biakbiak June 21, 2019 Share June 21, 2019 4 minutes ago, Babalu said: I went to the same college you did, @biakbiak. While I remember the whole town smelling like chocolate when they made chocolate Malt-O-Meal, I don’t remember any cereal in the dining halls. Maybe I never got up early enough for breakfast! I am old so maybe it’s not longer the case. Though the only time I made it to the dining hall for breakfast regularly was during my 8 am 10 person Freshman Seminar which was taught by the Dean of the College and she reserved one of the private rooms in the dining hall so that we would eat breakfast. The dining hall happened to be in my dorm so I would get up and walk down two flights of stairs in my pajamas, get breakfast, eat it during class and than walk back upstairs and go back to sleep! Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/68058-school-cafeteria-food-the-good-the-bad-and-the-inedible/page/2/#findComment-5389533
Babalu June 21, 2019 Share June 21, 2019 Ha! I’m older, I bet. I looked up dining halls just for curiosity and saw there’s no longer one at Goodhue, where I lived as a freshman. I guess those students must have to walk up and down the windy, icy hill to get food. 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/68058-school-cafeteria-food-the-good-the-bad-and-the-inedible/page/2/#findComment-5389560
biakbiak June 21, 2019 Share June 21, 2019 2 hours ago, Babalu said: I bet. I looked up dining halls just for curiosity and saw there’s no longer one at Goodhue, where I lived as a freshman. Always felt so sorry for you all! Burton all the way! Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/68058-school-cafeteria-food-the-good-the-bad-and-the-inedible/page/2/#findComment-5389623
Lovecat June 21, 2019 Share June 21, 2019 13 hours ago, biakbiak said: I am old so maybe it’s not longer the case. Though the only time I made it to the dining hall for breakfast regularly... I am old too, and as I recall from my college days, cereal was not just reserved for the morning meal 😉 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/68058-school-cafeteria-food-the-good-the-bad-and-the-inedible/page/2/#findComment-5390622
chessiegal June 21, 2019 Share June 21, 2019 I have no memory of eating breakfast in college, but I'm not a morning person, and rarely eat it now. But my freshman year I made up for it at lunch and dinner, putting on the freshman 15 pounds. Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/68058-school-cafeteria-food-the-good-the-bad-and-the-inedible/page/2/#findComment-5391066
StatisticalOutlier June 22, 2019 Share June 22, 2019 On 3/4/2019 at 9:35 AM, larapu2000 said: My dad still eats pickled pimento loaf. And, I am 100% foodie, but also 100% his daughter, and every 6 months or so, I get a hankering for bologna on Wonder Bread with Miracle Whip. And NO, you cannot substitute the WB or the MW. And NO other toppings! I like lettuce on my bologna/white bread/Miracle Whip sandwiches. And pickles if I'm on a health food kick. I never once took my lunch to school. In Catholic school, my mother paid for an entire year of lunches for her kids before school started, so we were just waved through at the end of the line. I showed up at public school in the 4th grade with a blank check from my mother to pay for my year of lunches, and they weren't having it. The most I could get was a monthly lunch ticket. Yes, high-level negotiations between a cafeteria lady and a 9-year-old on her first day at a new school. I was at Lambert's Throwed Rolls recently, and remembered that the rolls they throw are almost identical, in taste and texture, to the rolls I had in school cafeterias. The ones at school were square-ish with smooth tops, and the ones at Lambert's are clover-shaped (?) on top, but the ones at Lambert's aren't quite as brown on the top, which means I'll eat the whole thing instead of just the middle and bottom (I like my bread cooked rare). And by "whole thing" I don't want to imply that it's singular. 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/68058-school-cafeteria-food-the-good-the-bad-and-the-inedible/page/2/#findComment-5392335
Anela December 20 Share December 20 (edited) I wasn't a big fan of meat, but I liked the hamburger patties they gave us at one school, for lunch. Worst food? Blancmange. It looked like something from The Bad Place, and tasted like it, too. Like a burnt pudding. Unless it was just that one school? I've looked it up, and nothing describes it as tasting like it was burned. In high school, I took my own lunch, and sometimes picked up a large scone, if I went in with my mum, from a cafe in the Uxbridge bus and train terminal. I'd eat part of it for breakfast, and the rest at lunch. Edited December 20 by Anela Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/68058-school-cafeteria-food-the-good-the-bad-and-the-inedible/page/2/#findComment-8537609
isalicat December 21 Share December 21 4 hours ago, Anela said: I wasn't a big fan of meat, but I liked the hamburger patties they gave us at one school, for lunch. Worst food? Blancmange. It looked like something from The Bad Place, and tasted like it, too. Like a burnt pudding. Unless it was just that one school? I've looked it up, and nothing describes it as tasting like it was burned. In high school, I took my own lunch, and sometimes picked up a large scone, if I went in with my mum, from a cafe in the Uxbridge bus and train terminal. I'd eat part of it for breakfast, and the rest at lunch. I can't remember any really edible food at any of the schools I attended EXCEPT at my high school we had a morning break (for 15 minutes) at 10:30 AM and there was available for purchase (I think they were 25 cents but this was a long, long time ago) the most incredible huge fresh baked cinnamon rolls. These treats were basically my inducement to get to school every day! Yum. Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/68058-school-cafeteria-food-the-good-the-bad-and-the-inedible/page/2/#findComment-8537756
EtheltoTillie December 21 Share December 21 (edited) I have no idea why this topic suddenly rose to the top, but I had a laugh reading it. In elementary school we went home for lunch. In high school I brought a tuna sandwich every day. I probably have mercury poisoning. In junior high I ate cafeteria food. I remember that on Fridays they served fish sticks and spaghetti, a really strange combination. This was long ago enough that I think Catholic students still had to eat fish on Fridays (or chose to) so they served fish on Fridays. Edited December 21 by EtheltoTillie Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/68058-school-cafeteria-food-the-good-the-bad-and-the-inedible/page/2/#findComment-8538073
PRgal Tuesday at 01:55 AM Share Tuesday at 01:55 AM When I was in high school, they experimented with a new version of mac and cheese - it was a white cheese and had bits of broccoli if I recall correctly. It did NOT go well and they replaced it with regular mac and cheese. That was probably the grossest thing they had. We loved chicken a la king day! And chicken fingers and fries day. The burgers sucked and they never had chicken salad, even though it was on the sandwich menu. Pizza was half decent. When I was old enough to leave campus for lunch, I'd always go to the bagel place to get myself a poppyseed bagel with cream cheese, cucumbers and tomatoes. My middle school/high school cafeteria was the place I had tacos for the first time. My parents never took my family to have Mexican. It just wasn't in their lineup. We DID have our share of Pizza Hut, fancy-ish brunches at hotels and a buffet place called Town & Country. It was because it was easy for my grandparents to try different types of food outside of Chinese cuisine without having to speak with a server (they didn't speak English)/have my parents order on their behalf. Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/68058-school-cafeteria-food-the-good-the-bad-and-the-inedible/page/2/#findComment-8539629
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