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[vanillafluffy]

If you ate school lunches as a kid, what menu item did you most dread seeing on the week's menu list? Or, if you more often brought a lunch from home, what did you hope wasn't inside your lunchbox or bag when you opened it up? What made this item so revolting for you?Mostly, I brown-bagged it. Sometimes I'd have school lunch (You could sign up

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[arliss]

The smell of the vat-sized kettles the cafeteria made tomato soup and tomato-based vegetable soup in lingers, and sickens me to this day. H stole two sets of industrial-plate silverware from his college dining room for our first apartment, and I couldn't use them--they tasted the way the cafeteria smelled.

I used to dread my mom having packed a hard-boiled egg. I was too lazy (found out later it was ADD and lack of focus) to peel the egg at lunchtime, so to "protect" it she packed it in an egg-shaped and sized aluminum tea ball. So by lunchtime the slick eggwhite was streaked with black. Yeah. NSM. We didn't have lunchables and fruit cups, so it was PBJ or baloney and cheese (one slice each, with mustard and mayo) on white bread, and an apple--usually a windfall from our own tree, small, wizened, bruised, and totally unappealing. I skipped a lot of lunches, hunger being a more pleasant companion than nausea.

[vanillafluffy]

For some reason, my mom didn't do a lot of lunch meat, and the only kind of bologna we ever had was lebanon (which I love). I hardly ever got dessert in my lunch, unless it was right after Halloween or Easter (candy) or heading into Christmas (cookies). Even then, my weight was an issue.

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