As a gen-xer myself, I remember all to well the school pizza. When you came through the cafe line, you always hoped that you were one of the lucky ones and received one of those coveted corner pieces. The government would give the schools ground beef, American cheese ( 5lb. blocks), and flour. Pizza was always a favorite recipe to use these supplies up. Yes, you read right. They used American cheese instead of mozzarella cheese and the ground beef instead of any meat like pepperoni and sausage. However, as hungry teenagers, we didn't care what it was made of. We gobbled it up with no complaints.
Our school pizzas did not have American cheese on it. The sauce was spread all over and there were spots of meat here and there. (1976 - 1989) I don't remember having a choice between cheese or hamburger but it was always on Friday and that was the one day of the week we could get chocolate milk. Ours was not crispy. Their par bake was overbaked. They got a bad recipe or ChatGPT failed them on measurements.
Wtf? They put American cheese on your pizza, what were they doing to you? We had this same pizza at my school but they definitely didn't use American cheese!
The fake chicken patties with mashed potatoes were the worst, but at least you got a good yeast roll and fake vanilla sugar cookie almost every day to make up for it.
It was not the best. Corn dogs on early release days were the best... because they weren't made in the school kitchen, they were just State Fair brand I think 😂
@@therockbiter8140I'd have to disagree. I'd take the fake chicken over the rubber ball consistency green scrambled eggs. Could literally bounce those squares off anything like a Ball. And smelled sooooo bad like sulfur.
@@IceMetalPunk You should be aware that was a very local thing because I never got corn dogs for school lunch! On our early release days we got lunch delivered to our class rooms, and it was always wrapped sandwiches from the cafeteria.
Wow, this bring back some great memories. We had a choice, cheese or diced pepperoni. They even gave us tater tots to go with the pizza. My friends and I would get packets of mustard, spread it on the cheese pizza, with our finger, and eat it that way. Great content from you two.
Just a little hack with cans of tomato paste. Use the can opener on both ends and push the lid thru. Its a surefire way to get all the paste out in 1 swift motion.
My late father used to do that with the canned dog food he'd give to his hunting dog after a morning of going after quail. He'd place the contents in a sandwich bag to facilitate the meal for a grateful English Pointer. The ends and the can could then go into the trash, and it was all good then.
Wow this really brings back memories. This is so much more affordable than ordering pizza and picking it up. It's also great for potlucks. It disappears in seconds. What a great video. Do I dare mention that both of you are pro-tomato lately? LOL Thanks for the fun and the nostalgia.
Those school pizza had a flavor all their own. Every school lunch, when I was a kid, was made by the lunch ladies from scratch. It doesn’t sound like much, but there were a lot of kids in each school, 3000 in my high school.
There were so many kids that one teacher said he taught “Hormone Management”. Another teacher called the front office “MacDonald Land”… As in, Go down to MacDonald Land, the board of education wants to give you detention for your efforts 😂
Great choice guys because who doesn't remember cafeteria pizza back in high school? This instantly brought back a flood of memories. Friday night football games and our old school bus driver Clarence who used to play Earth Wind and Fire tapes over the bus speakers. lol.. I spent part of my high school years in San Diego (Mira Mesa high school) and pizza could be had every day. Never knew what that grainy gritty stuff on the bottom was. Now I know it was corn meal. (Mind blown lol....) Now there are a thousand fast food restaurants within walking distance of my old high school so I guess the kids can leave campus and get anything they want. Well back in the 70's it wasn't like that. Thanks for another trip down memory lane guys. ♥Rich and Mila. ♥
As someone who was raised in the U.S. but has visited family in the U.K. many times, I just wanted to say I appreciate your efforts to bridge the ocean (culturally speaking). I think both US and UK folks really benefit from understanding each other’s upbringing better. I probably had that rectangular pizza at least once a week in the 80s and 90s, and I’ve got to say yours looks WAY better. Whether or not ours was good or not depended on if it was freshly made or day-old, whether it was underdone or overdone, and so forth. There was always a heterogeneous layer of melty cheese, and sometimes there were either tiny, tiny bits of crumbled sausage or finely diced pepperoni bits, but not nearly as much meat as you put on. It did indeed have a floppy, somewhat soggy texture, though sometimes the cheese on top was dried out from sitting for so long. Yours looks so good. Thanks for posting!
I SO remember this pizza. Yum. Chef Boy Ar Dee used to have a pizza kit that tasted somewhat similar but not as good. Then they changed their recipe and we no longer bought it.
We had this kind of pizza when I was in primary school in the 1960s, so it is older than the 1980s. Because the crust was "floppy" as you say, we never tried to pick it up and eat it, but used a knife and fork instead. The school cafeteria made huge batches of the meat and tomato sauce and used it not only for the pizza one day, but also for the spaghetti with meat sauce another day and the macaroni with meat sauce on a third day. Other school cafeteria meals in addition to the pizza and the spaghetti or macaroni with meat sauce that I recall were salisbury steak with mashed potatoes and gravy, tuna noodle casserole, turkey tetrazzini, chicken a al king, beef stroganoff (made with ground beef), Hungarian goulash, chipped beef, stuffed cabbage, corned beef and cabbage (only on St. Patrick's Day), sloppy joes, fish sticks, macaroni and cheese, monte cristo sandwich, chicken and dumplings, chili with beans, chili and macaroni, Hawaiian grilled spam and pineapple sandwich, and smothered liver and onions. Sometimes there was an option to have hotdogs or hamburgers with fries instead of the main entree and sides. The desserts were often quite good, including chocolate pudding, rice pudding, banana pudding, apple crisp, peach cobbler, blueberry cobbler, cherry cobbler, apple brown betty, brownies, lemon bars and sheet cakes of various flavors with sickly sweet frosting.
Yep cafeteria pizza was my favorite lunch day 😁 When we brought lunches in elementary school it was in metal lunch pails/lunch boxes. Mine had the artwork from the British sci-fi show U.F.O. The Lunch Pail also had a Thermos for a beverage. Junior High and High School you brown bagged it. 😂 Salisbury Steak with gravy and mashed potatoes. 😋
When dough is sticky. sprinkle a little flour on top and rub some mor flour on your hands and use your fingers to spread. A bit of a late hack here but if you ever need to know for the future, you will. Los Angeles City school coffee cake or cinnamon rolls. Also their grilled cheese. High School pizza was a soft bread crust. It was served in the hashlines on a square of waxed paper. They ran out every day. Cheese was my favorite.
