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(DIR) Post #B25hJXcNjchgCLVOS0 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-08T23:56:04Z
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It's middle school in the 90s or 80s and it's PIZZA DAY. Yay!One of the square slices behind the counter has a bubble. The dough has somehow acquired an air pocket. It's huge. The size of a tennis ball.Everyone is talking about "The Bubble"How do you feel about the bubble?
(DIR) Post #B25hMsud1HIL6sdO88 by Sharksonaplane@mastodon.sandwich.net
2026-01-08T23:56:40Z
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@futurebird :sickos:
(DIR) Post #B25heiV0TTxw1h9XkG by LeDiva@lediva.masto.host
2026-01-08T23:59:47Z
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The Bubble looks cool, but there's no pizza in there!
(DIR) Post #B25hiWmXyqDuqRAsqm by flyingsaceur@ioc.exchange
2026-01-09T00:00:33Z
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@futurebird best day of the weekhttps://youtu.be/fK5CLplRIno
(DIR) Post #B25hjfTBAJuy4vev1E by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-09T00:00:37Z
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@mina Thinking about it from the perspective of someone who didn't go through this stuff it must sound... crazy. But across the whole country... same pizza. At least "pizza day" wasn't national and on the same day nation wide. But it was on the same day across the city.
(DIR) Post #B25hkPqqieBTvf5TIe by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-09T00:00:56Z
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@LeDiva The bubble teaches an important life lesson.
(DIR) Post #B25i3cGsla5Lx0Q45g by vikxin@beach.city
2026-01-09T00:04:21Z
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@futurebird I always hate the bubble because it means there's no sauce on top of it! Just burnt crust and empty air
(DIR) Post #B25iEcYW37QI1BumGG by TerryHancock@realsocial.life
2026-01-09T00:06:22Z
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@futurebird I loved those stupid terrible rectangular school pizzas so much! š
(DIR) Post #B25iHBHftvQWJ0G4aO by benetherington@spacey.space
2026-01-09T00:06:49Z
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@futurebird The rule in my house is slices with bubbles go to my partner, no questions asked.
(DIR) Post #B25iVXKGkMKAimJiC0 by mrbruno@mstdn.social
2026-01-09T00:09:24Z
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@futurebird I ADORE bubbles in pizza! Especially thick crust!
(DIR) Post #B25j1HMRdhPqTQTEoK by snork303@toot.community
2026-01-09T00:15:10Z
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@futurebirdIt's at my peril if I try to sneak The Bubble away from my wife. I've learned to live very flatly unless there are 2 bubbles, in which case I get the smaller.
(DIR) Post #B25jGuRac0II1zKWrQ by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-09T00:17:57Z
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@mina Some nutritionists worked very hard to design an inexpensive, easy to make, pizza that could fit into school lunch budgets which are absurdly small in the US. (What is wrong with us? Why do we hate the concept of "feeding hungry children." Anyway.)Part of the design requirements is that everything is the same. No "corner slices" no nicest bit to squabble over. So we squabbled over "The Bubble" --which I thought was awful. It was hollow! All the cheese would slide off.
(DIR) Post #B25ntzRKN4wGdT694a by jmeppley@genomic.social
2026-01-09T01:09:50Z
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@futurebird I don't hate the bubble, I kind of like it, but it means less cheese and sauce in my slice, so I don't want it
(DIR) Post #B25q94XVtOWShjJLO4 by llewelly@sauropods.win
2026-01-09T01:35:03Z
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@futurebird pizza day? WWTF?? why did I never get pizza at school in the 1980s or 1990s?
(DIR) Post #B25qvZR6K56GQcRBMu by castanea_jo@ni.hil.ist
2026-01-09T01:43:47Z
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@futurebird the bubble can hold so much canned corn
(DIR) Post #B25vbo14u5b9cxezdg by Meowthias@mastodon.world
2026-01-09T02:36:05Z
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@futurebird Aren't you from the East Coast? Wasn't your pizza better?
