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Ooh, that question takes me back. I'm old enough to have eaten school lunches during that era, but because I'm that old I can't remember all the details. I took a packed lunch most days, too. But my faves:

* spaghetti in meat sauce with Texas toast: pasta that was definitely past al dente with a basic ground beef sauce, thick fluffy slices of white bread with neon-yellow margarine (at least, I assume it wasn't really butter) and the vegetable was usually iceberg lettuce salad with some bits of carrot and purple cabbage.

* pizza: flat rectangle of very soft crust, sauce and cheese. There's a cooking fad going around where people try to replicate this and I tried to Google an appropriate one but... honestly, they all look better than what I had, LOL. But I still loved it because it was pizza and I wasn't a picky eater when it came to pizza.

* tacos: hard shell tacos with ground beef that was mostly seasoned with salt and pepper and not much else, shredded American cheese, shredded lettuce, diced tomato. No salsa because flavor was a threatening concept for school kids, I guess!

Vegetables were kind of an afterthought, technically there but not very appetizing. Green beans were very soft and slightly oily, came from a can. Canned corn, which I actually liked but isn't all that nutritionally sound. Then the previously mentioned iceberg lettuce salad. I think there might've been a green bean/carrot/lima bean mix but I hated that and never ate it. Portions were very small, like 1/3 cup or less. Probably because they knew most kids wouldn't eat it.

NAYRT but this is so fun to read lol. Very interesting. Only school I ever stayed at for lunch was grades 5 to 8 and I am pretty sure we had packed lunches so I don't even know what the school served, except for the little baggies of chocolate milk because my mom would give me 50c occasionally to get one.

Ahh, school milk! IIRC it cost .35 for a small carton when I was a little kid and even when I brought a packaged lunch, my mom would give me milk money in my coin purse. The milk lady was stationed at a table just outside the cafeteria, so you'd hand her the money and choose white or chocolate milk. I'd sneakily buy the chocolate because I wasn't allowed chocolate milk at home. :)

Biggest reason I couldn't wait to get to junior high and high school was access to salad bar. One of the high schools I went to had chicken sandwich baskets and pasta and potato bars. The kids who have to endure that "healthy" shit post-1990s really missed out.

We had similar lunches in elementary school in the 80s. Sometimes there were french fries, but they were clearly the frozen kind that you baked and also usually underdone. A lot of the food for school lunches was government surplus, so canned veg, canned peanut butter and processed cheese tended to feature regularly. Lasagna was basically overcooked lasagna noodles layered with the same "meat sauce" they put on the spaghetti. Desserts tended toward pudding, jello or fruit cocktail.

That was my experience exactly. I can't believe I forgot about the undercooked french fries, geez. I also never really enjoyed fruit cocktail, the texture was too slippery for my taste.

Absolutely this. I brought a bag lunch or when I had a free period adjacent to lunch we’d go to Little Caesars down the road. We had open campuses.

Your school must've been in contact with mine or something, 'cause that pretty much sums up my school lunch menus, too :p.

Did you also have tater tots? 'Cause we had those at my school. We also had these burritos with cheese on top of the shell, but they didn't call them burritos, they called them something else, something with a "c". I'm blanking on what the name was, though.

Enchiladas?

AYRT

Sort of, yeah, but not quite the same thing.

Ugh, trying to think of the term they used for them is going to bug me now. It's on the tip of my tongue.

DA

Chimichangas?

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