A few days from now my hubby will be in the hospital having his surgery. Instead of all my readers waiting for me to get back, I thought I would ask a series of questions so everyone could have something to chat about between each other. I have LOTS to do before Wednesday morning, but I’ll try to poke my head in every so often if I can…
So, the question for today is… “What was your favorite school lunch?” I’m hoping everyone can think of something to share… even if you were homeschooled, you’d still have to have a favorite lunch!
This might sound weird, but in grade school I think mine was “Bologna Boats!” It was a piece of bologna that was fried and you know how it curled up around the edges? Well then a scoop of mashed potatoes was placed in the “bologna bowl” and thus called Bologna Boats! If think if I had some bologna, I’d show you what it looked like. But *alas* I don’t, so you’ll have to imagine it… or maybe even try it! yummy!
I can’t believe it!!! I googled Bologna Boats and look what I found… and there were several other pictures too!
I must have liked it because of all the food that was served, all these years later, I still remember it, even the name! :o)
So…what was your favorite school lunch? Anyone?
See you when I can,
Blessings, Jeanne
Well, you got me thinking there, Jeanne, try as I might, I can’t think of anything really special or outstanding, since most of the time I bought my lunch in the school cafeteria, and didn’t like it much at all! Canned spinach was the worst! But what I do remember was that after lunch, we could buy ice cream on a stick, Fudge Bars, which was chocolate ice cream, or what they called Laddie Bars, vanilla ice cream with a chocolate coating. THAT was my favorite!!! We could take them outside on the playground and eat them there, so that was fun, and best of all, they only cost something like 5 cents! Those were the days!
I have had fried bologna sandwiches, which were fun to make, but I haven’t had one since well, maybe 60 years ago!! I liked them with white bread and ketchup, fancy, huh?
HI Linda,
I haven’t had a friend bologna sandwich with ketchup on bread in years… probably decades! But that was my favorite way to eat them too! I might have to go to Walmart and buy 3 slices of bologna and make one! It sounds good today! :o)
Thanks so much,
Blessings, Jeanne
What a funny question. Jeanne is always thinking! Like Linda, I can’t remember the food but I do remember the candy sales in the hallway by the cafeteria. My favorite was a 7-Up Bar, seven different candy fillings joined together with a chocolate coating. Yummy. Google it and wish, like me, that it was still available. Probably 10 cents then but what would it cost now? That’s probably why the don’t make it anymore.
I’m looking forward to the questions as the answers are always interesting and keep us thinking good thoughts. We’ll all be thinking of you and George in the coming days and weeks and sending prayers along.
Well, Susette,
I have never seen a 7-Up Bar, so I had to look it up. I’ve never seen those before, but they look wonderfully delicious! It’s like 7 candy bar bits all wrapped up in one! Yum!
I tried to think up some fun questions and hope you enjoy answering them and reading what others say!
Blessings, Jeanne
Good Morning Jeanne
I attended public schools and school lunch wasn’t in the family budget very often, maybe a couple times a month. I was a picky eater so brown bagging it was fine with me. In elementary school the cafeteria was on the 2nd floor near the gym bleachers. I don’t remember a favorite main, probably some kind of chicken, but my favorite was the rolls. They were made right there, I remember seeing rows of lunch trays with the rolls rising on them. They were big, square, soft and so yummy! I have seen recipes for “lunch lady rolls” on Pinterest and one of these days I am going to try them. I have never heard of bologna boats but I might just try that out on my husband. Thanks for bringing back memories.
Praying for the best outcome for George and you. God Bless ~
HI Leigh,
One of my aunts was a grade school cook and I wish she were still alive so I could ask her this question. I’m sure she’d know what used to be the most popular food they served.
I had another aunt who made those yeast rolls like you are talking about… To die for rolls!!!
I’ll have to check out the “lunch lady rolls” on Pinterest and see how it compares to my Aunt Mary’s yeast rolls. Oh I wish I had one now!!! This post is making me hungry!
Thanks Leigh,
Blessings, Jeanne
Fortunately, When I was in school ( in the ‘50’s) the cafeteria ladies still cooked.. and boy, did they make some tasty food! For .50 a day , we enjoyed great meals, including milk.
My favorite was always meat loaf , mashed potatoes (no gravy) , canned green beans and fruit cocktail. It was a real treat to find s maraschino cherry!
My youngest son is in middle school and lunch for them is the same thing.. a slice of brought in pizza in a white triangle box. for $2.75. Drinks are extra.
Some things do not improve with age.
