Your school lunch memories

Everyone has a memory — fond or not — about school lunch.

You remember the rubbery beef patty, the mysterious burrito, the square-shaped pizzas you wish were served every day.

To many of us, it was the focal point of the school day. And whether it was about the food or not, we looked forward to lunch.

It’s funny how we all — no matter which school we attended or how long ago that was — tend to look back fondly at the meals served in the school cafeteria.

Maybe it was the cost — in my days school lunch cost just 75 cents, not the $2.35 students in public schools pay now. Or maybe it was the convenience. It’s not like we all have fully stocked cafeterias just steps from our office.

Or maybe it’s that everything seemed to taste a lot better in white paper trays in a cafeteria filled with our friends and crushes.

The Old Guys I surf with talk about their memories of school lunches more often than they’d like to admit. They were in high school in the ’60s and remember foods like Spanish rice, baked macaroni, chili and beef stew.

So I thought it would be fun to relive these school lunch memories here!

I want to know 1) where you went to school, 2) what year this was and 3) what your favorite school lunches were.

Who knows — this may end up on a throwback menu somewhere…!