Scool Cafeteria Food..

[daveamkrayoguy]

Yes, ABBY LOVES JOE(Y)!!!!

Well, knock Bar S if you must, but it doesn't say Pork HEARTS like Oscar Mayer does--and I always feel guilty having anything that brand in our house (my sister will go as far as to buy only Kosher Bologna and Kosher Hot Dogs that are NOT Hebrew National, while as for the latter I do, too...) --And too much, really, to elaborate on now... 'Cept Bar S has those annoying BANDS around each piece, and an ODD NUMBER of meat in each pkg. but I buy two or more anyway--just to have regular, regular-thick, beef, each in the 1 LB and the 1/2 pound of regular, just to make a good variety & I feel sorry for stuff that doesn't sell...

 

(My sister's old school-crush that I worked with at Arbor Drugs gave slow selling stuff the "Nobody ever buys this stuff" comment & you saw where some of his pay from working there went...)

 

So happy holidays to you all--and now my wife & I are the Mom & Dad who can hardly wait for school to start again!!!! (LOL!)

 

 

-- Dave

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[petek]

Dave

Why won't she buy the Hebrew National hot dogs ?  

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

I don't know--might be because that there are only seven, as opposed to the proper eight--that is why I don't often buy them unless I put 'em in crescent rolls...

 

Really, the reason is she will go to the kosher store for the bologna, so it's a matter of convenience to buy the Aaron's brand of both the hot dogs and bologna, that store carries; that's what I once did for the former...

 

Though my brother-in-law drank up my Pimm's drink I made to go with the special dinner I made that one day....

 

 

 

-- Dave

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[daveamkrayoguy]

Eckrich

Well,while we're on the subject of bologna (or baloney) and bologna sandwiches, what about another brand I've rediscovered, that I didn't know or just plain forgot even still existed & that's Eckrich! My latest (though hard to get the open packages, as opposed to the other products, to pose!) sandwich creation:

 

(And let's not forget those neat commercials w/ those Keebler-like characters, Georghe & Ralph w/ their mother ending w/ the line: "Behave, Ralph!" or "Ralph, Behave!"...  The jingle was "Eckrich brings good meats from the heartland, and the secret ingredient is Mom...", as well as 'When you want to eat good, Come to Our House..."...

 

 

-- Dave

 

[vacerator]

I bought

some Ekrich hot dogs last week. It was on sale. Bar S the week before.
Son eats them, so good enough.
Where I was born, they call balogna Jumbo. They had chipped ham too. I think Lawson's stores used to call it that up here. They were like a 7-11 but with a deli.

 

[petek]

I didn't eat much in our h.s. cafeteria as we lived close enough to walk home for lunch if not that then there was always McDonalds close by or more often the White Knight restaurant in a nearby plaza we'd go and order some fries, coffee and sit around and smoke.  What I do remember about the cafeteria was that the vast majority of kids would dump their bagged lunches into the garbage and order fries and gravy and corn or something like that.  The food waste was enormous.  Only a couple or three years back my old highschool held its 50th anniversary so I had to go and see what had changed.. It looked much the same but now only has about 500 students compared to around 1600 when I attended in 69 - 73. The shops are mostly gone and empty as is the library having few books, more puters, the rifle range gone, and all the vending machines only dispense "healthy" choices,  no chips, candy etc.. bummer. 

 

 

[iheartmaytag]

When eating at the school

I can honestly say that most of the food was pretty good. 

 

In my day, the food was actually prepared in the school kitchen by the lunch ladies.  It was served hot in the divided trays and was of good quality most of the time.  Of course, there was the occasional meal that you didn't like, I never did take a liking to their Chli-Mac.  The mashed potatoes were made from real potatoes not instant, and almost always had a fresh hot roll, biscuit, or cookie every day.

 

Now, the lunches my daughter receives in middle school are prepared in a central kitchen, served either cold, or having been kept at temp or rewarmed are soggy, mushy, or dried out.  Her favorite lunch day is Thursday, that's when they can order a slice of Pizza Hut pizza that is delivered hot. 

 

 

 

[kenwashesmonday]

In high school, we had a hot lunch line and a cold lunch line.

I liked it when they had Chicken Chow Mein. Because it wasn't popular, the hot lunch line was short, and the lunch ladies really piled it on!

 

[twintubdexter]

When I was in grade school, cafeteria lunches cost 35 cents. The most hated thing they served was canned spinach. You could smell it cooking early in the morning. The kids organized a sort of "spinach boycott" paying for their lunches in pennies. This really slowed things down and caused some definite problems, but we inmates had little power and the guards remained in control of the prison. The spinach continued.

 

[tolivac]

In our old High School-Central High in downtown Rapid City,SD-their lunches were catored.DELICIOUS food-better than most restuarants.Then the school had to go on the dreaded school lunch program.By them the new Stevens High open and I went to that school.Lucky there was a Dairy Queen restaurant with a short walk.The lunch periods were "open"You could go off campus to eat as long as you got back in time for class.