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Posted: 3/31/2021 9:29:30 AM EDT
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School pizza was the Wagyu of my youth. I brown bagged it normally (Mom worked at IHOP so I got a LOT of free pancakes and bacon) but I’d watch the schedule for pizza day and pony-up the $1.25 for lunch (1970s).
Elio’s is a pretty good substitute. Just make sure to slightly undercook it for that true school pizza experience. ETA- I grew-up in Florida back when Citrus was King. The State Legislature, which was made-up or owned by Florida Citrus Growers, didn’t think Florida’s children were getting enough Vitamin C so they passed a law that said every school child had to receive 4 ounces of Florida Orange Juice every school day at no charge to the child. The OJ was packaged in tiny little cartons and purchased with Education funds. Every morning, Teacher would walk up and down the rows of desks and each kids would take a carton out of the crate. |
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Posted: 3/31/2021 9:35:54 AM EDT
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I remember it well from across my whole school experience.
Something else I remember - in high school we'd often have french fries and there was a salad bar option for lunch. We'd get fries, ketchup, Thousand Island dressing, and tons of bacon bits from the salad bar, and make our own 'fry sauce'. It was delicious. Also, the 'taco bar' was pretty good. We'd make a huge bed of lettuce and cover it in meat and cheese sauce and beans and other taco stuff, but, mainly, cheese sauce. Chocolate oatmeal cookies were good too. |
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Posted: 3/31/2021 9:36:32 AM EDT
[#3]
Costco pizza tastes very similar.
The kids today have no idea what they missed school food wise. The stuff they are being served today may be healthier, but it's almost inedible. |
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Posted: 3/31/2021 9:38:23 AM EDT
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The Octagonal Mexican Pizzas in high school trumped the regular "sicilian-esque" elementary school pizza
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Posted: 3/31/2021 9:41:09 AM EDT
[#5]
The square slices always fit perfectly in the square spot on the blue or yellow trays too....
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Posted: 3/31/2021 9:41:43 AM EDT
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Pizza day was best day. Round out the meal with a Hostess apple pie and a carton of chocolate milk for perfection.
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Posted: 3/31/2021 9:53:28 AM EDT
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It was much better than the processed food frozen pizza we rarely had at home.
Anyone ever set a school french fry on fire? They burn a long time. 
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Posted: 3/31/2021 9:54:16 AM EDT
[#8]
FPNI
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Posted: 3/31/2021 9:56:23 AM EDT
[#9]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Yep. I've never looked so forward to something so terrible in my life.  . so true
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Posted: 3/31/2021 9:57:01 AM EDT
[#10]
It’s the exact same pizza now. I used to go eat lunch with my son in elementary school and was shocked to see the same pizza I had in the 80s/90s.
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Posted: 3/31/2021 9:59:23 AM EDT
[#11]
What about turkey tetrazzini ?
That was on the menu after pizza day. |
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Posted: 3/31/2021 10:00:09 AM EDT
[#12]
 With the worst tomato topping evar. |
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Posted: 3/31/2021 10:02:26 AM EDT
[#13]
I remember.
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Posted: 3/31/2021 10:03:09 AM EDT
[#14]
I don't remember them having it but I got out in '73 but they made the best meatloaf you ever stuffed in your face which more than made up for it.
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Posted: 3/31/2021 10:03:54 AM EDT
[#15]
My mother made us kids a close copy of the school pizza using a boxed Chef Boyardee pizza mix. It got us through the summer withdrawals.
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Posted: 3/31/2021 10:04:07 AM EDT
[#16]
Oh God I can still smell it if I think about it.
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Posted: 3/31/2021 10:04:08 AM EDT
[#17]
Pizza is like that today in many schools. Unless your local school has a sweet deal with the local pizza franchise.
I actually like it in its own weird way. Sort of like mac n cheese, Chef Boyardee, ramen noodles are the ghetto cheap bastardization of normal foods. But have a place in many peoples hearts. |
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Posted: 3/31/2021 10:05:39 AM EDT
[#18]
I loved pizza day. Those little squares were good.
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Posted: 3/31/2021 10:10:50 AM EDT
[#19]
Quote HistoryQuoted: My mom always insisted on packing my lunch for school, so I very rarely did get to enjoy cafeteria pizza. We did get these every once in a while, which I recall is a good approximation of school pizza. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/505655/GUEST_5b81f3d3-2323-48ca-94a2-a0fa882d32-1887137.JPG aaaaahhhh! I was gonna post this. 
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Posted: 3/31/2021 10:13:43 AM EDT
[#20]
The orange salad dressing is still out there;
https://www.dorothylynch.com/products/home-style |
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Posted: 3/31/2021 10:15:46 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Yep. I've never looked so forward to something so terrible in my life. FPNI. For new members, this is how one nails a first post. 10/10 |
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Posted: 3/31/2021 10:16:36 AM EDT
[#22]
So soggy and so delicious!
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Posted: 3/31/2021 10:16:49 AM EDT
[#23]
Ours had Fennel Seeds on them. It took me 30 years later to finally learn what they were. I buy them now and cook them in the meat I put on my Chef Boyardee Pizzas.
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Posted: 3/31/2021 10:17:55 AM EDT
[#24]
 Adam Sandler: Lunch Lady Land - SNL |
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Posted: 3/31/2021 10:18:47 AM EDT
[#25]
Quote HistoryQuoted: What about turkey tetrazzini ? That was on the menu after pizza day. That was truly awful, along with turkey gravy, fish nuggets, salisbury steak, baked ziti, "beefaroni," and spaghetti. Hot dog day was pretty vile too, you could smell it half way across the school, and they were always overcooked and rubbery, with a split down the middle. Some of the better food was chicken sandwich day, pizza, cheeseburger day (even if you did get the occasional chunk of bone in the patty,) chicken nuggies, and we actually had a halfway good hot chicken wing day about once a month. We had some decent sweet potato fries, seasoned fries, and tater tots. |
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Posted: 3/31/2021 10:19:09 AM EDT
[#26]
Every Friday.....Used to look forward to it for sure.
