i just vomited

Your welcome. And that sad thing is, is kids enjoyed this stuff in my school. :mellow:

Government cheese or rejected cheese.

The food through most of high school and middle school was pretty terrible. From the tasteless chick patties to the soggy chicken nuggets, the over done burgers and flaccid french fries, the watery nacho cheese, the doughy cookies, oh god so many bad memories :shakehead: . The food in my elementary school was actually pretty decent, except for the the PBJ. They used to make fresh ones if you wanted them, but after a while they started handing out these crustless prepackaged ones that were kind of funky. I remember one time I went up and asked for a PBJ and the one they gave me was literally hard as a rock. The jelly was practically crystallized, the peanut butter was hard the entire way through, and the bread was stale and crunchy. I have no idea how long that thing must have been sitting around to get like that but it was so gross the lunch ladies actually made me another one because it looked so unappetizing.

The food they serve at school is so disgusting I don't know how they get away with it...

Rib burgers. They're a bright orange, crusty meat-like substance, about the size of an iPhone (the closest thing I have to me that is comparable in size) only thinner between two very small whole-grain buns. They taste horrible, and cost $5! I could get a tasty Big Mac for less! (I guess that's why I drive to McDonald's for lunch a lot :tongue:

When I went to elementary school, we didn't have a cafeteria, but we could order outside food for our lunch. You got a slip of paper that you put your order on, and got the food on the next day. The schedule was (if I remember correctly):
Monday: Bring your own food
Tuesday: Bring your own food
Wednesday: Pizza from Pizza Delight (a small chain) for $2/slice
Thursday: Pizza or garlic fingers from a local pizza restaurant
Friday: There was a cycle, I don't remember the order, but the things were KFC, hot dogs, or Subway

This stopped when I was in fourth grade, due to some healthy food bullcrap. The middle and high school cafeteria's were supposedly really good at that time, they had real burgers, french fries that didn't svck, sandwiches, subs, salads, and all that stuff. But by the time I got to middle and high school it was long gone.

School food did not exist in my school, nor in any other school in Malta except for one private school. We brought our own food, thankfully. Although there always was the option to buy food from the canteen, mostly greasy food.

Chicken Fried Steak with some kind of weird gravy.

/BTW are you gonna eat those tots?

I've never had a school lunch, when I was in elementary through high school; luckily, I always packed it. Anyways, we had "chicken" every day in some form or another. For example, here is a little weekly schedule:

Monday - "Chicken" briast
Tuesday - "Pizza" with "Chicken" as a topping
Wednesday - "Chicken" and "gravy"
Thursday - "Chicken" soup (yesterday's "chicken" and "gravy" dumped into a pot, then heated)
Friday - "Chicken" tenders or patties, coated in something spicy

Of course, the school couldn't get away with this, so they also had "salad" made from the absolute worst looking "lettuce" as a second choice. Oh, and near Thanksgiving, they'd cleverly disguise the "chicken" as "turkey" by covering it in "gravy" and "potatoes." Still, the lunch ladies did their best with what they had...

The rice pudding in my old church school. Same texture and taste of vomit. Terrible terrible. That and the dry, dry biscuits we had. Ugh.

Peppered gravy was usually...

made me thing of the spiced bread they made that was awesome this was back in middle school... think they have it at The Cracker Barrel.

I don't think they give you any food in Australia.

It was the pizza in middle and elementary. In High School, we have an open campus. There is a pizza place with cheap slices that we always go to, among other places.

That is just wrong on so many levels.

Any school sports banquets we had used cafeteria food, guess what was for lunch the next day? Go on guess.

Any schools take on pizza. Cardboard with tomato paste and fake cheese is NOT pizza!

Our chocolate chip cookies are actually really good. Our pizza is not the schools, they get it from Little Caesar's. The worst are the hamburgers, they taste like rubber.

I usually pack my own lunch though.

2 more years and I can start going off-campus for lunch at my Highschool. Well, I can now, but I have to hide in the trunk. And it's very cramped in there.

I was lucky in that I never ate school food until I started attending college. However I would probably say the nastiest thing i've seen is mashed potatoes and some kind of meat soup byproduct. Best thing I ever had was a white bread ham and turkey sandwich with cheese, black olives, mayo and mustard. Got me some chips and a drink all costing me like $6 which was pretty dang good.

Well, I don't have as many horror stories as the others on this thread seem to. Generally a lot of our food was better, even more so because you were actually allowed to order food from a locally owned restaurant if there wasn't anything you liked in the 2 choices for that day; you'd just put your order down on the bulletin board at the beginning of the day with your name and it'd be delivered at lunchtime. Thank god for small-town schools.

However, there is one thing that they tried to serve us in my freshman year in high school that will haunt my dreams for all eternity. "Ham" loaf. I don't know what was in it. I don't want to know, but it was just an extremely dense cube of what looked and tasted like cat food. You could probably have put a hole in the wall if you tossed it across the room. It was so bad they never served it again. Even so, I started ordering from the restaurant a LOT more after that, especially if they decided to try something new on the menu.

Back in my elementary school, they used to reheat and reheat meals that weren't sold. I once got a toasted cheese sandwich with seemingly rubberized cheese, crunchy bread, and to top it all off, mold. Easy to say I didn't eat it.

:sick:

Thats gross!

Is it just the United States with these disgusting cafeterias or Europe and whatnot too?

I guess it is just who cooks the food...or what cooks it :shrug:

I guess they thought you needed more penicillin in your diet

I have almost the exact same story, but instead of macaroni, it was spaghetti with cheese and ham. I could turn it upside down and it wouldn't even hang. It just... stood there, glued to the plate.

... until it fell, after I showed it 4 or 5 times to my friends. That wasn't pretty :laugh:

I just remembered, I got a pizza special my cafeteria was having, and it was Hawaiian pizza, but there was weird white stuff everywhere on the slice I had. :sick:

No it wasnt cheese :rolleyes:

The food at my school isn't terrible, but it isn't good, the fries and pizza are decent but nothing is good, no one is allowed off campus for lunch though 3: