"The school cafeteria line was always a hit-or-miss situation. Some days, there would be chicken tenders with a side of mac and cheese, and other days, there would be soggy hamburgers with greasy string beans. While we yearn for the good ol' days of fresh-baked Otis Spunkmeyer cookies and bags of animal crackers, we certainly don't miss the days when the cafeteria lunchline served food that tasted like it hadn't seen the inside of a spice cabinet in 20 years."
"This rectangular, frozen pizza made appearances in school lunches throughout the 1960s and 1970s, and there are plenty of '80s and '90s babies who remember tearing through the cardboard-like slices at school. But even if your particular cafeteria missed out, it won't take much imagination to place its particular taste in that noisy, echoey lunchroom. We found that this pizza tasted lackluster and underwhelming, and we're not the only ones."
School cafeteria lunches varied widely, from chicken tenders and mac and cheese to soggy hamburgers and greasy string beans, often lacking seasoning. Many people recall nostalgic items like Otis Spunkmeyer cookies and animal crackers despite poor-quality hot meals. Ellio's rectangular frozen pizza became a common school lunch item across the 1960s and 1970s and evokes cafeteria memories for '80s and '90s children. Taste impressions describe the pizza as cardboard-like, lackluster, and underwhelming, with some consumers calling it an ‘abomination’ or only vaguely pizza-like. Ellio's was founded on Long Island in 1963, later owned by McCain Foods and then acquired by Dr. Oetker in 2015.
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