1979 School Lunch Menus
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I found this on the back of a recipe my aunt cut out of the paper and tucked into a cookbook. I packed a lunch every day, so I never had any of these tasty delights.
BMisterGenX@reddit
what the freak? Pizza, liver and onions?
BMisterGenX@reddit
Oh my gosh I totally forgot about them being published in the newspaper!
BluesGraveller@reddit
Looks like secondary schools had a way more rad menu.
mycookiepants@reddit
Popeye Spinach Salad - Spinach, hard-boiled egg, avocado, blue cheese and 1 cup fresh fruit. Dijon-balsamic dressing.
Perfection Salad - Gelatin, cabbage, celery, and bell peppers, cut into squares and topped with mayo.
Scalloped Tomatoes - Tomatoes, bread, onions, basil and brown sugar baked in a casserole.
Calico Salad - Essentially 3 bean salad. Green beans, wax beans, kidney beans with peppers and vinegar.
Waldorf Salad - Apples, celery, walnuts, grapes in a creamy dressing.
Broccoli Normandy - A mix of broccoli, carrots and cauliflower.
mycookiepants@reddit
I’m so fascinated by food history I now need to look up what composed some of these dishes.
TheGirlwThePinkHair@reddit
wtf is a relish plate?!
Spiritual_Cause3032@reddit
A relish plate had pickles (possibly both dill and sweet gherkins) , olives, and celery. It was a side dish choice.
TheGirlwThePinkHair@reddit
Is this regional?
Pristine_Main_1224@reddit
Very Southern as far as I know.
Spiritual_Cause3032@reddit
All I can tell you is that I am frim the South, and every familly holiday meal served by my grandmothers and mother had a relish plate. They were also common at bridal and baby showers if a large amount of food was served.
itsjustme1022@reddit
Who eats bologna and mashed potatoes. Those poor little kids had to eat that.
thetotalslacker@reddit
You don’t know what you’re missing. I still eat a big slice of fried bologna or liver & onions with mashed potatoes and gravy. Takes me back to my childhood and I love it, even though I can afford to eat whatever I want now. Guess you didn’t grow up on a budget and learn to love poverty food.
itsjustme1022@reddit
Not true. I’ve had fried bologna also and like it. I just never had it with mashed potato’s, or as a school lunch
thetotalslacker@reddit
Yeah, but you said they had to eat it, while I’m saying we got to eat it and loved it and still love it. It was so much better than the plain white bread and cold bologna I could make myself at home. Like I said, if you’ve never had bologna and mashed potatoes, you don’t know what you’re missing.
DivaJanelle@reddit
I still have a vivid memory of the tail end of 8th grade and lunch was bologna swimming in BBQ sauce.
I think it was the he only food left
Aware_Impression_736@reddit
Bologna swimming in barbecue sauce. I honestly don't know what to make of that.
doconc35@reddit
They called them Viking burgers at my school and I loved them! Not great on the stomach though
reverendmoss@reddit
Did you see the liver and onions?!
042AF@reddit
No wonder pizza was popular with that as an alternative!
rrrrrrez@reddit
I haven’t had it in like 30 years, but I loved liver and onions when I was a kid.
Spiritual_Cause3032@reddit
If I remember correctly, at my school, I believe the bologna was fried, so it was all served hot, at least thru the early 70s.
StOnEy333@reddit
Mmm, yeast biscuit.
QuickSpore@reddit
Sounds terrible. But it’s just highlighting that it uses yeast as a leavening rather than baking soda. They don’t taste yeasty. Instead it’s a fluffier southern buttermilk biscuit. Also called angel biscuits.
Pristine_Main_1224@reddit
I love angel biscuits, especially with ham and fancy mustard.
krakatoa83@reddit
Based on the date and the location I ate these lunches.
CK_CoffeeCat@reddit
What the heck is a “relish plate”? 🤨
Fan21YanksPaulieO@reddit
My family still puts a relish plate on the table for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners even though only one or two olives gets eaten because all the hot food is so delicious.