(DIR) Post #B25vcUqbetluSw5jmq by MCDuncanLab@mstdn.social
2026-01-09T02:28:12Z
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@llewelly @futurebird Ok so picture this, there is pizza day, but your parents only let you bring a sack lunch.(I actually didnāt like pizza, but it was sad for kids who did like pizza and had to eat a sack lunchā¦I just realized this is probably why me and my misfit of sack lunch eating friends tended to eat anywhere other than the cafeteria)
(DIR) Post #B25vcW0DMf3G31avOy by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-09T02:36:14Z
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@MCDuncanLab @llewelly This surfaced forgotten memories. I was fascinated by the concept of "bagged lunch" begged my mom to let me have a bagged lunch. (I thought it was very exotic like in an anime) My mom was so confused and annoyed to her "bag lunch" was for "poor kids" and she didn't work in the math mines all day to have her daughter eating out of a paper bag. Also since she was a math prof she had no time to make a lunch ... and tried to get Dad to do it who was baffled.
(DIR) Post #B25vrTaQd3pItmfR32 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-09T02:39:05Z
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@MCDuncanLab @llewelly It quickly came to: "if you really want to have a bagged lunch you need to make it yourself."I was excited to try! It was a disaster!I think I gave up after a few months. But the strange little plastic containers and boxes I found hung around in the kitchen for years. Later I was obsessed with a "factory lunch" and using the old lunch pail that belonged to my grandfather when he worked in the mills. That went a bit better.
(DIR) Post #B25vvq1j8e5ledW35E by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-09T02:39:52Z
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@Meowthias "school pizza" has nothing at all to do with any other dish that might go by that name. it's a different food basically.
(DIR) Post #B25wEFY6zAxW1URWTI by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-09T02:43:12Z
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@MCDuncanLab @llewelly Thing thing about only "poor kids" bringing their lunch wasn't really true at our school. Most of the kids who brought a lunch just had very fussy mothers who thought the cafeteria food was terrible. They were not totally wrong. But my lunches... they were worse. I have memories of friends taking up a collection to feed me because I'd brought something that made no sense... like two cups of white rice with ketchup and nothing else.
(DIR) Post #B25wJ5Pe6IRS26mzvU by Meowthias@mastodon.world
2026-01-09T02:44:00Z
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@futurebird Ours in New Mexico must have come from a different supplier because there were no bubbles in the pizza.
(DIR) Post #B25wNznaOsDu4OKPRo by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-09T02:44:57Z
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@Meowthias They made ours from scratch with government cheese I think.
(DIR) Post #B25wjZdEMwxLHjm24G by CStamp@mastodon.social
2026-01-09T02:48:49Z
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@futurebird @MCDuncanLab @llewelly I never went to a school with a cafeteria that served food, so all kids brought their lunch to school or went home for lunch if they lived close by.
(DIR) Post #B25wnel7FSakLSPOz2 by llewelly@sauropods.win
2026-01-09T02:49:33Z
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@futurebird @MCDuncanLab I often made my own sack lunch when I was a child, and in those days my dream sack lunch went something like this: thick slice bread, preferably from the end of the loaf so it's tough, thick slice cheese, thick slice tomato, fried egg, 2nd thick slice cheese, 2nd thick slice bread, again preferably from the end of the loaf, thermos of tomato juice. But I think I only got to make that twice, and ended up leaving out ingredients and substituting practically every time.
(DIR) Post #B25wu2TlyC0zeLL8vg by Meowthias@mastodon.world
2026-01-09T02:50:43Z
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@futurebird The reason I asked about the East Coast thing is that in NM we got local-inspired (š¶ļø) food that was pretty good.
(DIR) Post #B25x5KXXA2x2qiU1ya by haloedrain@toot.cafe
2026-01-09T02:52:44Z
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@futurebird I was the weirdo who thought the pizza was gross so I was in the other line and unaware of the whole bubble thing (and probably reading a book)
(DIR) Post #B25xLuYT1eW9BIpI9Y by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-09T02:55:47Z
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@llewelly @MCDuncanLab That sounds much more responsible. I didn't really have a planning skills to pack a lunch so I'd just... find things in the house, and around the house and put them in the box to figure out later.
