Comments on: Ridiculous Memories of the School Cafeteria

By: Les

Les — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 13:34:22 +0000

I know this sounds crazy but I have been looking for this pizza burger recipe. Can you share the one you found?

By: 30 miles south

30 miles south — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 02:31:48 +0000

Sorry I’m late …AND I’m new to the surf report (LOVE IT!!) but I just wanted to add a school cafeteria story, from junior high. We had an old teacher named Mr. Menlove who kinda looked like a monkey. He was the cafeteria monitor quite often. On days when they served us whole bananas, as the fruit, he loved it! Mr. Menlove would go around collecting all the bananas that the kids didn’t want. He’d put them in his suit coat pockets until they were bulging. It got to where kids would throw their bananas at him. He’d just pick them up off the floor and put them with all the other ones he had collected during lunch. One day I asked him “Why?” I had to know the reason. Was he really a monkey or what? He told me that he takes the bananas home and his wife makes banana nut bread out of them. It thrilled him that he could get bananas for free, as often as he wanted!

My school would actually let certain students work as cafeteria staff and help dish up the lunch trays. I got to do that for a while, mostly to get out of class, but it was fun! I had a crush on a girl then and when she’d come through the lunch line I would always give her the biggest piece of cake or a double serving of dessert, to get her to notice me. But we all know how those “one-sided” romances turn out.

In elementary school, kids would bring powdered chocolate drink mix from home and stir it into their milk at school lunch. It got to be quite a popular program!

By: Dawn

Dawn — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:59:28 +0000

I mostly brought my lunch, but did eat a lot of cardboard pizza squares in elementary school. High school cafeteria food was actually pretty good, but we mainly just ate fries. Senior year, I was rarely around for lunch because I had computer lab right after, which was more or less a given that you would skip. My entire Senior year lunches were spent sitting in a car down at the reservoir, doing bong hits. Made 6th period Honors History very interesting.

mountie9wv – Big Peckers is in Ocean City, Maryland…great burgers, and still there! Get yourself a new t-shirt for old times sake!
http://www.big-peckers.com/

By: Erin

Erin — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 06:42:34 +0000

Oh I lied. In elementary school they served wet burritos a couple times a month, which were basically those cheap frozen burritos you get in the grocery store with the questionable meat, smothered in taco sauce and a few sprinkles of cheese. Nothing outwardly horrifying about this meal, except once when I was in third grade, I got food poisoning from this meal and threw up all night long. Needless to say, I never ate it again.

By: Erin

Erin — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 05:25:21 +0000

I guess I was lucky, I don’t remember ever being served something that was completely inedible. In elementary school we had the nasty hamburgers, too, though – we called them barfburgers, but we ate them anyway because they were served every Friday. The rectangle, greyish pizza was served every Monday. My favorite was when they would serve breakfast for lunch – french toast sticks, sausage, and a hashbrown patty. That was the shit. In middle and high school we actually had good food. They offered several different choices every day, pizza and hamburgers and cheese fries nachos, so there was always something you’d eat.

The worst food cafeteria-style food I ever had was at summer camp. Damn, that was bad. That was the time I learned that there is such a thing as a brownie no one will eat.