I Cooked 100 Years of School Lunch

School lunches are such a big staple in many peoples lives, so I wanted to go back 100 years and see what school lunches were like from the1900's all the way to the 2000's.
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[@NickDiGiovanni]

I would've loved 1910...bringing my own five course lunch to school

[@supremeboyyt]

Omggg 1st I am your biggest fan plss shoutout

[@justdatguy3]

Hi Nick👋

[@user-oz7du9by5q]

BRO I LOVE YOUR COOKING CONTENT!

[@supremeboyyt]

I cant bleave I noticed 1st omgggg

[@Klabbe]

no way, it’s the guy from masterchef

[@ryancantcook]

Grilled Cheese with a slice of bread on the side is crazy😂

[@anglowing923]

OMG HI

[@TheHipHopUwU]

Yeah they out here serving hotdogs in hardshell taco shells with some nasty chocolate milk

[@OfficialJJMechanics]

lol

[@kitkat-wy3qb]

ok but like the school lunch ladies did not made it that good on god i know bc they did not have all that time

[@SausageGamer5]

Sausage

[@keiths1101]

Honestly, I love dried beef. And when you make the gravy right, I think its awesome. My dad said in Vietnam they called it Sh** on a shingle. And I am from the 80s but never had any kind of soda in school. Always milk.

[@StressmanFIN]

I knew I wasn't the only one who thought it looked like S**t on a Shingle. Especially since I saw it on a Tasting History video.

[@angelmage99]

Every time I see a video similar to this, it makes me realize how healthy my school was and this is coming from a 90s kid. We never had McDonalds and desserts were maybe twice a month. There was always fruits and veggies and we were expected to eat them, unless there were allergies. Also HIgh School in the 2000's were not as boring at least.

[@ErinTheApartmentHomesteader]

Growing up in the 2000's I don't think any of my meals looked like that. I feel like mine were more remenecent of what they showed for like the 60's and 80's. The things I remember most were the square pizza slices, the pb and j crustables, there was always milk that I'd blow into with a straw to get fun bubbles, and the chicken nuggets. Chicken nugget day was undoubtedly the best day for school lunches.

[@prom7472]

The breaded pork chop was the best imo. I don't think it contained any pork but damn it was salty and good

[@OfficiallyLydiasLife]

Yes! I was in school in 2000s We had square pizza & chocolate pudding alot! I do remember having grilled chicken sometimes, but not often. I also remembered the chicken fried steak & mashed potatoes bc It was one of my favorites 😂 I don't remember ever having wraps, although I was in early HS in 2010 so maybe it was different since we had a lot of options unlike elementary school. We also had grilled cheese sandwiches & tomato soup which is what. Made me learn I liked tomato soup 😂

[@BaldRice]

I legit just commented the exact same thing and even mentioned most of the same food items without seeing your comment lmfao. Yeah theyre trippin. And if they got an early decade this wrong I wonder what else they got wrong lmfao

[@Super-Saiyan-Blue-Gogeta]

@@OfficiallyLydiasLife Fairly accurate, my memory's kinda foggy but I definitely remember the pizza & chocolate pudding and sometimes there would be some chicken nuggets I think but I'd never get the calzones they would serve occasionally.

[@crystal17torres32]

Same! But I remember they switched white rice to brown rice and they would give cookies but it cost extra 🥹

[@TeddyStrongBear]

In the 70s and 80s, none of the public schools served coca-cola or any other carbonated drinks. You had a choice between white or chocolate milk. They also included apple or orange juice during breakfast. Also, cheese pizza with fries or tater-tots were a daily option, the other main dishes were offered on specific days.

[@holymontezuma1319]

yeah, we didn't have any soda, it was milk, choc, van, or 2%, and optional fruit juice, apple or orange. Some of my favorites was the pizza, square, with a meat sauce and cheese: Chili and cornbread; porcupine balls, a meatball with a generous amount of rice, so it looked like a porcupine: spaghetti; turkey dinner. Overall the only lunch that I did not like was the tuna boat, a tuna hoagie that fished up the lunch wing of the school. They did have options, one being a 3D, it was a triple decker cold cut sandwich which you could get instead of the main meal. This was late 70's, early 80's.

[@lilsardine5]

@@holymontezuma1319👴

[@AngelaMastrodonato]

In the 80s-early 90s I remember something similar. I never liked the square pizza everyone else liked and the side dish was almost always tater tots, sometimes swapped with soggy crinkle fries or fake mashed potatoes with fluorescent gravy. The drink was always white or chocolate milk. By high school there were vending machines with soda but that wasn’t included in the school lunch, it was extra.

[@Anacaona4]

We had vending machines at the school we could get sodas from. Ironically, they were located in the school gym building. Lol

[@THEWallyWarbles]

That's still how it works at my current school

[@The8BitNerd]

7:04 My school actually served little circular pan pizzas sometimes, and also served pepperoni, which they could get away with because they would put a pork warning above it on a sign.

[@gwcrispi]

That creamed chipped beef looks delicious. Had that a lot growing up in the 60's. I didn't realize it at the time but that's poor people food.

[@SSJfraz]

I like how the 1910 lunch is infinitely healthier than the school lunches of today.

[@KrissTheRider]

dude our lunches look like that its so depresing😮‍💨

[@snakesbakecookies]

@@KrissTheRider i think thats called a good school

[@Down_the_Wind]

@@snakesbakecookiesnah, that’s not filling.

[@snakesbakecookies]

@@Down_the_Wind yeah ig thats fair

[@Down_the_Wind]

@@snakesbakecookies but I guess it’s better than nothing lol

[@ryancantcook]

Schools eliminate processed food (proceeds to give processed baloney and cheese)

[@IceCreamC0ne]

Real

[@Noname-lw4rg]

2nd🎉🎉

[@officialkingdomoftheprussi5130]

3rd😊

[@nopaytowingod]

4th

[@Sleepyfrr]

american cheese too

[@katrinaperez5254]

lol!!! I was eating school food in the 80’s! The whole made fresh rolls were the best! They served them with spaghetti and with the turkey 🦃 thanksgiving meal and with the fried chicken 🍗 too!

[@dmoore8557]

Canadian from the prairies here. Back in the 60's when I was in grade school, there was zero school cafeteria food, and you were only allowed to bring your lunch if you lived over a mile away from the school. Otherwise, you were expected to go home for lunch. In really cold snaps, you could bring a lunch from home, but you ate at your desk in the classroom, since the lunchroom really could only accommodate the kids who brought lunch on a regular basis. In high school in the 70s, I got lucky. Our high school was a combination school, where you could take regular classes or learn a trade - or both if you wanted to put the time in. This meant that we had a group of students taking "food preparation and food sciences", so the students enrolled in that course (which was a half day every day for three years) would make and serve the lunches for the cafeteria - so we had fresh food prepared and served daily - homemade soups, salads, sandwiches; plus hot meals that included pasta, casseroles, fish, chicken, beef, pork - and yes, pizza day was still a special day for us. We could get coffee, tea, milk or juice in the cafeteria, but there were vending machines scattered around the school if you wanted a soda. I honestly have no idea what the lunches cost - it was a long time ago - but I know it was relatively inexpensive. Sadly, Canada still does not have a national school lunch program.

