It's middle school in the 90s or 80s and it's PIZZA DAY.
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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
It's at my peril if I try to sneak The Bubble away from my wife. I've learned to live very flatly unless there are 2 bubbles, in which case I get the smaller. -
@futurebird@sauropods.win video on the legendary square pizza to those who aren't from the US https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40MvjFaTVzE
and recipe to make it at home https://www.tastinghistory.com/recipes/schoollunchcheesepizza?rq=pizza@jiub @futurebird THE SQUARE PIZZA
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It definitely sounds great!
Who doesn't love pizza?
The bubble thing, I found really funny.
Some nutritionists worked very hard to design an inexpensive, easy to make, pizza that could fit into school lunch budgets which are absurdly small in the US. (What is wrong with us? Why do we hate the concept of "feeding hungry children." Anyway.)
Part of the design requirements is that everything is the same. No "corner slices" no nicest bit to squabble over.
So we squabbled over "The Bubble" --which I thought was awful. It was hollow! All the cheese would slide off.
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@jiub @futurebird THE SQUARE PIZZA
@kirakira@furry.engineer @futurebird@sauropods.win square pizza was the shit
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Some nutritionists worked very hard to design an inexpensive, easy to make, pizza that could fit into school lunch budgets which are absurdly small in the US. (What is wrong with us? Why do we hate the concept of "feeding hungry children." Anyway.)
Part of the design requirements is that everything is the same. No "corner slices" no nicest bit to squabble over.
So we squabbled over "The Bubble" --which I thought was awful. It was hollow! All the cheese would slide off.
I think, my little ones would kill for getting pizza at school, instead of the "healthy" stuff they're served.
I mean: At home, they also get healthy food, but properly prepared and seasoned.
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It definitely sounds great!
Who doesn't love pizza?
The bubble thing, I found really funny.
@mina @futurebird me. I didn't enjoy pizza until my 20s. School pizza did a number on 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 The bubble means less toppings and cheese. I don't want it (unless there's plenty of pizza, which there never is). Not gross though.
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Some nutritionists worked very hard to design an inexpensive, easy to make, pizza that could fit into school lunch budgets which are absurdly small in the US. (What is wrong with us? Why do we hate the concept of "feeding hungry children." Anyway.)
Part of the design requirements is that everything is the same. No "corner slices" no nicest bit to squabble over.
So we squabbled over "The Bubble" --which I thought was awful. It was hollow! All the cheese would slide off.
@futurebird @mina We originally got standard sheet-pan pizza (corners and all) and didn't really have much bickering over which bits of it (You could ask for a specific type of piece if you wanted, but most people didn't care that much) but around my junior year they switched to a different supplier that appeared to just be segments of a continuous conveyor-belt pizza with only two "crust edges" (It looked like someone took a rectangular pizza and sliced the crusts off the short ends). Given that the crust on the old stuff were both A: enormous, and B: practically made of granite, the new stuff was objectively an improvement...
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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 don't hate the bubble, I kind of like it, but it means less cheese and sauce in my slice, so I don't want it
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@futurebird @mina We originally got standard sheet-pan pizza (corners and all) and didn't really have much bickering over which bits of it (You could ask for a specific type of piece if you wanted, but most people didn't care that much) but around my junior year they switched to a different supplier that appeared to just be segments of a continuous conveyor-belt pizza with only two "crust edges" (It looked like someone took a rectangular pizza and sliced the crusts off the short ends). Given that the crust on the old stuff were both A: enormous, and B: practically made of granite, the new stuff was objectively an improvement...
@futurebird @mina This insider knowledge came from the chef at a private school, who explicitly rejected that funding when it was bought up as an option, because it practically tied his hands behind his back in meal planning. He's more than able to meet those nutritional targets as a "rolling average" across multiple meals, but that's not what the requirements are.
(And I can say from experience that the food there was better than anything I ever had as school lunch).
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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 pizza day? WWTF?? why did I never get pizza at school in the 1980s or 1990s?
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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 There were plenty of air bubble slices, but I've never heard of one being that big. At that size it basically has taken over the whole slice you would have gotten and you're basically just getting air...
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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 the bubble can hold so much canned corn
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@futurebird pizza day? WWTF?? why did I never get pizza at school in the 1980s or 1990s?
@llewelly We didn't get it in the 60s or 70s either. @futurebird
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@futurebird pizza day? WWTF?? why did I never get pizza at school in the 1980s or 1990s?
The grade school I went to had pizza, but it was pretty bad.
There were reasons I brought my lunch from home.
(And, no, I did not have celiac as a kid.)
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@futurebird pizza day? WWTF?? why did I never get pizza at school in the 1980s or 1990s?
@llewelly @futurebird It was always the highpoint of the school lunch menu and it was also awful pizza.
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@futurebird @mina We originally got standard sheet-pan pizza (corners and all) and didn't really have much bickering over which bits of it (You could ask for a specific type of piece if you wanted, but most people didn't care that much) but around my junior year they switched to a different supplier that appeared to just be segments of a continuous conveyor-belt pizza with only two "crust edges" (It looked like someone took a rectangular pizza and sliced the crusts off the short ends). Given that the crust on the old stuff were both A: enormous, and B: practically made of granite, the new stuff was objectively an improvement...
@becomethewaifu @futurebird @mina
Minnesota's state school lunch program is now more flexible than that; but it still has strange consequences from overly strict rules.
e.g. my daughter can get a standard school lunch for free, but has to pay for milk if she brings her lunch from home. And at the high school, students don't get extra food for free even if they need the calories.
I would just have all the kids get whatever food they want and save the cafeteria staff the unnecessary work.
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@jiub @futurebird THE SQUARE PIZZA
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@futurebird pizza day? WWTF?? why did I never get pizza at school in the 1980s or 1990s?
Ok so picture this, there is pizza day, but your parents only let you bring a sack lunch.
(I actually didn’t like pizza, but it was sad for kids who did like pizza and had to eat a sack lunch…I just realized this is probably why me and my misfit of sack lunch eating friends tended to eat anywhere other than the cafeteria)
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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 Aren't you from the East Coast? Wasn't your pizza better?
