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Submitted by Michiru K
My school always served square pizza on Fridays. I distinctly remember the lunch lines being twice as long on those days because it was the only thing they served that didn’t taste like, uh, crap.
Any other cafeteria favorites?
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I remember at my elementary school they used to have the option of having the milk from a carton or having it from a little plastic bag that you had to puncture with the straw.
Potentially it was very messy, but darn if drinking my strawberry-flavored milk out of that little plastic baggy wasn’t a LOT more fun than just out of the carton.
My elementary school still serves square pizza its just not fair
i remember we used to have those last year, but the lunch ladies became lazy and decided to ORDER pizza
oh and does n e 1 remember the circular pizzas every third friday?
Hell yeah!
Oocha Eecha one two threecha / Gonna eat a breadtangle of pizza!
YES!!!!!! TEEN GIRL SQUAD!!!!!!!!
Lol. Just watched that tonight xD
AAAAAH! Everytime I tell people about the milk bags in gradeschool they don’t believe me! They only lasted about a month though becasue kids snuck them out into the playground and used them like water balloons. Did you go to school in Phoenix?
I lived in FL and we had those bags in middle school!
In the 1970’s, in the UK they would serve us ‘curry’ – slightly greenish TVP (Textured Vegetable Protein) with the odd sultana drowning in it on over cooked white rice.
Took me a decade to try real curry and discover how delicious it is.
FF
Here in the states it was chicken chop suey: giant hunks of celery, moderate hunks of cooked to shreds chicken, bean sprouts, and a corn-starch gravy.
Much as I loathed it then, nowadays I remember it with nostalga.
Mostly when I’m eating 90% TVP chicken nuggets!
The secret to my special curry is one nose hair and 2 pubic hairs.
I always loved the oven fried chicken and the hamburger gravy over mashed potatoes.
I would kill for that hamburger gravy over mashed potatoes!
Before every Thanksgiving holiday, my school would serve pumpkin pie with a dollop of whipped cream.
Nobody liked pumpkin pie.
Except me.
Most of the kids would give it to me… oh gawd, I got to eat sooo much pumpkin pie. Great memories.
And no, I’m not Eric Cartman.
NOBODY else in your class liked pumpkin pie? HEATHENS! Bonus for you, though.
I know, weird. One of things I like about Fall is pumpkin pie!
I don’t like pumpkin ANYTHING. Sweet potato pie is much GODLIER
YES
YES IT IS
I bet you are fater then Cartman.
I bet you don’t know how to spell “fatter.”
Also, it’s “than,” not “then.”
“Then” refers to time.
I bet u can spell “Troll” Sharmed ..jezz
Oh man that and salisbury steak were the two bestest things in school cafeteria lunches. Toss in a side of tater tots and fruit cocktail and you’ve got yourself a regular school meal!
Oh my god, the tator tots. The holy grail of cafeteria food.
lol i live in Australia and we dont have cafeterias, we have over priced tuckshops. mostly we all just sandwiches juice and fruit… unless someone manages to smuggle in contraban ie caffeine, sugar, fun!! lol. aint life fun?! we dont have mystery meat, mostly we know what were eating, unless its devon, that really is a mystery (YUCK)lol
School meal = FAIL by definition. *PUKE*
This! I think the only thing in school lunch I didn’t hate was hot dogs….and that’s not saying much. It’s kinda hard to ruin a hot dog.
Heh. Somebody went into the cafeteria and pulled a prank involving sliding the skins off of the corn dogs, then taking out the big holding sticks inside of them, and then sliding in a small twig right before hot dog day when I was in elementary school. I never knew what they plugged into that little hole at the end with, since I took a big bite into that hot dog, pulled out the stick, just left it there, my appetite gone. That ruined my hot dog experience for awhile after, until somebody marinated some hot dogs in tabasco. It actually tasted pretty good.
are you kidding, our hot dogs were terrible. boiled/steamed with overgrown end skins and sometimes they were greenish, how could that happen
You never went to my caf- they tasted like gas station hot dogs (in times of desperation, we all do things we will regret for the rest of our lives)
Seriously, they were lukewarm and squirted this orange stuff when you chewed. I’m fairly sure it was ‘beef parts’ rather than ‘beef.’ Then again, this is the same caf that didn’t bother to take the seran wrap off of the square pizzas, so when they ovened it the plastic fused with the cheese.
Haha. My cafeteria also neglected to pull plastic off of various food products. Plastic-ky chicken nuggets, mmm.
Did every school cafeteria in the world serve corn with pizza? I know they had to sneak a vegetable in there…but, why corn?
Because corn is good!!
Also, it’s not a vegetable; it’s a grain.
They wanted to make us delirious with carb consumption…look at the contents of this tray! It literally is sugar, dairy, and carbs!! I remember constantly falling asleep in class after lunch, now I know why.
Corn was about the only vegetable I would eat in school lunches. I hate mushy, cooked carrots (give me raw’n'crunchy any day), and they overcooked the green beans until they were the consistency of wet twigs. That was pretty much it for cooked veggies in my school system–I never encountered the mythical “vegetable medley” that Chef serves the South Park kids. The only other veggie of any kind that I remember getting in school lunches was raw celery spread with peanut butter (which I would always scoop out with a spoon and discard the celery), and whatever veggies that were underneath the slimy chicken broth in the chicken pot pie.
haha, they were cooked so much at my school, they squeaked when you ate them
I can do you one better. The local elementary schools serve corn on Mexican food day: burritos in a corn tortilla, corn chips, AND corn on the cob! And the fruit is almost always pineapple chunks, which is as close to looking like corn kernels as fruit gets.
Mine totally served corn. AND I LOVED IT
They serve corn with Pizza because it contains vitamin B-12. The pizza they serve is actually filled with vitamins (but that still doesn’t make it the healthiest of course) except B-12.
I am a teacher and I’m here to tell you they STILL serve corn with pizza. Honestly, sometimes at Pizza Hut I crave some corn! lol
Oh man, I loved those pizzas. They always came in a plastic bag and trying to get them out meant you ate the bread first and then licked the cheese off. Of course, it taste like plastic but we didn’t care.
Not me.
We had the rectangular pieces of pepperoni
We’d take OFF the cheese, pick out the pepperoni & eat everything separately.
we still have these.
Middle School was land of hte square Pizza. I also remember nachos. High school was weird we had doubled mini food court type things. (Two seperate cafeterias. )Pizza slices but no change in taste!
We have two canteens at our school. One serves mostly cooked stuff and the other serves sandwhiches etc.
My middle school had one main lunch-buying area, but also carts throughout the campus (oh god I can still taste those cinnamon buns). The main area was set up like the line for a theme park, except with one window in each of the rows, and each window had different food. Nothing was worse than spending half your lunch waiting in line only to find out that they switched which windows had what. And they gave you jalapenos to put on your pizza. WTF?