1959 City School Sour Cream Coffee Cake 1 1/2 cup Cake flour 1/2 cup Flour 1 tsp Baking soda 1 tsp Baking powder 1/2 cup Butter 1 cup Sugar 1 Egg, lightly beaten 1 tsp Vanilla 1 cup Sour cream TOPPING 1/4 cup Flour 3/4 cup Brown sugar, packed 1/4 tsp Salt 1 cup Chopped walnuts 1/4 cup Butter Method : All ingredients should be at room temperature. In bowl mix together flours, soda and baking powder. In another bowl cream together butter with sugar until fluffy and light. Add egg and vanilla and mix well. Add half of dry ingredients, mixing just until flour is blended. Blend in sour cream, then remaining dry ingredients. TOPPING: Mix together flour, sugar, salt and nuts. Add butter in small pieces. Rub in by hand until mixture is crumbly. Be careful not to overmix. Spread half of batter lightly into a 10-inch tube pan. Sprinkle with half of Topping and spread with rmaining batter. Sprinkle with remaining Topping. Bake at 350 degrees 40 to 45 minutes.
I remember Chili and Pimento cheese sandwiches the most, but i loved both. We had white and chocolate milk offered. A friend of mine, still to this day, puts chocolate Ice Cream on his pizza because of the chocolate milk he had in school. Weirdo!!
I think school pizza is why I like a bready pizza vs a crispy pizza. I was kneading pizza dough as I watched your video. I'm glad your pizza turned out, and I look forward to seeing more from your channel. P.S. I like that your husband got in to the cooking and didn't just leave it to you. It's nice to cook together and enjoy the results together as well. 21:44 😂❤
I was born in 1960 so grew up with that! And Friday-pizza day-was the best because of that pizza! I would have chosen the cheese one as well (as a kid). But as an adult when I make pizza? I caramelize some onions to go with it and it’s simple but so good! 🍕 😋
The cornmeal is used to keep the dough from sticking but also for texture and flavor. Pizza day was literally the only day that everyone ate. They have better lunches now as far as what they have available but it was more likely that most of us who didn't bring their lunches had vending machine options, lol. Well done! Looks about right but you need a spatula to lift that pizza but it probably stuck because you really had to work to spread out the dough. I would eat half of that without a problem, lol. I'm going to totally try that sauce recipe but make it with a different dough. That's too much for my patience, lol.
@@TwoBritsTry That's exactly where I was going with that thought with some chicken...oh yum. I've rarely made my own pizza sauce. The times that I have, I've just added and tasted as I went and it worked but having a recipe that I can go back to time and time again is what I'm looking for. Might have to make a big pot to can it.
We also had bologna boats and baked!!. A thick slice of bologna with a scoop of mashed potatoes and american cheese on top! I remember the homemade shepherds pie, meatloaf, mashed potatoes, yeast rolls, and homemade chocolate cake. Funny how we miss those recipes. School lunches were epic back in the 60s and 70s. These lunches were all made from scratch and homemade! Looks amazing!
Love this :) It looks exactly the same as I remember. It was horrible, but it was so good lol We also had applesauce pie, which was sooo good. Just pie crust, apple sauce filling, and a sugar glaze over the top. It was baked in a rectangle pan. Look it up! We didn't have lunch in my high school either. We only had 99 students in the entire high school, which was in the middle of the IL farm fields (27 in my graduating class).They would bus some food from the elementary school, which was a newer building (it had a cafeteria), but nobody bothered. I either ate out of the vending machines, went out or just didn't eat lunch.
My aunt would make sheet pan pizzas and they were always great. Of course Fridays were always pizza day at school and the only day I was allowed to get a school lunch.
Brown bagged it for the first 8 years and most of the next 4, with no cafeteria until high school. They had big round pizzas and we could buy one-eighth slices, but it was just frozen pizza made in an oven. I'm much older, and my 1970s experience probably doesn't have a lot in common with most here.
We had Italian dunkers and lasagna and walking tacos and chicken nuggets and sloppy Joe’s and new things like eggplant and zucchini lasagna and nacho bites etc. I loved the fact that in high school we had a salad bar and a alternative food stand which I could get soy milk and bagels sandwiches or frozen yogurt, etc. we also had the hamburger or cheeseburger line which also had chicken sandwiches and served fries and stuff with it and the soft pretzels and everyday pizza line. The m&m peanut butter cups were cheap and a nice treat.
I would not be mad if we were served freshly made pizza like that-- great work! Our school district got their square pizzas pre-packaged and frozen so the cafeteria only had to reheat them. It was either cheese, or cubes of pepperoni. They were just edible but usually the last thing you'd want to eat. My favorite school lunch were taco pockets or taco nadas-- a take on an empanada filled with a meaty gravy similar to a sloppy joe consistency. So good!
Pepperoni an to add a whole new twist to that sauce a tablespoon of brown sugar an that will take the acidic of paste out of it with a whole different taste
Exactly what we had and were super excited for. I'm about your age. I remember during morning attendance, a census was taken for lunch, the dish would be announced and kids would state 'doubles (pizza) and # milks' instead of 'present'. We could order a double or even triple portion of the pizza and a lot of us would double this up. Of course, it would sit for 15-30 minutes under a heating lamp and be a different texture by the time a kid got hold of it, never scalding hot. I don't think my school went for the ground beef upgrade, but I could be wrong. I loved this vid on that food history channel recently, so thank you both for making!! :D
I was never a fan of the pizza served at lunch time, but there was another pizza to be had at school. It was the French bread breakfast pizza. I would wake up early to get that. They also had it nearly everyday instead of every week or two like at lunch. So glad you guys liked a little taste of our childhood!
High school in the 70’s. Pizza was like how you made it, looks yummy! We had great lunch ladies. Fried pork chops with sauerkraut and mashed potatoes. Cheese pierogis with fried onions and sour cream. The chocolate chip cookies, peanut butter cookies were great!
I lived a block away from my elementary school, so I normally went home for lunch unless school lunch was something I really liked. School cafeteria pizza was one of those things.
