafeteria didn't serve salsa or sauce, just catsup with a
little chili powder mixed in it. The cheese wasn't really cheese
either--it was some sort of tofu product that one of the administrators
were "experimenting" with. They had to cut corners somewhere!
Julie
Lauretta Nagel
At St. Mike's we had a lady who'd bake bread FRESH for
us everytime spaghetti was on the menu. Man, it was
5 cents for two slices of fresh soft bread and butter,
and the kids used to blow their whole lunch allowance
on just bread and butter. They'd come out with a
stack of slices two foot tall!
Milk was 7 cents but I think that was only because
it was subsidized by either the state or federal
gov't.
Man, I remember that bread!!!
--
Lauretta M. Nagel
na...@stsci.edu
Sr. Data Analyst
Fine Guidance Sensors/Observatory Support Group
Space Telescope Science Institute
also Alto I with the Baltimore Symphony Chorus
Deborah White
In article <3250E7...@aloha.net>, <tam...@aloha.net> wrote:
>K.Kosuge wrote:
>
> Though I've found the recipes for many of the desserts served by
>the Los Angeles Unified School District "cafeteria ladies," the one that
>eludes me still is the flat-but-fudgy brownie square (if anyone has the
>LAUSD brownie recipe, please post it and I'll be eternally grateful).
>
My friend and I have been searching for this (we both thought it was a
chocolate cookie, big, round, flat) for years. This was the greatest,
which they served at the 10:30 recess that was called "Nutrition." If
someone can post it, you would have my eternal gratitude too.
Sharon J. Amirfathi
I never ate cafeteria food through k-12 because I had to bring my lunch, but when
I hit the dorm in college I got a belly full! I remember the guacamole dip
thinned with cottage cheese and served with saltine crackers. How about BLTs
and every piece of bread was burned and cold of course. Then there were
elephant scabs. These were gray pieces of meat - square in shape that really
looked like an elephant had skinned its knees...
We could have all the ice cream we wanted, but every day there was only
"Whitehouse" flavor. This was a vanilla base with cherrys and nuts in it.
EVERY DAY.
We knew the food COULD be good because twice a semester for Parents day they
did a nice spread. After that seeing those elephant scabs prepared every
way they could think up just palled. Like Salisbury Steak, swiss steak,
steak au gratin, ground steak, etc. And they all were made with the scabs.
Shudder. Wet scrambled eggs for breakfast.
you think elementary kids are bad for mixing food, you should have seen what
we made. cokecola and 3 bean salad caused an interesting chemical effect - maybe
some salt added too. It foamed all over the table. Then there was the time
one of my friends didn't eat her peas. We put them in a plastic bag and mailed
them addressed "To the starving children in China". they came back with
insufficient postage. Ah, then there was the time one of my friends in pre-vet
school dissected her chicken for us. Yum. I got so that I can eat anything
and talk about anything with no nausea.
but the bread was good and they made great pumpkin pie...
Sharon Amirfathi
sam...@uswest.com
sch...@in.net
ka...@niko.unl.edu (Kari E. Benson) wrote:
>In article <52enst$8...@news2.texas.net> dtwr...@texas.net (David Wright) writes:
> Kko...@stlnet.com (K.Kosuge) wrote:
> >Does anybody else have any memorable school lunches to share?
> Every Wednesday was Mexican food day, from 1st through 12th grade. I'm
> getting pretty close to 60, and I still think of Wednesday as "Mexican
> food day." So I make it.
Oh, Jeeze, Louise - this reminds me of something that happened this
summer and if you're delicately inclined, you might want to skip this
post:
I was playing in a week-long tournament that three of my best friends
and I play in every year. It's outta town up there (pointing) in
Monticello, Indiana, on Lake Shafer, not that that has anything to do
with the story. The chef, who always tries to do something special for
each of the comes-with-your-entry-fee dinners during the week was
doing an "international celebration" this year. The night before we'd
had Mexican.
We were milling around #1 tee, talking to the pro and waiting for the
group ahead of us to get out of driving range, just making small talk.
The pro idly mentioned that the chef was having a Hawaiian night that
night. Then He Said It: "And I think each of you ladies is getting a
free lei."
Weithout missing a beat, my friend Delores said, "Well, I've been
divorced for six years so I hope like hell it's a good one!"