The thing I remember the most about these trays was pizza day.. Pizza was cut to perfectly fit in the large square…
At my school we had the “Hot lunch” line with a different lunch every day… or the Burger and fries line… I always went down the burger line. It always made me smile that to get the nutrition up, they added OJ.
I actually liked the school pizza. Didn’t like much else they had.
O_O OMG! I looooooooooooooooove the square pizza! I couldn’t wait til Friday came around (not because it was almost the weekend), but because of the pizza! W00T! Sadly the closest thing I’ve come to is Ellio’s Pizza.
Try the Kid Cuisine meal if you can get them, it’s pretty much the same…even includes corn.
me and the mizz just went through a case of these. Gordon Food Service Tony’s School Pizza FTW!!!!q!!1!
I went to elementary school in the 60’s. yes. I’m old. Those were the days when the lunch ladies actually COOKED the food, right at school! And, it was really good. My favorite was the turkey in gravy over mashed potatoes. Talk about comfort food at it’s best! I still make this at home.
I grew up in the south and attended k-9 in rural schools. The lunches were prepared from scratch each day and were homestyle. At the time I puzzled at why we were served such a complete meal during lunch until it was pointed out to me that for many of the students attending that was the most complete meal they would have that day.
It made me appreciate their efforst even more. I miss the peanutbutter balls the most.
These sound great!! Nowadays they could give a crap whether they shove greasy pre-packaged crap down our throats…. Laziness at its best
That’s why I packed a lunch : )
Ever watch Paula Deen on Food Network? On her older show, she mentioned loving the peanut butter balls made in cafeteria of the school she attended. Years later Paula met the daughter of the/one of the lunch ladies who gave her the recipe for Peanut Butter Balls.
Paula has featured the recipe on her shows multiple times AND it’s up on the Food Network website. Here’s the recipe…
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Peanut Butter Balls
Recipe courtesy Paula Deen
Serves:
18 to 24 balls
Ingredients
* 1 cup peanut butter
* 1 cup honey
* 2 cups powdered milk
* 1 1/2 cups crushed cornflakes, 1 1/2 cups finely chopped walnuts or pecans, or 1 cup powdered sugar
Directions
Mix peanut butter, honey, and milk together to form very thick mixture. Roll out in small balls about the size of a walnut. Then roll in crushed cornflakes, finely chopped nuts, or powdered sugar. Place on waxed paper and refrigerate.
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I don’t know if the PB balls you remember were rolled in anything — but I left that part of the recipe in just in case.
our high school served something very similar to this. But, instead of being in balls the cornflakes were mixed into the peanut butter mixture, and cut into square bars. our lunch ladies would make enough to serve them 3 days in a row. the 1st day the bars were nice and gooey, but by day 3 they were kinda dry and hard to eat.
That picture, with all the starch, canned veg (mostly starch) and sugary canned fruit, plus an additional pretzel for more starch, is everything that is wrong with American school lunches today. No wonder we’re a nation of fatsos.
Amen to That! We train our kids to eat sugar and refined carbs and wonder why they’re the size of the Goodyear Blimp by high school.
I too went to school in the sixties, and yes the lunchladies really did know how to cook.
My favorite was the “no knead” yeast rolls straight from the Joy of Cooking. They’d start cooking those things about 10 am every morning and I’d smell them for an hour or two before I got to eat, depending on what grade I was in at the time.
Like someone else said, it was great that I got that meal because i grew up very poor, and the best meals my mother could cook was spaghetti in a can and boiled weiners for supper.
I did eat lunch from time to time with my daughters, and that was the square pizza era – I was appalled how terrible the food was. I mostly tried to send them with lunch bags.
Living in The Netherlands, you always had to bring your own lunch, no such things as school cafeterias exist here (or not on a wide scale like in the USA and UK).
The only things I could buy at my school were snacks like candy bars and soft drinks from a vending machine.
We had something like that when I was in elementary school. Except it was mass-produced, called “turkey chunks and gravy” (no joke), and the “gravy” was bright radioactive green.
Mm-mmm.
Turkey chunks and gravy sounds like cat food to me.
Meow?
Our school did Pizza Hut Pizza every month. The lines were 4x as long, and there were a few students (me being one) that would convince teachers to let them out a couple minutes early so they can get to the cafeteria first. Good times…
we did Pizza Hut at our school as well. cost us 1.25 a slice. but it was worth it. we also had the “store” where you could buy all sorts of candy and soda fountain drinks, chips, pretzels, etc.
then our regular lunches consisted usually of your choice of a hamburger and fries or something else. the something else varied from day to day. anyone remember cheese zombies? man, I loved those things. they were EPIC. my favorite thing @ my high school was the ice cream area. where you could make your own sundaes. best. thing. ever.
Elementary school.. bleh, all the food for the most part sucked. I just ate from the snack line. Chips.. slushies, cookies. That was epic. And when we had the salad bar.. I’d get some lettuce, cheese, and a hard boiled egg.. as they weighed the plate and you had to pay whatever it weighted.. I always came out to like a dollar so my other like three went to the snack line
In HS though we had this like.. “deli” line to get sandwiches.. and I actually ate that. And curly fries that were actually good <3
can you still by those pizzas anywhere? My aunt was a teacher so she used to get us several sheets of those on a regular basis, but I haven’t seen them anywhere lately. Where do school cafeterias usually buy their food?
You don’t want to know…. lol
Ellio’s frozen pizza 9 slice box is the closest thing, available in modst grocery stores or super centers
The company that supplies our vending machines at work puts sheet pizza in the food carousel all the time.
And glad to see someone else use the word “sheet” in reference to this type of pizza. Everyone at my school called it “sheet pizza”–if you paid attention when you went through the lunch line, you could see the lunchladies pulling the big sheets out of the ovens, and then cutting them into the smaller rectangles.
Ben E. Keith!
in elementary school: no real choice, the lunch lady put some of everything they were serving.
in middle school: I worked in the cafeteria, i ate the burgers like candy
in high school: two lines, the pizza/burger line and the actual meal line. Unless they had mac and cheese or spaghetti, I ate the pizza- when it had peperoni and the peperoni was little cubes, you could lay a napkin across the top and soak up the grease, and if it was circular cuts- it would curl up like bowls of grease and you could twist your napkin and soak it up.
cafeteria pizza is only good if its hot and you soak up the unreasonable amounts of grease!
My husband had, possibly, the worst school lunch ever. He also had the square pizza. BUT, the day after, his school would always serve something called “spoonbread”. What is spoonbread, at least according to the Mid-Del school district? Apparently, square pizza UPSIDE DOWN. Which somehow, magically, made it something completely different. That’s all it was, upside down square pizza.
He was so happy to find out that 1. there really is stuff called spoonbread and 2. it is emphatically NOT upside down pizza.
Well, it is ‘creative’, two meals out of one dish. There IS something called ’spoonbread’? I will have to Google it..