Perhaps kids nowadays aren’t sibused to “homecooked” style of food and much of it goes in the trash. Prepared fast food seems to be the norm.
Prayers that your hubby’s surgery will go perfectly and he will have a long like ahead! Hes such s good, kind man who deserves nothing less.:)??❤️
HI Shara,
I do remember our meatloat too… it was good and the catsup/mix on top was sort of syrupy like… I think it had brown sugar in it and it was good!
Yeah, kids today don’t know what it used to be like to get a “real hot meal” do they? They think a slice of pizza in a box is just fine… Little do they know they could have had a “Bologna Boat!”
Thank you for your prayers… my stomach could use some prayers… it’s got a knot as big as a grapefruit in it!
Blessings, Jeanne
I don’t recall a favorite school lunch, and I am a person who pays attention to food. That says very little for the lunches. When I was in Catholic school we had to eat everything we were given, including the bane of my existence, peanut butter sandwiches, which came along maybe every 2 months. We seldom got sandwiches, and at least the peanut butter was mixed with something — maybe marshmallow fluff — so it wasn’t impossible to eat. The 7th and 8th grade girls helped with the serving. The cooks were a married couple — she was nice, he was extremely bad tempered, but I can usually get along with evil-tempered people, so he was usually nicer to me than to anyone else.
My food memory from high school was that the home ec department made bread and needed someone to make the signs telling what kind of bread each loaf was and someone decided that the lettering person should be me. The home ec teacher gave me a recipe book with the names of the breads checked, and I got to keep the book — really more of a pamphlet with international recipes. With a thousand cookbooks in my library, I still use that one for Sally Lunn.
Thanks Marilyn,
So I have to know, do you still dislike peanut butter sandwiches…even with fluff?
I hope you added “bread sign maker” to your extensive resume! You never know when it might be just the thing that gets you the job!!!
Is Sally Lunn the name of the bread or the school?
Thanks Marilyn,
Blessings, Jeanne
Dear Jeanne, my memory is from high school. What I remember absolutely loving is a particular dessert, chocolate cake. It was wonderfully moist. There was a very thin layer of white icing on top and on top of that it was frosted with chocolate icing. It was divine! Alas, now I cannot eat chocolate but I certainly ate my share then.
I also remember the day that we all got food poisoning from potato salad. It’s funny now but it wasn’t then. I think the school stopped serving potato salad for a while after than.
Thanks for allowing us to have a walk down memory lane. What fun!
Our prayers for you continue.
Hi Dorothy,
That chocolate cake sounds divine…I’ll take a piece right now! I’ve been outside doing yard work..and cake would hit the spot!!! :o)
How awful about the potato salad giving everyone food poisoning. …eek!
Glad you enjoyed today’s post…
Blessings, Jeanne
Oh gee, I haven’t thought about what was served in the school cafeteria in a very long time, and I have to confess I’ve never heard of a bologna boat. We always ate bologna on sandwiches—with white bread and miracle whip. I think my favorite lunch at school was the fried chicken. It was served with mashed potatoes and cream gravy and some kind of canned vegetables. The yeast rolls were fixed most days, except the days we had enchiladas or hamburgers.
Susette, I googled 7-Up Bars, and I’m pretty sure I’ve never seen one. They may not have been sold in South Texas. I do remember a candy factory in Victoria that made the peanut patties. They were round and a funny dark pink color and chocked full of peanuts. You could go to the factory and buy a white paper bag full of the broken pieces for five or ten cents. My dad would take us sometimes and that was a real treat!
Jeanne, I can imagine how stressed you must be right now. I hope you know all your friends are praying for you and George.
Hi Carolyn,
You just jogged my memory too of the bologna sandwiches with miracle whip…I do remember having those sometimes…. something about that combination was good!!!
I think you can get those hard round pinkish peanut candies at the checkout line in Hobby Lobby…I’ve seen them there and they sort of have a vintage looking wrapper…you might check it out and see if it’s them…
Thank you very much for your prayers, Carolyn, …we really appreciate them.
Blessings, Jeanne
Will be praying for you both!
We did have some hotfood cafeteria lunches (between 1957 and 1963), but there was nothing I want to remember 🙂 My favorites were mother’s peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, tuna salad sandwiches, and most memorable were the thermoses of soup that I could never open. Always had to ask my teacher for help.