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Posted: 3/31/2021 10:19:15 AM EDT
[#27]
Loved it at the time, and despite being "cafeteria grade" junk, I suspect it had higher quality ingredients than what passes for "pizza" today.
Pizza, fries, chocolate milk, fruit cocktail, hmmm... Good stuff.
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Posted: 3/31/2021 10:19:42 AM EDT
[#28]
that is how it looked in the 90s too
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Posted: 3/31/2021 10:23:16 AM EDT
[#29]
I still remember it. every friday.
corn, pizza, and a cookie. we never got a pretzel or fruit.  my favorite was the chili. that shit was the bomb and you could get a big block of cheese with it. chicken nuggests, mashed taters, an rolls were another favorite. lots of kids got an extra portion of nuggets them covered them with mashed taters so they only had to pay normal price. |
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Posted: 3/31/2021 10:23:39 AM EDT
[#30]
I remember my elementary school offering a cheese or peperoni option. I loved the two peperoni they put on that curled up into nice cups of greasy goodness.
My all time favorite was turkey and gravy over mashed potatoes. That stuff was too die for. Sloppy Joe with a fruit cup and tots was really good also. |
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Posted: 3/31/2021 10:27:31 AM EDT
[#31]
I remember that pizza being super good. Traded whatever I could for a second slice
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Posted: 3/31/2021 10:32:56 AM EDT
[#32]
My mom was a manager of Godfathers then Pizza Hut back when it was good so between that and school pizza I grew up on the stuff. I would love to order the linked pizzas to test but don't really want to commit to fucking 96 of them.
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Posted: 3/31/2021 10:33:05 AM EDT
[#33]
We had tacos at my grade school in the 70's. Tacos that were amazingly similar to to tacos Jack in the Box sells.
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Posted: 3/31/2021 10:34:06 AM EDT
[#34]
Dipped in ketchup it was the best meal EVAH!
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Posted: 3/31/2021 10:35:43 AM EDT
[#35]
Tater Tot hotdish with corn and chocolate milk.
Mmmmmmm. |
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Posted: 3/31/2021 10:35:52 AM EDT
[#36]
That was served in Brooklyn NYC public schools throughout my time in the mid 80's.
Except it wasn't Pizza. We called it Wheat-za, since it was square pizza made with wheat bread dough. I was poor. We ate it and liked it. It wasn't like they let us out and we went to the local Starbucks and spent $6 on a frozen coffee drink. Hell, $10 was my spending money for the week, and that's because I walked the neighbor's dog for a few bucks every week. ETA: and shoveled sidewalks in the winter. Way back, even going door-to-door singing Christmas carols was a thing. |
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Posted: 3/31/2021 10:36:41 AM EDT
[#37]
The girls always used a shit load of napkins and squeeze pressed the grease out of them.
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Posted: 3/31/2021 10:43:19 AM EDT
[#38]
Chicago public schools had kitchens in the lunchrooms back in the 70's/80's, don't know if they still do. We had rectangular pizza in individual boxes but it was only sausage, I don't remember ever seeing pepperoni at school. Those were the days when Animal stories with Larry Lujack and Little Tommy was on WLS.
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Posted: 3/31/2021 10:54:08 AM EDT
[#39]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Was the Friday lunch at our school. Thankfully we were allowed to go off campus for lunch after freshmen year so we didn’t have to eat all the other slop. Friday was always fish in my elementary school. Religious thing I guess, though it was a Religious school. Thursday was hamburger day. I do remember the square pizza but think that started in JH. |
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Posted: 3/31/2021 10:55:44 AM EDT
[#40]
Always got one from the edges that was "well done", nice and browned. Crunchy, even.
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Posted: 3/31/2021 10:56:49 AM EDT
[#41]
There is a local grocery store here that sells them.
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Posted: 3/31/2021 10:58:59 AM EDT
[#42]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Preheat oven, open box, and place pizza in oven? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: One of the old school lunch ladies posted the recipe a while back. It was pretty simple Preheat oven, open box, and place pizza in oven? It was close to this Lunch lady pizza |
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Posted: 3/31/2021 10:59:26 AM EDT
[#43]
Still the same when i graduated in 2006.
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Posted: 3/31/2021 11:00:09 AM EDT
[#44]
Chewy fish sticks were worse.
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Posted: 3/31/2021 11:01:51 AM EDT
[#45]
Yes.
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Posted: 3/31/2021 11:01:52 AM EDT
[#46]
Those were the days I bought double lunch.
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Posted: 3/31/2021 11:03:24 AM EDT
[#47]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Yep. I've never looked so forward to something so terrible in my life. It was awful and I loved it. I remember convincing my mom I needed two pieces and needing another dollar. |
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Posted: 3/31/2021 11:04:18 AM EDT
[#48]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Yep. I've never looked so forward to something so terrible in my life. This! |
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Posted: 3/31/2021 11:05:34 AM EDT
[#49]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Yep. I've never looked so forward to something so terrible in my life.
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Posted: 3/31/2021 11:08:43 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: One of the old school lunch ladies posted the recipe a while back. It was pretty simple Remove from box. Cover with additional cheese...American. Heat. |
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