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Oct. 21st, 2009 12:31 pmI don't know why I was thinking about this, but: asking anyway.
What were your school lunches like? Did you have to bring your lunch to school or did you buy it?
When I was in Catholic school, we had this deal on Monday, Wednesday, and Fridays when we would get food from outside vendors like Chick-Fil-A, Taco Bell, or Subway, and Friday we always got pizza. Even on those days I would bring drinks (Hi-C or Capri Sun) or desserts from home. On other days, my dad or mom packed them. I remember one time my dad was out of town and my mom, in a bid to try to get my brother and I to eat fruit, cut up apples, tossed them in a Ziploc bag, and dumped in Jello mix over them. At lunch that day, I opened up my bag of now-blue apple slices and everyone (including the mom of this one kid in my class who was a volunteer lunch monitor) stared at me like I was crazy.
Then when I went to public school I sometimes took lunch and sometimes bought snack food from the vending machines. In eighth grade, before I moved, the school cafeteria had these little square pizzas that I liked for some reason, even though they were like 60% bread, 10% sauce, and 30% cheese/toppings. So I'd eat my lunch from home or eat a pizza and buy Fruit by the Foot or something. And then once we moved, I'd get one of those Fruitopia drinks from a vending machine (do they still make Fruitopia anymore? I loved their fruit punch) and a bag of pretzels and chocolate chip cookies. They had food kiosks in high school and I steadily ate from the Pizza Hut one up until junior year, when I discovered the $1.75 salads in the cafeteria. They were usually fresh every day and had chicken or turkey in them and they were HUGE. I miss those salads.
What were your school lunches like? Did you have to bring your lunch to school or did you buy it?
When I was in Catholic school, we had this deal on Monday, Wednesday, and Fridays when we would get food from outside vendors like Chick-Fil-A, Taco Bell, or Subway, and Friday we always got pizza. Even on those days I would bring drinks (Hi-C or Capri Sun) or desserts from home. On other days, my dad or mom packed them. I remember one time my dad was out of town and my mom, in a bid to try to get my brother and I to eat fruit, cut up apples, tossed them in a Ziploc bag, and dumped in Jello mix over them. At lunch that day, I opened up my bag of now-blue apple slices and everyone (including the mom of this one kid in my class who was a volunteer lunch monitor) stared at me like I was crazy.
Then when I went to public school I sometimes took lunch and sometimes bought snack food from the vending machines. In eighth grade, before I moved, the school cafeteria had these little square pizzas that I liked for some reason, even though they were like 60% bread, 10% sauce, and 30% cheese/toppings. So I'd eat my lunch from home or eat a pizza and buy Fruit by the Foot or something. And then once we moved, I'd get one of those Fruitopia drinks from a vending machine (do they still make Fruitopia anymore? I loved their fruit punch) and a bag of pretzels and chocolate chip cookies. They had food kiosks in high school and I steadily ate from the Pizza Hut one up until junior year, when I discovered the $1.75 salads in the cafeteria. They were usually fresh every day and had chicken or turkey in them and they were HUGE. I miss those salads.