CK_CoffeeCat@reddit
Yeah there’s usually always a dish of pickles and suchlike at ours as well. I’ve just never heard it called a relish plate before. 🙂
Twinkle406@reddit
An assortment of pickled vegetables and olives and such.
CK_CoffeeCat@reddit
Ahh, that actually sounds not bad… precursor to charcuterie. 😁
Constant-Visual-5109@reddit
Liver and onions?! 😳🤣
Minzplaying@reddit
Or Pizza? No brainer there.
deadbeef4@reddit
I think I’ll pass on the seafood plate.
HandleAccomplished11@reddit
I think I would prefer the seafood plate over liver and onions.
deadbeef4@reddit
I guess Florida is at least close to the sea.
Rad1PhysCa3@reddit
Wow. Our school lunches in 1979 (and beyond) were nothing like this. Thankfully. lol
polishprince76@reddit
Its embarrassing what we feed our kids in schools these days. My son just waits til he gets home and makes his own food. It's inedible. We had it very good.
Maleficent_Theory818@reddit
It’s because the cafeteria workers aren’t allowed to season the food. One of the best meals the cafeteria where I work serves is “General Tao’s Chicken.” They have to change the chicken they use because the current brand has too much sodium.
School nutrition laws changed during the Obama administration. I was working at a school that used a token reward system and had a token store. That had to close.
doconc35@reddit
It's because most schools don't actually cook any food. Every is frozen and reheated. Because they don't have the money for kitchens, ingredients or cooks. None of the schools where I live have actual real food for lunch.
Maleficent_Theory818@reddit
That is sad. Where I work has a big kitchen with ovens and wonderful cooks.
RedditWidow@reddit
The cook on Jan 31 actually likes kids
mgbgtv8@reddit
"Waldorf salad"
SwanReal8484@reddit
garitone@reddit
Apples, celery, walnuts, grapes...in a mayonnaise sauce!!!
Traditional_Dress_80@reddit
Friday was always for square shaped pizza.
WhereItsAt75@reddit
We still serve those. Lol
KO4MA@reddit
Now I’m hungry.
AlfhildsShieldmaiden@reddit
Color me weird, but I loved looking at the cafeteria calendar and I’d look forward to certain days. I generally liked cafeteria food, probably because my mom was into a strict health food thing and eating anything remotely fun (like what other kids got for lunch) was a super rare treat. Like, I knew school lunch wasn’t high-brow in any sense, and just enjoyed it for what it was.
I still think about the weird hamburger patties, which had a uniquely distinct taste and texture, across all my schools. I always wonder what was in them, as they faded out in the late 80s/early 90s and don’t seem to be used anymore. I haven’t had a patty like that since graduating middle school.
Formal_Ground6513@reddit
Soybeans! I was told by my teacher that they had soybeans in them. I didn't care and loved them anyway. But, I remember it being a big deal for some kids and they didn't want to eat them. Honestly, it just made it easier for me to eventually try a veggie burger. Lol (Although, I'd say good veggie burgers were hard to find until the late nineties.)
Sigvoncarmen@reddit
TVP , textured vegetable protein. They were good . I remember :)
Aware_Impression_736@reddit
The McLean Deluxe.
Aware_Impression_736@reddit
Perhaps they were Salisbury Steaks?
Puzzleheaded-Sky3141@reddit
All of a sudden I have distinct memories of planning which days I'd take $1 to school, or take a brown bag...lol, I used to plan my outfits for the week too, so if I wanted hot lunch on a day with messy choices I wouldn't ruin my clothes!
kcsews@reddit
Fried chicken sounds really good!
Aware_Impression_736@reddit
It says "oven baked", so basically Shake 'N Bake.
DivaJanelle@reddit
My parents paid $1 a day for me to go “I’m not eating that” and have a piece of bread with peanut butter for lunch.
But Friday was sloppy joes.
Lost-Tomatillo3465@reddit
My kid hates sloppy joes. I told her that was the highlight of school lunches in my day. I'm glad I wasn't imagining it.
