I love that some of the comments in here brought back some fun memories.
Yes, this was the pizza served in my grade school years almost every Friday. There was usually at least one alternative entree item available for those who didn’t want pizza, but pretty much the only kids who’d get something other than pizza were the ones with food allergies.
My favorite side item to go with it was the healthy in name only side salad that was basically iceberg lettuce, grated government cheese, and a wedge of pale tomato all smothered in an inch thick layer of ranch dressing.
I know Lemmy’s more of an international crowd than most social media I’m exposed to and that by the standards of the rest of the world, our school food is bottom tier. I’m still surprised to see so much disdain for the square pizza. Even the picky eaters and rich kids loved the cafeteria square pizza, back in the day. Maybe my poor rural school district just had a better than average quality square pizza or something? I doubt it, though. I mean, they certainly weren’t great, but there were orders of magnitude worse pizzas in the world, like those wafer-thin formerly $1.00 USD frozen pizzas from the grocery store.
Calling that “pizza” is generous. I always hated that cardboard.
Oh yeah, school “pizza.” Man I hated my childhood.
Ok now go run around in 110 degree direct sunlight
“pizza”
And then the teachers were upset because the class was falling asleep after lunch. Nevermind the fact we weren’t receiving the appropriate nutrients needed to stay awake and function properly
Starting school at 7am didn’t help, either.
My high school had us off the bus at the school at like 6h45. I was on the corner at 6h23 every day in high school. In the winter, I was out there before the sun came up. It was ludicrous.
I remember in highschool, a bunch of kids complained to our homeroom teacher and the teacher said: “it doesn’t matter, the same students who show up on time will be here on time and the late ones will be late”. I didn’t say it but I thought to myself, that doesn’t have anything to do with efficiency though …
Elementary schools typically start after 8, but yeah, that’s still early.
When I was in grade school it was around 7:30 am, we didn’t start after 8 am until middle school.
Oof not around here
I really miss those pizza squares from 30+ years ago.
Me too. I honestly think those pizzas were better than say, modern day Pizza Hut. For some reason, I really remember the cheese.
Just put ketchup and plaster on a dried out pita.
Is this prison food? Pizza actually looks and tastes like pizza where I come from. As a matter of fact, I once even went to a school that offered barbecue chicken pizza for those who wanted it. Though, we paid for school lunches directly out-of-pocket.
Plastic cheese on stale bread with ketchup sauce. The chocolate milk on the other hand was always on point.
There would always be a sad piece of fruit on the side which never got eaten. If only we were taught a little bit about nutrition. Sure we knew what the food pyramid was but no adults every reinforced it.
There’s only so much you can do on $1.13 per student.
You can do way more with it if you start from scratch though
Pretty sure an enforced diet by the school would be highly controversial and opposed by many parents, despite the possible health benefits.
There’s actually a fascinating history(conspiracy?) of how American public schools which used to make their own lunches slowly got pinched by changing nutrition standards and swept into Gordon Food Service (?) frozen food hell because it was cheaper at the time. Super glad I got live through it all! /s
Damm, that sounds like a good time.
On paper, yes. In flavor…no…just…oh god no… at least in my school district (u.s) because they used this nasty white sauce instead of tomato.
This meme is referencing a very specific type of pizza which was almost universally served by American elementary schools in the '90s (maybe also late '80s?). It was basically knock-off Ellio’s–rectangular with red sauce and cheese, relatively bland but palatable enough.
Really good YouTube video going into the history of that specific pizza including how to recreate it:
That shit over a PBJ or a ham 'n cheese all day every day.
I miss my Monday hot dogs, Tuesday tacos, Wednesday hamburgers and chocolate milk, Thursday sloppy joes and burritos in a bag. Friday was pizza day, the best day of the week. It always came with salad and a side of cold green beans
Hooray for pizza day, hooray for pizza day, I miss pizza day… the best day of the week