Hi Joy,
I forgot about those thermoses filled with soups…I started out with an Annie Oakley thermos and them switched sometime later to a plaid one. It kept things really hot…
Thanks for the memories too,
Blessings, Jeanne
I typically brought my lunch to school. I remember bringing a thermos of hot soup to go with my sandwich in the winter. The one school lunch that everyone bought was pizza. The pizza was homemade with a thick dough that was spread out on huge jelly roll-like pans so all the pieces were rectangles. With the pizza there was a salad, some sort of fruit and reese’s butter butter bars. The bologna boats were funny and jogged my memory of one girl’s lunch. Her lunch never varied much from fifth through eighth grade- always a butter butter and jelly sandwich on Wonder bread, a bag of some sort of chips or cheetos, an apple and some sort of Hostess dessert. Looking back, she must have been on a sugar high.
I, too, remember the bake sales we had in the fall where we could buy cookies, popcorn and brownies.
Continued prayers for George and you. Please keep us updated.
Hi Laura,
I’m glad I picked this question as it’s been so fun reading about everyone’s lunches. It seems pizza was and still is one of the all time favorites.
It would be interesting to visit a school cafeteria today. I bet we wouldn’t find anything like the olden days…except maybe pizza!!
Thanks Laura,
Blessings, Jeanne
No post again from Jeanne today. Maybe I’m off the list?
Just happened to check in and found that you had a post. Can you please add me back into the group please.
Growing up in the 50’s in CA, we did not have a cafeteria or any hot lunches. Once every month or two, the PTA mothers would cook hot dogs and everyone could bring money in an envelope and buy one for lunch. They always had mustard of which I wasn’t a fan at that time. My lunch box lunches consisted of milk in a thermos and a variety of sandwiches. Like roast beef, tuna, or occasionally peanut butter. I’m sure there were a cookie or two in addition.
I’ve never had a fried bologna sandwich or fried bologna anything. My mother didn’t make it. Kind of reminds me of spam of which I am also not a fan. I do like an occasional salami sandwich though. 🙂
Know you are planning on staying in the room with George, but perhaps you should think about plan B and getting a room at least for a couple of nights. There will be times when you need to get sleep too which is not possible in a hospital room. Sleeping on a couch or whatever is not the best. And George will need time with his doctors/nurses perhaps best without you. You need to be refreshed and ready for that advocate role. Just looking out for our leader. I’m sure whatever you do will work out fine.
Thoughts with you always.
HI Joy,
It seems I thought you had already left a comment… it’s from another Joy…
You are still on the list.. I didn’t take you off… it might just be a glitch or something… you can always google idreamofjeannemarie if you didn’t get a post… I do have posts scheduled until May 31st… so something should be coming your way every day except that Sunday in there. Sorry you missed it today until now…
I was crazy about Spam when I was younger…that’s probably why I liked the fried bologna boats so much!
We do have a Plan B at a place for cancer patients and their familes down the road called the Haven House… the only trouble is the transportation… We are going up early and will spend Wednesday night in a hotel near the hospital…and then when I find out for sure about the room arrangements, I’ll decide about keeping the hotel. I know you NEVER get any sleep in hospital rooms, but I’d still like to be close to him, no matter what. If I get too frazzled, I can go to someplace quiet for a night or so… I will be okay…but thanks for watching out for me… I do have a set of BOSE headphones my brother got me… maybe I should take them… they block out everything! :o)
Thanks Joy,
Blessings, Jeanne
I keep getting your messages a day late 🙁 I don’t know why but that is why it seems like I am not around.
My favorite school lunch was sloppy joes and tatar tots.
Hope I start getting notices again on the day of the post.
Keeping you and George in my thoughts snd prayers. Make sure to take care of yourself too.
Have a good day.
Take care —
HI Charlotte,
I think something IS going on with my scheduled posts… several people are having troubles with the same thing…
Sloppy Joes and tater tots! Yum… I could go for that school lunch right now!
Thanks so much Charlotte, maybe things will work out soon…
Blessings, Jeanne
None ! I hated having lunch at school ! But as I was very “difficult ” to feed , saying no to all the proposals my mummy made, my parents decided to subscribe me to school lunch…. And after all it was a very good idea , it didn’t took me a long Time before I appreciate everything. And you know why ? Because all my Friends were joking at me with my full lefted plates and they were sometimes rude to me, so I decided to try and taste and discovered that the good was not so bad in the end !
HI Sophie,
Well, I guess school lunches got you introduced to some new foods and it all worked out for the best, didn’t it! I’ve known some pretty picky eaters and I don’t know how they survived! Man cannot live on Mac n cheese alone!
