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We had those just about every Friday in elementary school. Along with parsley buttered potatoes and a vegetable like green beans or peas. My favorite desserts were the mixed fruit jello or apple crisp (like apple cobbler). We usually had pizza or spaghetti on Thursdays and those entrees were tasty.

In high school, we had the choice of a tray lunch or a plate lunch daily. I preferred the tray lunch which would be a bowl of chili or a bowl of soup which was usually tomato, vegetable or noodle. Then there was a sandwich which was usually a grilled cheese, a small cold cut on a sub roll or a steamer. The steamer was my favorite of the three; it was what folks in the Iowa-Illinois area would call a loose meat sandwich. They still the old reliable apple crisp, mixed fruit jello or applesauce for dessert and celery/carrot sticks.