Aware_Impression_736@reddit
Have you told her a sandwich is just a sandwich, but a Manwich is a meal?
ImportantArgument888@reddit
I would cut someone if i had to eat that menu!
wildgriest@reddit
1981-1986 - suburban Denver - Every 2nd Thursday was the Manager's Choice, which meant leftovers... Every fourth Friday was the Student's Choice, which meant either Frito Pie, or Pigs in a Blanket. My mother would cut out the weekly menu from the paper every time, her cabinet door was full of old ones as she'd tape over the prior weeks. Great memories!
MaximumJones@reddit
The only lunch that mattered
doconc35@reddit
ug, that school pizza was always so gross to me. Every aspect of it tasted cheap, to me at least.
DrKlahnsRightHandMan@reddit
First thing I thought of was pizza and corn. According to my kids, pizza and corn is still a thing.
Away_Web8643@reddit
Oh. My. Gosh. I had totally forgotten about school menus in the paper. This brought back a rush of memories.
Butterfly_Cat777@reddit
Me too! My grandparents got the local newspaper, and when they started printing the weekly Jr. high and high school menus, I would always have to read it and cut it out of the paper if I could. I loved having a heads up to see what days, and what food line in the school cafeteria they would be serving my favs.
Servile-PastaLover@reddit
Pizza every Friday was our school highlight.
Shot-Complaint-8991@reddit
Pizza, corn, peach slices and a pretzel
Lightnenseed@reddit
At my high school, you had two lines. Line one was either cheeseburger/hamburger, pizza or fries. Then line 2 had a more traditional lunch with things like spaghetti, oven friend chicken or a salad bar. It was your choice. It was the same price whichever you chose.
Lost-Tomatillo3465@reddit
I think most people in my era chose the burger/pizza line.
Lightnenseed@reddit
Same here....say what you want but that rectangular pizza was awesome!
NeffAnnBlossom4eva@reddit
Rectangular pizza! Forgot about that! You're right, it was awesome!
thirtyone-charlie@reddit
Ours cost 30 cents.
BonezOz@reddit
Did anyone get "Turkey chunks" in gravy served over mashed potatoes? That was one of my favourites in elementary school.
Lost-Tomatillo3465@reddit
I definitely remember those
Lickford@reddit
Never had no seafood plate.
ghoulishgirl@reddit
Right? I need to know what was in that. Shrimp was a new exiting thing to eat when I was a kid. Very exotic
Lickford@reddit
I would have killed a plate of fried shrimp back in the day.
imtooldforthishison@reddit
I mean.... this is tampa. The Tampa seafood industry in the 70s was HUGE.
Bubbly_Piglet822@reddit
What Popeyed spinach salad
QuickSpore@reddit
Spinach, bacon, egg, sometimes with nuts and/or oranges with a vinaigrette.
Swimming-Compote-168@reddit
Where’s the chili and cinnamon roll?
Spiritual_Cause3032@reddit
Spaghetti and meatsause from scratch was a big hit in grade school. It came with garlic bread and a small salad. By the time I reached high school in 70s, they were serving canned spaghetti
Wonderful-Forever450@reddit
And cottage cheese
roastedandflipped@reddit
We didnt have pork and pizza on friday we had lot of jewish kids and italians that were catholic no meat on fridays
LomentMomentum@reddit
I remember when school lunches use to be unhealthy meals composed of agricultural surplus.
Ok_Transition7785@reddit
No packaged processed branded crap. Meat, veg, and milk. Where did we go so wrong?
BizRec@reddit
apparently milk is evil now
kitchengardengal@reddit
This sounds very Southern. Much different than the school menus we had in Ohio in the early 70s.
