Peanuts by Charles Schulz for October 12, 2015

That all depends on the quality of the food the cafeteria puts out. Went to some schools where it was good quality food and some where it wasn’t so good. Jr. and Senior High School the standard joke was that the cafeteria food was nuclear waste. She would probably turn you down if the joke about the food is that it’s nuclear waste.

It might be a better idea if you got her name before making the offer, Charlie Brown…

My first elementary school (we moved before I started 3rd grade) had 3 lunch lines: Hot Lunch, Cold Lunch & Home Lunch. I always got to go home for lunch.

No you wouldn’t Charlie Brown. As usual, you’d just sit there and do nothing.

No cafeteria in grade school in the 50’s, just a “lunch room”. Had one in HS, but my boyfriend during my senior year wouldn’t let me eat the food because he said I would get fat. I got dumped his first year at college because he met a skinny blonde he decided he liked better.

I went to 2 different elementary schools growing up in the 1960’s & early 1970’s. Neither one had a cafeteria. We ate at our desks in the classroom or in the auditorium.

Urban Dictionary’s mission is to defile as much of the English language as possible, to make it impossible to talk English without talking filthy..

We had an all-purpose room; however, I know of kids in my generation that actually walked home for lunch.

I was in school in the 50’s and 60’s. Both my elementary and junior/senior high schools had cafeterias and hot lunches. You had the option of buying or bringing your own. We carried our own 4 days a week and got to buy it on Fridays. By the time my brother was a senior, my mom was tired of making lunches daily (she also made my dad’s lunches), so we got to buy every day or make our own the night before.

Try this CB: Notice what she likes to eat versus what her mom usually packs, and pack something extra that you know she likes that her mom doesn’t usually pack and offer to share with her.

in the 80’s, until high school, we ate in our classrooms.

This is the disadvantage of being young. I always thought every school had a cafeteria.

I’ve learned something new by reading today’s strip and the comments.

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I’ve never much liked the food served anywhere I’ve been able to get what they’ve got. (I still have animosity towards fish sticks and cole slaw from elementary school.) I pack a lunch now, but when I was a kid it wasn’t an option.

Isn’t cafeteria just a snooty word for lunch room?

The elementary school I went to was close enough for all of the students to walk home for lunch and then back to school for afternoon classes. My high school had a cafeteria that was actually reasonably good, largely because the school had a technical side and one of the classes there was food services. That meant that you actually had a (rather limited) choice of meals. And as Mark Evanier pointed out in a piece on his blog, a cafeteria is defined by offering choice. I never ate there though, I was still able to walk home eat and be back at school with no problems.

Looking back, I’m amused by it, but my first elementary school (K-4), had no cafeteria, so on those days we ate at our desk – but then went outside to play in the rain or snow. [Our playground was all asphalt except around 3 or 4 trees, so no grass or dirt; no picnic tables or benches, but there was a low wall between the building (with a sidewalk all the way around the building) and the playground. Some days our teachers thought the rain was too bad (or maybe there was lightning? I don’t remember that part), so we played 4-square or dodge ball, etc, in the basement.

Any word or phrase can be misused. They usually only include how some people (urban or otherwise) try to change the language. All languages change, so not necessarily bad, but as Heinlein’s Max Jones, AKA Starman Jones says, it seems like most people at Urban Dictionary seem to delight in creating definitions they’ve heard, or thought of, that might be more likely to elicit strong reactions – in other words, that they think sound provocative. Some of those were already in use, but some entries they created.

This was in the 50s no cafeteria’s back then we brown bagged it!

I brownbagged lunch when I worked in the corporate world, not just grade school….preferred my own cooking.