That pro didn't know whether to spit, scream or go blind. After he
recovered he said he didn't think he'd be explaining the night's menu
in quite that way again.
Squeaks
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sch...@in.net
na...@spring.stsci.edu (Lauretta Nagel) wrote:
>At St. Mike's we had a lady who'd bake bread FRESH for
>us everytime spaghetti was on the menu. Man, it was
>5 cents for two slices of fresh soft bread and butter,
>and the kids used to blow their whole lunch allowance
>on just bread and butter. They'd come out with a
>stack of slices two foot tall!
This reminds me of the 4 times my family was stationed overseas,
courtesy of the USAF. After a while, we all just yearned for that soft
white bread a la Sunbeam, etc., but you couldn't get that overseas in
either the commissaries or on the economy (local shops). Being very
adept at adapting, however, we used to bribe the TDY (Temporary Duty)
pilots who were only in country from the States for 3 months at a time
to bring over cases of the stuff. We'd divvy them up and put the
loaves we were alotted into the freezer and take them out to thaw one
slice at a time. Absolute heaven.
There were *alot* of things we missed from home, but the experiences
we had more than made up for it.
Bobbie Best
shado wrote:
>
> I always got the mac-o-cheese, as mediocre as it was. I loved the
> stuff but my mother would never buy it. Same with meat pies. They
> were served bottoms up with lots of gravy and mashed potatoes on the
> side. I had bad taste when I was young.
Have to admit that mac n cheese was one of the two things I prayed for
at lunch time. I went to an incredibly underfunded school in the most
impoverished part of the inner city. Most lunches were a sea of mush
in different colored tubs. Even the milk program was nasty, gray liquid.
I can't think of one thing I look back at with fondness from the cafeteria.
bobbie(who won't even go near the Corporate Cafeteria to this day)
shado
Ray Taylor
The cookies that we used to have in school were called "Peanut
Butter Fudgies," made with chocolate, oatmeal, peanut butter,
etc. My Mom had called the school for the recipe back then.
I just made them about a month ago and remembered how much I
loved them, but didn't remember how sickeningly SWEET they
were. Here's the recipe:
Peanut Butter Fudgies
2 cups sugar
3 tablespoons cocoa
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup shortening
Combine in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Boil for one minute,
remove from stove and add:
1/2 cup peanut butter
3 cups oatmeal
1 teaspoon vanilla
Mix well and drop by teaspoonful onto wax paper. Let set for
1/2 hour to harden.
(Note: You might not want to make the cookies too large... they
are sooooo sweet!)
/rt
Julie James
Didn't anyone else have to eat fish sticks every friday (wasn't a
catholic school, but catholic influence was aparent in the menu)? To this
day I can't stomach breaded fish... It was a relief to move to a town where
fridays were mac-n-cheese instead! Also, who was it that decided that
pizza should always be served with buttered corn?!?!?!?
julie
Joan Ellis
su...@worldnet.att.net (Lori M. Sulik) wrote:
>In article <32528F...@ridgecrest.ca.us>, sm...@ridgecrest.ca.us wrote:
>>How about a Buffalo Head nickel? I used to pay for milk and cookies with
>>one. I can remember buying Penny candy for a penny, school lunch for a
>>quarter and thought prices went sky high when school lunch was 30 cents.
>>Sigh...Today my kids pay $1.25 for an elementary school lunch and $1.75
>>at the junior high.
>>
>>Mary
> OK, probably won't seem like a big deal to most, but for me, I remember
>buying a bottle of Pepsi for $0.40.. <sigh> In GLASS bottles, no less! (those
>were the days, I tell ya! Just ain't the same from plastic/tin.. I could
>barely drink it for months after they discontinued glass bottles!)
Does anyone remember the Pepsi jingle?
"Pepsi-Cola hits the spot.
12 full ounces, that's a lot.
Twice as much, just a nickel too.
Pepsi-Cola is the drink for you."
etc.
I guess this dates me hopelessly. Can I cheat and say that I heard it
in some oldies radio show?
Joan
Joan Ellis
Lyndon Watson <L.Wa...@csc.canterbury.ac.nz> (Lyndon Watson) wrote:
>In article <324DF9...@concentric.net>, jmo...@concentric.net writes:
>> Buying a sqaure of ice cream (5 cents I think) and a package of graham
>> crackers (2 cents) and making a little ice cream sandwich...
