It's middle school in the 90s or 80s and it's PIZZA DAY.
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I was on the east coast back then and in addition to pizza day we also had fiesta pizza day which was basically an Old El Paso taco on a piece of crust. Fiesta pizza day was only slightly behind regular pizza day for the best day of the week.
@victorvonvortex @Meowthias @futurebird Every now and then we had hotdog day. It's pretty sad what kids will get excited about.
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It's middle school in the 90s or 80s and it's PIZZA DAY. Yay!
One of the square slices behind the counter has a bubble. The dough has somehow acquired an air pocket. It's huge. The size of a tennis ball.
Everyone is talking about "The Bubble"
How do you feel about the bubble?
@futurebird My memories of the square pizza were in high school in the late 80's where all about grabbing a stack of like 10 paper napkins (serviettes, or whatever, not diapers) and then using them to blot up all the grease that floated to the top while I scoped out a table to sit at. afterward the pizza would be kind of dry so I'd add like 2-3 ketchup packets and a bunch of black pepper which seemed to improve the thing considerably. I'll still coat pizza rolls and the cheaper frozen pizzas with black pepper to this day.
I do fondly remember the "fiestada pizza" someone else mentioned from middle school (they were hexagonal shaped) because the cafeteria had fiestadad'd the hell out of them until they were nice and crispy. The only thing I truly miss though were the "egg rolls" which seemed to have some kind of cream or cheese sauce in them, it couldn't possibly have been, that doesn't even make sense. I've never found anything like that since.
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It's middle school in the 90s or 80s and it's PIZZA DAY. Yay!
One of the square slices behind the counter has a bubble. The dough has somehow acquired an air pocket. It's huge. The size of a tennis ball.
Everyone is talking about "The Bubble"
How do you feel about the bubble?
@futurebird In high school we had a lunch line ~just~ for pizza, every day! We also had “Mexican pizza” which was less than pizza dough, but more than a soft tortilla with a little taco meat and cheese.
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It's middle school in the 90s or 80s and it's PIZZA DAY. Yay!
One of the square slices behind the counter has a bubble. The dough has somehow acquired an air pocket. It's huge. The size of a tennis ball.
Everyone is talking about "The Bubble"
How do you feel about the bubble?
This discussion feels so alien to me.
Australian school lunches, a looong time ago. 1-2 sandwiches, white bread. Peanut butter & jam, or devon (sliced meat *product*, porkish) with a dollop of tomato sauce. Some kind of fruit. All from home, no refrigeration. There were water bubblers for drinks—& smalll state supplied unrefrigerated bottle of milk for morning play lunch.
Anything else was suspicious.
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It's middle school in the 90s or 80s and it's PIZZA DAY. Yay!
One of the square slices behind the counter has a bubble. The dough has somehow acquired an air pocket. It's huge. The size of a tennis ball.
Everyone is talking about "The Bubble"
How do you feel about the bubble?
@futurebird yooooo
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@futurebird pizza day? WWTF?? why did I never get pizza at school in the 1980s or 1990s?
@llewelly @futurebird never seen a pizza in the school. But who would want pizza when your parent gave you cookies (speculaas) on bread for lunch... Maybe even a peanutbutter banana sandwich.
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@futurebird @aburka @paco Your kids asked permission to skip school?
I'm stunned.
They are so sweet but so strange sometimes.
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@futurebird That’s much better than what I was imagining. Kind of adorable actually.
Yeah this isn't a sad story of a kid who no one was feeding. It's the story of a stubborn kid whose parents thought "well... maybe if she just struggles a bit she'll figure it out."
My mom gave me $10 glorious late 1980s dollars each week to buy lunch which was $2 per day at the school. I was convinced I could find a better way to spend the money and create lunches.
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Chewing and chewing with watering eyes "they serve these at country clubs, you know? you have to cut the crusts off..."
*chew chew chew*
Just thick chunks of cucumber with the skin on and nothing else but the wonder bread.
PCP's.
Pepperoni, cheese, and pickle. Put them all on a toothpick. It's a taste sensation.
As far as I know, my family discovered them. They were always around at Xmas dinner.
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It's middle school in the 90s or 80s and it's PIZZA DAY. Yay!
One of the square slices behind the counter has a bubble. The dough has somehow acquired an air pocket. It's huge. The size of a tennis ball.
Everyone is talking about "The Bubble"
How do you feel about the bubble?
I'd never thought of this before but I was sent to school every single day with a lemon curd sandwich on white bread. Like a VICTORIAN CHILD. This is how I find out my mother didn't love me.
