Comments by "John h Palmer" (@johnhpalmer6098) on "School Lunch from the Great Depression" video.

  1. i think the quality of the hot lunches depended on when and where you went to school. I was in school for all of the 70's and early 80's, becoming an adult in the mid 80's and the school district I went to had fairly decent lunches as far as the quality of individual items are concerned. Mind you, it was what most kids, including the HS students would likely have eaten. Ham sandwiches, hamburgers, pizza, stuff like that. I think we did have say, canned green beans (which I've never had an issue with, and even now, they come in handy when I need/want to have green beans and I only have the canned varieties on hand, of which I don't often do currently). Some of my more favorites were the pizza's (Duh... typically on Fridays), the ham sandwiches (essentially a slice of ham, American cheese on a hamburger bun) basic cheese burgers, the patty may or may not be made of real ground beef and often had a slice of American cheese (think McDonald's cheese burgers) In fact, I cooked up a hamburger last night that was better than described for school, and yes, it had American cheese on it, and a mayo/cream sauce with salt/pepper/dill in it slathered on the bottom bun, Pizza was often "sausage" based, (think Totino's pizza) and I can't recall what else was served, yes, there was a salad bar, a desert if I recall, typically a pudding or jello or some canned fruit. Nothing fancy, but at least it was, to me anyway, was reasonably tasty. Mind you, I didn't not do hot lunches often as Mom made my lunches most days for school, often from about 5th grade on in the brown paper lunch bag. Otherwise, I had the typical either metal or plastic lunch box, not the soft sided ones, but the molded plastic ones for a year or two, but I think they may have all been metal as I think they were the least expensive ones to get as we were not as affluent like some in our middle class community were but were not poor either.
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