IT IS FRIDAY.
Anybody remember High School, etc lunches during Lint (i know lent) when you only got fish or mac and cheese?
Side note: when I first went to teach, desperate for a job, I taught at a catholic school. They served no food on ash Wednesday, even locking up the vending machines (even muslims allow the young, the elderly, and the infirm to eat during their month of fasting). Anyway, I always brought my lunch to school; i ate alone on those days. I bet in 1987 I could have sold a peanut butter sandwich for 8$.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.I almost always ate school lunch. In that tiny town (~300 people) it was your only option for a hot meal in the amount of time we had between classes.
I went to catholic grade school in the late 70's and don't recall ever not having lunch. We must have had more lenient nuns. I am not sure what the "Rules" said but they left enough room to be up to interpretation.
Donna_I
Level 8
Mar 7, 2020
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Never in my life from 1st grade on did I ever eat a school prepared lunch .My mother always gave me lunch in a brown paper bag that I took to school.
richiegtt
Level 8
Mar 6, 2020
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In elementary school, the only time I ate was on pancake days - all you could eat, one at a time - full plate size.
I remember years ago sitting at a table in the office canteen eating my steak and chips on a Friday (it must have been pay day) when an Irish Roman Catholic workmate sat down beside me with his fish and chips and said "how dare you eat meat at my table on a Friday". I was so gobsmacked that I couldn't think of a reply
Moravian
Level 8
Mar 6, 2020
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I remember my grandma would make lentejas, or lentils in English and she would make fried shrimp patties! I miss those!
MichelleGar1
Level 9
Mar 6, 2020
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I went to Stanner High in NYC . I swear the burgers never hurt a cow lest they be composed of them. But we had everything we always had, but fish was the name of the game. I seldom bought lunch at all in 4 years. Perhaps a dozen times. Nothing was big enough or tasty enough, and while it was not expensive, it was not free. Basically , it sucked. I was a brown bag kid. We were given a 1/2 hour for lunch including getting to/from the lunchroom.
Best line aimed at hot lunch types was "Staving people in China are throwing THAT away" Arty tossed the offending uneaten lunch and stopped buying lunch as well. But Italian American kids had it over on the others. We had lunches that were very tasty. Left over meatball,chix cutlet, heck anything that was left over and could keep at room temp.
You could keep a bully on your side more or less if they were not Italian,,, just bring an extra meatball hero in on occasion. Kinda like tossing a bottle of beer away from the group with half a mouthful in it. All the yellow jackets go there.
praytothemilkjug
Level 6
Mar 6, 2020
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One of the big athletes (still keep track on FB) used to stand by the trash cans. "You're not eating that?" We all gave him our left overs. He was never a bully.
I never ate in my HS cafeteria.
I either brown-bagged it, or went off-campus.
I was usually down on the "path" with my friends, getting stoned.
KKGator
Level 9
Mar 6, 2020
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what no munchies?
@praytothemilkjug Not from the cafeteria.
from the weed, you guys were getting stoned.
@praytothemilkjug I knew what you meant. What I meant was that the munchies were never satisfied by anything from the cafeteria. At one end of the path was a Cumberland Farms, and on the other side of the school was a place where you could get anything from burgers and fries to banana splits.
Munchies were totally covered. 
I was hoping you had a strain of munchie free weed! Could be a diet aid, drink 1 beer with a brownie and good for the evening!
In my catholic high school, on Fridays during lent, we had the most awful mac and cheese you can imagine - HTF can you screw up mac and cheese? But we did it. Either that or shitty pizza. If we dared to complain, we were told to "offer it up for the souls in purgatory". I'm not offering up anything these days, so those poor bastards will fry for just a while longer. LOL
zeuser
Level 9
Mar 6, 2020
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Thank you, you unlocked a memory vault, they had Pizza all of lent on Fridays, To say it sucketh is an understimation bibical scale. The stuff would not decay in a compost pile.
Back in Iowa we got horrible canned pink salmon made into patties or salmon loaf with an even more horrible pink sauce on Fridays... I thought all salmon was terrible until I moved to Alaska and had my first real fresh caught wild salmon cooked over a campfire - YUM !
FrostyJim
Level 8
Mar 6, 2020
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I attended public schools, bu tI do remember on Fridays the school cafeteria usually did fish sticks and tater tots on Fridays. It never occurred to me before that they might have catered to those students who were Catholic. However, in retrospect, I suspect that was why they did that.
snytiger6
Level 9
Mar 6, 2020
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Dorks.
SKH78
Level 8
Mar 6, 2020
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err who are dorks?
@praytothemilkjug The religious wacko folks are dorks.
cool I wasn't sure, for me as long as they don't try to "save" me I am ok, usually
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