On Sun, 24 Jan 2021 11:51:55 -0500, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:

>On 1/24/2021 9:57 AM, jmcquown wrote:
>> On 1/24/2021 9:14 AM, Gary wrote:
>>> On 1/23/2021 9:03 PM, jmcquown wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The school cafeteria was an unknown quantity.* I recall when I was about
>>>> 7 years old and we lived in Vista, CA.* I saw a sign saying they were
>>>> going to be serving Tacos in the cafeteria.* I begged my mother, could I
>>>> please buy my lunch?* She warned me, "They'll have lettuce on them."
>>>> Silly me, I don't know why but I thought going through the lunch line
>>>> would be like going to Taco Bell.* (Yes, my mother took us to Taco Bell
>>>> back in 1967 and she specified "no lettuce".)* I tried to say that and
>>>> the lunch lady looked at me like I was crazy.* She can't possibly NOT
>>>> add lettuce!* I was told here's your taco, now go eat it!
>>>>
>>>> I wound up sitting in the cafeteria after school waiting for my mother
>>>> to come pick me up because I refused to eat a taco with iceburg lettuce.
>>>> *Seems I was just as stubborn as they were.* Why on earth would you
>>>> insist I eat something I don't like?* Why tell the staff they HAVE to
>>>> put shredded lettuce on every single taco ordered?
>>>
>>> That's actually a very odd story, Jill. Seriously.
>>> They made you sit in the cafeteria all the rest of the day and your
>>> mother had to come pick you up after school.* All because you refused
>>> to eat your taco?
>>>
>>> Also, why didn't you just pick the lettuce off of your taco?
>>>
>> I was six years old, Gary.* First grade, Olive Elementary School in
>> Vista, CA.* I don't know why I didn't pick the lettuce off.* I also
>> don't know why they insisted they had to put lettuce on the taco.
>
>Probably some stupid regulation. Without lettuce it would not meet the
>standards for a nutritious meal. Besides, you don't screw with the
>lunch ladies!

Looking back there were some I would have only then I was seven years
old. There was very little food at the school cafeteria I wouldn't
eat, especially since there was never lamb. I enjoyed all their
soups, especially tomato with frankfurter coins. The only Item I
didn't like were those tiny containers of milk, they were too warm but
not as warm as breast milk on tap... some of those cafeteria ladies
offered I'd suck it up... I still dream of one freckled redhead with
soccer balls under her smock.