I started Kindergarten in 1980. This pizza is just as nostalgic as the school lunch of chili, cinnamon roll, saltine crackers, and carrot sticks. My two favorite school lunches.
The cinnamon roll and chili is so weird to me. When I first heard of it a few years ago I did a big old "What the HECK!?!" lol. Eh, if you like it you like it. Lotta weird food in the world.
Gen X here (like many others in comment section lol). Our school pizza was really good and that is coming from a person who's parents owned a pizzeria/Italian restaurant. It was made similar to the one you made but a bit different. Another great school menu item to try out is the chili served with the peanut butter & jelly sandwiches, kosher dill pickle and saltine crackers. We all loved chili days! My fave dessert was the "Cherry or pineapple delight" Our school also had a salad/baked potato bar which was my almost daily go to. They had gigantic baking potatoes that had been oven baked in foil. I'd slice them in half and one half was covered in chili, shredded cheddar, and nacho cheese sauce. The other was steamed broccoli, butter, sour cream, a little cheddar cheese sauce, crumbled bacon, green onion, diced purple onion and oddly enough salted roasted sunflower seeds. Oh those were so good!
Ours, too. Those rolls were divine; the pizza was awful. Peach cobbler was the best dessert! Never get the chocolate milk as 75% chance it was bad. I graduated in 1971.
Oil the hands to spread it. Tomato paste is sweeter and stays thicker. The simmering reduces it back down. In the south, it used to be breakfast, dinner and supper. The Detroit style had cheese pushed to the edge which made the crispy edges.
I miss those no bake cookies! You referring to the one with oats and chocolate….or the one made with peanut butter and chocolate? Or was that all in the same cookie and I’m somehow thinking there were two kinds? Lol
Growing up in the late 70's and 80's, this video brought back so many memories! I remember going through a lunch line with mostly older women were known as "lunch ladies" serving the food with hair nets on and having to pick from very unappetizing dishes (many of them I don't think you could even call dishes) and then going to sit at a table that only had openings when you were trying to find a seat with your group of friends and avoid the bullies, the jocks, the "I am better than thou because I have money and looks" called the "Preps" and around other kids that were sometimes not nice. Lunch was sometimes anxiety provoking and thus I might not remember some of the food but I do remember the pizza and if you were late you had to choose the dregs or not eat at all. The pizza was my favorite but at that time and at that time it was one of the best options out of the other horrible options. It is weird now, because I thought it was all awful, but I realize how good it did taste even on governmental funding and your video really brought back good and bad memories (mostly good). Thank you for this.
My favorite school lunch food was the pizza burger. It was a hamburger, with pizza sauce on top of the meat and then melted mozzarella cheese on top of the sauce. There was no bun that I recall, we just ate it as a bun-less burger. I think it was served with fries but that was 50 some years ago. I remember my school pizza had pepperoni on it.
I enjoyed this video so much I watched it twice! It really looks like authentic lunch school pizza. I went to elementary school in the 60’s so we didn’t have this but my sons loved pizza day. My only suggestion, when spreading the dough oil your fingers to smooth the dough out also spray your pan with cooking spray ( PAM) so food will not stick to it. Enjoy, you have a lot of pizza to eat.
I bet yours tastes loads better than what we used to eat in school back in the 80s! Your ingredients were so good and ours always had this sort of... "prison quality" vibe too it (and taste) 🤣 Great job! Love your videos! ❤
We had burritos that were fried real crunchy with beans on them and cinnamon rolls. For dessert we had “no bake cookies” they were chocolate and peanut butter with oats. Yummmm. 😊
I became diabetic around 8th grade so I really didn’t have a lot of the normal lunch line after that mostly just salad bar and alternative stuff because I knew that it wouldn’t make me diabetes numbers go crazy. But if I had a low blood sugar I would have the normal food
In the 70s we looked forward to pizza day in high school. It was so popular that the cafeteria would make extra pans and sell you additional slices for 25 cents each. Yes, I'm that old. 😂
My school lunches in Hawaii from the 1960's thru the 1970's could be pretty substantial. Some of my faves were meatloaf, pot roast beef, and scalloped turkey with corn. All had gravy and were made from scratch. I never cared for the pizza because it was made with American cheese and ground beef. It was an acquired taste that took me years to acquire. Haven't had it since and I'm not at all nostalgic for it. Great content, please keep it up. Thanks!
Red beans & rice, hamburgers, sloppy joes and pizza were the only times I ate cafeteria lunch in the 60's & 70's. Other than that I packed my lunch in my lunchbox and then my senior year we had a snack bar where we could buy hamburgers, fries, sloppy joes and bbq sandwiches, etc.
We had something called Pizzaburgers which was a student favorite in my elementary school. I was basically a hamburger bun, split top and bottom, then they put ground beef/pizza sauce topping and mozzarella cheese on top on each half of the bun.
It was my favorite lunch back in elementary school. I remember the bread sometimes being grinder rolls (sliced kind of thin) instead of pizza dough. It was absolutely delicious! I always had a small salad, a fruit cup and chocolate milk with it. 😋😁 When we had cheese pizza, it was like the round, store-bought individual pizzas. It was good, but not like the sausage/hamburger pizza, which I'd choose over the cheese one any day. 😁
Love you guys. I'm in upstate NY and I'm in a hard spot right now. Have to find a place to live by the 9th of February or be homeless. I know how to do atot of things but here in upstate NY winter is hard for odd jobs. Wish you two the best
Boomer here. Our favorite thing in middle school was rice pilaf and gravy. I tried making it and no matter what gravy I used, it wasn't the same. We never had pizza, so a lot of us switched to PB&J with potato chips.
I loved pizza at school! I didn’t ever have hamburger meat as a choice. It was either cheese or pepperoni as far as I can remember; but I loved them both! People may disagree with me on this, but I actually liked school food back in the day! And I don’t think they make it anymore but my school when I was in high school we could get a drink called Fruitopia and I really liked that. I think it was mostly sugar, but we could also buy either tea or lemonade to go with our meal. I actually liked the edges that were a little bit more well done with the little crispy pieces of pepperoni. I also really liked school cookies and school brownies.