8883VRM@reddit
It’s from Tampa.
kitchengardengal@reddit
That's almost Southern! 😉
kb_colas@reddit
Tasty? Pffft..., it looks good on paper 🙄
Spiritual_Cause3032@reddit
I was in early grade school in the 60s, they had a full kitchen staff (15-20 plus workers) that cooked from scratch, made yeast rolls everyday, and came up with main course choices serving up hot meals, every day! Sandwiches were rare. Think Frankie's cafeteria, Luby's, Morrison's or other once popular cafeterias. We had that five days a week and only on special occasions, or outdoor event days did we get a box lunch with a sandwich and snack. Ya'll were robbed!
Next_Ad_4165@reddit
What is popeye spinach salad? Just a regular garden salad with spinach instead of lettuce? Or is it some weird salad concoction? It’s for elementary school, so I am thinking it’s just a basic salad?
Spiritual_Cause3032@reddit
The Popeye's Spinach Salad was just spinich greens, with chopped hard boiled eggs, and real bacon crumbles usually served with French Dressing.
It was only called "Popeye's Spinach Salad" because all the kids loved the "Popeye, (the Sailor Man)" cartoon and a company based out of Alma, Arkansas called Steele Canning Company, put Popeye's cartoon image on the cans of spinach in 1966 to get kids to eat it because it was was good for them. Popeye's canned spinach is still sold in the stores today.
Next_Ad_4165@reddit
Lol, I figured it was because of popeye the sailor man. And esp in elementary school, that’s a way to get kids to eat spinach!
I once worked with a lady who said to a bunch of kids that broccoli was like santa’s little christmas trees…to get them to gobble up their broccoli at lunch! So calling a salad popeye’s spinach salad would work!
It does NOT sound appetizing to me, though if the canned spinach was used. I can get behind the raw spinach greens.
Spiritual_Cause3032@reddit
I think in the schools they, even if they weren't making the actual greens type salad (the true salad), they called anything that had spinach, Popeye's something! Lol
And, to be honest I just being in grade school and after we would have spinach the boys would run around on the playground holding their arms up like they had muscles like Popeye, and sometimes singing the cartoon theme song!
There was actually a man that the cartoon was created after.
VisualEyez33@reddit
Probably involved canned spinach
Stinertron_1979@reddit
OMG I forgot lunches used to be published in the local newspaper!
MindFluffy5906@reddit
Back when they actually cooked food from scratch!
OneApprehensive327@reddit
I used to look forward to that sheet pan pizza!!
Slippery-Pete76@reddit
I’ve never had it, but perfection salad sounds like one of the more disgusting things out there.
lady_wolfen@reddit
Dylan did a video on perfection salad. It's hilarious.
Hepkat98@reddit
That pancake tho!
rocketman1969@reddit
You just know it was a Jello mold.
bird9066@reddit
Who thought it was a good idea to put liver and onions on pizza day?
Bet faculty ate that...and only faculty.
I remember eating it at home. I don't remember us ever complaining about food. But no way I'd choose liver over pizza
jondes99@reddit
I’d almost be curious to try liver and onions again. I didn’t particularly like it in the 80s and haven’t touched it since.
bird9066@reddit
Everyone cooked it to death back then. Honestly, it's not bad if you cook it to the proper temperature.
I'm hopelessly anemic and vitamin deficient because of health issues. I eat liver once or twice a week because even one more pill might push me over the edge. I eat other iron rich food too.
Maybe I'm kidding myself 😊
Environmental-Car481@reddit
Liver is an old-timers food. I think it ran out of popularity because meat is more accessible and we do t need to eat the organs. Plus we know the function of the liver is to filter out the blood so in theory could contain toxins.
spintool1995@reddit
I grind it up and add it to flavor my giblit gravy on Thanksgiving, but I can't imagine eating it straight.
Coup-de-Glass@reddit
Sloppy Joe, slop sloppy Joe. 🎶
One_Contribution5648@reddit
Navy beans, navy beans meatloaf sandwhich...
watchwatertilitboils@reddit
It's no wonder I brought a bagged lunch to elementary school in 1979
pickledpeachesforall@reddit
We used to have baked chicken with mashed potatoes and gravy and field peas and a nice roll. Watermelon wedges, gumbo, okra and tomatoes with rice, fresh fruit, chili with the peanut butter sammich, pizza with the ubiquitous corn on the side and green salad....ice cream day. School lunches were just better then. Let the lunch ladies cook!!!