This reminds me of “pizzeria-style pizza” which was the SAME EXACT square pizza sliced into triangle slices. The square pizza was also burnt 3/4 of the time and when it wasn’t burnt it was undercooked. I just hope that the cheese on this “spoonbread” didn’t stick to the tray.
My school must have ordered them from someplace else then if everyone else thinks the square pizzas were great.
The crust on ours had a distinct taste of cardboard, the cheese was rubbery, and it always left a nice pool of orange grease on everything it touched.
And the corn? What was up with serving things like canned corn and green beans with pizza? Who actually ate that stuff. BLEH.
sure we loved it! Compared to most of the other tasteless tripe that came along the rest of the week, it was EXOTIC.
How long have these square pizzas been roaming schools?! I graduated in 2003 and they were still serving them then… who’s got the earlyest year they can remember eating these?
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This wasn’t my fave food, I prefered those weird octogon shaped pizzas with orange cheese and taco seasoning. Looooooved it!
I graduated in the US in 2007 so yes, this is still around. I was the poor kid who wasn’t poor enough to qualify for free lunches so if they didn’t serve pizza, I preferred to starve until I got home.
2001, and I had them!
I remember it from 1983, but I am sure my sis (who is older than I) had it as a freshman too.
THOSE WERE AMAZING
Try 1977–I remember them serving pizza, usually on Fridays, in middle school.
They might have served an occasional slice during elementary, but it was usually fish one week, grilled cheese the next.
What gets me, though, is they’re still doing the fish/cheese rotation, even though most Fridays are no longer fast days for Catholics. (That was the original reason for the menu.)
It just goes to show, if you want to step into a living time capsule go check out your local school cafatearia!
the two favorites in our lunch room were the square pizza and the “italian dunkers” that always followed spaghetti day, and was basically the leftover spaghetti sauce from the day before and then some cheese bread.
ITALIAN DUNKERS!!!!!!! Oh man, I thought my school was the only one who had them!!! I make them at home sometimes, over 10 years later….sad? Noooo, not at all
ewww ewww eww… I’m so lucky I had proper meals in my school only!!
The little flavored ice things in the triangular packages were the best! I don’t know how to describe them, but everyone at my elementary school loved them. I remember the special treats we had in school were around holidays. At Easter, they served little squares of cake with a single jelly bean on top.
Christmas was also cake, as well as Halloween. Just different colors. Around Thanksgiving we had a proper meal, with turkey, gravy, sweet potatoes. mmm And I remember in high school, about once a month the lunch ladies would make hand-breaded chicken. It was sooo good. The mac’n'cheese in high school was delicious as well.
I didn’t like the rectangle pizza, though (it’s not a square!!). The Mexican pizza was the best. I think someone mentioned it above. Octagon shaped.
Calypso Jubbly?
Okay, I had to look that up.
It was just like that, but I’m from the States, so we didn’t have that brand. I guess it was kind of a generic form of those.
My elementry served those ice things, called them cherry pop ups.
The triangular packages were black, right? And made of paper? I think we had them at Girl Scout camp! I remember they came in orange and grape.
I had completely forgotten about the flavored ice things. The seams on the triangle thing were 90 degrees flipped from each other, remember?
I, too went to elementary school in the 60s, and I loved almost all the food. Except the lime jello with shredded cabbage. That dish was evil.
On Fridays, it was always fish sandwiches. Yum.
Lime jello with shredded cabbage? That make me laugh so hard. xD
Tony’s Pizza in Salina, KS makes these – don’t know how wide their distribution is, but one of our neighbors there had a friend that worked there, and one time she brought us a huge box of them…we kept them in our deep freeze and baked them periodically (usually added some toppings) for dinner! Yummy!
Tony’s is a division of Schwan’s (as in, the home delivery ice cream and other stuff company).
Before my father died this past winter, he knew someone whose church 200 miles away had a fundraiser program that used Schwan’s irregulars, surplus, etc. from the Schwan’s Florence, KY pizza manufacturing plant.
You never really knew what was going to be available…
At various times I got
School pizza sheets (as good as I remembered them)
School BREAKFAST PIZZA sheets (DISGUSTING! pizza crust, sausage, cheese and GRAVY for the sauce)
Various types of Tony’s Pizza
Various types of Red Baron Pizza
Various types of Freshetta Pizza
Various types of Schwan’s Pizza from their delivery catalogue.
Unidentifiable pizza that wasn’t contaminated, but failed quality control (like once, an entire case of pizza where the crusts had been out of line on the conveyor for the sauce, and each had little to no sauce on them – but without sauce, it was easy to pull the cheese & toppings off, sauce it, and put the toppings back on).
I have SOOOO got to find out those people’s contact number so I can get on their list of contributors again.
You ever put the macaroni and cheese on top of the pizza? both tasted much better that way! also, tearing the roll in half and scooping the mashed potetoes and gravy in the middle and having it as a sandwich! yum!
I put ketchup on mine cause there was never enough sauce imo
never tried the mac n cheese pizza but i always made a mashed potato sandwich. my favorite day was always the days they served mashed potatoes
Are those metal utensils in the picture? What kind of fancy-pants school is this?
We had metal utensils in elementary school, and we were by no means a fancy-pants school. Trust me. Ugh, I think my respiratory system is permanently damaged from all the mold and mildew in the classrooms/hallways. Anyway, I think the metal utensils stopped after elem. school. We also stopped having real trays. Middle & high school was plastic sporks and styrofoam trays that said things like, “Say NO to Drugs.” Apparently it wasted too much water. I felt so weird when I went to college and started using plates and metal forks in the cafe.
My middle school had the Styrofoam trays also. But, my elementary, Jr. High and High schools (all 4 in the same system.) all had the traditional hard plastic ones. The weird part was that my middle school was set up to be able to wash dishes,they even used metal utensils.
My elementary school used plastic, but the kids had a game- every mold from the factory had a different number on it, so every spork that mold made had the number of that specific mold.
Monday, Wednesday and Friday it was a contest to see who could get the highest number- Tuesday and Thursday were the low days. If a kid was lucky enough to get one from the fabled ‘40′ mold on a high day or the mythical ‘00′ mold on a low day, they were like the king of their lunch table.
Hell, we gambled with it- kids would make a bet, take sporks without looking, yank off the plastic, and see who was higher/lower. I vaguely remember betting my chocolate milk sack once while playing, which was high stakes.
the first 3 years of elementary school for me we had plastic trays for lunch and Styrofoam trays for breakfast with metal utensils until about the 3rd grade they changed to all styrofoam trays and plastic sporks :/ that was also the year that they changed the good ol hamburgers to veggie burger. most of our conversations at lunch that year was complaining about the change and what the burgers where actually made of… we came up with some interesting ideas
Breakfast for Lunch was my favorite. Pancakes, Hashbrowns and the guys that actually had “breakfast” at school got the square Pizza in the morning.