Pizza day was Friday and was served with Tortellini or a macaroni salad a fruit cup, ice pop a cookie or cobbler and either juice or Chocolate milk. My favorite day
We didnt really have this pizza in the cafeteria that I remember, but we did have something similar. Basically, you take a crusty loaf, cut it length-wise in half, and then cut width-wise in half. Butter each quarter, put onion powder, garlic powder, basil, and a bit of oregano on, then cover in a thick layer of shredded cheese. Cook until the cheese is melted and beginning to crisp up. Dunk in marinara, and tada! A yummy school lunch from my childhood.
Gen x here and yes everyday I got one and a bag of chili cheese fretos and a milk lol. I cant afford take out pizza anymore so I've been making homemade pizza for years now. I make them for my son every Friday and my brothers always show up too
In my high school, we had hot lunches or we had a snack bar. At the snack bar they had small pizzas, cookies, icee's and chocolate or vanilla shakes. It was cheaper to eat at the snack bar than it was for a school lunches.
That looks exactly like what we had growing up. It was always cheese pizza, no other toppings, probably to save money. The bottom was doughy and the cheese pull was always good. My other favorite lunch meals from school were hambugers/cheeburgers, chicken nuggets, chicken patty sandwiches, and the salad bar. But most kids avoided the salad bar because it was healthy. I remember when I got to middle school 6th and 7th grades we were all excited because they also had Little Debbie snack cakes that we could buy with our lunches. Usually, you could get a container of ice cream and I remember getting about 8 ounces of ice cream for a quarter back in the day. I grew up in Missouri, so I'm sure some of it is regional. We also had fish sticks, lasagna, grilled cheese, and I think we even had a vegetable soup in the winter months that they served in little paper bowls.
Pizza day was always a favorite .Think yours looks better than what I remember, and pretty sure our serving size was much smaller. . The yeast rolls were another favorite, and the yellow cake with chocolate icing was popular too.
I wished our school pizza looked as good as that did, Our school pizzas were either Cheese or they had Cheese and Pepperoni I don't recall ones with Hamburger meat, I am able to buy School pizzas at our local stores and meat markets but I do know Guinter's do sell the school pizzas as other things like crispitos unsure where they all ship however can be ordered and shipped. Thanks so so much for this video I did enjoy it.
In regards to powdered milk, many families in the 60’s, mine included, used it as either a much cheaper milk replacement or milk extender. Mom made a 50/50 mix of milk and powdered milk. We wouldn’t drink straight powdered milk. In high school, pizza was a go to and you prayed to get a coveted crispy corner piece. I was imagining that taste, seeing yours. Good job!
Pizza,grilled cheese and cheeseburgers were my favorite hot lunch days. The cafeterias weren't equipped with pizza ovens just normal ones and they had to use the large sheet pans to feed mass quantities. They really were good,also back then(70s,80s)we went on what was called the food pyramid,or the 4 basic food groups,bread,meat,veg,and dairy. So the pizza was considered a healthy lunch option. ❤
As a gen-xer myself, I remember all to well the school pizza. When you came through the cafe line, you always hoped that you were one of the lucky ones and received one of those coveted corner pieces. The government would give the schools ground beef, American cheese ( 5lb. blocks), and flour. Pizza was always a favorite recipe to use these supplies up. Yes, you read right. They used American cheese instead of mozzarella cheese and the ground beef instead of any meat like pepperoni and sausage. However, as hungry teenagers, we didn't care what it was made of. We gobbled it up with no complaints.
Thanks for sharing this information!!! Those corners definitely are the best 😊
Our school pizzas did not have American cheese on it. The sauce was spread all over and there were spots of meat here and there. (1976 - 1989) I don't remember having a choice between cheese or hamburger but it was always on Friday and that was the one day of the week we could get chocolate milk. Ours was not crispy. Their par bake was overbaked. They got a bad recipe or ChatGPT failed them on measurements.
@@armettawireman1408 i believe a pizza crust par bake is done correctly with steam in the oven.
Wtf? They put American cheese on your pizza, what were they doing to you?
We had this same pizza at my school but they definitely didn't use American cheese!
@@sandpiperr Yep! Free government cheese! They used that s**t in everything.
You'll find that while school pizza was the best school lunch, it'll inform as to how bad the rest of school lunch was
Thanks for sharing 😊😊
The fake chicken patties with mashed potatoes were the worst, but at least you got a good yeast roll and fake vanilla sugar cookie almost every day to make up for it.
It was not the best. Corn dogs on early release days were the best... because they weren't made in the school kitchen, they were just State Fair brand I think 😂
@@therockbiter8140I'd have to disagree. I'd take the fake chicken over the rubber ball consistency green scrambled eggs. Could literally bounce those squares off anything like a Ball. And smelled sooooo bad like sulfur.
@@IceMetalPunk You should be aware that was a very local thing because I never got corn dogs for school lunch! On our early release days we got lunch delivered to our class rooms, and it was always wrapped sandwiches from the cafeteria.
I haven't had school pizza in 35 years and I can still remember how it tasted.
Thank you for watching!! 👍 Give the recipe a try and let us know if it tastes the same
I love the fact the you guys both are having fun and are both enjoying doing stuff like this. Love the constant smile on nicola's face
Thank you so much for your kind words and taking the time to watch 😊
Wow, this bring back some great memories. We had a choice, cheese or diced pepperoni. They even gave us tater tots to go with the pizza. My friends and I would get packets of mustard, spread it on the cheese pizza, with our finger, and eat it that way.
Great content from you two.
Just a little hack with cans of tomato paste. Use the can opener on both ends and push the lid thru. Its a surefire way to get all the paste out in 1 swift motion.
Genius!! We will definitely have to try that in the future
My late father used to do that with the canned dog food he'd give to his hunting dog after a morning of going after quail. He'd place the contents in a sandwich bag to facilitate the meal for a grateful English Pointer. The ends and the can could then go into the trash, and it was all good then.
I’m 45yo…after all these years, I can still taste it 😂
lol!! Thank you for watching
I even kinda miss the ones we called "Mexican pizza" as kids that were shaped like a stop sign
Put a little oil on your hands and try to spread with hands. I bet it ll be great!!! I love you guys how you tackle dishes we forgot about!! Bravo!
Thanks for the tip!
That pizza looks delicious. Well done you guys.
Thank you 😋 it was really good 👍
Cornmeal stops from sticking to the pan. I worked at a pizza parlor
Thanks for the info! And thanks for watching
To give it a crunchier texture and keep it from sticking to bottom of the pan. Cornmeal.
