Garfield by Jim Davis for October 13, 2012

When I went to elementary school in the early 60’slunch only cost 35 cents. I think it’s a little bit morenow.

Another reason to hate Mondays.

Yuck! That brings back some bad memories.

we had mystery meat week

Pigs in blanket day. – YUMM!!!

Lunch as my favorit thing about school They always had better stuff to eat than we ever had at home.

loved the square pizza!

Pizza Fridays…it’s been over 35 years now, but I still remember how good that square pizza tasted. I usually brought my lunch, but all through high school we always bought lunch on Friday. And in elementary school we had apple pie and a little wedge of cheese once a week. That’s when I realized that apples and cheese really do go together :-) The meals were, for the most part, nutritious, and we played hard and burned off those calories at recess and after school.

School lunches with salad that you could sometimes find slugs and caterpillars in the lettuce. Followed by frogspawn. They called in semolina but we didn’t believe a word of it. The best one I remember was when we were told there would be roast potatoes. These turned out to be burned mashed potato that someone had dreamed up. You had to eat it all too or the teacher at the end of the table would make you. Memorable.

Never ate anything from the school canteen – it always smelled disgusting as it was being cooked and afterwards. It was probably OK ’cos nobody died.

Holy cow, you say G minus G a lot

I used to like those cookies (regular or peanut butter) with the star pressed on them. Remember that?!

Sounds like we’re about to go visit Imra at the lunch counter!

Our elementary school didn’t have that sort of lunch program (no cafeteria, no preparation or serving line on site). We generally ate in the classrooms, unless they put tables out in the gym for a special occasion.

Lunches were prepared and packaged at a central location. You bought tickets and could order or not each day. Your classroom teacher would collect tickets – you could order just milk to go with your lunch from home (bringing in soda was forbidden, and juice boxes hadn’t really emerged yet – so most kids would at least order the milk) or milk & lunch.

They published the menu a week or two ahead so you could plan. Each day there was one hot sandwich “choice” with some sort of fruit or veggie side, and the perpetual alternate was PB&J. For the hot items, I remember them having hot dogs, meatball hoagie, hamburger (was a kind’a pathetic specimen), pork roll (wouldn’t touch it with a 10 foot pole), umm…

Can’t remember what else, but there must have been more. Certain things were definitely weekly, some I think were every other week.

25¢ for me. One day they served liver and onions….ARRGGHHH.

Ah, grade school lunch, where I was introduced to the Tuna Melt. (Yeah, anybody who fondly remembers school lunches must have had some reeeeally bad meals at home.)

It was an extra nickel to get a little carton of milk, otherwise you had to drink water.

We also had mystery stuff “or better know as roadkill day” but in junior high school we could get it down by chocolate milk and ice cream.

LOL LOL… It’ll be some guessing then, Garfield.

xxx

Public elementary school lunches in Tucson in the mid 50’s ruined spinach for me for years! I wouldn’t eat it for a long time no matter who cooked it. Before that I liked the way my mother cooked spinach and now I like it.

Mystery slimy meat day was never a good day- many bad memories.

i like his older comics than these

ROFLMAO!!!!