(DIR) Post #B25zjr1fztix5x284e by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-09T03:22:26Z
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@corbden @MCDuncanLab @llewelly We had lunch boxes in elementary school. And I remember the plastic boxes coming out and thinking it was a major downgrade. I think the selling point was you could put them in the dishwasher (but then the sticker would come off... sad times)
(DIR) Post #B260IMTdZO2wU5ZA7k by MCDuncanLab@mstdn.social
2026-01-09T03:28:43Z
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@futurebird @llewelly My older sister was a pain in the butt, at one point maybe when she was in 2nd grade she pitched a fit about what my mom made. Mom said fine 2nd graders make their own lunches. When I hit second grade that meant me too.I ate peanut butter and butter sandwiches every day probably until 6th grade. We also got a gross red delicious apple, and two chocolate cookies, which my sister was in charge of making, and I did get a milk card.
(DIR) Post #B260WdEg3evoVyNDAu by MCDuncanLab@mstdn.social
2026-01-09T03:31:19Z
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@futurebird @corbden @llewelly We had metal boxes until they became uncool and then it was a paper bag.I think I had to make the bag last all week, because I definitely remember have a ratty torn up bag.
(DIR) Post #B261DgmIlOhVx9dFdQ by pleaseclap@techhub.social
2026-01-09T03:39:05Z
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@futurebird Former pizza cook reporting in:That wasn't an accident, we made sure you got a bubble
(DIR) Post #B261s9BsXtMzekt5hQ by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-09T03:46:26Z
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@MCDuncanLab @llewelly I had the vague notion that a lunch should have such things. But I would end up with a can of creamed corn, a can opener, candied ginger from the back of the kitchen cabinet, a pack of hot chocolate, a thermos of water too cold by lunch to make the coco, a slice of white bread with thick slices of cucumber on it (since I read about "cucumber sandwiches" in a book but didn't know how to make them.) I had this idea that it was a "fancy lunch" It was awful.
(DIR) Post #B261y7DQnkSXGiSYUK by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-09T03:47:31Z
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@MCDuncanLab @llewelly At least it amused my friends to watch me unpack the box (which I pretended someone else made for me) and explain how it was going to work.
(DIR) Post #B262608N0xxxccquzQ by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-09T03:48:55Z
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@nazokiyoubinbou @MCDuncanLab @llewelly effort isn't always a good thing.
(DIR) Post #B262RCWw7YNA9KS5i4 by Sharksonaplane@mastodon.sandwich.net
2026-01-09T03:52:44Z
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@futurebird oh no help this must have been excruciating in practice but it's so adorable in hindsight š
(DIR) Post #B262pFs5LmDRSgoXB2 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-09T03:57:07Z
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@Sharksonaplane I can still taste that dry chewy horrible "cucumber sandwich" š¤£
(DIR) Post #B263HEdXXAUHk0Lusq by MCDuncanLab@mstdn.social
2026-01-09T03:56:41Z
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@jgordon @futurebird @llewelly Yeah neither her nor my mom are reliable witnesses when recalling which of them caused what family drama.Iām sure there was an incident probably standard stubborn kid stuff, mom over reacted, sis over reacted and as a consequence my brother and I are making the only sandwiches 2nd graders can make somewhat reliably.Although it is something of an art to get peanut butter on bread without tearing the bread, as I recall.
(DIR) Post #B263HGCfi2BSbFnUHY by MCDuncanLab@mstdn.social
2026-01-09T04:00:38Z
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@jgordon @futurebird @llewelly And why was it peanut butter and butter? Could we not afford jelly? Was jelly too high in sugar?We must have gone through so much butter because we all totally slathered it on.Oh shoot it wasnāt butter, it was margarine. Was that cheap in the 80s?
(DIR) Post #B263HHOlGZRsJ2SelU by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-09T04:02:06Z
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@MCDuncanLab @jgordon @llewelly "fruit preserves have too much sugar ... yes butter is much healthier?"I mean, it's good I guess.
