Since that school lunches from around the world post yesterday, I’ve been on a trip down memory lane.

I was a school kid back when Ronald Reagan decided ketchup was a vegetable but that didn’t bother me as much as the “6 tot policy”. That’s all you got. 6. no more, no less. It was like a taste of what your lunch could have been like.

Then there was the “slice of cheese” policy. Someone decided to make PB&J sandwiches available as an alternative to the regular hot meal for kids who didn’t like what they were serving that day. Then someone else decided that a peanut butter sandwich did not provide the necessary protein requirement for growing children, so they compromised by packaging the sandwich with a slice of cheese. Which pretty much made no sense and usually ended up somewhere it shouldn’t go.

Someone got the clever idea in in high school, where there were two cafeterias, to make one “a la carte” (aka pizza every day). Now that was an alternative. School pizza rocks.

First time I ate tacos was in the high school cafeteria. I didn’t know what to think but they were good a good taste despite that they dripped red grease and were actually horribly disgusting. I can’t get enough of Mexican food nowadays.

I ate a lot of school lunches and quite honestly it was probably the only place I was getting any nutrition at all at that age.