[jttpwalsh]

Some of the best lunches I had in Catholic School were the rare times I forgot mine, and couldn’t get a hold of my folks, to bail me out. No PBJ, baloney, or egg salad that day, and the only time I got a Twinkie, or some other unhealthy, but tasty snack ;)

[Vigilanteman]

I'll go one better. My daughters attended public school in Japan. The elementary school had a food preparation area, but no cafeteria. The kids were divided into work details (HANs) which included a turn taking the cart down to the food preparation area at the assigned time and bringing the food up to the classrooms where they served the kids on dishes and bowls they were expected to bring from home and wash when finished.

By the time they got to junior high, it was all sack lunches. My daughter's junior high was built in 1947 and had questions about the water quality in the old pipes, so they were also expected to bring potable water from home. Oh, the inhumanity!