TOS Innovations
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Mozzarella. Heh. When I was in high school in the '80s, half the time the 'pizza' was made with these familiar yellow squares of cheese, laid out as economically as possible. It wasn't until I was a senior in '83-84 that we consistently got even a white cheese, let alone actual mozzarella. This was because of a state-wide referendum in defiance of Ronald Reagan's "Ketchup is a vegetable" nonsense. You got lucky, my friend.
I don't know for sure if it was mozzarella, just that it was a white, pizza-ish cheese.
I was never sure either. I was just glad we weren't getting the Kraft© Singles anymore.
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I had no idea other people got the same pizza. Loved it. I think ours was sausage. That with bagels with salt and those hard little black dots all over it. And chocolate milk. How am I alive?
I do remember Pillsbury food sticks. And yes, I think Tang tasted like Sunny D, which is to say, dump a pound of sugar in your OJ.
UPDATE: http://www.noshcookbook.com/2011/12/where-to-buy-rectangle-school-cafeteria.html
I do remember Pillsbury food sticks. And yes, I think Tang tasted like Sunny D, which is to say, dump a pound of sugar in your OJ.
UPDATE: http://www.noshcookbook.com/2011/12/where-to-buy-rectangle-school-cafeteria.html
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I don't remember the pizza, but then, I don't remember much at all of our old cafeteria fare. I mostly just remember extraordinarily thick peanut butter sandwiches, on which the peanut butter had turned black from the sandwiches being made so much earlier in the day. Or the day before, who knows? 
You obviously are unaware of how TOS innovatingly introduced pizza to the world.
Yeah, but it was fake pizza made from synthetic meatloaf.
Still served at far too many Star Trek conventions, even to this day. 
Still served at far too many Star Trek conventions, even to this day.
Hey, syntheloaf allows you to have all the experience of eating meatloaf, while still being able to shake off the effects on a moment's notice!
To be honest, thinking back, I'm not sure how we survived that cafeteria food - nothing ever had a taste and was very unappealing (but we ate it along with our little carton of milk)
I never ate the carton....
Touche.
My elementary school cafeteria in the 1970s was cheap, we only had the rectangular pizza with white cheese and tomato sauce, but no meat
. I think the carton of milk was 5 cents and ice cream sandwiches and ice cream cones were 10 cents back then.Navigator, NCC-2120 USS Entente
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Those cartons tasted more cardboardy than the pizza crusts.To be honest, thinking back, I'm not sure how we survived that cafeteria food - nothing ever had a taste and was very unappealing (but we ate it along with our little carton of milk)
I never ate the carton....
This paragraph is OT, I realize, but it's by way of being a thank-you note. HIjol, the Carl Sagan quotation in your signature is quite wonderful, and I just wanted to thank you for sharing it.
Re: pizza variants found in school cafeterias, I must confess to a lingering fondness for what my school at the time called Mexican pizza--your basic crusty rectangle with cheddar cheese and putative meat, but with a bit of a kick thanks to the spices. (I suppose this paragraph is OT, too, but at least it's consistent with the general trend.)
I had a difficult time watching the first part of "By Any Other Name" because I could not imagine sentient beings metamorphosing into sugar cubes. (Not that I think TOS invented sugar cubes.)
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Heh. I was on a backpacking trip last weekend and took a couple shots of powdered Tang. It was the first time in years, though.
Am I the only person who actually likes Tang?
Was it Curtis Armstrong?
I guess I missed out on Space Food Sticks. What were they?
To be honest, thinking back, I'm not sure how we survived that cafeteria food - nothing ever had a taste and was very unappealing (but we ate it along with our little carton of milk)
Fiber.
Please tell me you drank it rather than ate it, Silvercrest. If the latter, I'm sure your tongue was well and duly Tang-led.
I couldn't be sure, but you may well be the only one willing to admit it.
I'm afraid I ate it. Not that much. I just needed a quick dose of sugar that moment.
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Frankly, I thought they looked like square dog turds and tasted like stale Tootsie Rolls.
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