Russian_Doll_888@reddit
Oh the soups! We had such great homemade soups. Beef stew, chicken noodle, chili - so good!
Skoolies1976@reddit
mm we had some amazing lunches at school, in the 80s. All freshly made breads were the best. I do remember coleslaw which no one liked.
Notch99@reddit
Really? I always thought was a time honored tradition to hate on school cafeteria food.
Russian_Doll_888@reddit
No, we had good cooks who made a lot by scratch (and used seasoning)
Wonderful_Adagio9346@reddit
The official recipe book from 1988
https://archive.org/details/CAT92970475
Russian_Doll_888@reddit
My grandmother was a high school cook/ lunch lady and I remember this! She was an incredible cook and because we had a smaller school, she made a lot of things by scratch (literally homemade breadsticks!) She followed the guide in what to serve, but she always gave a little extra on the servings.
DenverToCali@reddit
Omg. This is amazing
Wonderful_Adagio9346@reddit
Wait until you read the Pentagon's cookbook!
Either-Ship2267@reddit
Hmmm, pizza or liver n onions? Decisions, decisions...
spintool1995@reddit
I want to know exactly how many helpings of liver and onions got served that day.
Bearmancartoons@reddit
Tuesday I would eat that hot lunch. Rest of the week I would have packed
Spickernell@reddit
i was in elementary school at this time and lunch cost $.45. my mom would give me two quarters every morning and demand the nickel change when i got home.
Cozy_Minty@reddit
my elementary school would melt a slice of american cheese on a tortilla and called it a cheese rollup, i thought it was the most delicious gourmet food in the world
warrenao@reddit
The only really puzzling one to me is "bologna and mashed potato" which, I note, has insult added to it by way of lima beans. It was wise of them to offer an alternative on liver-and-onions day.
PuffDragon66@reddit
That was my first thought. Wtf is a Bologna and mashed potato relish platter?
warrenao@reddit
I’m thinking the relish plate is on the side, but that doesn’t help.
imcrowning@reddit
Memory unlocked. I totally forgot newspapers used to do this.
Legitimate_Bird_5712@reddit
Good, I don't like the idea of Milhouse having TWO spaghetti meals in one day.
AidaNYR@reddit
And this is why I took my lunch 🤣
so2017@reddit
Where is the Mystery Meat
Hotcakes420@reddit
I FORGOT HOW THEY POSTED THESE! What a flashback
dirtytounder@reddit
Seafood plate??? Man i never got that
Laylay_theGrail@reddit
Liver and onions too! lol
destiny_kane48@reddit
My school unfortunately did the liver and onions.
Kuildeous@reddit
I forgot these were actually published in the paper ahead of time.
Though I'm grateful my school never did liver and onions. So glad there were alternatives.
ChickenDreams-4188@reddit
Well, it is Florida…
I can remember scanning the paper with my mom, planning out the week’s menu for my lunch.
dusty_bootsnks@reddit
Don’t forget “Cook’s Choice”, especially the last week of school!
saltydancemom@reddit
We had homemade from scratch lunches everyday at school. In Jr. High - High School we also had the option of a salad bar or soup/sandwich bar and I got school lunch everyday - my mom never let me pack. School lunch today is nothing like what we got to have.
Ttthhasdf@reddit
Man, feb 1 would have been a hard call
MrsRalphieWiggum@reddit
I can smell the lunch menu
Wise-Trick-3608@reddit
Shit, this is better than what I can get at work.
sineofthetimes@reddit
Every Sunday paper.
SJExit4@reddit
Our school always had pizza on Fridays. A nod to the heavy Catholic presence in the area I expect.
And in addition to the posted menu, you always had the option of a peanut butter and grape jelly sandwich instead. Wrapped in wax paper, of course.
LadyNorbert@reddit
Those are fancier than anything I remember eating in the 80s and 90s!
