Your most loved school cafeteria dish?

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

106. Through 8th grade I was in a small school in upstate NY.

I think they contracted with the local farmers for the raw ingredients because our food was incredibly good. I will admit that my favorite was ice cream, which might have been local but it was still ice cream.

Right before my freshman year of high school we moved to Tucson, Arizona. This was 1962, so the food was still going to be local and largely made in the school cafeteria, as industrial food wasn't much happening yet. I actually didn't often eat the lunches, because at that point I couldn't afford them. I would get a carton of milk and a couple of chocolate chip cookies (total cost a dime) to take me through the day my freshman year. Then I had a bit more money and bought lunch about half the time and as I recall it was pretty good. Again, it was being made on site, with fresh ingredients. The only specific meal I can recall was the Thanksgiving lunch, which was incredibly good.

A lot of the answers here are going to depend on when the respondent went to school. After 1970 or so, industrial food started showing up, and so less and less real food was out there.

Oh, and at my school in Tucson, I could buy a couple of chocolate chip cookies (rather light on the chocolate chips I always noted) for five cents. Keep in mind this was 1962.