(DIR) Post #B263YF7512Nw8qHOG8 by MCDuncanLab@mstdn.social
2026-01-09T04:05:13Z
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@futurebird @jgordon @llewelly The goal was to make the ābutterā layer the same thickness as the peanut butter layer, so probably at least two tbps of both.I was rail thin as a kid so it couldnāt have been too terrible of a diet.
(DIR) Post #B263p5p8o3xMFovJse by victorvonvortex@mastodon.social
2026-01-09T04:07:18Z
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@Meowthias @futurebird I was on the east coast back then and in addition to pizza day we also had fiesta pizza day which was basically an Old El Paso taco on a piece of crust. Fiesta pizza day was only slightly behind regular pizza day for the best day of the week. š
(DIR) Post #B263w7FPuYRahHYwjI by llewelly@sauropods.win
2026-01-09T04:09:33Z
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@futurebird @MCDuncanLab @jgordon my mother regularly made fruit preserves with 1/4 the normal sugar, so ...... mold grew on it. Because, actually, the whole point of using so much sugar is to preserve the fruit!!!
(DIR) Post #B264Cp0gyGEr3cdobw by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-09T04:12:35Z
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@Sharksonaplane This is why I have soft spot for strange somewhat hard headed kids. TBH.
(DIR) Post #B264DkDmGHZeUiCZQ8 by Sharksonaplane@mastodon.sandwich.net
2026-01-09T04:12:40Z
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@futurebird I have to know, did you give up on the "cucumber sandwich" after you tried it, or did you finish it determinedly while telling your friends you were in fact being FANCY and they just didn't get it? i'm pretty sure I know what small me would've done and it would not have been the wiser choice, lmao
(DIR) Post #B264OtbPis3qm7ZhhI by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-09T04:14:45Z
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@Sharksonaplane Chewing and chewing with watering eyes "they severe these at country clubs you know? you have to cut the crusts off..."*chew chew chew*Just thick chunks of cucumber with the skin on and nothing else but the wonder bread.
(DIR) Post #B264XwkhNhpB9NEXYW by Sharksonaplane@mastodon.sandwich.net
2026-01-09T04:16:22Z
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@futurebird "you know it's FANCY because it's cut in TRIANGLES, *Diane*!"
(DIR) Post #B264lVncO8rpby4FMm by MCDuncanLab@mstdn.social
2026-01-09T04:18:48Z
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@futurebird @jgordon @llewelly I realize I totally hijjaked your thread with sandwiches. Iām sorry. š„ŗ
(DIR) Post #B264uyHfqt6GYsdWZU by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-09T04:20:34Z
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@MCDuncanLab @jgordon @llewelly I'm learning so many things, and remembering others.
(DIR) Post #B264zii5BQujhvFlYG by MCDuncanLab@mstdn.social
2026-01-09T04:20:54Z
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@Wyatt_H_Knott @llewelly @futurebird Yeah I donāt get the Mac reference, but I do know the apple indent in a sandwich.I did eventually graduate to ham sandwiches and an apple dent in a ham sandwich was quite the tragedy, all crushed lettuce and slimy mayo bread.
(DIR) Post #B264zkCbdQvMKsXelc by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-09T04:21:15Z
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@MCDuncanLab @Wyatt_H_Knott @llewelly Macintosh apple?
(DIR) Post #B265DCbxK4kYD0og4G by llewelly@sauropods.win
2026-01-09T04:23:46Z
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@futurebird @MCDuncanLab @Wyatt_H_Knott that must be it, because the only other macintoshes are the boots and the computers, and presumably neither boots nor computers would be in school sack lunch, being too tough for youngsters to chew.