All through elementary school I ate school lunch until 5th grade, my last year there, when I put a blanket ban on cafeteria food and ate nothing but corned beef sandwiches and Chef Boyardee ravioli from a thermos EXCEPT on breakfast-for-lunch day. We always had French Toast with hash brown triangles and frozen strawberries served, not on the French Toast, but as a side-dish. That was indeed an epic win.
Did anyone go to a school that served a treat called peanut butter fingers– they were a peanut butter/chocolate bar? They were really delicious! I also always liked french dip day at school. We’d pretend the au jus was coffee (this was in Utah, so coffee was pretty much a novelty for many kids).
I miss peanut butter fingers! Those were the best!
My favorite lunch days were tacos! Taco, corn, tater tots, and super awesome huge cinnamon rolls. Ahhhh memories…
at my elementary school, we had neon custard. Not sure what made it neon, but the day after neon custard day, all the trays would still be vaguely yellow.
my middle school would serve ‘quiche’, which was basically shortcrust plyboard in salty water. maybe some sweetcorn floating in there.
oh, and how could I forget square ice cream! It came in a huge block, and they’d just cut you off a slab!
At my school, the lunch line was the longest on the day where they did turkey and mashed potatoes. They did it maybe once or twice a month.
That was the only one I avoided in favor of hot dogs. For us, the mashed potatoes were Ok, but the “turkey” was this bird-butts-mixed-with-white-rice-and-gravy slop that looked for all the world like what came out when Russy White puked on the floor in first grade.
Aah, I used to love deep fat fried smiley faces.. until they got rid of them under the ‘healthy school scheme’
Uhg! I HATE those things! It probably doesn’t help that I only started eating them as an adult, but I just don’t see the charm in potato starch. I hate Burger King fries for the same reason–to me, they’re just not ‘real’ potatoes.
Tater Tots, on the other hand, I love! I can eat 20 of those suckers at a sitting, no problem. Nom!
I just graduated last semester (Class of ‘09) and our school still serves Smiley Fries!
my mom used to get them! I would have them with frozen peas, and fish fingers when my friends came over for ‘tea’.
Hmm. Usually the pizza at our school was terrible – had this awful, sour flavor to it. Bad dough, maybe? But every Wednesday was ROUND pizza day, and man, those round pizzas were the BEST.
Heh; the last school lunch line I stood in was in, I think, 6th grade. I didn’t care what they served, I hated it!
Then came 1986, and I was back in the lunch line in boot camp… same crappy food, but it tasted like heaven when you had one minute to cram in as much as possible. *grin*
Elementary school lunches were awful, especially the stuff that should’ve been good… like the spaghetti and the pizza! The only thing I ever liked were the chicken nuggets with mashed potatoes and gravy. Everything else was garbage.
Every friday was pizza friday. (Is there anywhere where it isn’t?) We’d have regualr pizza most of the time but someimes we’d have Dominos.
My HS had Pizza Thursdays.
OMFG you have….METAL utensils!?!?!?! in a SCHOOL!?
Oh the humanity! How can you let such dangerous objects near children! I mean…they could scoop out an eye with that spoon!
Seriously…never seen metal in a school that wasn’t attached to a desk…
We always had metal utensils (once again in the sixties).
And all the boys had pocket knives.
I saw plenty of fist fights growing up, as well as girlie slapping, hair pulling fights. I was even in a couple.
I never saw anyone use a weapon. We all knew you’d get your ass beat both at school and at home if you actually hurt someone.
Did anyone else ever have “elephant ears?” They were sugar and cinnamon pastry type things. Like a flat, dryer version of a cinnamon roll and they were GIGANTIC! School cinnamon rolls were the absolute best, too!
Oh god, my brother and I were just talking about this the other day. I miss that stuff, it was so good in a gross way. I was a little disappointed when they replaced it with Domino’s on Fridays in middle school.
When I was growing up in the ’80’s school lunches were the highlight of my life. Otherwise I went hungry or had mediocre subsistence. Definitely a much-appreciated part of school for me! I tried to eat just about everything on my plate. And the square pizza was fantastic.
up until high school, the pizza at school always sucked to me.
Same here. I just started eating pizza in high school. Somehow its better there.
Neither my elementary school nor my middle school had cafeterias, so we usually had to bring lunches from home. However, once a month we had “Fun Lunch” days where we had food from local restaurants. My personal favorite was the pizza from the Home Run Inn in Chicago.
My high school did have a cafeteria. I remember how rubbery the cheese on the pizza was. However, the cafeteria also served “Bosco Sticks” which were breadsticks full of cheese. I miss those!
My elementary and middle schools didn’t have cafeterias either. But in elementary school, we had hot lunch wednesday, which usually was hotdogs. They weren’t bad, but never pizza. And in middle school, our principal was nuts and wouldn’t allow us to talk while we ate b/c it impedes digestion. Seriously, we would get into trouble if we talked.
I will only eat this stuff if it’s drenched in ranch dressing.
Does anyone else do that?
I never did, but there was a special ed kid who would drench everything (including his fruit) in ranch dressing. I guess it floated his boat. Can’t hate people for what they like to eat, I suppose.
Pizza with ranch dressing = win!
We always had a salad bar line in my school. On pizza days there would always be a traffic jam in that line from all the pizza eaters trying to get to the ranch on the salad bar.
“Lunch today will be a breadtangle of pizza.”
http://www.homestarrunner.com/tgs8.html
Tater tots all the way. I never had them until I went to elementary school and then I couldn’t get enough of them.
Chicken ala King and Oven fried chicken were the only things worth eating at my school. Pizza was okay but since it was made in huge sheets if they didn’t get to a new slab by the time my class got in line it was always cold and not to appetizing.
I remember the cold pizza if you were in the wrong place in line- our caf had windows on all sides, so (if you were smart enough) you could guesstimate when they would get a new one and allow all the kids to cut you until you got to the right place, secretly knowing the disappointment they’d meet.
Oh man, I remember those little triangle frozen ice things! They were very rare, but delicious.
I was in three elementary schools that all had Pizza Hut pizza as an option every day. And if you ate breakfast in the mornings, you could have leftover pizza. Or cinnamon rolls in a plastic bag.
Mmm.
My high school actually had really good breakfast. They had the BEST BISCUITS AND GRAVY. Even if kids didn’t eat breakfast normally, they would on biscuits and gravy day.
Mine weren’t square, but rectangular with one side rounded, hard to explain, though when I transferred schools, they actually ordered pizzas instead of making their own, of course, that was when I was diagnosed with a casiene intolerance before the medication was invented…
Is that a bag of Mustard on the Prezel?
That is gross!
We call them packets.
Our school had “hot packs” and “cold packs” and it was a foil tin covered in foil with a tray that was paper covered in plastic that had the other stuff. Pizza day was great! I always loved that. And marzetti day was good, because that was mostly spagetti with cheese on top. The shredded turkey in gravy was awesome. I would dump my mashed potatoes from the small section into it, shred my roll and add butter it was so good.
