School Lunches Through the Years: Interesting. From what I understand, our local high school has very good nutritional lunches, and they at least break even financially.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Interesting. From what I understand, our local high school has very good nutritional lunches, and they at least break even financially.

http://www.mentalfloss.com/article/87238/what-school-lunch-looked-each-decade-past-century

windshoppe Loc: Arizona

Can't help but wonder how many times Ron and Nancy had a bottle of ketchup as their "vegetable" on their table at the White House.

EllieLady Loc: So. CA, USA

windshoppe wrote:

Can't help but wonder how many times Ron and Nancy had a bottle of ketchup as their "vegetable" on their table at the White House.

EGGZACTLY - - what a travesty ! ! !
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wilikioti Loc: Deep South, USA

jerryc41 wrote:

Interesting. From what I understand, our local high school has very good nutritional lunches, and they at least break even financially.

http://www.mentalfloss.com/article/87238/what-school-lunch-looked-each-decade-past-century

My mother-in-law retired as a lunch room cook for a county wide high school. She died at age ninety-five in a home for Alzheimer patients. The only thing she remembered was the number of lunches she prepared daily and what was cooked each day. The preacher that preached her funeral was one of the students she cooked for. Only had praise for her and her lunch room crew.

EllieLady Loc: So. CA, USA

wilikioti wrote:

My mother-in-law retired as a lunch room cook for a county wide high school. She died at age ninety-five in a home for Alzheimer patients. The only thing she remembered was the number of lunches she prepared daily and what was cooked each day. The preacher that preached her funeral was one of the students she cooked for. Only had praise for her and her lunch room crew.

Inadequate menu is generally the fault of the administration and the budget - - the kitchen staff usually does the best they can with what they're given. Some do better than others: they are not REQUIRED to serve ketchup as a vegetable, it's just that they are ALLOWED to. IF they do, they are just lazy IMO.
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jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

wilikioti wrote:

My mother-in-law retired as a lunch room cook for a county wide high school. She died at age ninety-five in a home for Alzheimer patients. The only thing she remembered was the number of lunches she prepared daily and what was cooked each day. The preacher that preached her funeral was one of the students she cooked for. Only had praise for her and her lunch room crew.

Nice memories.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

EllieLady wrote:

Inadequate menu is generally the fault of the administration and the budget - - the kitchen staff usually does the best they can with what they're given. Some do better than others: they are not REQUIRED to serve ketchup as a vegetable, it's just that they are ALLOWED to. IF they do, they are just lazy IMO.
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In the case of our local school, they hired an "expert" to run it. They wanted good, nutritious meals and a good cash flow. Apparently, they got both.

tenbanshee Loc: Woodstock, IL

EllieLady wrote:

Inadequate menu is generally the fault of the administration and the budget - - the kitchen staff usually does the best they can with what they're given.
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Haven worked in different schools for over 32 years that is quite true. The people in the kitchen do their best, they want the children to like their food.

mslubner Loc: Redskin Ridge, Texas

The school I went to in the early '50s did not have a kitchen. They did not serve lunch. You had to bring your lunch in a brown bag with your name on it. You left it on a table as you entered your classroom, a person came by with a cart and took the lunches to a large room (lunch room) where you picked up your brown bag at lunch time. The only thing you got was a small carton of milk, either chocolate or white. White milk was 5 cents and chocolate was 7 cents. If you didn't bring lunch, you were welcome to walk home and eat but you had to be back in 45 minutes for the start of afternoon class. A lot of the time, the milk was spoiled...so we always tried to pay for chocolate so it didn't taste so bad.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

mslubner wrote:

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My elementary school didn't have a kitchen, either. We all brought our lunches and a drink of some kind - often warm milk. Kids with a Thermos bottle had to ask the teachers to remove the cork that was stuck in the opening - a daily occurrence. That was before the days of the screw-on top.

EllieLady Loc: So. CA, USA

mslubner wrote:

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OMGosh - - where did you go to school that they served spoiled milk ???

mslubner Loc: Redskin Ridge, Texas

They didn't do it on purpose. They didn't have any refrigeration in the school so about a half hour before lunch time, a truck pulled up and unloaded baskets of small milk cartons. If the day was hot, the trip to the school would turn it. It didn't happen in the winter. :-)

EllieLady Loc: So. CA, USA

mslubner wrote:

They didn't do it on purpose. They didn't have any refrigeration in the school so about a half hour before lunch time, a truck pulled up and unloaded baskets of small milk cartons. If the day was hot, the trip to the school would turn it. It didn't happen in the winter. :-)

Location ??? Geezzz - - as the temperature of the milk goes up, so does the milk's bacteria count. I'm surprised it didn't sicken some of the more sensitive children. That definitely wasn't a good thing ! ! !
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mslubner Loc: Redskin Ridge, Texas

Cleveland...Ohio. I credit the experience and many more to having a sound gut and a high resistance to illness That and eating dirt as kid. LOL

EllieLady Loc: So. CA, USA

mslubner wrote:

Cleveland...Ohio. I credit the experience and many more to having a sound gut and a high resistance to illness That and eating dirt as kid. LOL

You know, it takes exposure to challenge the immune system and regular contact with non-lethal microbes is a good thing. There is a substantial amount of scientific data that our obsession in this country with sanitizing everything is actually weakening the immune systems of our population at large.
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