I Cooked 100 Years of School Lunch

School lunches are such a big staple in many peoples lives, so I wanted to go back 100 years and see what school lunches were like from the1900's all the way to the 2000's.

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[ryancantcook]

Grilled Cheese with a slice of bread on the side is crazy😂

[NickDiGiovanni]

I would've loved 1910...bringing my own five course lunch to school

[ErinTheApartmentHomesteader]

Growing up in the 2000's I don't think any of my meals looked like that. I feel like mine were more remenecent of what they showed for like the 60's and 80's. The things I remember most were the square pizza slices, the pb and j crustables, there was always milk that I'd blow into with a straw to get fun bubbles, and the chicken nuggets. Chicken nugget day was undoubtedly the best day for school lunches.

[jennymcdonough]

Retired lunchlady here. The program I worked for provided several options to students including a homestyle meal prepared daily from scratch. My favorite was homemade vegetable beef soup and grilled cheese sandwhich. We also made homemade yeast rolls daily.

[SSJfraz]

I like how the 1910 lunch is infinitely healthier than the school lunches of today.

[ryancantcook]

Schools eliminate processed food (proceeds to give processed baloney and cheese)

[TeddyStrongBear]

In the 70s and 80s, none of the public schools served coca-cola or any other carbonated drinks. You had a choice between white or chocolate milk. They also included apple or orange juice during breakfast. Also, cheese pizza with fries or tater-tots were a daily option, the other main dishes were offered on specific days.

[stephenperry]

Fun fact: 2:37 the reason why it’s not peanut butter and jelly sandwiches it’s because jelly was more expensive than peanut butter so they only use peanut butter because it’s more cheaper

[rhondadupras]

My Mom and grandmother cooked in the schools for years 1950s and 1960s and they always got compliments about how good their food was.

[Simigema]

all of these looked 10x better than the actual school food

Edit: pee pee

[MikuJR]

In fact:1900s people are more healthy than nowadays people. (nvm)

[Immortanjoe]

70s and 80s school lunches looked so much better compared 2 what they serve nowadays

[TrickyReveals]

In Singapore throughout my school years from the 2000s to 2010s, our cafeteria just has a bunch of mini stalls with different cuisines. We had the choice of chinese, indian, malay, western food. A drink stall, pasty stall, noodle stall. The prices usually ranges from $1.50 to $4 for a meal.

[prideofdurham]

My school meals in the 1960s were superb. A thick stew followed by chocolate sponge in a white sauce were just one of my favourites.

[ktish]

I was in school from the early 90s to the early 2000s. We never got anything from McDonald's lol. The fruit cocktail is accurate. And we also were served something different every day in grade school. And in high school we just went in line and you could buy whatever you wanted. French fries, pizza lasagna, cheeseburger, a cookie, etc.

[selenagold]

When I was in elementary during the mid early 2000s, we actually got big slices of pizza that were triangle shaped. They were delicious. We had the real deal.

[jaynieschmidt]

Raised in Alabama in the late 40's and early 50's we had wonderful lunches. Fried chicken , okra, and potatoes . Ham and sweet potatoes everything was really good! I am sure there were some things we didn't care for but overall it was great . This was Elementary school.

[CrabMan]

I went to school throughout the 2010s and tbh, what you got is michelin star worthy compared to what we got. Everything had been frozen, burgers warmed with water (not sous vide, just straight in the water) with fake grill marks, chicken patties with cartilage in it and some red spots, burnt pizza with soggy crust and probably more oregano than sauce, soggy fried chicken wing with a flat side, half decent nuggets and oddly good mac and cheese (very rare tho). The worst of it was that my school *constantly* tried to convince us the food was good. They had "ads" for their food depicting people being so lucky to have "such good food". No one was buying it. I'm so glad to be out of high school.

[bobjones]

As an immigrant kid from Taiwan in the 1970's, it was a shock going from delicious nutritous bento boxes to cold pizza slices, jello, a bite of mushy salad. I always chose chocolate milk for the only solace I had.

[axeldaikinagayaecheverria]

1960 is better and more balanced that my school lunch💀