On 6/22/2017 12:48 PM, notbob wrote:
> On 2017-06-22, jmcquown > wrote:
>
>> I was... hmm, 7. It was going to be "taco day".....
>
> When I was 7, I'd never even heard of a taco ....and I lived in
> California!
>
The only taco I was aware of was Taco Bell. Yes, there was at least one
Taco Bell "restaurant" in Vista, CA in 1967. They never had a problem
with leaving off the lettuce. Mom knew the school cafeteria wouldn't
customize a couple of tacos for one kid in the lunch line.

> I suspect what I DID eat at my gradeschool cafetria (25¢ + 5¢ fer milk),
> in the 50s, a lot of it was canned. I notice Manwhich (Hunt's) sloppy
> joes taste exactly like what I ate in grade school. But, it was all
> prepared by a kitchen staff in a real kitchen. Someone hadda cook
> that hamburger for that canned Hunt's sauce.
>
> nb
>
I'm sure it came in industrial sized cans. They weren't making tomato
sauce from scratch in a school kitchen.

Jill