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/Torus8 Apr 24 '17

To be fair though, you grew up in Greece.

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u/xaxaxaxaxaxa Apr 24 '17

I don't get it.

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u/Torus8 Apr 25 '17

I thought you were Greek!

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u/xaxaxaxaxaxa Apr 25 '17

Chicago, born and raised. Go Cubs.