[@MarvinHartmann452]

That's because schools are provinces matter, so it might vary from one place to another.

[@aweigh1010]

Canda is a dystopian hellscape.

[@rhondadupras2477]

My Mom and grandmother cooked in the schools for years 1950s and 1960s and they always got compliments about how good their food was.

[@TheMMBOG]

How nice!

[@NazriB]

Lies again? Face Of MLS FNB Money

[@notrealfm78]

@@NazriBkaren alert

[@Aqua853]

@@NazriB shut up

[@ezaaahmad3031]

siuuuuuu

[@prideofdurham4776]

My school meals in the 1960s were superb. A thick stew followed by chocolate sponge in a white sauce were just one of my favourites.

[@Letrisin]

73 years old dang.

[@Crownable]

my dad is 55 and he was born in ‘60s

[@bodisimo1019]

7:30 I know that

[@AbramHorne]

​@@LetrisinI think 63 you meant because my mom is 63 and she was born in 1960 same with my dad

[@Pumpkin-em7zt]

⁠@@AbramHorneno.. if your parents were born in 1960, how could they go to school in 1960. Common sense..

[@MrJayrock620]

I was in high school late 90’s into the early 2000”s. My school was trade oriented and we actually had our commercial cooking and baking classes make the lunches. It was always something different, and they even did catering orders in the afternoon classes.

[@IamtheRealLizardQueen]

My elementary school didn't have a cafeteria (where I live; only middle schools & high schools have school cafeterias); so most elementary school students either went home for lunch or brought their lunches to school.

[@CrabMan2539]

I went to school throughout the 2010s and tbh, what you got is michelin star worthy compared to what we got. Everything had been frozen, burgers warmed with water (not sous vide, just straight in the water) with fake grill marks, chicken patties with cartilage in it and some red spots, burnt pizza with soggy crust and probably more oregano than sauce, soggy fried chicken wing with a flat side, half decent nuggets and oddly good mac and cheese (very rare tho). The worst of it was that my school *constantly* tried to convince us the food was good. They had "ads" for their food depicting people being so lucky to have "such good food". No one was buying it. I'm so glad to be out of high school.

[@3volution636]

Same lol. But this was a thing in my H.S. prior to 2010. Most of the processed stuff was crap. Like the baked chicken nuggets, mozzarella sticks or "chicken teriyaki" 🤮. Stuff basically had little to no flavor. But at least the quesadillas were decent, or the cold food. In some cases my parents got me outside lunch. Usually a chicken parmesan or meatball hero. Eventually I started buying my own food in my later H.S. days. And started opting for rotisserie chicken from the Deli. Or pizza and pinwheels from the pizzeria. The pizza at my school was the WORST, especially the pizza sticks..... Think of pizza pockets but 10 times worst.... It was literally dough rolled over mozz cheese, AND IT WASN'T EVEN BAKED bro.... it was warmed / pale crap 😡🤬

[@Liezaac]

Im in school right now and gotta be honest drinking the milk feels like a chore. Id rather drink water but they don't give you water. They also give us this thing called cheesy pull aparts, i wouldn't call it food really.

[@johndeerelover69420]

Im in school and our food sucks teachers say that is good

[@_Alopecoid]

I lived through the 2010s. In 2010 I was in 1st grade iirc, and the food was delicious. The Chicken sandwiches that they were(note 'were') serving at my elementary school's cafeteria was superb, arguably better tasting than the fastfood equivalent of a chicken sandwich. Same went with chicken nuggets, pizza, and a whole bunch of other stuff at the time. Water was served, pretty good chocolate milk was served, as well as juice. It was until when I got into 2nd, half-way into the grade level, when the food just nose dived in the quality of taste imo. It just tasted awful for me and I just ended up skipping lunch for the rest of the time I was in elementary. It really pissed me off honestly. Whole wheat was being used rather than other better tasting bread, the pizza just tasted awful thanks to the change in how the cheese was made and the bread used (seriously? Whole wheat as pizza bread?), and hell, I don't even know what they did to the chicken, I think they switched to brown meat. The chocolate milk wasn't even safe at all from the changes, it also went from good to bad tasting for whatever reason. Bs after more bs basically. After leaving elementary for middle school, I finally got hands on decent good food, which, surprisingly, was pizza hut because they served it at my school luckily enough. This was short lived though, like 3 months, since I had to move schools because I was moving to a new home. If I still managed to stay in my old hometown, I would've went to the HS it had, which amazingly I got a tour of. They didn't just serve pizza Hut, but they had a literal fast food chain restaurant inside where the indoor basketball courts were. Flipping amazing honestly. But unfortunately, like I said before, I moved schools, and imo it was way worst than my old one. Not just in food served, but also just the quality of learning and engagement there.

[@annaf3915]

@@Liezaac That sounds awful. At my son's school, the kids only get water and sugar free ice tea. When I was a kid we had a choice of milk that tasted like cardboard, cocoa that tasted like sweetened cardboard and vanilla milk that tasted like sweetened vomit.

[@TrickyReveals]

In Singapore throughout my school years from the 2000s to 2010s, our cafeteria just has a bunch of mini stalls with different cuisines. We had the choice of chinese, indian, malay, western food. A drink stall, pasty stall, noodle stall. The prices usually ranges from $1.50 to $4 for a meal.

[@SteamRailPatreonR761VR]

Oh wow that is so cool where I lived we had a tuckshop every Friday and It could be soups or pizzas (wood fired) or gourmet food

[@frostythepanda1227]

same here in thailand

[@joyi341]

same here in Indonesia

[@rj-pd5iq]

same in malaysia

[@PanZerV]

Not in norway

[@Jackorwtv]

I was in elementary during 2010s, i'll be honest whatever you made looks so much better than anything we got during that year, and honestly i miss the 2000s/2010s sm, they stopped giving us minute maids in my HS

[@OTFoxshees]

what i love about this is how they share the food like there brothers lol

[@jaynieschmidt819]

Raised in Alabama in the late 40's and early 50's we had wonderful lunches. Fried chicken , okra ,and potatoes . Ham and sweet potatoes everything was really good! I am sure there were some things we didn't care for but overall it was great . This was Elementary school.