Pizza day in high school had these fiesta pizzas. They were kinda octagonal and SOOOOOOO good with ranch. Actually I had ranch with everything in high school. Man, I need to find those and get some ranch.
I actually liked a lot of the school foods. Pizza was of course, a perennial favorite. I also enjoyed grilled cheese day, which was always served with tomato soup (and I always got everyones’ because no one else liked their tomato soup). Some days we’d have these dessert things… they were like a cross between a blondie and a fruit cookie, god they were so good. I haven’t yet found anything quite like them. The classic huge chocolate chip cookies which were always slightly undercooked in the middle (and delicious for it). We also had taco day, which was great. And the meatball subs.
Actually, come to think of it, there wasn’t a whole lot of the school food that I didn’t enjoy. Either I’m crazy or my school’s quality of food was above bar (I’d bet on the former before the latter).
I loved school lunches too!
I loved those cookies. I’ve been trying to reproduce them for awhile. Also, my school for field trips packed peanut butter, jelly and cheese sandwiches. I guess the cheese helped fill a nutritional requirement, but it was on top so you could take if off really easy. That being said, I loved those sandwiches. That government cheese was the best.
whyyyyyyyy has no one mentioned the dino shaped chicken nuggets?! i swear, somehow the dino shapes made them better than regular ones. i almost never bought my lunch, but rectangle pizzas and dino chicken nuggets were exceptions
The one thing I would wait in a lunch line for, no matter what, were the French toast sticks and syrup. God, I could live off those things. SO good.
I lived in a small rural town in Minnesota. In the 70’s, we had a hot lunch program where most of the food was from the government, was made in the high school caffeteria, and brought down for the elementary school each day. Besides these pizzas, (my mom could buy a box and we had them at home, they were that good) they always served peanut butter sandwiches with it. I think it was to boost the protein content of the meal.
We would have chicken noodle soup with tuna salad or chicken salad sandwiches, and tomato soup with egg salad sandwiches. There were no alternative choices for lunch, you ate the lunch or you brought your own. At the high school, in ‘82, ‘83, they offered a salad bar line as an alternative to the hot lunches, but in high school only.
My high school served the most epic pepperoni rolls… which you probably don’t know what those are unless you’re from West Virginia. Its a bun with pepperoni and cheese baked in the middle, and my hs’s cafeteria made the best, with ground-up pepperoni and american cheese served hot and melty. It makes me hungry just thinking of it.
i hated that pizza!
ew!!!
btw, turkey chunks and gravy/potatoes ftw
My school’s square pizza actually did taste like crap….
they’re were rumors that said you could take the cheese off of it and turn it into a bouncy ball by squishing it together
thus the name: rubber cheese pizza
Hmm i remember these from forever ago, ironically i work at a school kitchen now and they dont serve these anymore we only serve “fat free” pizza now its stuffed crust but for being fat free it tastes delicious, everything else tho….gross…except the salad bar…no more obese kids!!!!
My school system did not have school lunches in the elementary schools until about 1970. Before that you brown bagged it. Since they were not set up for hot meals, the lunches were prepared off-ste & brought to the school by truck. They consisted of a “hot” tray & a “cold” tray.
I’m in highschool and we still have these!
In elementary school we loved the stuffed crust pizza day. Everyone would take the cheese out.
My high school had some pretty killer fries. I’d get those almost every day with ketchup and mayo.
Ah the school pizza always was good. We had Pizza every wednesday. We always looked forward to it We loved it. this is a win win
Now they charge $3 for a sandwich and a box of milk…gotta love progress (and inflation…).
We used to have tostadas*, which are basically flat tacos. I liked those a lot. I kinda liked the spaghetti, too, but they never drained the water enough, and they mixed the sauce in with the pasta instead of letting you do it, so it was kind of bland and watery. It was still pretty good, though.
*Firefox’s spell check doesn’t recognize “tostadas”? Weird.
OMG our school had the WORST square pizzas ever. my sister and I were lolling over them teh other day and how we would be starving after school, cos we refused to eat them. they tasted like burnt wet pillows.
Gonna get a breadtangle of pizza!
TATER TOTS! Yum… =)
we called it “Stinky Cheese Pizza”
they serve it in the army, oddly enough
We had meat loaf in (bread) rolls. For 1 DM, it was a big one, but there were kids, that ordered one for two or three DM, hell, i never figured out how someone could eat such a lot of this stuff. Great about ordering such a thing from the shop near school was also the fact, that one of us was allowed to leave the classroom ten minutes earlier before the lunch break startet, so that it was possible to get all the ordered food.
For a while, i liked this food, but one day, i had one with a cartilage in it and puked many times. Since this day and especially the day when i realized, what meat loaf was made of, i never ate it again.
Well, i hope, i translated everything right.
Oh but that CAN’T be Friday’s square-pizza. I see chocolate milk on that tray, and at every school I ever attended up until Highschool, chocolate milk days were Tuesday and Thursday.
Ya know..I can almost taste that whole-kernel corn and fruit cocktail now?
Uhhhh, am I the only one that didn’t have a cafeteria at my elementary school?
we had one at high school but all the food was awesome and the pizza was circular.
You didn’t have a cafeteria in elementary school? So….what, if the parental units didn’t provide you with a lunch, you were hosed?
well maybe other kids ya, but i always made my own lunch, at least since grade 2 probably
We had way too many kids living on or below the poverty level to not have lunches (and breakfast) provided by the school. Yikes.
Pizza day was Monday for me…from 3rd grade through 12th grade. It was the only good thing about Monday, really. I think it was 8th grade when one of my lunch buddies decided to wring out her square pizza. The grease almost filled up the fruit cocktail compartment of the styrofoam tray, and the wrung-out pizza tasted awful. We never did get around to testing cheese pizza vs. cheese-with-3-slices-of-pepperoni-in-a-row-down-the-middle pizza for grease content.
They got a pretzel? I never got one!
I remember “square pizza” starting on the lunch trays in around 1968? I was always very popular.
Was anyone else’s spaghetti always solid and quite dry – the lunch ladies would cut you a square slab of spaghetti . We ALWAYS made spaghetti sandwiches by putting the spaghetti slab between two buttered pieces of bread.
Also, up until high school, there was only one kind of salad dressing – “red”. Which the lunch ladies made from ketchup, oil, vinegar and sugar.
Oops! IT was very popular! – sorry – Freudian slip….
My elementary school has this thing called “Mexican pizza.” It was basically the same as a normal school lunch pizza, except it had yellow cheese on it instead of white cheese.
No, I don’t know why it was called that. It baffles me to this day.
Well, our Mexican pizza was like that, though I always thought it was because they used taco seasoning and ground beef on top. It tasted like a taco!
