Tater Tots & Turkey alà King: The GenX School Lunch

In today's episode, we'll be saving the one constant in everybody’s life from ages 5 to 18 – that daily meal taken at long tables in basement cafeterias and converted gyms: The School Lunch. Not Michelle Obama's school lunch or the farm-to-table locally-sourced fully compostable school lunch of the new millennium ... more like the grease-filled pepperoni cups on your rectangle pizza school lunch that was the jewel of Gen X schools across the nation. Joining our conversation is the host of Funny People Making Food, Erica Wides. Erica's short, pithy cooking demos on Instagram have made her everybody's favorite chef; and it turns out she knows a thing or two about how our Gen X school lunches came to be. What was our society's most popular school lunch pick? Was it the same as yours? And please God I hope you never dropped your lunch tray!

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