Tough-Marsupial-6254@reddit
Liver and onion day!!!
Empty_Nestor@reddit
I’m sure the high school students were lined up into the hall for that one!
billskionce@reddit
I don’t like the idea of Milhouse having two spaghetti meals in one day.
PushTheButton_FranK@reddit
Do I want to know what a "relish plate" is?
kat_storm13@reddit
Pickles but also raw veggies and olives, sometimes dip. I vaguely remember getting carrot sticks and celery, that might be called a relish tray depending on how fancy the school wants to be.
pdxarchitect@reddit
Assorted pickels.
Kong_AZ@reddit
Wife works at a high school kitchen, and I'd bet the meals from back in the day were likely healthier than now.
Apprehensive_Row_807@reddit
The meals were actually cooked then there at the school.
Kong_AZ@reddit
Yup. 90% of the meals now are heat and serve.
JenNtonic@reddit
We called Feb 2’s entree Roaches over Lice.
Every time 🤪
Quirky-Web-8120@reddit
This almost made me cry with nostalgia. The antici........pation of getting the paper to see what lunch would be. Would you need to bring your own lunch? Not on January 31st. Sloppy Joes!
Tough-Marsupial-6254@reddit
OneApprehensive327@reddit
This unlocked a core memory for me. I also remember hearing it broadcast on local radio!
Krazy_Kat_Lady_2025@reddit
This took me WAY back. But also I'm wondering why the lunches in CT weren't as good as Florida's! Waldorf salad? Seafood plate? 🤷🏼♀️
And I don't know what Perfection salad or broccoli Normandy even is.
Curlytoes18@reddit
Do you really want to know?
Happy_Confection90@reddit
I didn't realize that the movie props from The Blob could be eaten
Lemon-Cake-8100@reddit
🤮
MasterWinstonWolf@reddit
🤮
Krazy_Kat_Lady_2025@reddit
Nooooooooo! 🫣 Make the horror STOP! It looks like the gelatin from inside a canned ham with table scraps inside.
darkofnight916@reddit
Broccoli Normandy is probably broccoli, cauliflower and carrots boiled a half step above mush. Perfection salad is probably red jello and peaches served at room temperature.
Krazy_Kat_Lady_2025@reddit
Oh god, now I'm sorry I asked. 🙉 But yes, the jello dish especially sounds correct.
snotick@reddit
This is why I packed my lunch until high school.
Blech. Bologna and lima beans? Popeye spinach? At least they had pizza on liver and onions day. When we had liver and onions at home, we thought we were being punished for something.
Krazy_Kat_Lady_2025@reddit
The smell of liver and onions would have killed my appetite for everything including pizza.
elphaba00@reddit
My dad is the only person I know who will purposefully order liver and onions.
snotick@reddit
My Dad too. That's the only reason we had liver and onions. Nobody else liked it.
A close second for me, was salmon patties with cream of pea soup on top.
elphaba00@reddit
On the flip side, my maternal grandma was an amazing cook, and apparently her salmon patties was one of her top meals she could make
snotick@reddit
My Mom is a great cook. Her mother came over from Italy in the early 1900's. They made grate meatballs, red sauce and even cannoli's. But, the salmon patties were dry, that's why she poured cream of pea or cream of mushroom soup over the top. Oddly, I like crab cakes, but can't eat mushrooms or peas to this day.
Krazy_Kat_Lady_2025@reddit
It is definitely an old-fashioned aquired taste. But even the smell in the house is too much for me. 😝
elphaba00@reddit
My mom and I have a theory that, since paternal grandma was such a terrible cook, maybe that was the only thing she could make that didn't make you want to give your plate to the dog.
Krazy_Kat_Lady_2025@reddit
Oh my. Your poor Dad. 😔
elphaba00@reddit
It was brought up at her funeral how really terrible of a cook she was. But my dad and his sisters are great cooks. They said it was self-preservation.
Krazy_Kat_Lady_2025@reddit
Well, at least something positive came of it if they all learned to cook well. Your poor grandma though. I wonder how much it bothered her.