At my elementry school they served fish filets that had these clumps of blacks something or anothers in them. Everyone called them scales and they were disgusting, but thankfully the school found them unfit to serve when I got to the 4th grade. Also I convinced my entire grade that yellow jello was made from fish eyes in the 3rd grade and no one would eat it.
my elementary school had these, also I think middle school. always served with a greasy salad though. i never really liked em, but still remember the lines really were always longer.
I loved school pizza! I remember in elementary school, my best friend and I had an agreement where I would always give him my piece of cake (usually chocolate) in exchange for his pizza. Those were some deliciously nostalgic days
Okay, does anyone here live in NE? If so, ELLIOS PIZZA?! We can have square pizza whenever we like. lol
What about the chalupa? A lot of these memories have to be regional.
My elementary school’s hamburgers always sat in the line while swimming in grease. They were too disgusting for me to be able to stomach them.
Also, my school system had the rectangle pizza’s for all but 1 year when I was growing up. They replaced them with a traditionally sliced pizza my 6th grade year. They were so unpopular that system decided to change back to the rectangles.
It’s funny how many people remember greasy school hamburgers. Ours were dry, dry, dry, from kindergarten to the senior year of high school.
the pizza in my school was from “scratch” i think. it had thick crust and pepperoni and cheese and was baked on 1 of those 4ftx3ft aluminum sheet pans. was really good, especially after our new building (which included a new lunch room) was finished. the best part was the lunch ladies had lettuce and dressing at the end of the food line, id skip the lettuce and ladle the ranch dressing into the big corner square on my tray for dipping.
I have read through all thses comments…. Am I the only one that use to roll her pizza sheet into a log? Hmm? I feel weird now! lol Anyways Yes these are Epic on a scale that can not be measured! I loved when I was in 5th grade, we had the last lunch hour and if we were lucky we could buy a extra slice after every one had come through the lunch line! Ahhh Friday’s were divine! A couple slices of pizza, a scoop of whole Kernel canned corn a small side salad and a carton of chocolate milk and an romp around the play ground afterwards… Yes Fridays were epic in them selves! we had a tiny salad bar with every lunch as well
Lucky you, my elementary school pizza tasted like cardboard.
Once a month we had “inside out pizza.” All the kids went crazy for it.
Later in life, they started calling them Hot Pockets.
Square pizza and packaged grilled cheese are what I lived off of in elementay school when I couldn’t pack a lunch.
I’m jealous of that lunch tray though, our didn’t have that much food and were made of shapeless styrofoam.
It was square pizza in elementary school, french bread pizza in high school fo rus. that french bread pizza was always served with curly fries and cheese sauce. the pizza was so good dipped in the cheese sauce.
I also used to love mexican casserole day- layers of tortilla chips, meat, cheese, lettuce, more cheese, and other “mexican” type-stuff all layered. YUM!
Growing up in South Jersey near Philly they would serve “Hoagies” once a week – they were AWESOME!
We had, every Friday, fishwiches (breaded fish like you get at McD’s) and shell macaroni salad. I would buy lunch on Friday or swap with a friend just to get the salad. I have never been able to find or make any as good as that. And trust me, it was just about the ONLY thing on the high school menu that was edible…
Oh no. School lunches were horrible for me. I couldn’t stand anything there, not even the pizza. In fact, just remembering all this is making me feel sick. I went to elementary school in the 90’s and we had actual metal silver ware, which I guess is sort of incredible now that I think about it.
I remember it always being a big deal when some kid would read the sell by date on the milk carton and the cafeteria monitors would have to publically explain “No no no. The date on the carton is the SELL by date, not the expiration date.” … could have been lies… all lies. I also remember the noise of those places, even as a kid it was irritating.
I think the public school system has contributed to me being a picky eater.
I remember when I was in Catholic school and I used to get milk the 5th graders would deliver the milk to the classrooms. It was then that I realized that all of the milk was already a week past its due date. I never bought another milk from there after that.
I remember Pizza On Fridays in my high school for lunches, too. I believe our square pizzas at that time came from an institutional food service supplier in Dunkirk, NY. We would often buy two lunches (by adding a pizza and milk) so we could chow down.
Personally, I always found it better to bring a sack lunch.
my school still hands out square pizza on pizza days! I never did really like it… chicken fried steak would be my favorite.
LOL i said the same except my fave was the steak & cheese
i must disagree
i hated school pizza
i <3 the steak & cheese sandwishes they had though… the burgers where tasteless but the lil sub things where awesome
*wants to go buy steak 'ems now*
YES! This is the coolest item this site has put up. A girl I used to date, her mom worked at the cafeteria and would bring these things home WHOLE! I think there were 9 pieces in a whole one. So much good.
Sheet pizza! Those were the best.
Let’s see… In elementary school, it was all about sheet pizza, breakfast for lunch (french toast sticks and tater tots!) and these frozen fruit juice things that were triangle shaped and wrapped in paper.
In junior high, the food was unbearable, but the nuns would yell at you for not eating so I would mix everything together and hope it tasted better.
The first highschool I went to had a fantastic lunchroom. You could either get a hot meal or go to the other side and get snacks, muffins, sandwiches or bagels. I think I ate a bagel just about every day that I was there. The second highschool had TERRIBLE food that usually had the plastic bags that it was wrapped in melted to it. You’d have to throw away half of your meal just to get the plastic off. It more or less ruined school lunches for me so I didn’t bother eating at the 3rd one.
As for college, chicken nugget day all the way! Though the made on site pizza and waffle bars were pretty awesome too.
I miss school lunches! My mom let me go over the menu every month and pick one a week to buy. I got good homemade lunches most of the time and something exciting from the cafeteria to mix it up a little. By high school, I packed every day, but I would get pierogies sometimes. LOVE. Now that I live in a different part of the country (and am about 8 years out of high school), I would give my left arm for some school-made pierogies!
At my first school, our square pizza was the best, it was basically a thick bread crust, little bit of sauce, lots of gooey cheese all melted together, and a few slices of pepperoni. Then my parents moved and at the other school, the square pizza sucked. It was thinner, drowning in sauce, little chunks of pepperoni all over, and a little bit of cheese thrown on as if it was sort of an afterthought, kind of like in the picture.
I missed my old school’s pizza, except when I got the corner crust pieces.
My cafeteria was called the Cafetorium, because it was also our auditorium. We had a stage with these old brown curtains…
Did anyone else get served a “char-burger” (heavy on the char?)
No Giblets McNiblets, cow legs, or Salisbury Balls? xD
That looks terrible, like it would disentigrate on contact!
I think a ton of schools still have square pizza.
My elementary school cafeteria food was so bad one of the teachers would announce the menu as Alpo this and Alpo that. Kitchen workers got tired of it and put actual Alpo canned dog food on his tray one day, he never said it again. They did the hamburger gravy on mashed potatoes and other less appetizing and harder to recognize foods. And since we were kids and obviously couldn’t be counted on not to hurt ourselves or others, spoons were the only silverware they’d give us.
