I remember my school cafeteria well. It was a fetid place with an odor that can't be adequately described. Very rarely did they serve anything that I found appealing. The vegetables were always overcooked. The main dish was usually something nasty like a soggy corndog served with grainy ketchup or runny mac and cheese with yesterday's soggy corndog cut up in it. The lunch monitor would not let you leave until you ate most of what you were served. You had to submit your tray for inspection and hope that she didn't check your empty milk carton which you had filled with the grey spinach. 

I was a happy kid when I learned that I could walk home and make my own lunch. 

My lunch of choice? 

A cheese sandwich with spicy mustard.