Reasonable-HB678@reddit
There are a few things I remember off the top of my head regarding school lunches. In elementary school, the hot meal was in foil, cold items were in a box wrapped in plastic. Starting in sixth grade, Tuesdays were alternated with pizza or fiestada as the main item. Whenever I knew spaghetti was on the elementary school menu, I asked for a bagged lunch. The fiestada didn't get along with my stomach, I always had the second option.
pickledpeachesforall@reddit
Wow!!!
TicketyB000@reddit
Wow, what a blast from the past! It makes me wish newspapers were still worth getting.
Responsible_Name1217@reddit
My Me Maw was a cafeteria cook, we got the best leftover cinnamon rolls. I miss Me Maw;
MasterWinstonWolf@reddit
My Grandmother was a Master Baker at Grady Elentary in Tampa...I hear and feel this 😁
elphaba00@reddit
A classmate's mom worked in the kitchen and made the best scotcheroos/PB squares. Even thought we're all way past graduation, she will still willingly hand over her recipe to anyone who asks.
StarDewbie@reddit
Never in my life saw something like this. So odd to me!
RandomObserver13@reddit
What an odd mix of sounds a lot better/worse than what our school had, lol. Pizza or liver and onions? Who dreamed this up??? And if they served yellow rice in my school the pee jokes would never end. Unless it was rice-a-roni. Which it would not be.
MasterWinstonWolf@reddit
In Tampa that Yellow Rice and chicken would have been one of the FAVORITES.🤷♂️
RandomObserver13@reddit
Man, I’ve been to Singapore hawker stalls…just, wow. So good. But that was all exotic when I was a kid. Meat and potatoes and fish or mac and cheese on Fridays, lol.
OldJames47@reddit
Fun fact, Jeffrey Dahmer opted for liver and onions instead of pizza
TheJokersChild@reddit
Man, I'd be having a good birthday at that school...even if I was only 4. Chicken day!
Zadyria_Gelm@reddit
Those rolls were the BEST! And that cardboard pizza tasted so good! Better than it had any right to. Man, what I'd give for a slice and a roll
MasterWinstonWolf@reddit
Tell me about it my Grandmother was a Master Baker at Grady Element in Tampa...loved those dame yeast rolls...so good.
Tom_Slick_Racer@reddit
Max Miller on tasting history did an episode on 70s and 80s school pizza with a recipe from a school lunch cook book, I made it. It is better than 90% of modern delivery pizza.
Automatic-Unit-8307@reddit
Mmmm…sloppy joes
MasterWinstonWolf@reddit
Made homemade Sloppy Joe's with Ground turkey a week ago...do tastey😋😋
elphaba00@reddit
PlummetComics@reddit
My mom would yell the menu to us from the other room whenever she saw it in the paper. Didn’t matter what we were doing or if we were even in the other room, she would just belt out the menu like the town crier.
aradiacat@reddit
Blast from the past! I shudder to think what the seafood plate consist of....
MasterWinstonWolf@reddit
It was Tampa...most likely fish of some sort. Maybe Catfish.
That's also why there is Yellow Rice and Chicken...That dish leans heavily Cuban/Spanish.
I grew up in Tampa and my Grandmother was a Master Baker for Grady Elementary...the food was actual really good back then.🤷♂️
Equal_Imagination300@reddit
Oatmeal batter bread? As a chef for 30 years I'm gonna have to go look that up.
LassieDear@reddit
I’m skipping
JCNunny@reddit
I'm from Tampa and I remember cutting these out from the Tribune so I could make a pb&j if I didn't like lunch that day. Wow thanks for sharing!!
ShartlesAndJames@reddit
jesus lawd, TAKE ME BACK
gyrekat@reddit
I am loving 'assorted sandwiches'
Admirl_Ossim06@reddit
I used these lists as a menu plan for the week when I was newly married.
CaptTr1pz@reddit
Sloppy Joe, sloppy sloppy Joe...