>We buy those here - a little block of vanilla ice cream with a pair of
>sweet wafers. They're called "Eskimo pies".
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Lyndon Watson L.Wa...@csc.canterbury.ac.nz
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>eskimo ... esquimo ... esckimoe ... yoskimoo ... nothing looks right.
It's esquimaux.
In the US eskimo pies are ice cream covered with chocolate on a stick.
Joan
David Wright
jo...@ix.netcom.com (Joan Ellis) wrote:
>Does anyone remember the Pepsi jingle?
> "Pepsi-Cola hits the spot.
> 12 full ounces, that's a lot.
> Twice as much, just a nickel too.
> Pepsi-Cola is the drink for you."
> etc.
>I guess this dates me hopelessly. Can I cheat and say that I heard it
>in some oldies radio show?
>Joan
Only if you *don't* know what times to have a Dr. Pepper!
David
Madelin Holtkamp
Our high school cafeteria was so good that they had to limit the number
of community people who could drop in each day. It was the "hot ticket."
My favorites were the macaroni and cheese, made from scratch with great
cheddar, the baked fish on Fridays (never over-cooked), and the lemon
meringue
pie, with a buttery crust and home made filling. When I started mu first
restaurant, the high school cafeteria was a model for me, and people
really loved well-prepared down home favorites.
Marci Swede
Lori M. Sulik (su...@worldnet.att.net) wrote:
: OK, probably won't seem like a big deal to most, but for me, I remember
: buying a bottle of Pepsi for $0.40.. <sigh> In GLASS bottles, no less! (those
: were the days, I tell ya! Just ain't the same from plastic/tin.. I could
: barely drink it for months after they discontinued glass bottles!)
Come up to Buffalo, New York where soda is still sold in glass bottles (at
least as of last July)!
marci
Robbyn
In article <539it9$a...@college.antioch.edu>, jja...@college.antioch.edu (Julie James) wrote:
>Didn't anyone else have to eat fish sticks every friday (wasn't a
>catholic school, but catholic influence was aparent in the menu)?
Didn't go to a catholic school, but the community was VERY catholic at the
time. Hence Fridays = fish sticks or tuna fish sandwiches <bleah>
Loved the parslied potatoes though....
Best - Robbyn
Princess Di
In <53c3d7$5...@news-central.tiac.net> moon...@tiac.net (Robbyn )
writes:
Along with all this, I remember the truly creative desserts -- one day
was cake, the next vanilla pudding, the third day -- pudding surprise!
They's mix the leftover cake and leftover pudding and slop it all in
those NASTY GREEN PLASTIC COMPARTMENT TRAYS!!!!! If that wasn't enough
to turn your stomach!
DR
Nothing worse than a school cafeteria tuna sandwich...<YUK>
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I remember getting "tuckshop" in primary school. We lived in a small
town in New Zealand and you wrote your order on a brown paper bag, all
orders were collected (money inside) and taken down to the local fish and
chip shop. By lunch time it was all delivered and you would wait for
your name to be called. I loved the pineapple fritters!
I just read someone's thread about college food, and it brought back some
nasty food memories. A guy I knew at the time used to drive for a meat
company and he said there were three levels of meat
1st went to butchers for homes
2nd went to gov't institutions, like prisons
3rd went to educational institutions, gov't and private
I believe him!
Tania
Thomas & Mona Barham
quite interesting...and different, for us americans! thanx for sharing!
Ted Samsel
David Wright (dtwr...@texas.net) wrote:
: > "Pepsi-Cola hits the spot.
: > 12 full ounces, that's a lot.
: > Twice as much, just a nickel too.
: > Pepsi-Cola is the drink for you."
: > etc.
:
: >I guess this dates me hopelessly. Can I cheat and say that I heard it
: >in some oldies radio show?
:
: >Joan
:
: Only if you *don't* know what times to have a Dr. Pepper!
I went to Delaware and no one had ever heard of Delaware Punch.
And then there was Hippo Size (sickeningly sweet Mexican style
soda water out of San Antonio with a uniquely baroque bottle design.
Looked like the Taj Mahal on a fluted oil drum.)
