When I was in high school -- back around 1962 -- the cafeteria staff
often inflicted fish sticks on their unwilling customers. Finally, in
self-defense, The Great Fish Stick Revolt was fomented. On the
appointed day, hundreds of students brought in their lunch -- students
who had never before been seen with brown bag in hand. The "cafeteria
ladies" (as they were then known) were flummoxed as student after
student put cartons of milk and dessert on their trays, but nothing
else.

As far as I know, this was the official beginning of what would later
be thought of as the decade of protest, or simply, "the sixties" (at
least in my little corner of the suburbs).

Needless to say, the hair-netted powers that be retaliated; for many
days thereafter, the left-over fish sticks were served, again and
again -- each time becoming slightly smaller, harder, and greasier --
until they were no more.


On May 5, 7:31*pm, "Jean B." wrote:
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I am happy to say I didn't eat school lunches. *Back in the days of the
dinos, we could actually go home for lunch! *In middle and high school,
I brought my own lunch....