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Amerigo Vespucci Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 03:28 PM
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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:
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Lyric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 03:33 PM
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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!
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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 03:41 PM
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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.
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Amerigo Vespucci Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 03:49 PM
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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:
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Liberal Veteran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 06:23 PM
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10. Did you happen to notice the abscense of pidgeons or seagulls on those days of the week?
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NV Whino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 06:47 PM
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12. They obviously used the leftovers in Spring Garden Special
see below.
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 04:02 PM
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4. Pork chops
or rather, the tasteless slices of greasy shoe leather they peddled as pork chops.
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AwakeAtLast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 05:12 PM
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5. Salisbury Steak
Um, that shit wasn't steak. :puke:
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Tabasco_Dave Donating Member (744 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 12:05 AM
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24. Eeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!
That stuff was nasty.
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 05:20 PM
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6. My elementary school made the WORST shit pizza.
How do you botch pizza? It was horrible. Repressed memory horrible.
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Liberal Veteran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 06:22 PM
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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.
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Kali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 09:00 PM
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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:
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njdemocrat106 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 01:20 AM
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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.)
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 06:11 PM
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7. Beatle Caps...which were fried bologna with a dollop of mashed potatoes sprinkled with paprika
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 06:14 PM
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8. That's disgusting.
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NV Whino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 06:44 PM
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11. Other: Spring Garden Special
Edited on Sun Dec-21-08 06:46 PM by NV Whino
Nobody knew what it was, but I suspect it had mutton in it. Nasty stuff.
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PfcHammer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 07:17 PM
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13. That chick looks hawt. I'll have her for lunch
:P
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Locrian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 07:39 PM
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15. That chick looks hawt. I'll have her for lunch
what he said...
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carlyhippy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 07:39 PM
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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.
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Amerigo Vespucci Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 09:27 PM
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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:
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whistler162 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 09:06 PM
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17. The steak tartar it was always over cooked!
Edited on Sun Dec-21-08 09:58 PM by whistler162
I have been out of high school for 30 years so the PCFS(Post cafeteria food syndrome) is mostly gone!
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yellowdogintexas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 09:29 PM
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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 .
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noamnety Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 11:51 PM
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23. My school finally rebelled against the cafeteria fish
Edited on Sun Dec-21-08 11:52 PM by lwfern
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.
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Tabasco_Dave Donating Member (744 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 11:44 PM
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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:
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Radical Activist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 11:46 PM
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21. Only a school caf can screw up a hamburger.
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Lucian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 11:49 PM
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22. Ugh. The vegetables.
:puke:
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Common Sense Party Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 02:00 AM
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26. They used to serve us pseudo-pizza, the crust of which was a CRACKER.
Yes. Cracker crust. Gag-inducing.
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LibDemAlways Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 02:08 AM
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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.
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madeline_con Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 02:12 AM
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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.
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southerncrone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 02:23 AM
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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.
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enigmatic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 02:49 AM
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30. split pea soup
Done. End of story.

Ugh...
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MattSh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 06:00 AM
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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 !!
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mikeargo Donating Member (279 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 06:03 AM
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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.
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MilesColtrane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 08:29 AM
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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:
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Amerigo Vespucci Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 10:36 AM
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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.
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MilesColtrane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 12:13 PM
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40. Nasty
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bigwillq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 08:30 AM
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34. I hardly ever ate from the cafeteria.
I always brought my lunch.
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 09:02 AM
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35. Thursday was 'Soylent Green' day
Not very fond of the mashed potatoes, which may have been mashed but certainly weren't potatoes.
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trof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 09:06 AM
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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:
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kwassa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 09:11 AM
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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.
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pinstikfartherin Donating Member (294 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 11:02 AM
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39. Mystery Meat that looked like the meat off of a McRib sandwich. With BBQ sauce.
Yuck!!!
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flying rabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 01:59 PM
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41. Sloppy joe, slop, sloppy joe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_-KbstEG4E
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