Nobody can change your mind because of the damage done to it. I'm not saying I wouldn't go for a piece mind you.
I'm pretty sure that at the end of the book they pay dearly, at least they did in the fourth edition.
No. It is difficult to explain the American way of feeding children at school, or what was called, “hot lunch,” back then. That meal is circa 1970-1980, and was a staple in many grammar school lunchrooms, at least twice/month. It was the best tasting thing we were given all month. I suspect were I to taste it now, I would throw up in my mouth a little bit. Back then we mostly brown bagged it. Lunches included sandwiches with mayo, that were not kept cool until lunch. LOL. It is hard to believe I made it out of the 60s and 70s, alive.
Credit where credit is due. The lunch ladies did what they could with what they had. Since the public schools are part of the government. That means low bidder supplies and inadequate equipment. Coupled with a requirement that the meal be balanced, they were set up to fail any taste test against, say, McD's or KFC. On the other hand, the meal costed a fraction of what a for-profit institution would charge. I suppose that's even more true now, with the lunches (and sometimes breakfasts) of the poorest kids being subsidized.
