What Is THE GREATEST SCHOOL LUNCH OF ALL TIME?

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I am doing this food new podcast every week to compliment all the shit I've been doing on social highlighting restaurants that I love. The whole series is called…

Anyhoo, I had Pat on this week because he and Joey were our guests at Talladega last week, raising the gay population at the event exponentially and providing some "flair" to a place that probably didn't need it.

Anyhoo again, when Patty came on, I asked him a question that I ask all my guests: 

What's one dish from your past that you wish you could get back?

Maybe it was made in a restaurant that has since closed down. Perhaps it was made by a relative who had similarly closed down (died). Or maybe your tastebuds have matured, so you know that even if you had that meal today, it just wouldn't "slap" the same.

I invite everyone I ask to really pause before answering, and so far, every guest has provided perfect answers.

When I asked Pat, he had no clue what to say, but then it hit him like a ton of bricks… He misses the chicken nuggets and mashed potatoes they used to serve in his high school cafeteria on Wednesdays. He's old enough now to know those nuggets were unnatural frozen pieces of flavorless shit and the potatoes were powdered insults to humanity. Still, all the memories he had surrounding that same meal every week make him miss it nonetheless.

It got me thinking about my favorite school lunch waaaaaaay back when I went to high school in the 1950s, and it made me pine for the fried fish sandwiches served on Fridays (Catholic school) and the large uncovered vat of tartar sauce that was there for the molesting before you grabbed a carton of low-fat chocolate milk and found your acne-studded buddies at the lunch table.

Both Patty's and my answers are equally disgusting but that doesn't cloud the fact that they were perfect at the time, and I would fucking LOVE to get that experience one more time. 

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So what's yours?

WHAT WAS THE GREATEST SCHOOL LUNCH (or component of school lunch) YOU EVER HAD?

I don't care if your mom packed it or if an old lady in a hairnet served it up. What's that one lunch item you want to get back?

And here is the full interview with Pat…

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