Thanks for the info!! That makes sense 👍
We make our own pizza crust alot.
Tip....grease your hands and smooth out by hand
Thanks for the tip!😊
Or grease the spatula as well and use both.
Wow this really brings back memories. This is so much more affordable than ordering pizza and picking it up. It's also great for potlucks. It disappears in seconds. What a great video. Do I dare mention that both of you are pro-tomato lately? LOL Thanks for the fun and the nostalgia.
So good! We might becoming tomato aficionado’s 😊😊😊
Those school pizza had a flavor all their own. Every school lunch, when I was a kid, was made by the lunch ladies from scratch. It doesn’t sound like much, but there were a lot of kids in each school, 3000 in my high school.
Thank you for sharing! 3000 kids in one place sounds incredible
There were so many kids that one teacher said he taught “Hormone Management”. Another teacher called the front office “MacDonald Land”… As in, Go down to MacDonald Land, the board of education wants to give you detention for your efforts 😂
Love this idea for a show!!!
Glad you like it! Thanks for watching 😊
Now I am craving Pizza!!! Well done, you two! :-)
Thank you 😋 and sorry 😊
Oh this was my favorite school lunch. Thanks for another fantastic video! ❤
Thank you so much for the kind words! Thanks for watching
Looked delicious. Yall made me hungry. I think it looked like we use to have. Its been alittle while since i was in school. 😂
It was delicious!! Sorry we made you hungry!
Great choice guys because who doesn't remember cafeteria pizza back in high school? This instantly brought back a flood of memories. Friday night football games and our old school bus driver Clarence who used to play Earth Wind and Fire tapes over the bus speakers. lol.. I spent part of my high school years in San Diego (Mira Mesa high school) and pizza could be had every day. Never knew what that grainy gritty stuff on the bottom was. Now I know it was corn meal. (Mind blown lol....) Now there are a thousand fast food restaurants within walking distance of my old high school so I guess the kids can leave campus and get anything they want. Well back in the 70's it wasn't like that. Thanks for another trip down memory lane guys. ♥Rich and Mila. ♥
Yay!! Glad you enjoyed it.. thanks for sharing your memories of high school pizza 🍕
As someone who was raised in the U.S. but has visited family in the U.K. many times, I just wanted to say I appreciate your efforts to bridge the ocean (culturally speaking). I think both US and UK folks really benefit from understanding each other’s upbringing better. I probably had that rectangular pizza at least once a week in the 80s and 90s, and I’ve got to say yours looks WAY better. Whether or not ours was good or not depended on if it was freshly made or day-old, whether it was underdone or overdone, and so forth. There was always a heterogeneous layer of melty cheese, and sometimes there were either tiny, tiny bits of crumbled sausage or finely diced pepperoni bits, but not nearly as much meat as you put on. It did indeed have a floppy, somewhat soggy texture, though sometimes the cheese on top was dried out from sitting for so long. Yours looks so good. Thanks for posting!
Thank you so much commenting and sharing your experience and thoughts!! Thanks for taking the time to watch our video 😊😊
I SO remember this pizza. Yum. Chef Boy Ar Dee used to have a pizza kit that tasted somewhat similar but not as good. Then they changed their recipe and we no longer bought it.
Thanks for the info!! We thought this was really good 👍
I am really enjoying your cooking videos. I do love the traveling ones, but, your interactions in these new ones are hilarious! 🤣🤣
Glad you like them! Thank you for sharing your thoughts 😊
What fun! Keep up the adventure 😀
Thank you! Will do!😊
I had to come back while watching to say that you need to oil your fingertips and press. :)
Thanks for the recommendation!! We’ll give that a try next time 👍
I was just going to say the same. It would have patted easily in place.
We had this kind of pizza when I was in primary school in the 1960s, so it is older than the 1980s. Because the crust was "floppy" as you say, we never tried to pick it up and eat it, but used a knife and fork instead.
The school cafeteria made huge batches of the meat and tomato sauce and used it not only for the pizza one day, but also for the spaghetti with meat sauce another day and the macaroni with meat sauce on a third day.
Other school cafeteria meals in addition to the pizza and the spaghetti or macaroni with meat sauce that I recall were salisbury steak with mashed potatoes and gravy, tuna noodle casserole, turkey tetrazzini, chicken a al king, beef stroganoff (made with ground beef), Hungarian goulash, chipped beef, stuffed cabbage, corned beef and cabbage (only on St. Patrick's Day), sloppy joes, fish sticks, macaroni and cheese, monte cristo sandwich, chicken and dumplings, chili with beans, chili and macaroni, Hawaiian grilled spam and pineapple sandwich, and smothered liver and onions.
Sometimes there was an option to have hotdogs or hamburgers with fries instead of the main entree and sides.
The desserts were often quite good, including chocolate pudding, rice pudding, banana pudding, apple crisp, peach cobbler, blueberry cobbler, cherry cobbler, apple brown betty, brownies, lemon bars and sheet cakes of various flavors with sickly sweet frosting.
I always preferred the sausage and cheese. Good vid!
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You guys are great cooks... Very good.
Thank you so much! 😊
Yep cafeteria pizza was my favorite lunch day 😁
When we brought lunches in elementary school it was in metal lunch pails/lunch boxes. Mine had the artwork from the British sci-fi show U.F.O. The Lunch Pail also had a Thermos for a beverage. Junior High and High School you brown bagged it. 😂
Salisbury Steak with gravy and mashed potatoes. 😋
So cool! We all had a small thermos at some point 😊 thank you for watching
Cheese was the go to. 😂
When dough is sticky. sprinkle a little flour on top and rub some mor flour on your hands and use your fingers to spread. A bit of a late hack here but if you ever need to know for the future, you will. Los Angeles City school coffee cake or cinnamon rolls. Also their grilled cheese. High School pizza was a soft bread crust. It was served in the hashlines on a square of waxed paper. They ran out every day. Cheese was my favorite.
Thank you for watching!! School coffee cake sounds interesting.
