I loved the cheesy spaghetti and side buns. That was always my favorite lunch. I used to sop the cheesy sauce with the bun. YUM.

I also loved the pickles, honeybuns and sugary purple punch that we could buy from the "snack store."

for realz?

Yes. Most of the students at my school went off campus for lunch, brought from home and ate with friends around the grounds, or bought from the student store.

I know we had a cafeteria. I just don't know if food was served there.

When I was in middle and high school (although it was in Gwinnett County, not Brantley) the school let us charge lunch to our accounts. In middle school you could do it however many times you wanted to, but in high school you could only do it three times before you had to pay at least one of those lunches off. Then my junior year the price for all lunches increased from $1.50 to $2.25, and they stopped letting you charge, and if you owed any lunch money you weren't allowed to graduate. The price of breakfast went up too, but idk how much because I rarely ate breakfast at school. But we had really good cafeteria food. It was food court style and also had a hot lunch area. It was definitely wayyyy better than the crap my college serves now.

Ok you're right. I'm thinking in high school. In high school, you couldn't get free lunch unless you worked in the cafe.

Absolutely untrue. The free and reduced lunch program is grades K-12.

Perhaps you did not attend a public or non-profit private school.

Mine was the "Chicken Ring Things" which was chicken rings (god knows what kind of chickens come in rings?), mashed potatoes, and a roll with milk.

RE: Whoever was talking about school food reform. A recent study (I can find it if you care to know) found that McDonalds food quality was far more stringent then the common public school provided lunch. Don't trust the government.

I used to work for McDonald's PR agency. They have extremely high standards. They also have their own regional meat suppliers so they can closely monitor the operations. I trust McDonald's way more than I do most other fast food restaurants, and even more than some dine-in restaurants. They are a very well-operated company. They are also a well-respected employer.

I miss square pizza.

TACO DAYS! But my high school was over 6,000 kids 1,000+ on a portable/trailer campus and 5,000+ on the main campus (still w/ portables/trailers) so if we GOT lunch and the time to eat it we were lucky.

I miss sloppy joe

Our basic school lunch is $2.50 but my girl usually spends $3.50 because you can get all kinds of stuff ala carte. Our reduced lunch fee is $1.50. Then there are free lunches. As previously noted, that is a federal program and if a school accepts federal funding, they have to include that program.

When I was in high school, we had funding problems and they eliminated lunch altogether. They shortened our school day so that we were out of school by 1:30 or something like that. We had a 10 minute "nutrition break" at the end of 3rd hour. We could bring stuff to eat then or buy stuff at the school store. I was selling candy bars for 3 years to pay for a trip to Mexico City with my Spanish class and I sold TONS of candy bars during nutrition break.. enough to pay for my whole trip!

Our schools recently went to a new vendor for lunch who only serves healthier food. My son stopped buying lunch at all, even though what I make him is just as healthy as what's available. He always hated the lines for lunch anyway.

Who Georgia should hire to collect lunch money

























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I went to a private high school. Parents would actually volunteer to work in the kitchen. Not the standard school food fare. Was mostly pretty good.

Thank you - I saw that post and was like, "Ummm...no." I know that DC also offers free and reduced lunches.

In New York we offer free and reduced lunches and breakfast. I believe lunch was $1.50 in elementary and middle school. I went to a private high school, I'm not sure the cost of lunch because I brown-bagged it. We were required to buy our own beverage though; it was not permitted to bring your own.

I do occasionally long for the terrible, lukewarm stuffed crust pizza they gave us on the first day of school (we always had free lunch on the first day of classes).