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It's middle school in the 90s or 80s and it's PIZZA DAY. Yay!
One of the square slices behind the counter has a bubble. The dough has somehow acquired an air pocket. It's huge. The size of a tennis ball.
Everyone is talking about "The Bubble"
How do you feel about the bubble?
@futurebird i hope i dont get the Bubble, not because gross but because the Bubble is inevitably a low-to-no-topping zone due to runoff.
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Chewing and chewing with watering eyes "they serve these at country clubs, you know? you have to cut the crusts off..."
*chew chew chew*
Just thick chunks of cucumber with the skin on and nothing else but the wonder bread.
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I had the vague notion that a lunch should have such things. But I would end up with a can of creamed corn, a can opener, candied ginger from the back of the kitchen cabinet, a pack of hot chocolate, a thermos of water too cold by lunch to make the coco, a slice of white bread with thick slices of cucumber on it (since I read about "cucumber sandwiches" in a book but didn't know how to make them.)
I had this idea that it was a "fancy lunch"
It was awful.
@futurebird @MCDuncanLab @llewelly Once I hit fourth grade I was responsible for my own lunch.
Things I learned:
You can generally substitute cream cheese for mayo in sandwiches as a bread spread and it's often better.
A sandwich consisting entirely of bread and mayo is not good.
This started because one day I was having trouble finding ingredients and decided to try a sandwich containing only white ingredients: white bread, mayo, and cream cheese. Do not recommend.
A "c" sandwich containing cucumber and cream cheese, on the other hand, is really good.
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It quickly came to: "if you really want to have a bagged lunch you need to make it yourself."
I was excited to try!
It was a disaster!I think I gave up after a few months. But the strange little plastic containers and boxes I found hung around in the kitchen for years.
Later I was obsessed with a "factory lunch" and using the old lunch pail that belonged to my grandfather when he worked in the mills.
That went a bit better.
@futurebird @MCDuncanLab @llewelly The book "Bread and Jam for Frances" was aspirational in my making-lunch-for-my-kids years.
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I'd never thought of this before but I was sent to school every single day with a lemon curd sandwich on white bread. Like a VICTORIAN CHILD. This is how I find out my mother didn't love me.
@TheBreadmonkey @futurebird
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@TheBreadmonkey @futurebird
Lemon curd on white bread sounds delicious.It was rather nice
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@futurebird @MCDuncanLab @llewelly Once I hit fourth grade I was responsible for my own lunch.
Things I learned:
You can generally substitute cream cheese for mayo in sandwiches as a bread spread and it's often better.
A sandwich consisting entirely of bread and mayo is not good.
This started because one day I was having trouble finding ingredients and decided to try a sandwich containing only white ingredients: white bread, mayo, and cream cheese. Do not recommend.
A "c" sandwich containing cucumber and cream cheese, on the other hand, is really good.
@robotistry @futurebird @llewelly
In high school, I made some of the most amazing lunch sandwiches (kind of guided by my mom). One of my favorites was pita, cream cheese, sliced black olives, cucumbers (peeled and sliced futurebird), and roasted red peppers.
Gosh, it was so good. I bet it's amazing with home grown peppers and cucumbers. I should definitely try it this summer when the garden is in full swing.
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@robotistry @futurebird @llewelly
In high school, I made some of the most amazing lunch sandwiches (kind of guided by my mom). One of my favorites was pita, cream cheese, sliced black olives, cucumbers (peeled and sliced futurebird), and roasted red peppers.
Gosh, it was so good. I bet it's amazing with home grown peppers and cucumbers. I should definitely try it this summer when the garden is in full swing.
@robotistry @futurebird @llewelly
By the time I got to high school, my parents were much better off so we had all those high-end ingredients. Well, I think they are high end, even if the black olives and roasted peppers came giant can or jars from costco that we *had* to eat once we opened it
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@futurebird @MCDuncanLab @llewelly The book "Bread and Jam for Frances" was aspirational in my making-lunch-for-my-kids years.
@epicdemiologist @futurebird @llewelly
A very good one. She has a soft-boiled egg in that one right?
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Thing thing about only "poor kids" bringing their lunch wasn't really true at our school. Most of the kids who brought a lunch just had very fussy mothers who thought the cafeteria food was terrible.
They were not totally wrong.
But my lunches... they were worse. I have memories of friends taking up a collection to feed me because I'd brought something that made no sense... like two cups of white rice with ketchup and nothing else.
@futurebird
It can be surprising how swapping bits of odd meals can liven up each end. But it is good children share and help.
