School Dinners!

Burritos have come a long, long way since third grade.

I would've been teh ultimate fatty, though.

Middle school: inspired packed lunches of sandwich, own-brand crisps, apple and Club or Penguin. Enlivened at one time by introduction of Smiths(?) crisps with FLAVOUR sachets, not salt.

Steiner school: no packed lunches allowed. Wholefoody vegetarian dinners cooked from scratch every day, we had to set up and clear away our own tables and mop the floor afterwards. From about age 12 I used to sneak in white bread sandwiches and crisps, sit eating nothing at lunch, then at break run off into the woods with my friends to eat them. Occasionally we built a fire in the 'playground' and baked potatoes in it - it was that kind of school.

State secondary school: I don't think I ever even went into the canteen, much too scary. Packed lunches eaten outside in a huddle with my other unpopular friends haha. Occasional forays to local community centre for cheap toasties and hot chocolate.

i didnt like the other stuff

i took pack lunches in the end. tuna is nicer, and healthier

i never smoked at school

i did put a butthole surfers tape on in the common room, once, but that was at another school, that we had to go to for one lesson. it didnt last long

this is too much like reminiscence of school days. disgusting stuff, should be abolished

oops, i forgot Albany. i have been, fleetingly, on I-90

this is not nice stuff to reminisce about.

people, never forget this

Typically the hotdogs had little hairs on them if you looked close. Some sort of animal cock we were eating.

Then they had "Bacon" burgers which were these chicken patty looking things which tasted remarkably like bacon. Who knows what they were made of.

School pizza was this soggy concoction of shit

The other grade schools? Well, one didn't really have a full-service cafeteria, so we always got, like, sandwiches and carrot sticks and chips, which was pretty nice. Like bringing in lunch from home without having to tote it around with you. The second one had... well... unremarkable food, really. Neither good nor bad. But I didn't fall ill immediately after eating it, so, well, yay!

High school -- the cafeteria was spotless and the health & safety evaluations always drew top marks, but the food was traditionally terrible and revolting. The burrito, which I got my first or second week at school, convinced me I should bring my own lunch in every day. Which I did until I graduated from the place. And I learned, the first day I brought in a lunch, that I really shouldn't stick any sort of food at all in the lockers, as there was a particularly unsavory individual in my homeroom, who had a locker close to mine, who kept unopened food in her locker. There was a host of ants in the general vicinity of the school. Yup, you guessed it -- her locker was TEEMING with ants, many of which would be attracted to the (sealed) food in the surrounding lockers, which meant my first brought-in lunch was infested with ants! How fun (not). So I toted around my lunch bag throughout the course of the day from that point on. No more ants!

(My books were never in danger, BTW. They liked food, not paper.)

For dessert, we'd have "horny toads", a clump of peanut butter and cornflakes thrown together. George Washington Carver would've been proud of our kitchen staff.

They added the salad bar in 1985. THAT, and dancing finally being allowed, made me think that my school had at last become somewhat cosmopolitan. It was at the salad bar that my friend Jeremey told me that the spaceship with the teacher inside it had blowed up.

Our pizzas were rectangular.

Anyway, only POVS had skool dinners. We used to eat them by the infants pegs if we weren't allowed on the grass but if we WERE allowed on the grass, me, B, A and E (who totally dumped us when we went to high school and I don't blame her) would go and sit in "the shade" which was a little triangle in the far corner by a small projecting gray stone. That's where A told us that if you ate yellow grass it would taste of bananas and if you ate red grass it would taste of strawberry. We didn't take her up on this suggestion, of course.

Sometimes we'd get sweets from the ice cream van. Julia and Matthew were going to SNOG behind the ice cream van once but they didn't in the end, but we all gathered there waiting for them.

I'm going to partake of school lunch today. Chicken-fried steak (or a fascmile), potatoes au gratin, spinach, roll. $2.25. not bad.

This is not funny, obv.

Pupils go wild on spiked school dinners

*Stifled laugh* No sir, not funny in the slightest.

We had really good dinners at my school, I always used to either have burger or hot dog with chips. My mum would ask me what I got and I'd lie and say it was something healthy.