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I started elementary school in the mid '80s. To the best of my recollection, we'd typically get a lunch tray with a main dish, small vegetable side dish, small fruit side dish, and milk (choice of plain, chocolate, and strawberry). I also remember getting dessert, but maybe not with every school lunch?

The fruit side dish was usually from a can. I remember eating fruit cocktail, applesauce, and (less frequently) canned mandarin oranges. I think sometimes they gave us fresh oranges cut into wedges?

Vegetable side dishes included tater tots, mashed potatoes, canned green beans, corn (can't recall if it was canned or frozen), broccoli, and a zucchini and summer squash mix.

Main dishes I remember:
* hamburger on a bun (which they always listed as "beefburger" on the menu so that Jewish kids wouldn't get confused about what meat was involved)
* French toast sticks
* either pancakes or waffles, can't remember which (or maybe it was both at different times)
* tacos
* enchiladas
* pork roll (a disk of rubbery meat on a Kaiser roll)
* lasagna (choice of meat or cheese most times; occasionally vegetable lasagna containing zucchini and carrots iirc)
* Philly cheesesteak
* meatball sub
* hoagie (lunch meat, cheese, iceberg lettuce, and tomato on Italian bread)
* the abovementioned rectangular pizza
* (during Thanksgiving week) turkey with gravy

Desserts were most often jello with a squirt of reddi whip, pudding (choice of chocolate or vanilla), and a square of cake (don't think we were allowed to choose the flavor, but I remember both chocolate cake with vanilla frosting and vanilla cake with vanilla frosting).

If you forgot your lunch money, they'd give you a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for free. They were vile, made with grape jelly and a particularly greasy and plasticky peanut butter.

Government surplus peanut butter! It came in giant cans and the oil separated from the solids so it had to be mixed back in and was hard to reincorporate. I always figured they were raising 50s bomb shelters for that stuff.

That totally explains why it was so disgusting! Thanks for the info, anon.

SA

I remembered a few other main dishes:
* chicken patty on a bun
* pencil points (penne pasta with tomato sauce)
* fish sandwich; very possibly fish sticks as well, though I don't recall them specifically (I once asked my mom why the cafeteria served fish so often on Fridays, and she explained it was for the benefit of Catholics who didn't eat meat then. Though I'm not actually sure if my school had any students with that dietary restriction in the years I was there, especially since there was a Catholic school just up the road that the more religious families could send their kids to.)

And on pasta or pizza days, we got garlic bread and salad as sides.

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