That’s gourmet!

[@ryimscaith1593]

Anytime I looked at what the school served for lunch, I was always grateful for my Dukes of Hazard lunch box and whatever mom had stuffed it full of.

[@kaseyhayes2301]

I have that lunch box. It was the best.

[@tiffanygrever8092]

Bag's of mini chips Capri sons my thermoses always leaked so I preferred getting that.

[@mrbig7718]

I had one too but mine smelled like rust and I had to keep it away from my white shirts 🤣

[@hellhound1389]

Compared to the crud my mother passed off as food at home the horrible school lunches were better

[@2WOLFS]

😂 wasn't special enough for a lunch box, I had one of those brown bags. But, that free bag from my uncle store always had extra items. Save a dime on the brown bag, and it allowed me to have an extra drink or food item. I was Greatful for an uncle with his well stocked store. 😂

[@ithiriaderitan1745]

Give her a MRE, she'll be praising school lunches

[@54MLG]

😂😂

[@or1750]

Especially the Corn Beef and Hash...cold!

[@danielallmon2173]

The cracker that doubles as clean up for oil spills.

[@yattaguru]

I remember those MREs... makes me glad to be back home

[@michaeltaylor4984]

Lurps were worse. But, they were wonderful after three days of worms, bugs and a small snake.

[@stevelambert6404]

Apparently she had never been hungry

[@aaronpatterson2369]

..typical Gen Z spoiled brat

[@99PMoon]

Danm straight.

[@ChubbyChic]

Truth!

[@wynlord]

I come from the time before, the time before. We never got pizza for lunch. Fish sandwiches or something that vaguely resembled hamburger on Friday only. Most of the time our meals involved some sort of meat in red sauce, green beans, some version of potatoes and those little 2² inch dinner rolls. At the time I didn't know they were conditioning me for a 20 year military career.

[@juliaanderson447]

Compared to my school lunches (from the 70's) that looks gourmet 😂

[@Sho81]

I found out that the 80's "mystery meat" chuck wagon steak in school that didn't taste like beef, chicken, or pork was actually horse meat. Apparently most of the 80's school lunches in my area of the U.S. were bought cheap from Canada and that is what we got.

[@stevenpugsley2557]

In the high school I went to in the 70’s, they had these hamburgers that were steamed with an orange mystery sauce,the top bun looked like a picture of a human brain. They looked like they’d gag a maggot, but in actuality, they weren’t that bad.

[@christophercarey165]

Even compared to like 15 years ago it looks amazing

[@susanherbert3014]

I was a fortunate Gen Xer, I chose to go to a vocational/technical high school. We had an awesome Culinary Arts department so we had great school lunches. Prior to that, I went to schools with out school lunch programs so I pretty much lived on PB& J !

[@yattaguru]

In times like this, I recall a quote: _Tough times create strong men;_ _Strong men create easy times;_ _Easy times create weak men;_ _Weak men create tough times._ _No matter the times, you must raise warriors, not parasites..._ --Sheikh Rashid

[@Michaelfatman-xo7gv]

Didn't know there more to the quote.

[@GummyBearWA]

Our school lunches in the 70s were great. Big fresh yeast rolls, beef goulash, Salisbury steak, baked Mac & cheese, smokey links were all incredible.

[@jeffborden9529]

Don't forget the spaghetti:-) luckily those carried on into the early 80s around here :-)

[@mattcook676]

Yep this is the truth. Pizza on card backing. Also. Was served tater tots that were stuck together as it they glued together as some cruel joke.

[@veteranoutdoorsman9978]

The school pizza was awesome

[@crazyhorse705]

80 lunches were different loved the pizza

[@jeffreyallen2778]

We thought that rectangle pizza was the bomb.

[@Kenneth2413]

​@@jeffreyallen2778I remember an acquaintance I had in high school that would get a rectangular pizza, open up a mayonnaise packet, squirt it all over the pizza, roll up the pizza and eat it like that. I must have had an iron stomach, because even when I watched him do that I was able to eat my rectangular pizza regularly and have no issues keeping it down and actually enjoyed it.

[@danliberty734]

I still remember that pizza from the 70s. It must be the same pizza. The only redeeming thing was the chocolate milk. 😂

[@erykaton170]

I wish I could go back to my elementary school and get the Italian sandwiches they used to serve us back in the 80's. I don't know what kind of sliced meat was on it, but it was my favorite school lunch of all time and I've never been able to recreate it. It was the only times I ever remember seeing a cafeteria full of kids voluntarily eating onions, green peppers, and tomatoes and not complaining about it. I still prefer the taste of milk from a carton instead of a plastic jug, too.