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1959 City School Sour Cream Coffee Cake
1 1/2 cup Cake flour
1/2 cup Flour
1 tsp Baking soda
1 tsp Baking powder
1/2 cup Butter
1 cup Sugar
1 Egg, lightly beaten
1 tsp Vanilla
1 cup Sour cream
TOPPING
1/4 cup Flour
3/4 cup Brown sugar, packed
1/4 tsp Salt
1 cup Chopped walnuts
1/4 cup Butter
Method :
All ingredients should be at room temperature. In bowl mix together flours, soda and baking powder.
In another bowl cream together butter with sugar until fluffy and light.
Add egg and vanilla and mix well. Add half of dry ingredients, mixing just until flour is blended. Blend in sour cream, then remaining dry ingredients.
TOPPING: Mix together flour, sugar, salt and nuts. Add butter in small pieces. Rub in by hand until mixture is crumbly. Be careful not to overmix.
Spread half of batter lightly into a 10-inch tube pan. Sprinkle with half of Topping and spread with rmaining batter. Sprinkle with remaining Topping.
Bake at 350 degrees 40 to 45 minutes.
I remember Chili and Pimento cheese sandwiches the most, but i loved both. We had white and chocolate milk offered. A friend of mine, still to this day, puts chocolate Ice Cream on his pizza because of the chocolate milk he had in school. Weirdo!!
Great video! Brings me back to my childhood. 🙂
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Our school had pizza almost every Friday. I loved it so. 🍕 ❤️
Thanks for sharing!! 😊
Haha, the fact that you choose the cheese pizza as the best is funny because that was the favorite at school too!
I think school pizza is why I like a bready pizza vs a crispy pizza. I was kneading pizza dough as I watched your video. I'm glad your pizza turned out, and I look forward to seeing more from your channel.
P.S. I like that your husband got in to the cooking and didn't just leave it to you. It's nice to cook together and enjoy the results together as well. 21:44 😂❤
Yes it does
Yay! 😁
I was born in 1960 so grew up with that! And Friday-pizza day-was the best because of that pizza! I would have chosen the cheese one as well (as a kid). But as an adult when I make pizza? I caramelize some onions to go with it and it’s simple but so good! 🍕 😋
Thanks for sharing your memories!!
The cornmeal is used to keep the dough from sticking but also for texture and flavor. Pizza day was literally the only day that everyone ate. They have better lunches now as far as what they have available but it was more likely that most of us who didn't bring their lunches had vending machine options, lol.
Well done! Looks about right but you need a spatula to lift that pizza but it probably stuck because you really had to work to spread out the dough. I would eat half of that without a problem, lol. I'm going to totally try that sauce recipe but make it with a different dough. That's too much for my patience, lol.
Thank you for your advice!! That sauce is really good, it would be great over some pasta 😍
@@TwoBritsTry That's exactly where I was going with that thought with some chicken...oh yum. I've rarely made my own pizza sauce. The times that I have, I've just added and tasted as I went and it worked but having a recipe that I can go back to time and time again is what I'm looking for. Might have to make a big pot to can it.
We also had bologna boats and baked!!. A thick slice of bologna with a scoop of mashed potatoes and american cheese on top! I remember the homemade shepherds pie, meatloaf, mashed potatoes, yeast rolls, and homemade chocolate cake. Funny how we miss those recipes. School lunches were epic back in the 60s and 70s. These lunches were all made from scratch and homemade! Looks amazing!
Thank you for your input!! We’ll have to try one of those
Love this :) It looks exactly the same as I remember. It was horrible, but it was so good lol We also had applesauce pie, which was sooo good. Just pie crust, apple sauce filling, and a sugar glaze over the top. It was baked in a rectangle pan. Look it up! We didn't have lunch in my high school either. We only had 99 students in the entire high school, which was in the middle of the IL farm fields (27 in my graduating class).They would bus some food from the elementary school, which was a newer building (it had a cafeteria), but nobody bothered. I either ate out of the vending machines, went out or just didn't eat lunch.
My aunt would make sheet pan pizzas and they were always great. Of course Fridays were always pizza day at school and the only day I was allowed to get a school lunch.
Love that! Thank you for watching
Looks exactly like the pizza I had in my 7th and 8th grade years. 1989 -1990, 1990 - 1991.
Yay!!! This one tasted great 👍 thanks for watching
Oh boy the years of eating school pizza
Hope this helped with some nostalgia! Thank you for watching
Brown bagged it for the first 8 years and most of the next 4, with no cafeteria until high school.
They had big round pizzas and we could buy one-eighth slices, but it was just frozen pizza made in an oven.
I'm much older, and my 1970s experience probably doesn't have a lot in common with most here.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and memories!! 👍
Looks perfect
😊 thank you
One of my favorite memories from school was the homemade yeast rolls.
Thanks for sharing! We’ll see if we have the recipe in the information we found 😊
@@TwoBritsTry Yea, I'll 2nd yeast rolls. My 2nd favorite bread to eat with dinner AFTER cornbread.
Oh my gosh me too! Mile high Parker house yeast rolls!!
@@TwoBritsTry There was also a great peanut butter cookie recipe. But I can't remember if you like peanut butter or not.
We had Italian dunkers and lasagna and walking tacos and chicken nuggets and sloppy Joe’s and new things like eggplant and zucchini lasagna and nacho bites etc. I loved the fact that in high school we had a salad bar and a alternative food stand which I could get soy milk and bagels sandwiches or frozen yogurt, etc. we also had the hamburger or cheeseburger line which also had chicken sandwiches and served fries and stuff with it and the soft pretzels and everyday pizza line. The m&m peanut butter cups were cheap and a nice treat.
Than you for sharing all your memories and experiences. Thank you for watching
I would not be mad if we were served freshly made pizza like that-- great work! Our school district got their square pizzas pre-packaged and frozen so the cafeteria only had to reheat them. It was either cheese, or cubes of pepperoni. They were just edible but usually the last thing you'd want to eat. My favorite school lunch were taco pockets or taco nadas-- a take on an empanada filled with a meaty gravy similar to a sloppy joe consistency. So good!
Oh wow! We look into taconadas 👍
The school also had a vegetable soup which was made in bulk also. I absolutely loved it.
We might have the recipe in the information we found! Thanks for sharing
Pepperoni an to add a whole new twist to that sauce a tablespoon of brown sugar an that will take the acidic of paste out of it with a whole different taste
That cornmeal adds flavor as well as letting the dough release easier after cooking.
