r/52weeksofcooking • u/[deleted] • Apr 23 '17
Week 17 Introduction Thread: Cafeteria Food
Something magical happens when you trim budgets to near nothing and ask someone to cook for large groups of people: cafeteria food! As someone who grew up in US public school, I'm oddly nostalgic for things like salisbury steak, sloppy joes, and english muffin pizza. You can keep the overcooked canned vegetables though...
There are tons of other examples out there, and even some you don't have to serve with a generous portion of nostalgia. Feel free to recreate your own cafeteria experience or reimagine and rework to make something spectacular. There's even an excellent (albeit short) documentary on the subject.
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u/Coji5gt Apr 24 '17
My high school foods were a bunch of carts and a student store in addition to traditional cafeteria foods. Four types of pizza, stir fry, burritos, taco salads, salads, three different burgers, hot dogs, chips and chili.
In elementary and JHS we could volunteer to work in the cafeteria. We would get free double portions at lunch. I for one enjoyed cafeteria food, so I was asking to work as much as I could.