[@kristianbaker8022]

Well, that all brought back some memories I thought were lost in a deep fryer 40 years ago...

[@Kenneth2413]

Ikr. It made me think of the wacky cake that they sometimes had at my schools. That is still one of my favorite kinds of cakes.

[@zartan-1975]

I actually miss the cheeseburgers that were both extremely delicious and beyond gross at the same time.

[@jamieweavingwolf1175]

Don't know about yours, but our burgers were those dry soybean burgers. I can't say I liked them, but they were better than anything else.

[@renaissancewoodworking]

Ahh. They were soooo dry! 😖

[@hellhound1389]

You just brought back memories of the burger at my school. It made me dry heave. Growing up on a cattle farm I know what beef is supposed to look and smell like and that was not beef. It was artificially made in a lab from grinding up earthworms

[@vedinthorn]

I could never figure out what the patty was made of.

[@zartan-1975]

@@vedinthorn I think the old up gym mats? Still miss those!

[@ethancook5377]

Hey, I met you in person today , and I am honestly glad to say you're an awesome and humble person! Keep up the awesome videos!

[@robertcovino4889]

School pizza was always good and the “hamburgers” 😂 whatever they were. I would get three of those lol oh man then go to the smoking section right outside the cafeteria. Good times…🍻

[@hellhound1389]

When it was hamburger day I would leave my tray in the middle of the table for my friends who could choke them down. I remember times when they would give warning what culinary torture they were doing that day and I would sneak out through the shop class building and walk to Wendy's, Arby's, or LJS all right across the street from the back of the school. I wasn't the only one because there were usually a few of us that would be there. The cool thing was the principal would yell at the staff to lock the doors but my shop teacher would unlock it just before first lunch and lock it back up when classes were back in session. Even he admitted he couldn't choke down the garbage they served and he was in the Marines

[@thesandman4438]

In high school, I spent my lunch outside smoking with the teachers. I miss those days.

[@NotALot-xm6gz]

If that had been served in a British school in the 1970s, there would have mass confusion amongst pupils over the vibrant colours, the varied flavours and textures other than “mush” and “damp cardboard”.

[@bryanmoregunn8098]

I remember when my school tried milk pouches. You prayed you didn't puncture the bottom with your straw

[@mrbig7718]

You mean the chocolate milk super squirter 😂

[@christophercarey165]

For me it was those small milk cartons and you had to pray that it didn’t have mold

[@sidneywoodall2113]

Oh man, as a Gen x'er, I can confidently say that the amount of sarcasm I could generate with this guy would be considerably. So good, so great, so true. Preach my man, preach!!.

[@desmien679]

The old chalupas with a side of lettuce and a packet of hot sauce. I remember those lunches in the 80s very well. A taco shell in the shape of a small pan, with cheese and small pieces of what looked somewhat like ground beef in the shell. In many ways it resembled a pizza with a taco shell for a crust.

[@annarichter484]

I grew up in east Germany when it was a communist country. Though we had always cook lunch it often looked like it was taken to the blender (I loved it but most kids hated it). One dish was called "Tote Oma" what translates to "Dead Grandma", not a nickname that is what it's called. 🤤

[@avislcuriel]

That Looks Divine🙉

[@zenhammer]

I loved school pizza squares. LOVED.

[@patriciaabatemarco3834]

I was so blessed. Our school district made our food from scratch and baked fresh bread and rolls every day. We had fresh vegetables and salads and got to try new foods on things that caught our food services director’s attention. (We had shark in elementary school when he caught one on a trip and had it shipped home). As well as venison in deer season. They still have majority freshly prepared meals and still bake their own breads.

[@user-db2uk8iq9r]

Our pork chops in elementary school looked like the communicator krang and shredder from the teenage mutant ninja turtles cartoons used.

[@ChubbyChic]

“I’manot finna even furreal gonna eat this yo”. American education at its finest.

[@Edgar-gu2pj]

I just turned 49,and I was born in Baltimore,our lunches were pretty good ! I guess it's where you went to school.

[@KlingonPrincess]

"Turkey" cubes over "mashed potatoes" covered with "gravy."

[@renaissancewoodworking]

Ohh! Ours was shredded chicken. ❤❤❤❤

[@naomihatfield3015]

Dammit, Dadbod….I had successfully repressed those memories, and as soon as you described them, I could taste that pizza again, feel those chicken nuggets, see that sad, sad corn, smell the fruit cup, hear the low-key roar of the lunchroom….and felt a sudden surge of anxiety that I had forgotten my homework….then I remembered that I am 57, and I can drink alcohol.

