Anyone who attended school in the United States will undoubtedly have memories of eating lunch at school. While the food that was served to American kids wasn’t gourmet, there are certainly lots of foods that bring up nostalgic memories of eating lunch with friends in a cafeteria. Do you remember these classic school lunch items?
Smiley Potatoes
Instead of simply feeding us regular french fries, school lunch took it to a different level by serving us these inexplicably-shaped fried potatoes. Shaped like a smiley face, perhaps they were meant to make us all happy and giddy to be at school.
Rectangular Pizza
The pizza you could find at school was nothing like the kind you’d eat on the streets of Naples or New York, but it was certainly memorable. The plasticy “cheese” and the rectangular shape of these pizzas, which usually were topped with some unidentifiable meat, are hard to forget.
Fruit “Cocktail”
Was your school running low on fresh fruit on any given day? No worries, as they surely had a whole stock of industrial-sized cans of fruit “cocktail” to serve. Containing cherries, pear, pineapple, and soaked in a strange watery syrup, this tasted way better than it should have.
