/ck/ - Food & Cooking

It was okay.

I miss school food. I'd often see kids, especially twig-thin young girls taking portions that amounted essentially to one potato or crisp bread slice, and the tiniest bit of sauce, and that used to irritate me to hell and back as kids. You don't grow if you don't eat, and here you are, provided with tax money with meals that have everything you need to that actually tastes fairly good, and you pass on it all because the star on the new TV show was the daughter of Ally McBeal and Skeletor and you need to look just like her. AND THEN THEY GO AND EAT CANDY BARS AFTER LUNCH.

Still, the food was good. My favourite was probably weenie stroganoff or meatballs, mash and gravy. And pasta casseroles were always big hits. And baked sausage and mash, and the pre-Christmas dinners with the whole set of ham and turkey and potato, turnip and carrot pudding, and so on...

Of course, not being 'murrikan, I was pretty privileged. Public schooling all the way from the crib to through university.

Lunch? Why, I can't remember being given a packed lunch ever in my life. But that's because I live in a country with a high standard of school dinners provided through judicial and fruitful use of public funding not subjected to free market abuses.