(DIR) Post #B265Ju8EQY9YvI6oUa by RedRobyn@mastodon.nz
2026-01-09T04:21:02Z
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@MCDuncanLab Heh. Without recognizing it as drama my mother happily relates how the "kids make their own lunches" protocol happened in our family. Apparently when my elder sister was 6 she was taken to task for bringing her sandwiches home uneaten for a week. She countered with the sandwiches not being made the way she liked them (maybe it was margarine not butter?) and from that day on lunch making became the kid's job. Including our eldest sister, who was not involved in the exchange at all. When the younger siblings started school we got our lunches made for us for a week. I recall a lot of margarine and marmite sandwiches. On brown bread.@jgordon @futurebird @llewelly
(DIR) Post #B265JvNrluFmo4QoV6 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-09T04:25:03Z
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@RedRobyn @MCDuncanLab @jgordon @llewelly I remember doing "margarine and marmite" well... just marmite. But it was another attempt at "exotic food" no one in Ohio knows about marmite but my grandmother had some for some reason and let me take the jar. I'd read about characters in some book eating "marmite on toast" so I brought that for lunch one day. It was VERY sticky and got stuck in the little plastic sandwich bag. "This is what they eat in LONDON"
(DIR) Post #B265Y0kkbeHRVqqusC by RedRobyn@mastodon.nz
2026-01-09T04:27:34Z
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@futurebird London marmite is very different from antipodean marmite. Ours is even more salty and dark, with less sugar @MCDuncanLab @jgordon @llewelly
(DIR) Post #B265gFEqdLO8ksr9ai by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-09T04:29:05Z
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@fivetonsflax I found some descriptions of Japanese packed lunched that said you needed a bed of rice then to add "pickes" but the images showed red things (I now understand that things can be pickled other than cucumbers)I reasoned that ketchup was a bit like relish so could work as a "red pickle"... it did not work.
(DIR) Post #B266gfjUEFNmsaxGdc by ned@beige.party
2026-01-09T03:43:12Z
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@MCDuncanLab @futurebird @llewelly Nuts are no longer allowed in school.
(DIR) Post #B266ghBWpTPLNr5AzA by MCDuncanLab@mstdn.social
2026-01-09T04:36:14Z
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@ned @futurebird @llewelly I think they allow sunflower butter. Plus im pretty sure making a 2nd grader make their own lunch is a no no these days.Cookies are probably also banned.
(DIR) Post #B266giAr9SSqS3m9Zo by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-09T04:40:19Z
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@MCDuncanLab @ned @llewelly Most schools I've encountered will have a strict nut and/or peanut ban if there are YOUNG kids with those allergies. And it's sensible. There is no reason to have a ban if that isn't the case. The other case may be high sensitivity students ... then the ban may last longer. Hilariously I'm deadly allergic to sunflowers and sunbutter. Eyes itch if I'm near it... but not peanuts.
(DIR) Post #B269R5Rl9lKprLvIw4 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-09T05:11:08Z
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@aburka @paco @grumble209 We also had the scroll. Very happy memories of watching it as snow caught on the window panes and blocked the back door. That was Ohio. Lake effect snow. Maybe we'll have a NYC snow day yet. They are so terribly rare. My husband works for the MTA so he HATES snow storms (It makes so much work for the subways) and is annoyed by the way I get excited about them.
(DIR) Post #B269TItq6sCQA77ADw by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-09T05:11:34Z
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@aburka @paco @grumble209 Really? No no no. We still have them.
(DIR) Post #B269jm2JY2dfA3vqgS by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-09T05:14:32Z
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@aburka @paco @grumble209 Because of lockdown we recently had a class of seniors who never had a single snow day in their four years. They were very sad about this and made a whole petition for a "senior snow day" which was just like "extra senior cut day" and we were maybe going to reject it but then there was a big storm and they go their moment. Thank god really.
(DIR) Post #B26G509iqYjYl4u11U by rinkside@mastodon.online
2026-01-09T06:25:31Z
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@futurebird In high school we had a lunch line ~just~ for pizza, every day! We also had āMexican pizzaā which was less than pizza dough, but more than a soft tortilla with a little taco meat and cheese.