--
Ted Samsel....tejas@infi.net "Took all the money I had in the bank,
Bought a rebuilt carburetor,
put the rest in the tank."
USED CARLOTTA.. 1995
B GOOGLE
I taught one year in a rural school which shall remain unnamed. Every
week we had mashed potatoes covered with chicken gravy and noodles - with
baked beans and a slice of bread on the side. Curious!!
Barb
Nancy Dooley
In article <53e4l6$o...@newsbf02.news.aol.com> bgo...@aol.com (B GOOGLE) writes:
>From: bgo...@aol.com (B GOOGLE)
>Subject: Re: School Cafeteria Memories?
>Date: 8 Oct 1996 13:56:54 -0400
>Barb
It would certainly make for a lethargic, sleepy, trouble-free class!
Nancy Dooley
"Celebrate our State." Iowa's Sesquicentennial year, 1846-1996.
Kathryn Dudley
I don't even know how to describe this item, let's see:
it was a dessert
it was dark brown (I guess supposed to be chocolate)
tasted of peanut butter
had oatmeal visibly embedded
was not a cookie, not fudge, somewhere in between.
After eating it several times I got to where I liked it alot. However, I
remember a schoolmate's mother made it at home and I was stunned. School
Food?!?! Actually now I'd like to see a recipe to see what's in the darn
thing!
kAThrYN
Andre Susanto
Well, this one I will never forget. The menu changes week by week, sure
we had some of the same stuff a lot (twice, three times a month) but the
one thing that I've only had once was called Pork Cutlet Surprise. It
ended up being some type of fried breaded fish in meat gravy. I shudder
everytime I remember eating that.
Mary Ash
Probably a school style fudge drop. I've seen various configurations of
this type of cookie, depending on what school I was attending. Being a
navy brat, I saw a lot of different schools when growing up.
Mary
K.Kosuge
I wrote before about the special Friday lunch of Hamburgers, fries,
spinach and ice cream for dessert, but I just remembered something
else about that meal. At the end of the cafeteria line on Fridays,
they had a squeeze bottle full of vinegar. For thirty years, I've
been wondering what in the world the vinegar was for!
I used to see kids squirting the vinegar onto their plates, but I
never knew which food they were using in on or more
importantly--WHY???
Does anybody out there use vinegar on their hamburgers, fries, or
spinach?
Karen K.
--
Karen Kosuge
***BLOOM WHERE YOU ARE PLANTED***
dwel...@gil.com.au
: they had a squeeze bottle full of vinegar. For thirty years, I've
: been wondering what in the world the vinegar was for!
: Does anybody out there use vinegar on their hamburgers, fries, or
: spinach?
: Karen K.
YUMMO, vinegar on chips. English habit I think but boy it is good!
Tania
Brisbane Australia
David Wright
Kko...@stlnet.com (K.Kosuge) wrote:
>Does anybody out there use vinegar on their hamburgers, fries, or
>spinach?
>Karen K.
(Raising both hands) here's my vote for spinach, especially if the
vinegar has chiles in it.
David
Jim Bird
In article <325AE5...@bgsm.edu> Kathryn Dudley <kdu...@bgsm.edu> writes:
>From: Kathryn Dudley <kdu...@bgsm.edu>
>Subject: Re: School Cafeteria Memories?
>I don't even know how to describe this item, let's see:
>it was a dessert
>it was dark brown (I guess supposed to be chocolate)
>tasted of peanut butter
>had oatmeal visibly embedded
>was not a cookie, not fudge, somewhere in between.
>After eating it several times I got to where I liked it alot. However, I
>remember a schoolmate's mother made it at home and I was stunned. School
>Food?!?! Actually now I'd like to see a recipe to see what's in the darn
>thing!
It sounds like you're describing what my mom calls "Uncooked Cookies." I
believe this recipe just made the rounds within the last week. But you've got
the basic ingredients: semi-sweet chocolate, peanut butter, oats melted
together and dropped onto waxed paper to cool. Once I was old enough to cook,
I would make my own batches. YMMM!
Jim Bird
Nancy Dooley
In article <325b1cf9...@news.stlnet.com> Kko...@stlnet.com (K.Kosuge) writes:
>From: Kko...@stlnet.com (K.Kosuge)
>Subject: Re: School Cafeteria Memories?
