I went to a small K-8 Catholic school and we didn't have a cafeteria or school lunches. The school did do a "pizza day" every Thursday where they would order pizza from the pizzeria right across the street. It was the same pizzeria my family ordered from.

It was incredible if you sat near the window on the side of the school that faced the pizzeria because you could see them pushing a silver cart across the street with piles of pizza boxes. Stay at home moms was still the norm back then and moms would take turns volunteering to pass the pizza out to the classroom. It was always a huge deal when not only was it Pizza Day but your mom was there too.

It was always Sicilian and, to this day, I can't have a slice of Sicilian without thinking about being a kid in 1990, looking at the window, and watching them push that silver cart across the street.

I shouldn't say we didn't have school lunches because one year they tried to implement it. They decided to expand ordering pizza to ordering McDonalds, Taco Bell, and whatever else. To stream line it one day would be Chicken McNuggets day, the next would be soft shell taco day, etc. The whole thing lasted less than a week. The school and PTA carefully planned it with the local restaurants before school started but the logistics of that many people ordering in the middle of the lunch rush just created chaos.