Exactly what we had and were super excited for. I'm about your age. I remember during morning attendance, a census was taken for lunch, the dish would be announced and kids would state 'doubles (pizza) and # milks' instead of 'present'. We could order a double or even triple portion of the pizza and a lot of us would double this up. Of course, it would sit for 15-30 minutes under a heating lamp and be a different texture by the time a kid got hold of it, never scalding hot. I don't think my school went for the ground beef upgrade, but I could be wrong. I loved this vid on that food history channel recently, so thank you both for making!! :D
I love old school pizza!! It was the best!! I was in Jr. high in the early 80's and I couldn't wait until the cafeteria had pizza!!😋
Oh wow! Great to hear! Thanks for watching
Good ol elementary cafeteria pizza. Awesome. Steak fingers with mash potatoes and gravy was another banger
We’ll have to look up steak fingers for next time 😊 thanks for watching
I was never a fan of the pizza served at lunch time, but there was another pizza to be had at school. It was the French bread breakfast pizza. I would wake up early to get that. They also had it nearly everyday instead of every week or two like at lunch. So glad you guys liked a little taste of our childhood!
High school in the 70’s. Pizza was like how you made it, looks yummy! We had great lunch ladies. Fried pork chops with sauerkraut and mashed potatoes. Cheese pierogis with fried onions and sour cream. The chocolate chip cookies, peanut butter cookies were great!
Sounds great! It was delicious 😋
I lived a block away from my elementary school, so I normally went home for lunch unless school lunch was something I really liked. School cafeteria pizza was one of those things.
Thank you for sharing your experiences !
I started Kindergarten in 1980. This pizza is just as nostalgic as the school lunch of chili, cinnamon roll, saltine crackers, and carrot sticks. My two favorite school lunches.
Yay!! We had chili and cinnamon rolls in Kansas and it was delicious!! Thank you so much for commenting and watching
I remember this pizza and ants on a log. That's about it.
You two are a joy and so fun to watch. Keep up the amazing work!
The cinnamon roll and chili is so weird to me. When I first heard of it a few years ago I did a big old "What the HECK!?!" lol. Eh, if you like it you like it. Lotta weird food in the world.
Great job 👍 looks good exactly like my school pizza😊
Gen X here (like many others in comment section lol). Our school pizza was really good and that is coming from a person who's parents owned a pizzeria/Italian restaurant. It was made similar to the one you made but a bit different. Another great school menu item to try out is the chili served with the peanut butter & jelly sandwiches, kosher dill pickle and saltine crackers. We all loved chili days! My fave dessert was the "Cherry or pineapple delight" Our school also had a salad/baked potato bar which was my almost daily go to. They had gigantic baking potatoes that had been oven baked in foil. I'd slice them in half and one half was covered in chili, shredded cheddar, and nacho cheese sauce. The other was steamed broccoli, butter, sour cream, a little cheddar cheese sauce, crumbled bacon, green onion, diced purple onion and oddly enough salted roasted sunflower seeds. Oh those were so good!
I don't know why, but the rolls my school served were delicious!
We might have a recipe for them in the information we found!! We’ll take a look thanks for watching
@TwoBritsTry that would be awesome!
Ours, too. Those rolls were divine; the pizza was awful. Peach cobbler was the best dessert! Never get the chocolate milk as 75% chance it was bad. I graduated in 1971.
Oil the hands to spread it. Tomato paste is sweeter and stays thicker. The simmering reduces it back down. In the south, it used to be breakfast, dinner and supper. The Detroit style had cheese pushed to the edge which made the crispy edges.
Yes the yeast rolls and no bake cookies were good too !
I miss those no bake cookies! You referring to the one with oats and chocolate….or the one made with peanut butter and chocolate? Or was that all in the same cookie and I’m somehow thinking there were two kinds? Lol
Growing up in the late 70's and 80's, this video brought back so many memories! I remember going through a lunch line with mostly older women were known as "lunch ladies" serving the food with hair nets on and having to pick from very unappetizing dishes (many of them I don't think you could even call dishes) and then going to sit at a table that only had openings when you were trying to find a seat with your group of friends and avoid the bullies, the jocks, the "I am better than thou because I have money and looks" called the "Preps" and around other kids that were sometimes not nice. Lunch was sometimes anxiety provoking and thus I might not remember some of the food but I do remember the pizza and if you were late you had to choose the dregs or not eat at all. The pizza was my favorite but at that time and at that time it was one of the best options out of the other horrible options. It is weird now, because I thought it was all awful, but I realize how good it did taste even on governmental funding and your video really brought back good and bad memories (mostly good). Thank you for this.
The "crispy crust edge'" is from having the cheese right up against the rim of the pan. We call it "lacing" here in new England.
My favorite school lunch food was the pizza burger. It was a hamburger, with pizza sauce on top of the meat and then melted mozzarella cheese on top of the sauce. There was no bun that I recall, we just ate it as a bun-less burger. I think it was served with fries but that was 50 some years ago. I remember my school pizza had pepperoni on it.
I enjoyed this video so much I watched it twice! It really looks like authentic lunch school pizza. I went to elementary school in the 60’s so we didn’t have this but my sons loved pizza day.
My only suggestion, when spreading the dough oil your fingers to smooth the dough out also spray your pan with cooking spray ( PAM) so food will not stick to it. Enjoy, you have a lot of pizza to eat.
I bet yours tastes loads better than what we used to eat in school back in the 80s! Your ingredients were so good and ours always had this sort of... "prison quality" vibe too it (and taste) 🤣 Great job! Love your videos! ❤
😂😂😂 loved the ‘ prison quality’ comment . Might have to use that in the future
@@TwoBritsTry Thanks! 😂
Cornmeal is often used under pizza when baked directly on the oven floor or a stone. It has the effect of ball bearings, enabling easy retrieval.
We had burritos that were fried real crunchy with beans on them and cinnamon rolls. For dessert we had “no bake cookies” they were chocolate and peanut butter with oats. Yummmm. 😊
back when i was in high school in the 90s my mom would always make this dish called Take it or Leave it 😢
I became diabetic around 8th grade so I really didn’t have a lot of the normal lunch line after that mostly just salad bar and alternative stuff because I knew that it wouldn’t make me diabetes numbers go crazy. But if I had a low blood sugar I would have the normal food
In the 70s we looked forward to pizza day in high school. It was so popular that the cafeteria would make extra pans and sell you additional slices for 25 cents each. Yes, I'm that old. 😂
My school lunches in Hawaii from the 1960's thru the 1970's could be pretty substantial. Some of my faves were meatloaf, pot roast beef, and scalloped turkey with corn. All had gravy and were made from scratch. I never cared for the pizza because it was made with American cheese and ground beef. It was an acquired taste that took me years to acquire. Haven't had it since and I'm not at all nostalgic for it. Great content, please keep it up. Thanks!