[@reginahunter7126]

👁👄👁

[@usopp3730]

My school gave me expired milk the cheese slide of the pizza too

[@Trividy_868]

I like okra

[@YourSocialistAutomaton]

Mf is 80+

[@GodzillaFan-dd8oe]

Are you grandpa den

[@kt420ish]

I was in school from the early 90s to the early 2000s. We never got anything from McDonald's lol. The fruit cocktail is accurate. And we also were served something different every day in grade school. And in high school we just went in line and you could buy whatever you wanted. French fries, pizza lasagna, cheeseburger, a cookie, etc.

[@justjeni83]

I was in elementary in the 90s. Our school did 'burger' day maybe twice a year. It was from McDonald's. Our parents had to pay for it though and if they didn't you'd have your sad PB&J jealously watching the others

[@justjeni83]

Also common from where I grew up... after grade 4, you went home for lunch. Or brought your own. School did not provide.

[@kt420ish]

@@justjeni83 that is interesting. I'm from the Midwest (northern Illinois). Lunch was provided at every single school I attended. And I moved quite a bit as a kid. It's always fun hearing what others had growing up. As a kid, you think it's the same everywhere. 🤙

[@kt420ish]

@@nicholastv5543 Lake County. Basically 40 miles north of Chicago and a little east

[@alysdexia]

It’s still the early 2000s and 2,000s, as opposed to 20-00s.

[@kearstanmiller6331]

This made me realize my elementary was using same meal standards from the 70s, it often tasted like the food came from that decade as well ...I was a 90s kid and the pizza was the only outsourced food from a local shop that was next to the school

[@MikuH-yr6ei]

In fact:1900s people are more healthy than nowadays people.

[@T.S.P_God5]

1920s and 1930s looks better than my school hot lunch today

[@Zecr4t_SocietyK1llah0]

Oh nice fact miku nakano from itsutsuko

[@baldheadahh1560]

school lunch today is trash

[@Znthy10-hu2zd]

Wtf is this profile piture

[@lesliep7925]

I think it depends where in the US and also if you paid for your own food or it was free :(

[@Miamia9845]

After watching this, I have come to sincerely appreciate the school lunch system in Japan. Our country regards it as an essential part of our educational nutrition programs. The interesting fact is that it all started under the direction of Douglas MacArthur from the USA.

[@NerdilyDone]

Oh yeah, Douglas MacArthur pretty much ruled Japan after WWII.

[@phantomfeather518]

The food shown here is way better than what is actually served! In the 2010s we did not get fresh food at all. It was all processed and tasted very bad.

[@rayf6126]

The US school system was originally planned around farming, hunting, and logging. They were some of the biggest industries on our soil, all that physical work was done outside mostly in the summer and generated it's own food product. It's why we have summers off. Then we switched to a service economy and schools didn't, it means families mostly used to feed their kids, and now factories do.

[@TheOne-dq3lq]

So you can also pack your lunch and eating healthy is a choice. It doesn't matter what is fed to you none of that matters if you don't eat it. Like for example, fast food. I might eat it once or twice a month. If I push it 3 times. I eat at home. I cook at home, it's better for you. Another thing people tend to forget is even if you eat healthy, you need to exercise, not everybody does that. Lifting weights is a great way to exercise.

[@Juhani96]

Yeah, me too, from finland. These meals are so unhealthy and poor nutrition. Also very boring. 😐

[@carolinalemos4707]

It’s actually quite insane to see how different American school lunches are from what I’m used to here in Portugal! Here it’s almost unthinkable to serve students hamburgers and French fries 😅 (although I’m sure sometimes the students would prefer it). What I noticed is that in America lunch is seen as a lighter meal (correct me if I’m wrong), dinner being maybe the main meal of the day. Here in Portugal lunch is as important as dinner in terms of servings, so usually school lunches always include a full course meal with soup, rice/ potatoes or pasta with some kind of fish or meat, salad and desert (which is usually some type of gelatin, puddin and always with the option of fruit). You can also have bread but it’s usually optional and used to eat with the soup.

[@ironwolf56]

Well they don't serve hamburgers and fries here either for the most part; that was decades ago. Nowadays it's mostly bland, healthy government food.

[@truth4004]

Yeah lunch is a light meal and dinner is the heavy meal. Breakfast can go either way.

[@unlikely_jack2707]

In the late 80s, we had chili every Friday. There were 2 options for sides. An apple and a PBJ sandwich. I still eat PBJ sandwich with Chili to this day.

[@Teocrit1]

Dude woah, I was born in 2000s, how was the 80s?

[@Simigema]

all of these looked 10x better than the actual school food Edit: pee pee

[@RISKIEZ]

because they didnt go over 2020

[@Catchingcat563]

Lol yea

[@xa-xii9338]

ikr, like there aint no way people had salad in the 1960s as part of there school lunch, most schools still don't have that today ( in North America ).

[@arandominternetuser9099]

The school lunches at my school district were actually insanely good, some more than others, but I overall liked it all. Trust me, I know what good food is too, and I still actually liked the school lunches.

[@xa-xii9338]

@@arandominternetuser9099 prob had a good school district

[@maxwellyoyo7846]

I love how he compared decades with refrigerators 😂

[@FishyPlayzThis]

fr :rofl:

[@Randomdude260]

fr

[@Kerguelen.Mapping]

This video was clearly inspired by Ryan trahans 100 years of video games video

[@Onepiece4life]

Same 😊😊

[@Sheriff_toadster_plushie]

⁠@@Kerguelen.Mapping omg I didn’t realize that

[@reginafisher9919]

You guys are crazy, I was born in 1975 and I never got any kind of soda with my school lunch!!! You guys are making this stuff up!

[@vineeshav2536]

I am glad than i am an indian and my government always know the importance of nutritional food for students. Eventhough the country was developing and facing severe economic crisis our government didnt compromised on kids

[@bobjones4901]

As an immigrant kid from Taiwan in the 1970's, it was a shock going from delicious nutritous bento boxes to cold pizza slices, jello, a bite of mushy salad. I always chose chocolate milk for the only solace I had.

[@ZombsRoyale456]

I feel you

[@Goldenred1000]

I feel you to 😊

[@jep9092]

Yeah.... America needs bento boxes

[@GetFuckedTrump]

bro taiwan isn't a country and plus china doesn't have bento boxes so stop lying

[@GetFuckedTrump]

no chinese kid has a name of bob jones

[@rayf6126]

The chipped beef was usually soaked over night and drained, put in with garlic sauce, cream, shredded thin on toast. That was actually a decent breakfast. Sometimes, we added mushrooms, zucchini, lemon juice.