(DIR) Post #B26I8KM4P35UBLOLEO by thefathippy@mastodon.world
2026-01-09T06:48:35Z
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@futurebirdThis discussion feels so alien to me. š¤·Australian school lunches, a looong time ago. 1-2 sandwiches, white bread. Peanut butter & jam, or devon (sliced meat *product*, porkish) with a dollop of tomato sauce. Some kind of fruit. All from home, no refrigeration. There were water bubblers for drinksā& smalll state supplied unrefrigerated bottle of milk for morning play lunch. Anything else was suspicious. š
(DIR) Post #B26Sg0Rhvicpp3j6iO by freya@chaosfem.tw
2026-01-09T08:46:43Z
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@futurebird yooooo
(DIR) Post #B26ggOAx6O0amFxxSq by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-09T11:23:40Z
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@grumble209 @aburka @paco They are so sweet but so strange sometimes.
(DIR) Post #B26h2dVAngYqgJ24w4 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-09T11:27:41Z
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@fivetonsflax Yeah this isn't a sad story of a kid who no one was feeding. It's the story of a stubborn kid whose parents thought "well... maybe if she just struggles a bit she'll figure it out."My mom gave me $10 glorious late 1980s dollars each week to buy lunch which was $2 per day at the school. I was convinced I could find a better way to spend the money and create lunches.
(DIR) Post #B26hFx0ZaSsWwb4Iuu by Uair@autistics.life
2026-01-09T11:30:06Z
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@futurebird @Sharksonaplane PCP's.Pepperoni, cheese, and pickle. Put them all on a toothpick. It's a taste sensation.As far as I know, my family discovered them. They were always around at Xmas dinner.
(DIR) Post #B26hr2iLKqurM6EDp2 by TheBreadmonkey@beige.party
2026-01-09T11:36:46Z
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@futurebirdI'd never thought of this before but I was sent to school every single day with a lemon curd sandwich on white bread. Like a VICTORIAN CHILD. This is how I find out my mother didn't love me.
(DIR) Post #B26iWyKq0UzLw7EA9g by wouldinotcallmyselfahumanbeing@zirk.us
2026-01-09T11:44:23Z
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@futurebird i hope i dont get the Bubble, not because gross but because the Bubble is inevitably a low-to-no-topping zone due to runoff.
(DIR) Post #B26jGoTczYgcgNCJQO by sinvega@mas.to
2026-01-09T11:52:39Z
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@futurebird @Sharksonaplane
(DIR) Post #B26ntAKyYysjInh5oO by epicdemiologist@wandering.shop
2026-01-09T12:44:25Z
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@futurebird @MCDuncanLab @llewelly The book "Bread and Jam for Frances" was aspirational in my making-lunch-for-my-kids years.
(DIR) Post #B2707dxYQMAmg6PP9M by Photo55@mastodon.social
2026-01-09T15:01:21Z
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@futurebird It can be surprising how swapping bits of odd meals can liven up each end. But it is good children share and help.
(DIR) Post #B29KDyZ96sZDiyD0E4 by Tuuktuuk@piipitin.fi
2026-01-10T17:56:08Z
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@futurebird Pizza days in schools in Finland mean a rectangular pizza bolognese with rectangular premade slices. It's a very industrial setup, where you have something of an endless flow.of smallish pizza squares appearing on the serving table. No bubbles.But, if there ever was a bubble, it would not have affected my choice of pizza piece.
(DIR) Post #B2BDVyDIqcasTtXqnA by Enema_Cowboy@dotnet.social
2026-01-11T15:50:23Z
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@futurebird @MCDuncanLab @llewelly I brought my lunch because our school system would serve dishes such as "potato turbate".
(DIR) Post #B2BvXSUw8H10gBJT0q by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-12T00:03:38Z
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@ellie That sucks.
(DIR) Post #B2BvY9ctmXvyRKMvtQ by silvermoon82@wandering.shop
2026-01-12T00:03:50Z
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@futurebird Did you have Hot Dog Day as well? We did have the occasional Pizza Day and that was always an awesome treat because usually the hot lunch day was hot dogs.
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2026-01-12T00:06:05Z
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@silvermoon82 That wasn't celebrated as much. Mostly because they boiled the dogs. But in the Spring there was Baseball day and then they'd make them properly outside on grills that the parents would bring in. But that was also some kind of fundraiser for the "Glee Club" and I never knew what that club was about... sort of assumed it was some kind of cult.