>I wrote before about the special Friday lunch of Hamburgers, fries,
>spinach and ice cream for dessert, but I just remembered something
>else about that meal. At the end of the cafeteria line on Fridays,
>they had a squeeze bottle full of vinegar. For thirty years, I've
>been wondering what in the world the vinegar was for!
>I used to see kids squirting the vinegar onto their plates, but I
>never knew which food they were using in on or more
>importantly--WHY???
>Does anybody out there use vinegar on their hamburgers, fries, or
>spinach?
Spinach. It's the only way to eat it. ;-)
(Try a wedge of crisp iceberg lettuce, sprinkled with vinegar and a small
dusting of regular granulated sugar. Great salad!)
Jim Bird
In article <325b1cf9...@news.stlnet.com> Kko...@stlnet.com (K.Kosuge) writes:
>From: Kko...@stlnet.com (K.Kosuge)
>Subject: Re: School Cafeteria Memories?
>Date: Wed, 09 Oct 1996 05:00:48 GMT
>I wrote before about the special Friday lunch of Hamburgers, fries,
>spinach and ice cream for dessert, but I just remembered something
>else about that meal. At the end of the cafeteria line on Fridays,
>they had a squeeze bottle full of vinegar. For thirty years, I've
>been wondering what in the world the vinegar was for!
>I used to see kids squirting the vinegar onto their plates, but I
>never knew which food they were using in on or more
>importantly--WHY???
>Does anybody out there use vinegar on their hamburgers, fries, or
>spinach?
>Karen K.
>--
> Karen Kosuge
> ***BLOOM WHERE YOU ARE PLANTED***
I can't eat spinach WITHOUT vinegar. I wish my school had given us that
option. But then it was canned spinach, so I'd just throw it away anyway.
Vinegar on french fries. MMMMMM! I learned about this in British Columbia
when I was about nine years old. Now if we're someplace that has vinegar
offered as a condiment, I'll opt for that instead of catsup. (most fish and
chips places do).
Jim Bird
Nita Richard
Come on now...surely you know...Fridays - fish. Vinegar is great on fish.
But I agree with the spinach too!
--
Nita Richard
Georgia Institute of Technology, "Home of the 1996 Olympic Village" Atlanta Georgia, 30332-0181
Internet: nita.r...@vpea.gatech.edu (404)894-8395
Diane Pasta
I love vinegar on fries. Got used to it with fish and chips with
vinegar.
Lex
--
Lexanne Bumm and Diane Pasta, Seattle
Gordon
Our cafeteria in elementary school had a real working traffic light on the
wall. It was usually yellow, which meant talk quietly, but sometimes it was
red, which meant shut the hell up you rotten brats! We never did get to see
it ever green! :)
In high school, if I didn't want any of the food, I remembered surviving
on an apple Tastykake pie (.25), a fountain coke (.15), and a couple ice
cream sandwiches (.20 each). I never had a problem with falling asleep in
school then! This was in the late 70's.
--
Gordon Charrick g...@universe.digex.net
http://universe.digex.net/~gmc
He's your god. They're your rules. You burn in hell!
Pulliam-Schiele
Kko...@stlnet.com (K.Kosuge) wrote:
>Does anybody out there use vinegar on their hamburgers, fries, or
>spinach?
Yes, yes, yes! To both spinach and fries, although it needs to be that
really excellent *malt* vinegar for my fries!
Squeaks
Proud alumna of Dept. of Defense Dependent Schools
and an *Overseas Brat*
Hand Salute!
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Thomas & Mona Barham
In <325b1cf9...@news.stlnet.com> Kko...@stlnet.com (K.Kosuge)
writes:
>I wrote before about the special Friday lunch of Hamburgers, fries,
>spinach and ice cream for dessert, but I just remembered something
>else about that meal. At the end of the cafeteria line on Fridays,
>they had a squeeze bottle full of vinegar. For thirty years, I've
>been wondering what in the world the vinegar was for!
>
>I used to see kids squirting the vinegar onto their plates, but I
>never knew which food they were using in on or more
>importantly--WHY???
>
>spinach?
>
>--
> Karen Kosuge
>
> ***BLOOM WHERE YOU ARE PLANTED***
seafood, and some people put vinegar on fish.
Mona