[@filly3594]

Forget the 1980's, try the 1960's! That lunch she got looked darn good compared to the lunches that were offered in the 1960's.

[@lorettacarroll6015]

I had school lunches in the 70s in Arizona. Cooked fresh each day, and oh man, the chimichangas were good. So were the tacos, tostadas, enchiladas, and tamales.

[@tomswoodwork]

Or like in my High School, the FEW times we actually got hamburgers that looked like ACTUAL hamburgers, you would get through them half way and they were not done. I've bitten into them and heard them moo 😂

[@MrMwmussel1]

All that while you looked over at the teachers lounge where they have beautiful looking taco salads that you NEVER saw on the students lunch line.

[@hellhound1389]

When I started going to school I went to a small country school that had grandmas volunteer as lunch ladies. That food was better than the slop I got at home because my mother couldn't cook to save her life. We then moved to the farm causing me to now go to a city school. The food was horrible even by my standards. I would usually push my tray into the middle of the table for my friends to fight over the garbage. Except on home style days when they let the old lunch ladies make a meal. On that day I had multiple trays in front of me because my friends hated those home style meals. Chicken and biscuits, spaghetti and garlic bread, beef stew on mashed potatoes, or my personal favorite chili. I carried beef jerky, granola bars, and hot sauce in my backpack every day

[@MiddleOutdoorsman]

I remember these hamburgers that were heated and served in these foil paper bags. It was just a thin patty of some kind, with a bun smashed flat from being in the bag. It was served with these tater tot like squares. You got two of them, served in a wax paper bag. The remarkable thing about these hash brown squares was how greasy they were. One could in fact throw them at the ceiling and expect them to stick.

[@Noonien96-nx6yj]

Bearing in mind Regan was president. Yep, I remember chalupas with a few nuggets of ground beef covered by a paper-thin film of cheddar cheese, next to four tater-tots. On weeks where my self employed dad couldn't find work, instead of school lunch, I brought two pieces of bread pasted together with mustard from our empty refrigerator. My dad loved Regan all the same solely on the merits of Regan's cheery personality.

[@rebeccajolley8291]

When I think back to school lunches I am forever grateful that my mom lovingly packed me a lunch everyday.

[@KenrilZ]

Yeah, I remember those lunches too. Pretty sure that public schools had the same cafeteria suppliers as prisons, and no, that's not a joke. Public schools in America are basically run the exact same manner as prisons, and it's done wonders for American society. /s

[@theknickerbocker5808]

Bring back the school lunch of the 70s. Pizza buns, I think they were called. An english muffin with something that looked like tomatoe sauce and Velveeta cheese melted over the top. Im scared for life, 50 years ago, I saw them for the first time and have never forgotten. Now the Sloppy Joes a couple of Fridays a month that wasn't bad. That pigeon on a brick didn't look completely inedible.

[@AenesidemusOZ]

A $2 note, a brown paper sandwich bag on which you wrote your order, and a fervent prayer seldom answered. Pre-canteen days (1964-76) were much, much worse than whatever she was complaining about.

[@goaway3717]

The chicken patties the Army served to us (for about 75% of the meals during basic training didn't look half as nice as that. I wish whoever is supplying that kid's school lunches had been running my post's mess hall in '87.

[@jensleasman1838]

Sounds like I was quite fortunate because our school lunches were banging. And who can forget pizza day? ❤❤❤

[@notchoconcern9278]

School pizza was great back then and when my kids went it was the same square slice and still amazing lol... they still talk about how great the school pizza slice was hahaha

[@moriahanderson]

We use to get these dry premade burrito things with no sauce or anything. Afternoon classes were insane...

[@EricRedbear]

Pizza Friday was awesome. We looked freeware to that cheese covered cardboard! Don't pretend we didn't!

[@hellhound1389]

Not me. I hate junk food. I only ate when it was old school meals and that was once every two weeks

[@jiveturkey2875]

Helz yeah!! Cardboard Fridays meant the strange noodle concoctions were done for the week.

[@Sirscruggz]

Hell man, I remember French bread pizza. Just a lump of garlic bread with cheese sprinkled on top of it all . We also had some good shit like spicy chicken sandwiches and Bosch sticks, which were breadsticks filled with cheese

[@seanperreault5850]

Some of those meals are kicking around in the back of the school freezers too just waiting to come out lol

[@handimanjay6642]

Pizza casserole was the best. Lasagna noodles broken up with pizza sauce, ground Italian sausage, ricotta and mozzarella mixed in and a cheese breadcrumb crust on top. With 3 lunch period people from 3rd period would cut out if class to get it at time cuz it was gone by half of 2nd lunch.