[@alysdexia]

thin → finely

[@Mark-op7zt]

I've never had it with garlic sauce or any additional ingredients. I love the stuff. There are different brands of beef that are less salty. I'm surprised anyone their age is just now trying this and they're the first people I've ever heard say they don't like chipped beef and gravy.

[@SludgeManCometh]

​@@Mark-op7ztGoing off of the fact that they were also shocked about tomatoes being eaten by themselves, it's safe to assume they haven't got the best taste.

[@mei.444]

bro was alive in the 1940s 😭

[@mike91mdk45]

Junior high lunch was my favorite. Three kinds of pizza (Mostly little ceasar's, sometimes square or cheese crust), baked spaghetti, chicken fingers, traveling nachos, stromboli, chicken stir fry, hot dogs, chef salads, french fries, lays chips (Most flavors), linder's cookies (chocolate chip, fudge, and butter crunch), red and blue slushy machine, and milk (Regular, skim, chocolate, and strawberry). GOATED. That was peak.

[@andyroberts805]

Loved this. My grandfather was in the US Navy during WWII and to the day he died he complained about that “damned chipped beef on toast” they fed them lol

[@acd6835]

Here in Australia, we didn't have school lunches or school dinners, but a Tuck Shop (Canteen), where you could get your Mum or Dad to write on a brown paper bag what you wanted from a range of items on a menu from pizza, to sausage rolls, to pies, to chips etc, and attach some coins to the bag, to which it would be sent to the Tuck Shop and at Morning Tea or Lunch, your bag would be returned filled with what your parent ordered for you.

[@jpc6485]

That must have been a very nice system.

[@imreallycoolyouknow]

aaah im now in my last years of secondary college but i remember this so well from my primary days! it's much different now. now the kids can just bring money to the canteen, whereas back when i was just starting primary school we had the orders sent about a 20ish minute drive from our school and back because we didnt have a canteen. Then i moved closer inwards and we had canteen at that school, so the orders were just sent a 2 minute walk away.

[@mclovin5903]

​@@imreallycoolyouknow I have kids in primary school and now it's a pre-order app 😂

[@user-nh6mx3nb7f]

Interesting

[@imreallycoolyouknow]

theyre making life easier and easier for introverts lmao@@mclovin5903

[@kristinhillaker4536]

I graduated in 2012 and my school had such a huge selection to pick from. We had a build your own salad or wrap station, jumbo pretzels or Bosco sticks or snack stuff , chicken tenders and fries, pizza and then a line that changed daily. Chicken bowl was everyone’s favorite. $20 lasted me 2 weeks and we had milk, water, Izzy drink or flavored water.

[@hsuehejjw1731]

Rich.

[@ozboz-roblox363]

Damn u obviously went to a private school😂

[@JayMiller213]

Hahah yup. This was public school for me tho in Texas. Ngl some of that cafeteria food in high school was actually really good.

[@12dbortle]

@@ozboz-roblox363 Nope, my public school had these same options too. 2012 as well for me.

[@user-ie5gw9ym6w]

Yep my school did the same too

[@gwcrispi]

I remember that in the late 60's they served canned spinach at least once a week. We were supposed to eat all of our food. Most of my friends gave me their spinach. I loved it.

[@LindaBradway]

I love the energy of this video. As a child of the 80s, you forgot the spaghetti! We had that always. I also make chipped beef with buddig beef and a white sauce served over toast or mashed potatoes, my family loves it!

[@OnigiriKyoko]

I feel like the main problem with the food at my school is that it's never seasoned, so the food is always just very bland. As for fried foods, the food still isn't seasoned and never fried long enough so it's always soggy.

[@MarzFromMars]

@@We_are_what_so_stupid3 same

[@StephanieJimenez-fn7cq]

My school actually seasons the food

[@MarzFromMars]

@@StephanieJimenez-fn7cq lucky

[@elijahdennis6534]

here in europe where i am its very normal. france was amazing, and I currently like in the Netherlands and well yeah I don't understand why America doesn't put more money into actually caring for their students @@MarzFromMars

[@FinlandGuy747]

As a finn seeing an American complaining of their school's fries😂 We eat healthy here in Finland. And it's FREE.

[@gaelenj.francis2860]

I was in elementary school in the early and mid 2000s. Our lunches consisted of a combination of 60's and 80's lunches. We often had square-shaped pizza and chicken nuggets. Every day, we had milk cartons. Everyone always picked chocolate milk and I've never been able to find the tiny chocolate milk cartons nowadays. Maybe they're only visible to kids 😅

[@a1681257]

I drink them at the school i teach at haha

[@joy-to7dx]

I was a kid in the 90s our lunch consistent 70,80s and square pizza as well as special day in the 2000s it was subway sandwich.

[@AmariahKemet]

Everyone chose strawberry milk over chocolate at mine. Breakfast pizza, Stromboli, spaghetti, bacon egg and cheese biscuits

[@alienatedpoet1766]

Some schools have cut 2% and chocolate milk. But also branding ahs changed. Most milk just has a barely seeable colored stripe now showing what flavor. Sometimes chocolate is brown, sometimes it is purple. I don't get it.

[@CouchSpud91]

I currently work in a school cafeteria and the little milk cartons are still there (I'm literally the one that gets them in the totes to be served. So. Many. Cartons. Over 300 A DAY.)

[@holynightwingfan4510]

During the 90s in Brazil we would have different meals by each day, and if I remember it well it would all be accompanied by juices: like a simple soup (with spaguetti and meat), spaghetti with red sauce and meat, a meat sandwich with tomato sauce/hot dog, sweet rice, and finally rice with meat. And that was it for each day of the week

[@catmeme4life220]

my school lunch (2009-2012) was rotation of "PBJ sandwich, Coldcut(Turkey/ham/bologna) sandwich, Mozzarella cheese sticks, chicken fingers, lasagna/meatballs, Pizza, burgers" and Milk/apple. then our school got hitted by budget cuts then its sandwich all around later. my favorite was the Mozzarella cheese sticks.

[@kaylamuldoon397]

I was taught a few cooking recipes by my paternal grandmother. In regards to your chipped beef, she said you soak it in hot water up to 5 to 10 times to get most of the salt out before you make the dish.

[@chibaification]

Was thinking the same, the stuff is basically like salt pork. Heavily salted so you need to remove it by soaking in hot water.