Taquitos. I loved it with the cheese sauce. We have these gas stations here called QuikTrips and they sell taquitos. and they’re totally not as good.
Yep. Elementary and middle schools seem to be the only ones doing that. All the high schools in my area got personal size pizza hut’s every other Friday.
Oh man, chicken cutlet was the best! It came with the good mashed potatoes and gravy with a warm dinner roll and corn on the side.
It’s gone now, everything has gone ‘healthy’. I don’t mind wheat bread, but they get the cheapest stuff that tastes like cardboard. They took away everything that was tasty. Our whole school got sick of it and ‘brown bagged’ it for 2 weeks. So much cafeteria food was wasted because it was already prepared and nobody bought it. We got most of our old menu back, but no chicken cutlet
Those triangular cherry and grape juice pops. So cheap, so full of flavorings and dye it was impossible to escape the embarrassing colored lips.
Haha! Square pizza! It was ALWAYS served with corn at my school, too. I never understood why they thought pizza and corn was such a great combo. I am a teacher now, and at my school they have fancy pizza. From Pizza Hut. Not kidding! What happened to the good old days of square pizza?!?
I also loved the square pizza, but my VERY favorite was burrito day. It was freaking COVERED in melted cheese, and this red sauce stuff that didn’t taste bad at all.
That is a flippin RECTANGLE.
Anyway, I will never forget school pizza. This crazy kid would buy one everyday, take the cheese off, and put it on his face just to get laughs…No teacher even attempted to stop him, poor kid.
RIB-B-Q Some weird ground pork? patty that had fake grill marks on it and a sweet sauce. Oh it was so good. When the Simpsons had an episode where Homer goes on the McRib national tour, I thought it was hilarious, because us kids loved our Rib-b-q!
I remember this…was the one of the better tasting and safest meals in high school. It was this and when they served hamburgers and/or enchiladas were the only time I would eat lunch in the cafeteria. Normally I just grabbed something from snack bar. This was not only a matter of taste but of safety. If you’re still in school, stay away from the food like the smelly tuna salad. I remember in my senior year 2/3rd of the school got sent home for food poisoning because of the tuna salad.
The lines were twice as long and the boys always got “double lunch” on pizza Fridays.
My school voted the baconburger as the top lunch. The funny thing was it wasn’t a hamburger with bacon on top it was a bacon patty…and it didn’t taste like bacon either. I don’t think they have those anymore…stupid “got to eat healthy real food” rules!
Think pizza and corn is weird? What about taco day which included tacos, corn and cinnamon rollls. What about tacos makes the school system think they should be accompanied by cinnamon rolls (which were delicious btw)?
I was in the LAUSD from 83-98 . Pizza day was Fridays in elementary school and it was rectangular. In High School it was an option every day but it was right triangle pizza(rectangular pizza cut diagonally).
I laughed at this. The pizaa in squares was an epic fail. The cheese slid off, and when you saw what was below the cheese, it looked like the pizza had veins. The crust was also the worst crust in the histroy of pizza crust.
Cafiteria pizza is an insult to italy and pizzas everywhere
I remember the square pizza – one of few things I bothered with in elementary school. It wasn’t bad, all things considered. The only bad thing was when I was in 6th grade – when it came time for my class to have lunch, they usually ran out of pizza on days they served pizza. After getting stuck with a ham & cheese hoagie 5 or 6 times in a row, I gave up.
Heh, I loved when they served the square pizzas on days I had last lunch, b/c they’d put the leftovers out for whoever wanted them.
Best school lunch ever. Our school food was crap, but some of it was tasty crap. I also enjoyed our thin steak sub, turkey in gravy that looked like dog food, and chicken nuggets with large bits of purple entrails or something. Yum.
I remember the hot football players who would never date me got triple lunch on pizza day. Sigh. How long did you guys get for lunch-period? I swear we had less than 20 minutes. By the time you got out of the line and found a seat, you had like 5-10 minutes to scarf down your square pizza.
Lol that’s funny, because where I go to high school they still serve square pieces of pizza. And it’s also on every friday. XD I don’t eat it though; I prefer bringing my own lunch or just not eating. The pizza at my school is overcooked after nobody eats it for a day or so and it’s typically either very greasy or burnt from… being overcooked so much I guess. Ick.
I remember my middle school square shaped pizza! The crust was so overcooked it ended up cracking my tooth! My dentist was amazed and the bill was even more amazing!! LOL Never again…..
I still hate this pizza, my school either overcooked it or undercooked it =\
Sorry, but the cheese zombie kick’s square pizza’s butt any day. For those who don’t know, a cheese zombie is a mutant toasted cheese sandwich. It’s basically a giant slab of french dough rolls with a half inch layer of processed cheese spread in the middle and baked. It was served with soup.
Oh, man, the square pizza at my elementary school was THE worst thing I have ever eaten. To this day, I swear they served us plastic instead of cheese.
Chicken Nuggets were pretty good though.
When I saw the picture, I almost freaked out. IT’S SO TRUE! And it was SOO DELICIOUS!! I remember a lot of people would fold them in half and eat them. Those pizzas were THE BEST. Although I remember really liking most of the food at my school.
The most delicious pizza on the face of the earth.
I grew up in a little area, with never more than about 200 kids in my entire K trough 6th grade elementary. Hot lunches were the best simply because we somehow managed to get damn good food. Our square pizza was the best <3
I don’t know if anyone else had this but in middle school and high school (late 90’s early 00’s) every Thursday (more like every other Thursday) our school use to serve taco “bowls” everyone crush up the shell and mix everything up and drown it in the crappy taco sauce and make taco salad (without much lettuce). If you had the last lunch period you had to accept the fact you were not getting tacos that year because fatasses like myself would get two or three
Yay for sheetza! A local bar serves it and everyone loves it like they were still 9.
all i have to say about that is CHICKEN PATTY DAY!!!!!!! *bludgeons 12 freshman to get to front of line*
Turkey Tetrazini was (and remains) the epic win of school cafeteria fare. It’s still on the menu in most places, since schools can still get free government overstock turkey. The school needs a very skilled staff, however, as it take 3-4 days to make up a batch. It remains da bomb.
Square pizza is ok, although behind the zombie rolls and tater tots. I’ve taught in a number of different school systemsm, and I’ve eaten a lot of bad food (plus the above).
aw man my school would order pizza from the local pizza shops AND dominos! yum.
All hail the square pizza!!!!
Yes! I loved this pizza! And even if the cafeteria workers burnt it, the topping was good to scrap off & eat. This picture shows a better menu than I had~we didn’t have a choice of chocolate milk, that was only for break time!~And a PRETZEL?!?!? Now that would have been awesome! Mine had salad in it everytime.
Oh I forgot this: My daughter just graduated high school this past May;she confirmed that they still serve this pizza, but now it’s a-la-cart!
