A lot of folks are quite critical of institutional food. I’ve been lucky because I really loved school lunches as I grew up.
I had two “favorite” lunches.
One was fish sticks, corn, mashed potatoes with white gravy and a roll. I have never seen them since. The ones I ate at school were neat rectangles, about half an inch or thicker, and about 4 inches long. They were lightly fried (of course they were fried) and absolutely delicious. I loved the gravy (I would have eaten shoe leather happily with that gravy on it) and the roll with butter. YUM!
The second one was bean chowder and a cinnamon roll. I remember living for Fridays when we might have this. I researched this and actually FOUND recipes for the Tulsa Public Schools bean chowder and cinnamon rolls! If I didn’t need to be eating low carb, I would jump on these. :0)
Did you eat school lunches when you were growing up? Did you have favorites?
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Ah, the memories! I actually liked school food growing up, too. (In years later, as a teacher, not so much!) My favorite thing during elementary school was the chili beans and cornbread. Then when I was in high school we had that one cafeteria lady who made cinnamon rolls. Because the cafeteria was at the end of the hall, you could smell them all the way down there hall when she made them! 😀
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These days, I can savor the memories – but not the actually food; though at the moment, I might kill for a cinnamon roll – just one more time.
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