Your LEAST FAVORITE school cafeteria food

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Poll question: Your LEAST FAVORITE school cafeteria food

The "hook" of the poll is not that you dislike the food choices below...it's that you didn't like them when they were served to you in your friendly school cafeteria.

:toast:

[Lyric]

1. I pretty much liked all school cafeteria food, except maybe for the soggy carrots.

To be honest, my parents were so ridiculously poor that what we got at school was usually better than what we got at home. Even now, I still have a fondness for cafeteria food. Go fig!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. We had something we called Mystery Meat.

It was a lumpy sort of gravyish substance with blobs of unidentifiable meat and occasional bits of fat and gristle that they served over mashed potatoes.

:puke:

This was back in the early '60s when school nutrition was an unknown science.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

3. They identified ours...they called it "turkey"...

A standard lunch...offered every single week without fail (also in the 60s) was a small ice cream scoop of the instant mashed potatoes with "turkey and gravy" poured over the top, some green beans or peas, lovingly scooped out of the lukewarm water with a slotted spoon, and a roll. That and Sloppy Joes made the menu every week. EVERY week.

:rofl:

[Liberal Veteran]

10. Did you happen to notice the abscense of pidgeons or seagulls on those days of the week?

[NV Whino]

12. They obviously used the leftovers in Spring Garden Special

see below.

[baldguy]

4. Pork chops

or rather, the tasteless slices of greasy shoe leather they peddled as pork chops.

[AwakeAtLast]

5. Salisbury Steak

Um, that shit wasn't steak. :puke:

[Tabasco_Dave]

24. Eeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!

That stuff was nasty.

[flvegan]

6. My elementary school made the WORST shit pizza.

How do you botch pizza? It was horrible. Repressed memory horrible.

[Liberal Veteran]

9. Pizza was my choice as well. I'm thinking they opened a Domino's franchise...

....after leaving my school cause it was as least as shitty as Domino's.

[Kali]

16. did you go to Supai?

exactly: how can you fuck up pizza? It was like soggy crustless bread and tomato sauce with a sprinkle of imitation Parmesan.:puke:

[njdemocrat106]

25. The pizza at my school looked as hideous as it tasted

Square pizza with swirls of cheese on top is the best that I can describe it. The chicken sandwiches were pretty bad, too (and if I recall, on more than one occasion, some kid bit into their chicken sandwich and found a piece of wax paper inside the patty.)

[mitchum]

7. Beatle Caps...which were fried bologna with a dollop of mashed potatoes sprinkled with paprika

[flvegan]

8. That's disgusting.

[NV Whino]

11. Other: Spring Garden Special

Nobody knew what it was, but I suspect it had mutton in it. Nasty stuff.

[PfcHammer]

13. That chick looks hawt. I'll have her for lunch

:P

[Locrian]

15. That chick looks hawt. I'll have her for lunch

what he said...

[carlyhippy]

14. years ago in my cafeteria they liked to fix something called chilimac

that was the GROOOOSSEST stuff ever, oh yeah, every single day they piled cole slaw on our plates, and I know for a fact that about 80% of it went into the trash off the trays, what a shame, 6 years every day cole slaw was on those trays and no one ate it...what a waste of money and food.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

18. Yep, cole slaw was the fruitcake of school cafeterias...

...everybody got some, no one ate any. I wish I could remember who the stand-up comic was that said there is only one fruitcake...people just keep giving it over and over and over again...

:rofl:

[whistler162]

17. The steak tartar it was always over cooked!

I have been out of high school for 30 years so the PCFS(Post cafeteria food syndrome) is mostly gone!

[yellowdogintexas]

19. the most disgusting fried fish in the entire history of the world

I believe my extreme pickiness in the eating of fish is due to that school. They did many things badly, but did know how to make pretty good fried chicken and roast turkey .

[noamnety]

23. My school finally rebelled against the cafeteria fish

We finally organized a fish die in. We all took the fish, then went to our tables with our trays, and flopped down on the floor, dead. There were bodies piled up everywhere.

They finally got the hint.

[Tabasco_Dave]

20. That awful pink French salad dressing

We never had a choice it was always the same @#$%ing thing every day. No italian, no blue cheese, just that pink shit.:mad: :puke: :argh:

[Radical Activist]

21. Only a school caf can screw up a hamburger.

[Lucian]

22. Ugh. The vegetables.

:puke:

[Common Sense Party]

26. They used to serve us pseudo-pizza, the crust of which was a CRACKER.

Yes. Cracker crust. Gag-inducing.

[LibDemAlways]

27. My high school served hot dogs laden with so many

preservatives and so much sodium that my fingers would swell up at night after I ate one. That plus the beef with the shimmering rainbow aura to it are what I remember most.

[madeline_con]

28. Where are they serving fruit like THAT?

Our kids get a tiny 4oz. cup of canned peach cubes, and in Florida! It's shameful!!

A hated the gravy. It always sucked.

[southerncrone]

29. The canned green peas.

They smelled so bad, even if you didn't get them on YOUR plate, that you couldn't eat your other food. They stunk up the entire cafeteria & surrounding halls.

[enigmatic]

30. split pea soup

Done. End of story.

Ugh...

[MattSh]

31. So much bad food, so little time.

Luckily, I've been out of school many years and don't remember what's the worst !!

[mikeargo]

32. Chinese Pie

That's what they called the disgusting mix of hamburger, corn, and brown gravy. You can just imagine what it looked like.

[MilesColtrane]

33. They called it "Smothered Steak".

We called it "Bubble Steak", as the wretched, congealed gravy slathered on top looked like it had bubbled up out of the meat, like fluids out of a wound.

The steak itself was a weird, spongy, and gamy mass that offered little resistance when you chewed it, except for the occasional small bone chip.

I NEVER ate the hot dogs from the cafeteria...too afraid of biting into a vein.

Argammmfuuueell!!

:puke:

[Amerigo Vespucci]

38. I bit into a vein the size of a #2 pencil at the Cisco Systems cafeteria...

It was definitely a vein...looked like a piece of a main artery or something, It was a flesh tube, about five inches ling. It was inside of a beef burrito. I should have taken it back. I just threw it out and went to work and did my best not to get violently ill for the rest of the afternoon.

[MilesColtrane]

40. Nasty

[bigwillq]

34. I hardly ever ate from the cafeteria.

I always brought my lunch.

[Orrex]

35. Thursday was 'Soylent Green' day

Not very fond of the mashed potatoes, which may have been mashed but certainly weren't potatoes.

[trof]

36. What, no MYSTERY MEAT?

It was kinda hamburgerish, but not quite.
It had a sort of meatish texture, but what the hell was it, really?
:shrug:

[kwassa]

37. Macaroni and cheese, which I still hate to this day.

I was scarred forever by the school cafeteria.

Of course, there were the stale brownies that we would kick around the room like hockey pucks.

[pinstikfartherin]

39. Mystery Meat that looked like the meat off of a McRib sandwich. With BBQ sauce.

Yuck!!!

[flying rabbit]

41. Sloppy joe, slop, sloppy joe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_-KbstEG4E