For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for September 16, 2022

so much for the cafeteria ladies promoting healthy eating to the student body

Hopeless…….completely hopeless. :P

Yesterday the comic strip was making a political comment about the bus fare price increase and today we get an indictment of the Canadian school lunch. My understanding is that Canadians have real issues with their school lunch program because there is no national school food program, like we have in the USA.

What’s the name of that pasta that looks like oversized grains of rice? I was at a university cafeteria once, asked which variety of pasta I’d order, and said “I’ll take the rice.” Someone next to me said “It isn’t rice!” (I hope that made his day, being able to correct me like that…)

Why does she look so horrified?

And then after school—pizza and malts.

I can remember when then First Lady Michelle Obama tried to encourage healthy eating by having kids grow their own vegetables in a common garden.

But the plan backfired because the kids hated what they grew, and wouldn’t eat them!!

BTW, I don’t blame them—I hate veggies, too!! LOL

Teenagers will be teenagers, even Canadian teenagers.

SAD

There’s good (for you) … and then’s there’s (tasty) good and satisfying.

I’m in a high school caff in Canada, up here it’s pizza, burgers and poutine…lol

It’s just like feeding dogs.

We had Elephant Scabs

Sometimes, you can only offer them what you have, when they ask for what they want.

Personally, I liked the Friday menu at my high school. One of its offering was a ‘submarine sandwich’ for 50 cents—normally ate two of them (they weren’t that big) ! ! ! !

Cafeteria ladies are the best,worked in school cafeteria for16 years we cooked good food,still some complained !!!

When I attended Edwin Markham Junior High in San Jose in the late 50s, my mother also worked in the cafeteria. She said that they had to pick out the wormie beans before cooking them. Also we called Tuna casserole, Ruinthetuna instead of tunaruna.

When I went to school, you got what the cafeteria wanted to make — no choice. Menus were published at the end of the prior week.

Same old same old………

The mystery meat ran 5th at Santa Anita.

What the hey…I’m a burger weakling myself.

I’m so bloody sick of the burger industrial complex.

I remember my kids loved pizza day or lasagna day at school. All other days they made their own lunches. I don’t think they liked the desserts, because they took their own from home every day.

Since Lynn Johnston loves puns, this could be a strip: the cafeteria only served liver and onions, which Rhetta’ brother hates, then Michael and the others could get in their digs with this taunting song:

“Lorne, Lorne, Lorne, down the liver!”

Why change now? Enjoy before all those burgers and fries go to their waistline.

Back in the 50’s in Montreal, my first two years of HS you took your lunch with you, then we moved and the new HS had a cafeteria. I still have fond memories of the meatloaf and can’t remember fries ever being served, but I could be wrong.l

Why should Michael worry about what he eats? If he has a heart attack, OHIP will take care of it.

We had a regular lunch line and burger line and sometimes they added pizza to both lines.

The burgers my school had were the worst things ever! Super dry, did not even begin to have a texture that could be associated with meat and tasted horrible. No amount of fixins could help ’em!