13 Things Lunch Ladies Did in 1979 That Would Get Them Fired Today

📕 Get the full cookbook - The Lunch Lady's $3,600-a-Year Grocery Cut (175 recipes & tricks, scaled for 1, 2, or a family, $27): http://dorislunchlady.com/ Today a school kitchen gets two food safety inspections a year. In my first year cooking for schoolchildren, starting in the fall of 1979, I never laid eyes on one. I am Mrs. Doris, a retired school lunch lady from southern Ohio, and these are thirteen things my kitchen did every day that could get a lunch lady written up or walked out the door today: the tasting spoon back in the pot, the towel on the shoulder, a cook's own chow-chow on the line, Friday leftovers home in foil, forty Thanksgiving turkeys thawed overnight in the pot sinks, a chili kettle left to cool all night, red nails at the biscuit board, one cutting board for everything, farm eggs in a bushel basket, soup for the snowplow drivers, and a boy on the loading dock before daylight. 👇 TELL ME IN THE COMMENTS: which old kitchen habit does your own hand still reach for, all these years later? #lunchlady #schoollunch #nostalgia