Pizza day was my very favorite meal at school.
Red beans & rice, hamburgers, sloppy joes and pizza were the only times I ate cafeteria lunch in the 60's & 70's. Other than that I packed my lunch in my lunchbox and then my senior year we had a snack bar where we could buy hamburgers, fries, sloppy joes and bbq sandwiches, etc.
So you didn't eat on weiner wrap day😮😮😮😮😮😮😮 !!!!! Best lunch ever❤
@taunjiachandler6607 I don't think we had that at my schools but no I didn't.
always the best lunch we had every week in grammar school.
We had something called Pizzaburgers which was a student favorite in my elementary school. I was basically a hamburger bun, split top and bottom, then they put ground beef/pizza sauce topping and mozzarella cheese on top on each half of the bun.
Your crust looks good on the pan to me brings back memories. The corn meal is so the dough rolls over the surfaces of the bottom. Ring ahh
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In high-school subs, milkshakes. School made big cinnamon rolls. Those were the days.
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This is way better than what we were served.
Little smokies and salsberry stake were the other big weekly meals.
It was my favorite lunch back in elementary school. I remember the bread sometimes being grinder rolls (sliced kind of thin) instead of pizza dough. It was absolutely delicious! I always had a small salad, a fruit cup and chocolate milk with it. 😋😁 When we had cheese pizza, it was like the round, store-bought individual pizzas. It was good, but not like the sausage/hamburger pizza, which I'd choose over the cheese one any day. 😁
our schools were poor and we had tuna fish salad a couple days a week. but i did love it.
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Still pizza from scratch, looks like u guys did amazingly. I used to love Fridays at school, pizza day.
Boomer here. Our favorite thing in middle school was rice pilaf and gravy. I tried making it and no matter what gravy I used, it wasn't the same. We never had pizza, so a lot of us switched to PB&J with potato chips.
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I loved pizza at school! I didn’t ever have hamburger meat as a choice. It was either cheese or pepperoni as far as I can remember; but I loved them both! People may disagree with me on this, but I actually liked school food back in the day! And I don’t think they make it anymore but my school when I was in high school we could get a drink called Fruitopia and I really liked that. I think it was mostly sugar, but we could also buy either tea or lemonade to go with our meal. I actually liked the edges that were a little bit more well done with the little crispy pieces of pepperoni. I also really liked school cookies and school brownies.
Pizza day was Friday and was served with Tortellini or a macaroni salad a fruit cup, ice pop a cookie or cobbler and either juice or Chocolate milk. My favorite day
I graduated in the seventies but we definitely had school cafeteria pizza....and I loved it
instead of ground beef. ground Italian Suasage would probably be very good. But it looked very good. School pizza days were the best. great job.
We didnt really have this pizza in the cafeteria that I remember, but we did have something similar. Basically, you take a crusty loaf, cut it length-wise in half, and then cut width-wise in half. Butter each quarter, put onion powder, garlic powder, basil, and a bit of oregano on, then cover in a thick layer of shredded cheese. Cook until the cheese is melted and beginning to crisp up. Dunk in marinara, and tada! A yummy school lunch from my childhood.
Gen x here and yes everyday I got one and a bag of chili cheese fretos and a milk lol. I cant afford take out pizza anymore so I've been making homemade pizza for years now. I make them for my son every Friday and my brothers always show up too
In my high school, we had hot lunches or we had a snack bar. At the snack bar they had small pizzas, cookies, icee's and chocolate or vanilla shakes. It was cheaper to eat at the snack bar than it was for a school lunches.
That looks exactly like what we had growing up. It was always cheese pizza, no other toppings, probably to save money. The bottom was doughy and the cheese pull was always good. My other favorite lunch meals from school were hambugers/cheeburgers, chicken nuggets, chicken patty sandwiches, and the salad bar. But most kids avoided the salad bar because it was healthy. I remember when I got to middle school 6th and 7th grades we were all excited because they also had Little Debbie snack cakes that we could buy with our lunches. Usually, you could get a container of ice cream and I remember getting about 8 ounces of ice cream for a quarter back in the day. I grew up in Missouri, so I'm sure some of it is regional. We also had fish sticks, lasagna, grilled cheese, and I think we even had a vegetable soup in the winter months that they served in little paper bowls.
Pizza day was always a favorite .Think yours looks better than what I remember, and pretty sure our serving size was much smaller. .
The yeast rolls were another favorite, and the yellow cake with chocolate icing was popular too.
I wished our school pizza looked as good as that did, Our school pizzas were either Cheese or they had Cheese and Pepperoni I don't recall ones with Hamburger meat, I am able to buy School pizzas at our local stores and meat markets but I do know Guinter's do sell the school pizzas as other things like crispitos unsure where they all ship however can be ordered and shipped. Thanks so so much for this video I did enjoy it.
In regards to powdered milk, many families in the 60’s, mine included, used it as either a much cheaper milk replacement or milk extender. Mom made a 50/50 mix of milk and powdered milk. We wouldn’t drink straight powdered milk.
In high school, pizza was a go to and you prayed to get a coveted crispy corner piece. I was imagining that taste, seeing yours. Good job!
I loved pizza day at school in the 80s. Definitely a unique experience but absolutely nostalgic!
My school served mashed potatoes with gravy, and homemade yeast rolls , that were huge. Was so good. 🤗
Sounds great! Thanks for the info 👍
I liked all the school lunches growing up.
Pizza,grilled cheese and cheeseburgers were my favorite hot lunch days. The cafeterias weren't equipped with pizza ovens just normal ones and they had to use the large sheet pans to feed mass quantities. They really were good,also back then(70s,80s)we went on what was called the food pyramid,or the 4 basic food groups,bread,meat,veg,and dairy. So the pizza was considered a healthy lunch option. ❤