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Comment from Jeremy Aldrich
Time: August 20, 2008, 12:22 am

I see someone archived the original site (from 2002) which as I understand it was put together for special ed classes at Waterman Elementary so they could do some kind of learning activity with it.

Comment from Josh
Time: August 20, 2008, 12:25 am

Current menus are available here http://www.harrisonburg.k12.va.us/foodsvc/

Comment from Emmy
Time: August 20, 2008, 7:04 am

I can promise you that Chicken Fryz were never served to my children. I have the city school menu right in front of me and there are only a few days that have foods that are questionable. School lunch never tastes that great, but they have made huge strides in the nutritional content.

My kids usually pack, but that’s mostly because they inherited their fathers preference for eating the exact same lunch every day! Plus I can see how much they actually ate based on what’s left when they get home.

Comment from New Hburger
Time: August 20, 2008, 8:45 am

Your kids are packing? No wonder I don’t send my kids to city schools! :-) (Sorry, couldn’t resist.)

Comment from Emmy
Time: August 20, 2008, 9:16 am

Hehe.

Comment from justin
Time: August 20, 2008, 9:23 am

I miss school lunches. Some of that food was really good. You can ice-cream-scoop my mashed potatoes any day of the week.

Comment from whackette
Time: August 20, 2008, 10:34 am

Bleck! Some of those may taste ok, but they sure don’t look very good.

Comment from Brian M
Time: August 20, 2008, 11:15 am

I agree with ‘justin’ (unless he was being sarcastic). I had the benefit of going to Waterman Elementary some years ago (wow, like 20+) and their lunches were usually very good. That was the days of homemade rolls at almost every lunch. We were allowed Chocolate Milk only on Thursdays. All through my schooling, city lunches were certainly as good as a fast food joint. I didn’t really care for the school pizzas (something about a pizza slice that is rectangular being cut from a big pizza the shape of a sheet pan always got me). It would be nice for them to return to more fresh local products and more homemade meals though.

Comment from Emmy
Time: August 20, 2008, 11:25 am

Well my kids go to Waterman now, and the food is better than a fast food restaurant and certainly more healthy. I saw one meal in those pictures (the cheese breadsticks) that actually is served there, but it looks a lot better in person. Keister will be getting local foods every week (I think) this year. I’m not sure why this is only happening at Keister, but I hope it spreads throughout the schools.

I go through the menu at the beginning of every month and let my kids pick which days that want to bring lunch and which days they want to buy. My oldest, who will be in his third year of school food, wants to buy almost every day. So, it must not be too gross.

Comment from Josh
Time: August 20, 2008, 12:06 pm

I don’t miss the taste of school food, but I do miss the bargain! I buy school lunches when I volunteer and am usually satisfied with what I get for the money.

Comment from Christa
Time: August 20, 2008, 2:42 pm

Does anyone remember the chili from school in Harrisonburg? And the bread used to taste home baked. I always thought the lunches were good! But that was back in the day…

Comment from Emmy
Time: August 20, 2008, 2:44 pm

School rolls are the best things ever!

Comment from Josh
Time: August 21, 2008, 8:50 pm

The hburg food pics are making the blog circuit. See http://www.seriouseats.com/2008/08/the-most-disgusting-school-lunches.html

Comment from David Miller
Time: August 25, 2008, 2:51 pm

Coming from a fella who’s been hungry his whole life, city school lunch was great :)

Comment from Emmy
Time: August 25, 2008, 3:09 pm

Love it, now we’re Harrison?

Comment from JGFitzgerald
Time: August 25, 2008, 4:03 pm

Or was he calling us Harrison City?