[@heathertomlinson1961]

My school lunches at the DoDDs school I went to in Germany during the early 80s were great. Those in the States during the late 80s/early 90s, um, not so much.

[@renaissancewoodworking]

The shredded chicken and gravy over mashed potatoes and a square biscuit. That I LOVED and it was all I would eat! I’d either bring a lunch or starve. 😂

[@hellhound1389]

I loved that as well but my thing was the spaghetti and garlic bread or the chili with tortilla chips. I would give my friends the garbage meals but since they didn't like those old school meals I would have my fill with at least 4-5 trays in front of me. They often laughed because I brought hot sauce to school

[@Warpman608]

I remember how hard '80s chicken sandwiches were hard as cement to chew and each bite felt like I was breaking my jaw

[@Evan-lr8nq]

She would have shit a brick if she had to try the "green gravy" i had in school in the '80's. Chicken gravy that looked green under the lunchroom lights. And so much salt that your arteries would harden at 14.

[@arnocopley4928]

Cardboard pizza, some kind of red sauces, a 1/8 in chick rubbery layer of something that may have been cheese, topped with a puddle of hot grease. We half joked that we got the stuff the county jail rejected.

[@alyssaoconnor]

School lunches aren’t a thing in Australia you take what your parents can afford to send you with, usually for me it was a sketchy promite or jam sandwich and an apple - the kids with rich parents also had maybe a musli bar or a small pack of chips (crisps) or the luxury of buying a meat pie or ice cream etc from the small school canteen 😂

[@nichol1591]

I dont know why.. but that grade school pizza, shaped like a stop sign.. hit different.. I liked it.. I miss it.

[@CameronWilson-lb5bg]

Those school lunch foods caused me to still be backed up today, i graduated in 1992!

[@Bruski68.]

You must have been one of the rich Gen X, I took home made sandwiches to school in the 70's that I had to make myself, usually bologna and cheese.

[@hellhound1389]

Lucky. The only lunch meat in our fridge was what my father liked. It was either liver cheese or pickle loaf. Plus since my mother couldn't cook to save her life I ate a lot of grilled cheese and canned soup. I can't go past a can of soup without dry heaving

[@donnaduncan8352]

We had chocolate pudding with little balls of something all throughout. All the 3rd grade kids in the 70s were afraid to eat them. 😅

[@freebird-dana8829]

We loved Friday lunch! Our pizza was the best! It might have resembled cardboard but it sure did taste good!!!

[@kathrynwhitby9799]

roll back to the 70s, when schools had proper kitchens and proper cooks to use them.

[@chrisr251]

The fried chicken had hair on it. The burgers were green. And on meatloaf day, somewhere there was a gopher family in mourning.

[@tiffanygrever8092]

In California in the eighty's we were given two trays one was aluminum foil that had the hot end of the meal and then there was the plastic tray that had the fruits and veggies and if lucky a cookie it wasn't that bad.

[@Ubotit_Unaymit]

That's better than a mcchicken. Except for the ketchup. I can't help anyone who puts ketchup on chicken.

[@Michaelfatman-xo7gv]

Institution, square pizza. A little bit of mustard, ketchup and mayo to dip...... Ambrosia.

[@severdonwan]

Ah, but things got worse before they got better. For a long time, in the 90s, they didn't even give us cartons of milk. We had bags, which we had to stab with straws and hope it didn't go through the other side.

[@dwaikens]

We took a Chicken Patty (the Disc shaped ones) and we put it in a closet for the majority of the school year... one of us actually remembered and when we pulled it out... It did not age... Pizza was the ONLY thing our school did right. Even the salad bar, when they had it, was hit or miss, usually because they would hold on to chopped veggies from the previous week when the had salad bar... No children, you should appreciate what you have... But then again, our parents went up hill both ways in the snow and we didn't listen to them either, did we... hmm.

[@beverlypylant718]

Remember mystery meat? Was it chicken, beef, or pork. I think all the above plus whatever else they could find

[@timslack7568]

outside of the ketchup, that looked downright delicious, compared to 80s and 90s yeah youre right thats a Michelin 5 star meal

[@thedreadtyger]

sorry you didn't get to eat our school lunches in the 60s and 70s. they were delicious!

[@marlenebenson9335]

I went to Catholic school they had the best peanut butter sandwiches and I liked the square pizza.

