Way back when I went to grade school, those ladies were the nicest people I ever saw at school. Always asked if we liked the food and gave you extras when they had it. Boy, what a hard job thy have. Can't say as they are now but they were the sweetest ladies when I went to school. Course there were still dinosaurs around then also.
Way back when I was at school, they were known as "the Witches" - probably in reference to the meal ingredients:
"Fillet of a fenny snake, Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing, Scale of dragon; tooth of wolf, Witches' mummy; maw and gulf of the ravin'd salt-sea shark, Root of hemlock digg'd i the dark; Liver of blaspheming Jew, Gall of goat, and slips of yew. Sliver'd in the moon's eclipse; Nose of Turk, and Tartar's lips; Finger of birth-strangled babe Ditch-deliver'd by a drab."
Simmer gently for 11 hours on the full moon and deliver to schoolchildren on a daily basis at lunchtime.
When I was teaching I made sure every student of mine said "thank you for cooking for us today". It's a really hard job and I believe there were just 5-6 to prepare for over 500 children (and they had horrible pay too.)
BUT ONE YEAR all the school cooks in the town/small city got together and made a cookbook!!!! I still have that cookbook and use it all the time! YUUUUMMMMY !
Look how well used it is! (Photo below) I used it for years and it has their famous homemade cinnamon roll recipe that would melt in your mouth. Also, the BEST butter sugar cookies that won a national prize which I made for Christmas and Easter to decorate with colored icings with my children.
I brought my lunch so I only bought milk from them. But they all seemed nice. When I was in high school one of them came in and talked to us during our health class when we studying nutrition. She talked about the rules they had to follow and this was long before Obama enacted stricter laws. I wouldn't want such a thankless job.
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