[@PassengerPrinc3ss]

Ahh it’s kinda like salt fish… you have to soak and rinse like three times

[@silentmenace416]

I went to elementary school up in Alaska in the 2010’s and I can say for sure none of our school lunches were ever made fresh. They were all pre-packaged reheated meals/tray, a cold tray of veggies and a small carton of milk. And they were pretty expensive too, like $5 a pop. It wasn’t until high school did I ever encounter fresh meals

[@SunkenMold]

I’m from Florida and had the same experience! It got to the point where my mom just started packing me salads (until I got to 5th in which I started packing my own) and I always liked that a good bit more because I would grill chicken and toss it in the salad

[@Mrghost54]

As a high schooler myself I can say that school lunches are just not worth it they taste terrible and the food is mostly prepackaged or reheated and the salad bar is ok not great but ok and the “fresh sandwich’s” there are fresh on Monday the rest of the week they are used from Monday. And depending on the state some have made school lunch free as of 2020.

[@benmonroe5041]

I loved my school lunches I’m 70’s mostly but some 80’s. In my state this is the last of the actual cooks in schools they made everything all the bread pizza crust cinnamon rolls cut there own fry’s always had fruit or veggie dish with main dish and fry’s milk white but sometimes chocolate and occasionally juice of some kind. The breads is what I remember most all homemade

[@kynsemallie]

Class of 2009 right here. I had a great lunch program on the Navajo reservation. Fried chicken day was my favorite. My least favorite day was when our version of Chinese food was served.

[@jpaulw5]

"Creamed Chipped Beef on Toast" is actually an American Military Delicacy which is more commonly known as "Shit on a Shingle" because of its resemblance to bird shit on the roof of a house 🐦 💩 🏠 🍞 Great video! I love Food History. Alcatraz Prison used to serve Lobster to the prisoners.... But not like we serve it today. Talking no salt and pepper or nothing. And the shell was left on 👨‍🍳 Edit: you guys had it way better than me in the 90s lol. I lived in rural Georgia and in my Elementary School we got "pizza, burgers, and chicken sandwhiches" that from the taste im 100% certain werent actually made out of any of the correct ingredients. It was rough. I skipped alot of meals and ate alot of rolls, apples and oranges. It got alot better when i moved to a bigger city in junior high. The food tasted like actual food lol

[@13aceofspades13]

Was just going to mention how this was often served as a ration during WWII.

[@authenticpoppy]

I wouldn't call SOS a delicacy. Unless you're being sarcastic. I mean, it's also called SOS because of the taste.

[@jpaulw5]

@@authenticpoppy Lol eh, 50/50. I actually like SOS Fun Fact: Kurt Cobain used to make it for Dave Grohl when the band was still struggling. And i read he used tuna instead of chipped beef. Awesome 🖤🍴

[@sirpasta4927]

Lobster alone is delicious. Eating fresh seafood alone is great. What Alcatraz prisoners ate was a lot worse. They weren't served fresh lobster, they were served preserved or canned lobster, which is disgusting.

[@taffingtonboathouse5754]

They had shit on a shingle back in the depression?

[@1cicmd]

I grew up in a small town in South Louisiana in the ‘60s and ‘70s and in those days, the ladies cooked like they did at home. There were a ton of great cooks in our town and we grew up eating a lot of really great food. We had spaghetti and meat sauce, hot dogs with homemade chili, steak and rice & gravy, sausage and potatoes, shepherd’s pie, rice dressing, cornbread dressing, ham, shrimp etouffee, fried chicken, shrimp creole, etc. Of course, all of these dishes were always served with some kind of vegetable, milk, and the best cobblers, cakes, and homemade rolls you ever ate in your life. Were we fat? Most of is weren’t because we PLAYED outside and rode our bikes everywhere. I’m a teacher now and what kids are fed today is a travesty.

[@iryuru16-vd4ti]

Hello, Im An Italian Student (Middle 7th) I would Like to specific our school launches are based On Other things, Pizza Hamburgers (meat only) etc.. I would like to state This is the most strict education in Europe And Most students here Rebel against the Other Teachers (A teacher cried about it).

[@glochri86]

​@@iryuru16-vd4tiim Italian too an I remind 2010 elementary school meal to be like only vegetable and spaghetti EVERY DAY. It was boring af that I really just started to take food from home and it was gooder an coasted less. I would have payed the triple only to have the toast with cheese

[@iryuru16-vd4ti]

@@glochri86 Damn. Here its Just Good food

[@toriamigo]

Sugary drinks and fried food is banned in the schools in my country, we got chicken and rice wraps, salads, sandwiches, soup, rice with curry sauce or gravy, baked potato , lasagne.... no chips or fries etc, only fruit and low sugar cereal bars.

[@HunterJohnson-yc5zr]

I'm from turkey creek Louisiana and I know what you mean we had gumbo in the winter but pork and sausage gravy and jambalaya a lot too we had good lunches.

[@mchlcordell]

90s was great turkey meals I even got hot pockets and milkshakes in middle school 😂

[@GS4390]

In my opinion, the 1920s school lunch are the best ones.

[@thebigestman]

To me what was shown for the 2010s is a very small scope. Coming out of high school recently I can say that what we got was almost always processed, frozen, breaded, came out of can, in some form of all of that combined and there was the good ol plastic cheese. There was always a wrap or something "healthy" but no one ever got it. For a drink I wish I had water everyday, we were forced to get a carton of milk everyday I would've had to pay an extra 1.50 to get that bottle of water.

[@londeners3321]

2010’s was horrible food wise, you can thank Michelle Obama for that.

[@chicagolondongirl2906]

Or you could just go to the drinking fountain...

[@Onction1995]

8:20 MacDonald be like

[@MLFranklin]

I LOVED creamed chipped beef. It was a real treat.

[@elizabethbrown6898]

The school district I went to always had home cooked meals. Plus we had an ala carte line. In the late 1990's till 2010 when my child went to school I packed my daughter's lunch that was all organic. When she went to high school at a charter the meals were really good. Once a month they had a chef come into the school. The chef offered two options and cooked the food in front of them. They had Starbucks there and it was offered at a special price. They offered Dippin Dots free... I'm pretty sure twice a year.

[@kingofcitrus]

Wow, it’s great to see people are reviewing the lunches from when I was born in the 20s. It’s nice to know people care🥰🥰🥰

[@StormtrooperDoge]

You’re in your 100s?

[@noob_tsb]

If you was born in the 20s you've been at least 100 years old

[@asadejaz1713]

maybe 2000s is what he means

[@DimitrisSartzetakis]

@@noob_tsb if they were born in 1929 (20's) they're 94

[@noob_tsb]

@@DimitrisSartzetakis I know but if he was born in 1923 he have been 100

[@mariya2485]

As a person coming from post-soviet space, our school lunch has always been nutritional. My son now gets a first course (soup with meatballs, borscht, chicken soup etc), a second course of some meat/chicken and a side dish (usually some kind of grain, potatoes or pasta), a salad and a drink (tea or compote) for one dollar. My school meals 20 years ago were similar in composition, just a lot cheaper))))

[@dimplesskits5575]

Im in a U.S. highschool and the food is... well food, I'll eat it and somewhat enjoy it but it's almost the exact same thing every day, luckily they started giving us fresh cut kiwis which taste really good, but most of the time it's best to eat at home or skip the food itself.

