re: What Was School Lunch Like in Your Day?

Awhile I was eating lunch with a friend and he said "you remember in high school when we paid $0.75 for lunch?". When you think about it, that's a deal. There were certain things that were served that wasn't the greatest, but I would pay $0.75 just for the bread... But that also included a drink..

60's and 70's.

Catholic school.

Heavyset white women cooked almost everything from scratch.

Chicken fried steak
Cinnamon rolls (big hit)
Sheet cake
Shrimp gumbo (Fridays)
Fish sticks (Fridays)
Pizza (one square as a part of the meal)

Stuff like that.

One carton of milk.
In the mid-70's they let us buy an extra carton of chocolate milk.

Kids on strict diets could get a lettuce leaf and cottage cheese.

In the 70's they began to offer breakfast for the kids who hung out at school early. Milk and a Pop Tart for .15, stuff like that.

We never had fast food or any type of buffet. You got what they were serving and you usually had to eat it. I'd check out the menu and pass on lunch if it wasn't what I liked. We had a dick football coach who'd make people clean their plates like they were in boot camp.

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70's and 80's was about as generic, mass produced, and as fake as it comes.

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couldn't eat there, we would usually skip and go to WhataBurger, McDonald's, or my house and make a sammich

Does anybody remember "milk break"? Sometime mid morning 2 students from each class got to go to the cafeteria - inside the actual walk-in fridge with that big, round handle; load up a carton of milk for each kid in cubed plastic crates and bring back to the class. Getting picked to get the milk was the most exciting part of school. I loved that cafeteria. like a previous poster mentioned; it just smelled good.
The arse-hole kids that always got in trouble never, ever, got to go get the milk I felt sorry for them.
BTW this was mid to late 70s.

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Does anybody remember "milk break"? S

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I worked in the cafeteria in elementary school, free lunch and all you could eat of whatever you wanted

Trays with the little compartments
Metal utensils
Food was good
Yeast rolls were great
5 different grade schools in late 50's and early 60's and they were all pretty good if I remember correctly

Grade school in New Orleans, St Anthony on Canal st. Was there in the 70's.
I always recall having spinach after the grass was cut.
Standard lunches were a meat and sides with a carton of milk.
I remember one of the desserts was a small peanut butter square and recall contests as to who could eat the most of them
I recall after a while toward the end of my run I brought my lunch, and they made the kids who brought their lunch sit together away from the kids who at the school lunch.
High school was a plate lunch option or hamburger and fries and maybe a pizza option as well

I did, class of 83

You just described my experience and I graduated in 05

Galvez elementary late-70s / early-80s Jambalaya was on point.