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MEMORIES:
kendra remembers...Best part of the school day,second to recess. I loved bringing my lunch box full of goodies.Wednesday was pizza day,so ... More »
Posted on 04/21/08
PHOTOS:
“No student can escape the magic of lunchlady land.”
Adam Sandler “Lunchlady Land”
Hoagies & grinders, navy beans, sloppy joe, shepherds pie, macaroni and cheese, pepperoni pizzas… lima beans: These are the domain of the classic school cafeteria. Forget the high-tech, fancy-pants cafeterias today… Gimme the good ol’ cafeterias of yesteryear! Okay, so maybe a little variety is good – but the memories of the lunch calendar and its lack of choices have stayed with generations of school kids. If ‘hot lunch’ was a little too… how you say... not good, you could always bring a lunchbox, or a sack lunch with you, complete with goodies, snacks, and sandwiches to split up, share or even trade.
Even without the food, the cafeteria was the ultimate in learning social skills (like trading lunch items) and determining social status within a group of kids. It starts off innocently enough. In elementary school you usually sat with your classmates. Maybe you’d sit to one end with the kids you knew best, but choices in seating were few and far between. Moving through middle/junior high and high school, things began to shift. With the freedom of choice came the obstacles of cliques, gossip and the social drama of life as a teen. The jocks and the cheerleaders on one side of the room, the geeks, nerds and dorks on the other. The land of in-between found many a group trying to have a good lunch, stealing glances at other tables. If you were lucky, at least once in your school experience you got to be a part of, or at least witness, a good old-fashioned food fight. The wetter the better when it came to the food of choice for battle. (One word: lasagna, my friends, lasagna.)
No matter if they drank the regular or the chocolate milk, brought cookies or carrots, ate the lima beans or let them sit there on their tray, most students just briskly made their way to the table and shoveled in their food. Gotta have enough time for recess!