[@mariya2485]

@@dimplesskits5575 It's great that your schools have started to include some healthy stuff, like kiwis)) I guess, this is the difference in general mentality. In my country we tend to homecook a lot, and eating out or ordering food for us is more of an adventure than a meal. We can order pizza or some sort of takeouts once or twice a month, but compared to a full size homecooked meal it's not too healthy, so we don't do it too often)) Besides, it's traditional for us to eat a lot of soups, we have some sort of soup every day during lunch. So the school lunches resemble the general attitude, I guess.

[@dimplesskits5575]

@@mariya2485 Woah that sounds really cool, kinda wish more places were like that.

[@Sara43212]

I wish I had that food now

[@PinkPanther918eR]

Only the evil empire poisions their own. I'm glad you had that Russian decency. ❤

[@asheelow1256]

Wow it's kind of cool how you cook school lunches throughout the years

[@WillCamacho-gb2kg]

I was a 2000s kid and we would have mozzarella sticks, chicken patty on a bun, a hamburger, and sometimes spaghetti and meatballs. That kind of stuff. And you bet your ass I LOVED it. 😂

[@toshiro6000]

Where I'm from 1990, 2000, and 2010 couldn't be farther from the truth... We always had multiple lines from elementary all the way up to high school. There was a sandwich line with multiple options like a burger or a chicken sandwich, a pizza line, and a main line that had something different everyday.

[@Samevi]

Same. My school had a choice of the daily entree, pizza (the most popular choice), burgers and chicken sandwiches (your choice of grilled, breaded or spicy on either a wheat or a white bun). Then you'd move on to the sides which were usually some type of fried potato. For some reason, the only drink my school offered for free at lunch time was milk, which really pissed me off as someone with a dairy allergy. I almost never had a drink with my meal because I didn't have money and you had to pay for water bottles. You weren't allowed to bring your own bottles in, either.

[@amandanapoli5425]

Probably depends on the school sounds like you went to a nice School

[@Samevi]

@@amandanapoli5425 It really wasn't. It's in one of the more economically disadvantaged cities in my entire state and the students who go there are considered the most unintelligent in the entire county. But hey, at least the football team is good.

[@amandanapoli5425]

@@Samevi no I stand behind what I say for the simple fact of the nicer schools where I live had everything that you just typed in this paragraph and the schools that I went to gave a slop so you definitely went to a rich School

[@Bwk-mj4pm]

Yup. Same. This guys duplication from 2000-present is wildly inaccurate

[@seanremlinger2277]

Missing some of the classics for the 90s: you had the 'turkey dinner' lunch which was usually reheated from frozen pre-sliced turkey almagamation served with instant mashed potatoes, instant gravy, frozen vegetables maybe a roll with butter pat and cranberry sauce. We also had "chinese" style lunch, which consisted of wet instant rice, cold chicken nuggets with expired sweet and sour sauce served with 1/2 of a microwaved egg roll and a bag of baby carrots. Then we had "pasta" which was either overcooked spagetti noodles with plain tomato sauce and way too much oregano or "butter noodles" made with margarine or flavored oil and a sprinkling of freeze dried parm all served with a slice of burnt cheesy bread and fruit cocktail. Came out to 3 bucks a meal and if you didn't have the money, your only option was the 'sad station' which was making your own Peanut butter sandwich with old and sometimes moldy bread and a dixie cup of water from the fountain. Wonderful stuff 😢

[@guywithdreads]

Damn you must’ve went to school in Baghdad Illinois

[@AMaidenlessRunt]

Thanks giving school dinner

[@iranickid]

"NOOOO, TURKEY IS BEST, YOU ARE PROBABLY GREEK, YOU ARE NOT TRUE" -Turkish Nationalist (who probably was unlucky enough to take a look at what you stated in your comment)

[@eggyolk8873]

I’m not reading that

[@daramji2]

Sloppy Joes man. that was my 90s

[@lyndagooch-campbell684]

As a teen in the 80s our school in tuscaloosa alabama actually had great homemade hot meals to go along with the pizza line. We'd have baked potatoes with Chilli or Salisbury steak and mashed potatoes. And these great homemade rolls that our lunch lady Mrs Gant (who worked till she was 80) made every day!😊 we had a milkshake that we would Dip our French fries in too and sweet tea. I miss school lunch from then 😅

[@Scout_Warrior]

Lmao where are you getting these lunch items from😂 definitely never had bologna cheese wraps or grilled chicken.

[@AlexMint]

I went to high school in the 2010s and the wrap you showed is honestly way better than what we actually got. Lots of questionable food standards, and pizza sauce became a vegetable. They wound up cutting meals to such a degree where everyone just brought in a ton of junk food.

[@colechurch6785]

Wow

[@ryrysspottedpuppyshow5149]

I wasn't alive yet

[@AlexMint]

@@colechurch6785 Worse, my school had a culinary arts class that helped with the lunches in a full kitchen downstairs. The school decided we didn't need scratch cooking anymore.

[@spacechimp3199]

Yeah same here in Canada back then

[@renerivera3827]

Seeing all these lunches are cool. Especially when you see stuff like a burger, grilled cheese, peanut butter sandwiches, soup and veggies. I was in school from the mid 2000s all the way until my graduation of HS in 2022. School lunch was super lame in my time. And when there was good food like hotdogs, popcorn chicken and mozzarella sticks? They're super rare or only happen once or twice and that's it for the rest of the year.

[@ConfuzzledOwO]

School cafeterias always intrigued me with their stories. I grew up in Canada in the early 2000s, we only had a cafeteria at my highschool and only ate from there time to time as a treat cos it was expensive as hell for such a small portion. It was more the norm to bring a lunch bag either you or your parents packed for you. We did have special days throughout the month where you can have your parents sign you up for pizza day, sub day, ice cream day… or a specialty program called kids kitchen where your parents could prepick the food you would get and they would come delivered to the school in brown baggies with your name and student number every wednesday. The meatloaf was the best

[@Susan-nf3qq]

That was how it was in Sacramento where I went to high school, elementary school took my own lunch

[@TikiRainbows]

Lunch was my favorite subject in school

[@twizziegirl]

Cream Chipped beef is a diner staple, sometimes served with eggs. I also like to get it over hashbrowns instead of toast.

[@darkcardking]

So I remember going to school in the 90s/2000s. Our lunch programs had options. You could get a cold lunch or a hot lunch. Cold lunch was usually some sort of sandwich, fruit, juice, and milk. Hot lunch was usually some sort of chicken, fruit, juice, and milk. Fridays we had pizza. High school we had the same thing though you could pick your sandwich and we also got fries. For someone like me who was really poor that lunch was the only thing you ate all day. To this day, because of that, I still only eat like once a day.

[@Sg190th]

Pretty accurate for the 2000s. I'm a 90s baby so the carrot was accurate. We still had pizza as well. There was also the frozen popsicle pyramid minute maid thing 😂

[@dizo-jp2td]

If you declare with your mouth, 'Jesus Is Lord' and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. -Romans 10:9

[@therealloganyt237]

@@dizo-jp2tdNPC

[@user-co1qm1ls4y]

Do they Not realize that people back in the 80s and 90s and the early 2000s made the lunch from scratch it wasn't just ordered off a food truck and you get it they actually ordered this stuff and made it themselves to wear the people in the video are just dumping food on the food tray from the can

[@Bwk-mj4pm]

No it’s wildly in accurate. School lunch was always, pizza, chicken nuggets, fish sticks…never once was I served grilled chicken

[@Shinobu._.thebesthashiraever]

That's my school food but instead of soup it's beans

[@jjsalt1982]

I got real cook meals at my school. Talking about Bording school lunches. Dinner too. Since i was in the dorm. Yep!!! The food were more cooked and delicious back in the 90's.

[@NicolewithouttheH]

lol the majority of my school years were in the 2000s and I would have killed for fresh grilled chicken and fresh berries!! The meals I remember more closely resembled the 90s lunch.

[@Smplkxn]

In my old elementary school, the most common meal was the chicken sandwich, apple slices, carrots, chocolate milk, and them ICONIC SMILEY FRIES!! I get memories of the apples and the carrots tasting like literal plastic because they were served in bags. the sandwich was in the styrofoam box so it got soggy with condensation. I would always love the smiley fries the most, they were kinda half cooked but it was fun to dip them in ketchup and pretend he was bleeding 😅 The milk would always be expired by a week or two and one time it tasted like mold and it had chunks-😭 Ay, it may have been bad but it sure gives me great flashbacks :)

[@kelp0988]

im not reading allat 💀

[@OFFICALBREEMATIONSTATION]

Intresting!

[@TheDemolitionist1]

I vividly remember having Domino's Pizza on Tuesdays and on Friday there was Ellio's pizza's. The meals were always a hit or miss tbh. Also I'm shocked you guys didn't do the classic milk cartons

[@christianweatherbroadcasti3491]

Repent and trust in Jesus. He's the only way. We deserve Hell because we've sinned. Lied, lusted stolen, etc. But God sent his son to die on the cross and rise out of the grave. We can receive forgiveness from Jesus. Repent and put your trust in him. John 3:16 Romans 3:23❤😊❤❤

[@mrchief975]

@@christianweatherbroadcasti3491 thats relevant

[@user-cm6tn6lz6e]

yes fr

[@williamchy7817]

I grew up in the 1980s Massachusetts public elementary schools. I remembered that we only had a choice of white or chocolate milk in small cartons. The lunches were individually packed. If it's a hot lunch, they would be in a foil container. My favorite was pizza. But I really liked the meat sandwich that was covered in bbq sauce. There would be a random dessert which may vary from fruit cups, crackers, or popsicle as far as i remember. We didn't have a cafeteria so lunches were put in crates and everyday, two students either volunteered or picked to grab the lunches from the kitchen and carried them back to the classroom to eat. I wonder if they still do that?

[@mdnazrulislam3365]

Bro, The 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s school lunches are like legends to me.

[@epongeverte]

My time in school was the 70s/80s, but our lunches looked more like the 60s. I can't remember eating burgers and we never were allowed soft drinks like Coke. We could have water, milk or maybe juice. We ate a lot of pizza, fish sticks, mac & cheese and liver. (I think that I was the only one who actually ate the liver.) lol

[@EMPRYMV]

Eww liver

[@goanimatenetwork3550]

🤮

[@TheRealSweetcherryo]

Yep...no coke ever at school in the 70's.....we had the Pizza then, but I don't remember hamburgers.....

[@annaf3915]

Hehe I like liver too. We never had it for school lunch though.

[@strawberryforte]

I went to a private school in Madrid for a few years, and lunch was always a treat. You could either get a hot lunch tray, in which the food was always fresh, or you could go get a sandwich they made themselves, and Fridays always had french fries. They also had a vending machine so you could get your own drink.

[@christianweatherbroadcasti3491]

Repent and trust in Jesus. He's the only way. We deserve Hell because we've sinned. Lied, lusted stolen, etc. But God sent his son to die on the cross and rise out of the grave. We can receive forgiveness from Jesus. Repent and put your trust in him. John 3:16 Romans 3:23❤😊❤❤

[@x.Feathery.Furry.x]

​@@christianweatherbroadcasti3491gurl dude whatever I get it you love and respect Jesus no hate but this video nor the comment is about Jesus - go do your preaching in areas where it's about religion or jesus or Christianity

[@user-nc2qj2jc5q]

​@@christianweatherbroadcasti3491 Odin is pretty cool as well 😂

[@zaskarr]

French fry Friday

[@SusieLostHerDog]

For 2020s, I eat homemade lunch, but… My friends eat school lunch, but I see that they have rice and seasoned chicken sometimes. Other times it’s definitely pizza, my other friend gets salads. They have Cheetos as sides, and burgers are also there.

[@kat19977]

Yep, my school in the 90's had pizza hut 😂 Also, taco in a bag became a thing (doritos with some meat and lettuce and cheese dumped in).

[@starrymelissa]

Fun video ! This is my experience in the late 80s: We had a lot of grilled cheese & tomato soup and something called “ Apple crisp “ quite a lot in school . The little milk carton was always prevalent !

[@sparks7790]

coke was never an option in the 80's for me. milk only

[@Modi_2002]

I'm from Taiwan, and in Taiwan we usually have a catering company contract with the schools to deliver our lunches to each school every day. and we had a lot of lunch every time! (since so many of them had classes late into the night). We usually have a 3 course meal,rice, a meat dish, fruit and soup. It's about 1-2 dollars a meal (less than 1 dollar in some places in the countryside). When I was a kid, all I wanted for lunch was a hamburger and fries, but the school thought those were unhealthy, so we basically didn't have those（I was worried that American students wouldn't be able to eat enough for lunch🤣

[@dobmaster4412]

T a i w a n

[@nighthamato]

I LOVE this series so much, it's so interesting to see through the years

[@EmperorBonaparte-sb1jp]

The 1920s looks amazing!

[@meghanac715]

This video made me feel grateful for being born in India. Freshly harvested vegetables, greens and fruits & lunch boxes of home-cooked meals.