Those pizzas were usually decent at best at Rosehill elementary. But the best pizza in school (yes, better than Dominoes, etc.) was a delight known as COSMIC PIZZA. All it really was was a personal deep dish with those little
pepperoni cubes, but that with a chocolate milk carton and a Twix bar was the best lunch EVER! But high school lunches never cease to dissapoint, with
the exception of Ravioli Day. Any other pasta they make is lukewarm and vaporizes in the mouth.
But to the Lunch Ladies out there, I still love ya. It isn’t your fault the Government gives out Meals Rejected by Elementary schoolers. <3
OMG! The pizza was ok, but my fav was the rectangle fish fillet with cheese inside. OMG NOM! I’ve tried and tried to find something in the frozen section like it with no luck. Please someone just put a slice of cheese in there before you bread it!
I’m going to BE a freshman this year, and I have NEVER had rectangular pizza, or any of this gross stuff at SCHOOL, but at my last sleep away camp rectangular pizza was the “best”. I ate PB&J. XD I go to private school so we get great hot meals (think salmon, asparagus, and long-grain brown rice rather than square pizza, canned corn, and that jello/canned fruit thing), plus a great salad bar with a daily salad, and a sandwich line (great as well). All of our food is also organic.
This reminds me…why does everyone think corn goes with pizza? Think about it. At school, on pizza day, they always served corn. Those awesome frozen Kids Cuisine meals? The pizza one comes with corn. I had no idea corn was a traditional Italian side dish.
What an interesting combination. Pizza, a pretzel, corn and fruit cocktail. It is all the same color. We had rectangle pizza when I was in elementary school in the 70’s. Yum yum
Where I went to school, we had three distinct favorites: Kalua Pig and Cabbage (It’s a Hawaii thing; Kind of like pulled pork, but more Hawaiian), Spaghetti, and last but not least, square pizza. Even though I worked behind the counter, for some reason or another, when we would serve these, there would always be nothing left but yesterdays’ nasty-ass burritos (which were like the ones you’d find at Wal-Mart or Von’s for like 50 cents and the ones nobody ate, even if they were hungry)! Ahh, those were the days…
My school still has these and serves then undercooked whenever they don’t order enough food, which is always because no matter how long they have boon working there they have no idea how many students there are. SO when you have last lunch, and they have awesome gooey delicious cal zones, often you will go to get one and they will be like we are out of those, but we have pizza………
haha they totally did that at my elem school…you could see through the lunch window that they had french toast but they’d be like WE ONLY HAVE PLASTIC CHEESE PIZZA
lol
hahahah OH MAN….this totally does bring back memories…in my school it was customary when you were done with your meal to stick your spork in one of the styrafoam wedges in the tray….
I remember in school kids would make pizza rolls with those.
can you buy those trays?, would save me a lot of dishes
I’d imagine some supply store of some kind sells them… try google?
In the UK we had things called Turkey Twizzlers.
Curly Grilled Turkey Strips with Some unknown spice.
Epic Win.
:O My high school still serves that exact same square pizza!
That meal is SOOOOO nutritionally unbalanced… We had that pizza at my school too instead of corn they made us eat soggy salad with watered down racnh dressing on it.
Ummy! That was the word after seeing this picture because I love to eat different foods, especially pizza’s……
Huh, switch the pretzel for dehydrated broccoli, and that picture right there is exactly what my school lunch looks like. Oh, and switch the silver with cheap sporks that break when you try to stab or scoop up something.
Aaaah, the good ol’ square pizza. I’m going to miss that from grade school and junior high. My high school didn’t have a cafeteria though, open campus.
Has anyone ever heard the song “pizza day.” by the Aquabats?
beefy cheesy nachos FTW!!!!!!
ahhh… rectangle pizza… even though it was served to me on mondays… the only time pairing pizza and corn was ok…
and lets not forget chicken fried steak (if thats what it really was) thursday!!!! where we get ice cream!!!!
How about chicken nugget and mac n cheese day? That was more epic than pizza day.
anybody remember pizza dunkers? oh my school served uno’s pizza because I lived in the chicago area. BEST PIZZA EVER. <3 chicago style pizza. now I'm stuck wasting my high school years in new hampshire where the food is d rated. even the pizza tastes bad. too much grease and not enough sauce
I actually hated the cafeteria pizza. I’d give mine away and eat the side dishes, which were typically random. But I’d say square tacos were the greatest school lunch ever. The shell was made of corny deliciousness. Who knows what that meat was actually made of, but it was damn good. And to top it off, the shredded cheese. I’m so feening for one now, haha.
Don’t see how this is nostalgia-inducing. My school serves square pizza and it’s nausea-inducing.
sloppy joes were my favorite in school, just because none of my friends liked them so I used to get all of theirs for my other stuff. Also one year it seemed like we had nothing but the square pizza.
I loved those pizzas… Wish I could find something like it at the supermarket. I loves the tacos in Elementary school too. In Jr. High, the terriaki chicken and the Chinese chicken salad was amazing too.
The closest thing is Ellio’s extra cheese made in the microwave.
Wow. Pizza Thursdays. “Doubles please” when you wanted two pieces. They would ALways run out.
Had those square pizzas in High School (graduated 10 years ago, man I feel old). I always really liked them. And I’m looking at this website while hungry, so now I want one. And yes, I want some corn with it. ^_^
Reading some of these posts and hearing about deli lines, sundae bars, and snack counters where you can actually buy soda for your lunch makes me wish I had gone to a different elementary school, although mine still rocked lunches aside. For me we had two lines at Abingdon Elementary the first was the regular lunch line where you got your tray, a milk, your lunch, and (if you had an extra dime or quarter) a snack (chips, cookies, ice cream, or I believe we had a few Little Debbie snack items). As for our second line it was only used for the lucky kids who brought in an awesome homemade lunch AND had the good fortune to be able to buy cafeteria snacks. But I still remember that square pizza they had every Friday or when we would get let out during the week for holiday break. It followed me from Elementary school, through two different middle schools and right on up to high school.
We had the square pizza/corn combo at our school too. And it was always on Friday. in the B-line it was Breaded Pork Tenderloin on a bun with corn and lettuce salad. I loved how the lunch ladies thought that salad was just a handful of shredded iceburg lettuce.
Our school would still charge you the full lunch price ($1.35 in my day) even if all you got was a milk and a pizza slice.
In the B-line, besides the tenderloin, they’d also serve any leftovers or a la carte stuff (nachos, breadsticks, soft pretzels) and ice cream bars. They quit doing the nachos and stuff because that’s all people were eating…yeah because the food SUCKED!
Anyone else remember the Country Fried Steak and gravy? That stuff was good!
not a win for me! our school always served it cold and it made me throw up chocolate milk!
You’re joking?
That’s seriously not a school lunch?
I used to dip these in the Ketchup I would get to make them have some taste.