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You know, the recipes for that kind of pizza are adaptable. A lot of how they come out is in the ingredients used. And not every school was/is supplied by the same distributors.

Our district was kinda mid. I had pizza at other schools for one reason or another both as a kid and as an adult. One district maybe two counties over (depending on how you define over) used the exact same recipe, but had a different food distribution contract and their shit was yummy rather than just better than nothing. But I also had some that was barely edible enough to choke down.

Seriously, go take a look at the recipes. There's nothing in them that has to give unpleasant results.

Austrian prison will give you a full meal at 11 am.

Oh no, I remember eating one of those in middle school then throwing it up in the lunch area because it was soggy...

"pizza" with "chocolate" "milk"

I love that some of the comments in here brought back some fun memories.

Yes, this was the pizza served in my grade school years almost every Friday. There was usually at least one alternative entree item available for those who didn't want pizza, but pretty much the only kids who'd get something other than pizza were the ones with food allergies.

My favorite side item to go with it was the healthy in name only side salad that was basically iceberg lettuce, grated government cheese, and a wedge of pale tomato all smothered in an inch thick layer of ranch dressing.

I know Lemmy's more of an international crowd than most social media I'm exposed to and that by the standards of the rest of the world, our school food is bottom tier. I'm still surprised to see so much disdain for the square pizza. Even the picky eaters and rich kids loved the cafeteria square pizza, back in the day. Maybe my poor rural school district just had a better than average quality square pizza or something? I doubt it, though. I mean, they certainly weren't great, but there were orders of magnitude worse pizzas in the world, like those wafer-thin formerly $1.00 USD frozen pizzas from the grocery store.

Calling that "pizza" is generous. I always hated that cardboard.

Oh yeah, school "pizza." Man I hated my childhood.

Ok now go run around in 110 degree direct sunlight

And then the teachers were upset because the class was falling asleep after lunch. Nevermind the fact we weren't receiving the appropriate nutrients needed to stay awake and function properly

"pizza"

I really miss those pizza squares from 30+ years ago.

Is this prison food? Pizza actually looks and tastes like pizza where I come from. As a matter of fact, I once even went to a school that offered barbecue chicken pizza for those who wanted it. Though, we paid for school lunches directly out-of-pocket.

Plastic cheese on stale bread with ketchup sauce. The chocolate milk on the other hand was always on point.

There would always be a sad piece of fruit on the side which never got eaten. If only we were taught a little bit about nutrition. Sure we knew what the food pyramid was but no adults every reinforced it.

Damm, that sounds like a good time.

That shit over a PBJ or a ham 'n cheese all day every day.

https://youtu.be/40MvjFaTVzE

I miss my Monday hot dogs, Tuesday tacos, Wednesday hamburgers and chocolate milk, Thursday sloppy joes and burritos in a bag. Friday was pizza day, the best day of the week. It always came with salad and a side of cold green beans

Hooray for pizza day, hooray for pizza day, I miss pizza day... the best day of the week