[@ChildofYAH]

Awesome! That's a blessing! I'm glad I was picky and conscious of my health back in school. It's a shame how unhealthy school lunches are in America, but it'll still be "the best country in the world" to Americans regardless.

[@conlca4091]

I live on a farm and we have these exact things! Unfortunately, things like I have is not common for most kids/people in America. 😔

[@loisen]

It’s amazing how poorer countries have better food available.

[@user-vh2pk6bd3g]

The motherland of spices

[@TheFattestOfTheFish]

My school in the 2010's served HIGHLY processed burgers and chicken, with cheese that tasted like plastic on burgers and more, aswell as pizza that tasted like cardboard. This is with fries that were soggier than the ocean, with all of the veggies/fruits that they'd serve tasting mediocre at best (they were DEFINITELY not fresh by a long shot).

[@twiddlerat9920]

michelle ruined everything

[@flakyfan1496]

This is the problem. And who likes fhose wraps or fatty old chicken??

[@autisticgirlawareness7420]

@@twiddlerat9920So agreed

[@lipelieder]

Lucky my school serves pasta with chicken bones and 5 cents tomato sauce

[@georgeburns6512]

@@twiddlerat9920I’m with you on that one lol

[@loudcamaro79.]

When i was going thru school in the 90s my schools was just like walking into a golden corral buffet restaurant. School lunches didn't really suck for me till my last two years of school in the 2003 and 2004

[@Keitek]

I went to school mostly in the 90s and my school had Pizza Hut (Cheese or Pepperoni) and Subway (Club or Veggie) as an option every day along with whatever was the featured meal of the day they made in the kitchen and it was always with a carton of white or chocolate milk.

[@jesshansen1397]

I went to a three room schoolhouse in 1976. my mother packed a lunch for me everyday. Usually, a sandwich, soup, and a can of pudding. I still have good feelings about the effort and love she put in my lunches despite having to work a hard labor job AND take care of me.

[@Belgorod_Jedi]

Your mom is good one. First year I used to be studying in school where even wasn’t a kitchen. So, my mom had to coming to me and fed by home food. Don’t ask me why she wasn’t giving me lunch before school 😂 but anyway, I appreciate that

[@queenofcheap6310]

I totally agree. My Mum was the same. We were lucky. Life was easy.

[@SweetBootyBrandon]

One of my favorites was the chicken pot pie filling dish. Cant forget the Tots and the ol school Square pizza from the 90s was epic.

[@kelevera92]

4:14 Honestly, my grandma made this for me pretty frequently! We called it cream dried beef, and we'd put it on flakey Pillsbury grands biscuits, along with adding her own spin with seasonings, along with other things and balancing out the amount of salt in it. I LOVED it! Haven't had it in a few years, but I'd definitely eat it even now, at 30 years old. 😂 Sadly, shes not doing so well and in a nursing home now. Also, meatloaf SLAPS! And, always will!

[@sararuh4167]

I like cream dry beef too.

[@carlinrackley8547]

My school had something different everyday, so I had most of these lunches from the 20's to the 90's. My favorite lunches were hamburger, fries and cookie, and pizza, raisin 'n peanut and a piece of cake. A choice of white or chocolate milk were available. Price for lunch was $1.25 . My school era was 1990 to 2003.

[@poiipoii1311]

my school had a pizza line, deli line, and a hot lunch line that changed daily. We would get general tso chicken, meatloaf, turkey, and some other items. This was about 2010-2018.

[@Hells_ContractAuditor]

This was AWESOME guys. It shows how lucky I was the 1980s to be raised in small town where our cooks still used homemade recipes.❤

[@SleepyPupper]

Milk was really important at my school, lunch or not. I vaguely remember every week or so they brought a crate of mini milk cartons we were encouraged to drink for our growth. I always looked forward to mine.

[@KatieBellino]

Yes, I was surprised at the Powerade and water options shown in some of these later decades. The "Got Milk?" campaign began in 1993 and we also chose between chocolate or white milk (sometimes strawberry). We never got McDonald's or Powerade.

[@garyoaks8749]

I went to school in the 2000s and from what I remember my school cuisine consisted of pizza, chicken rings, nachos, and burgers/chicken sandwiches and a ton of extra money on hot Cheetos throughout the years haha

[@itssebas1378]

I'm a 2010s kid, but the lunch in my school is pretty good, we can pick our lunches and they have other options, they also have different lunches for each day of the week, and there still is pizza and burgers, we also have nachos for tuesdays!

[@ecstasycalculus]

90s kid here. My school district didn't have any fast food to my knowledge. We had hamburgers, but they were more like frozen grocery store hamburgers than fast food burgers. The fruit cocktail was iconic, just looking at it brought back memories. We had a salad bar that didn't look anywhere near as good as the caesar salad you guys made, but vegetarians had the option of getting the salad bar as a main dish in lieu of the usual options. We had All Sport rather than Powerade (classic 90s drink) but it wasn't part of the regular meal, you had to buy it separately. Milk was still the default. Before Michelle Obama came in you could get whole, 2%, 1%, skim, or chocolate milk (which was either 2% or 1%, I forget). 60% of the time I opted for whole, 40% for chocolate. Nowadays I believe the only options are 1%, skim, or chocolate skim. I'll also add that since I grew up with a health-conscious mother, 90s school lunch was my introduction to junk food staples such as onion rings, tater tots, Steak-umms, and Fruit String Things.

[@angelgurrola2892]

Aren’t you supposed to be dead?

[@ecstasycalculus]

@angelgurrola2892 what's that supposed to mean?

[@blueviper7501]

@@ecstasycalculus Seems they think that 90s means 100 years old right bout now.

[@soyboycuck3455]

​@@angelgurrola2892 maybe he was born 1980s or 1990s

[@Sg190th]

@@blueviper7501 They always do that to us 90s kids and babies. Like being almost 30-40 is senior age or something. Can't wait to see them get their just desserts lol

[@michaelsuk6440]

Pizza first became popular in the 60’s. My grandpa opened a pizza restaurant in our city after buying a recipe from an Italian pizza owner in the Twin Cities. It became one of the longest running restaurants in our city. He sold it to his partner about ten years after opening it. It’s changed hands several times, but is still just as loved as a day one.

[@then00brathalos]

First time learning that something changed hands multiple times with a good ending

[@batman91500]

Minnesota represent. Nice.

[@TosinGameplayBoy]

Grilled Cheese with a slice of bread on the Side Is funny 😂

[@TheRobbieCarlysle]

90s kid from the Midwest Here School lunch was like the weirdest stuff: Turkey Fritter on a bun Chicken Parm (chicken patty with tomato sauce and noodles) Beef Fritter