[@mattbrown5511]

Damn that sandwich made want a Chic-Fil-A. In my high school, that would have been 3-star Michelin level. Let her go hungry for a week and then get her opinion of that food.

[@KingofKarnies]

Plastic cheese rectangle pizza wrapped around french fries like a burrito. Lunch of champions.

[@tammymurray995]

I can't complain the fries and gravy were the bomb the cheeseburgers weren't bad either at my high school

[@pauldegennaro7798]

How about the hockey pucks ,the called burgers . Or peanut butter and jelly that probably broke a tooth .or chocolate pudding you could scoop out of the tray in one scoop and stick it to the ceiling ..good times .

[@revsellers]

School pizzas were never cooked, they were served cold. When you did get a burger it wasn’t made of beef, but that’s okay because that wasn’t bread either.

[@jeffborden9529]

Oh now 80s lunches wasn't that bad :-) school pizzas wasn't the best but we looked forward to it same with the good old soybean hamburgers :-) but there was always a square of peanut butter cornflake candy on the tray :-)

[@BarryRosen-io6jh]

That's was a very good meal back in the day ❤

[@Will51781]

Remember when peanut butter and jelly was a school lunch.

[@OriginalMomo]

There was w pounds of ketchup and mayo on that. No way it was dry lol. Let her eat the lunches of our youth. Guarantee she’ll stop complaining right away.

[@AutumnBreezers]

The fish sticks, ya'll - remember?

[@livefreeordie9542]

The only thing edible was the pizza and the cheese burger. Everything else made an MRE look like a 5 star meal

[@AverageHouseHusband]

My wife and friends call me the garbage disposal. I will not waste anything that can be eaten without getting sick.

[@tersciarenfrow8323]

we had two lines: hamburger and main food. but none looked like that chicken sandwich.

[@jalopywrench]

Hell, I remember school pizza! Feel lucky little girl

[@TheGremlin825]

all my lunches was ether leftovers or sandwiches till I got to high-school and then they were pretty good my school had culinary arts course's so they had them making our lunches

[@hellhound1389]

I started school in a rural area. The lunch ladies were all volunteer grandmas. The food was awesome. Then when we moved onto our own farm I transferred to a city school. Those were lunches that rivalled my mother's cooking and she couldn't cook to save her life. Once every two weeks they would do old school meals which my friends hated because they preferred junk food. On junk food days I would push my tray to the middle of the table for them to fight over. But on old school days I usually had my fill with 4-5 trays in front of me. I loved the spaghetti and garlic bread

[@MarkLitchfield]

I don't understand kids these days and their unending need to drown their food in some sort of sauce. I remember a time when you could order a burger from McD's, open the wrapper and eat it with one hand while driving down the road and it was tasty. Just enough ketchup and mustard to make the sandwich chewable. I order some burgers the other day only to get them home and find the patties holding their breath. The younglings in the back had put so much ketchup and mustard on that I needed a shower after eating that sandwich soup.

[@noneyabidness9644]

School lunches used to contain whole roaches.... especially the tapioca. 😶

[@MD2389]

And if you were lucky enough to get french fries, they would have the same consistency of rubber!

[@aleigh2]

Our school didn't have chicken nuggets ... we had chicken O's. Nuggets with a hole in the middle ... and looked oddly wrinkly. 🤢 There's a reason I brought my own lunch.

[@deeclutter1123]

Kids today wouldn’t have survived when we were kids. They’d have been too traumatized to leave the house with the first knee scrape from falling off their bike! The fall would come from a meltdown because they were forced to play outside…there’s bugs and sunlight out there 🙄😂

[@bwsimonson]

What about the waffles with that syrup that wasn't syrup and they were so tough your fork broke?!

[@StrandedLifeform]

This kid needs to experience the boiled hamburgers that may or may not have been real meat or the "cooked to death" spaghetti mush.

[@steffen7478]

Just had a flashback to school lunches.....what was the deal with all the garlic- yeast rolls and why do I suddenly want one?

[@jdglenn7214]

Do you mean the seagulls from the football field that they passed off as "chicken"?...

[@BM-hb2mr]

Actually the country school i went to had great food. Lol

[@ericankney5957]

Anyone know where I can acquire the old school pizza rectangles they served back then? I'm pretty sure if I started a food truck selling only that pizza, and tiny chocolate milks, I'd be able to retire in about 2 weeks....

[@granden2077]

Hard times are coming. You will miss that fish samich.

[@AZmystic1977]

She is complaining about the chicken sandwich when she has a chocolate milk and what looks like ice cream. Dude I wish I had that when I was in school.

[@dalemoore435]

Give her a Russian MRE