That's really depressing knowing that that's what is being served in our public schools.
Not that I appreciated it, but almost everything that we had in our school lunchroom was prepared on site. Even if they served hamburgers, they made the buns from scratch. My how things have changed in the past 20 years.
It's not hard to get them mixed up since they're all so good!
Actually, the "tacos de chapulines" are served at Oyamel.
i don't know about these days but when i was in high school in the early eighties we had lunch ladies that made the best rolls and you could smell them baking all over the school...i liked chili with rice day because it came with cinnamon rolls and was pretty tasty. my friends mother was the head lunch lady.
let's see if i can remember elementary school lunches in new jersey... there were the pork roll sandwiches,2 pieces of pork roll on a bun... that was it. friday was pizza hoagies..cheese, sauce and a somewhat toasted roll. and i think we had something that resembled a fish sandwich every so often. and veggies.... tator tots and not much else. of course if you didn't like the main lunch you could always get PBJ... not too much of the jelly to call it that though.
Ahh mystery meat. It's rainbow hued sheen of rancid oil and stringy gray appearance haunts me still. Only a good game of jello cube stacking could take our minds off the horror.
The worst had to be the turkey and gravy at my primary & elementary schools (they had the same kitchen.) The gravy was good, the mashed potatoes were passable, and half the 1/2 inch cubes of turkey were good. The other half were pure fat; I've never seen anywhere you could slice fat like that off a turkey, so I always wondered where it came from!
The french bread pizzas were really good, though!
If schools are feeding this to their bodies, imagine what they're feeding to their minds. shameful.
I mostly 'brought' my lunch but got to pick a few days a month from a calendar they sent out. I always got chili for unknown reasons. I hate it to this day - the only thing I can think of as a reason was that it came with cinnamon bread.
They also had this 'pizza bread' which was tomato sauce and that industrial shredded cheese on a baguette which I loved but am not so sure I would love today!
The Taco Boat.
a "crispy" aka wet and chewy, boat shaped shell, filled with playdough consistency melted cheese, spotted with things supposed to be ground meat but looking like those mini chocolate chips. disgusting. tho they did bounce well....
@ Mike13241:
The chalupa! It was awesome! (I'm not even sure I am being sarcastic about that). I would douse the cheese carpet layer with a couple of packets of that mysterious spicy taco sauce. That infamous school lunch "orange grease" would trail down the inside of our forearms as we ate them. Ugh.
My High School has pretty good food, surprisingly. We have burgers, sandwiches, and quesadillas cooked on the spot along with the normal hot lunches and even Sushi! The sushi was terrible though... Also we're allowed to order food to be delivered to the school during lunch, or go off campus and eat wherever. Thank you rich Long Island school!
Although now that I htink about it, I do remember finding a butter wrapper in my soup back in Middle school. That and chicken nuggets that bounced pretty well
Gramma was a real, live lunch lady who retired at the end of my sophomore year in HS. What I recall is that the school only served pizza once a month - MAYBE. We had meals. They used the government commodities to their fullest potential. We had beef stew with Gramma's biscuits! Yes, there were the spaghetti days, meat loaf days...and everyone's favorite - Texas Straw Hat. While all the veggies were usually overcooked, the most disgusting thing was always the spinach. Nasty, vile looking stuff!
Then, all the lunch ladies retired and the school started serving pizza every week...by the time my kids were in high school, it was twice a week. At that time, there were ala carte options, but sadly, salad wasn't an option. I always wrote notes at the beginning of the year so that my kids could run home for lunch - we lived a block away.
Even now, I receive the school newsletter and shake my head at the continuous offering of pizza twice a week and sandwiches.
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