re: Friday was the best day for the school cafeteria!

I went to school before all that fake and soybean crap hit the schools. Our lunch was always made with fresh ingredients and everything was cooked in the school cafeteria. Food wasn't made at one school and shipped to other schools. We never heard of anything called free lunch. We didn't have pizza or hamburgers with the fake grill marks on them. We only had white milk to drink for lunch. After you ate lunch you could go to the candy place to buy candy or a soft serve vanilla ice cream cone. On Fridays we always had some type of seafood such as tuna fish fish sticks or some awful dish that was made with tomato sauce with chunks of fish in it that was served over rice. I really never was hyped up on Fridays because I didn't like what was served except for the tuna. I didn't like that fish dish at all. Our cafeteria had the best bread pudding that you ever tasted.

No wednesday

When I was in school I used to love Fridays especially during Mardi Gras. We would have either fried fish, seafood gumbo or something else, they never served meat on Friday, this was public school, I am not sure if they still do this, but looking back... We used to get a pretty good meal for.. I think $0.65? I just remember I would get $4 a week and at the end of the week I had enough to get something from the vending machine.

We got fish sticks, at public schools. But they were good, no complaints. Still prefer fish on Friday.

The entrees were meh but the yeast rolls and chocolate sheet cake were c'est magnifique

yeast rolls were always fantastic

Shepherd Pie day at Rummel was the best. Whatever day that was.

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milk bags

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I remember when they started using those and they had to teach us how to put the straw in. Do they still use these?

I believe that the closest you can come nowadays to the old school cafeteria pizza is Totinos. Not just because of the shape, but because it has a close enough, but not quite the same taste.