Thanks for your story, Sophie,
Blessings, Jeanne
I must have missed this post. Once I realized it was here, I really enjoyed reading everyone’s response. I just had a conversation about grade school lunches recently explaining how I have a problem with the texture of meat when it’s ground up. While our school lunches were fairly good, the slab ( and I mean each child got a slab) the slab of meatloaf made me ill. We had wonderful cooks who made each meal but that meatloaf … I always had to sneak it to whoever would eat it and there were many takers. To this day, any ground up meat or any meat with globs of fat or gristle in it, grosses me out and knowing I can’t swallow it, I just pass it up.
I actually have no problem making meals with ground up meat – I just can’t eat it. I was around 8 the last time I had a hamburger. I didn’t care for the beets which I remember being as large as apples. Didn’t like those either.
But those lunches were good and the cooks were very nice ladies. Each meal was .25 cents, so $1.25 for our weekly lunches. All the food served were large portions which was great when we had our favorites!
Thinking of you and George. Keeping you in my prayers.
HI Paula,
Something IS going on with my posts and I don’t know how to fix it… I guess everyone is getting them at all different times… they show up on my computer right when they are supposed to. I have them go on at 1:00 in the morning… or at least that’s when they are “supposed” to go on…
It’s funny how things we had in grade school can stay with us all our lives… like you and not like any meat ground up…I can’t believe you haven’t had a hamburger since you were 8 years old! Wow!
Thanks so much for your prayers, Paula… we’re almost over the surgery hump!
Blessings, Jeanne
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Omgosh! I got a post to show up! Who hoo!
I’m so excited! Not sure what is different but so glad it is working!
I’ve been following even though I couldn’t post. The kitchen is awesome and so glad George’s surgery is finally scheduled!
School lunch…we had an awesome lady who put out great wonderful lunches. It was a big Catholic School and she made a favorite called Tuna Pizza. I tried duplicating it and calling it Pizza was a stretch because it was a biscuit thick crust with I think was tomato soup right from the can spread on top an then lots of Velveeta cheese and tuna . Baked and toasty hot..it was really good.
We will keep reading and following
Hugs
HI Kathie,
I wish I had an answer to the post problems going on… When I get back from St. Louis, I’ll look into the problem a little more.
Tuna Pizza…that’s a new one for me.. never heard of that before. I’ve heard of Tuna Melt before but not Tuna Pizza… My aunt was a School cook and I wish she was still around. I’d love to pick her brain and remember names of things she made!
Thanks to sticking around and figuring out how to get the posts to show up!
Blessings, Jeanne
Great post. Sorry I have been missing for a few weeks. Like like to take over and well you roll with it. I swear the planets were out of alignment or something.
I went to Catholic School until 8th grade and we had no cafeteria but Fridays’ after confession we were treated to the best donuts in the world, juice and hot chocolate. I hate chocolate but you ate what you were served.
After 8th grade our high school (public school) had a great cafeteria and amazing cooks not like the garbage that kids get served now. Everything was cooked fresh by the Lunch Ladies. The one that always jumps into my head is this fantastic bowl meal…it was white rice with the perfect meat sauce. Sounds weird but I love it. Always string beans or corn, fresh rolls and dessert with this lunch was individual vanilla custards that had this crisp top like it has been but under the broiler or homemade apple crisp. Milk…yuk.
Baloney…I could eat it everyday. In a sandwich with a fried egg, or fried with friend onion and green peppers. But family favorite is fried baloney with sunny side eggs and toast.
Hoping all goes well with your husband and remember to take care of yourself otherwise you won’t be able to take care of him.
HI Sandra,
I’m getting a little concerned that my posts aren’t coming to everyone like they should. I can’t get it figured out right now, but when we get back from St. Louis, I’ll try to get it straightened out.
I remember the ladies being called Lunch ladies too… I had forgotten that. There were some good cooks a long time ago, weren’t there.
Another bologna lover, I see you are! When we get back from St. Louis, I’m going to buy a package of bologna and make a fried bologna sandwich. Now I’ve got something to look forward to! Thanks!
I will take care of myself… he’s counting on me for his nurse! He did all the laundry today, so when we come home, I don’t have to do anything except take care of him… those were his exact words!
Thanks Sandra,
Blessings, Jeanne
Coming in late as this never made it to my inbox!
I loved (and still do) the combination of chicken noodle soup (Lipton’s) with a bologna sandwich, which our school district in Mich. served. Somehow the Campbell’s chicken noodle soup that mom would fix just didn’t taste quite right with that sandwich!!
My all-time favorite, though, was ground beef and gravy over mashed potatoes. A few years ago I decided to figure out what particular blend of seasonings, etc. made it taste so good, and I think I have it now, so I do fix it now and then!! Love it!!