Lunch lady, in Canada and the US, is a term for a woman who cooks and serves food in a schoolcafeteria. The equivalent term in the United Kingdom is dinner lady.[1] The role is also sometimes known as cafeteria lady. Sometimes, a lunch lady also patrols the school playgrounds during lunch breaks to help maintain order.
The Lunch Lady: A Documentary, directed by Leslie Mello,[2] chronicles the story of Sharon Adl Doost, who garnered notoriety for her daily "menu hotline" recordings at the U.S. Geological Survey cafeteria.[3]
Rosa Petitjean is a fictional lunch lady of Kadic Junior High School in the French animated series Code Lyoko.
Edna is the highly unhygienic lunch lady for Bullworth Academy in the video gameBully. She often coughs, sneezes and blows cigarette smoke on any food she prepares, believing it "adds flavor". She also is unconcerned about the opinions of health inspectors.
Mrs. Sara MacGrady (later renamed Leah MacGrady in and after the episode "The Great MacGrady"), the lunch lady for Lakewood Elementary School in the TV show Arthur.
In the Nickelodeon animated series Danny Phantom, the first villain that appears is the Lunch Lady Ghost (voiced by Patricia Heaton in the first appearance, Kath Soucie in later appearances). She does not like any changes to the cafeteria's good meat-based lunch menu and she can also control food (namely meat), to the point of forming it 100% all around herself as a giant evil meat monster.
In the Nickelodeon series All That, Miss Piddlin (portrayed by Kenan Thompson) is a lunch lady who gets angry at students who don't like peas. Sketches featuring her frequently ending with her singing a pea-themed song parody. One sketch had her competing with another lunch lady (portrayed by Christy Knowings) who mostly serves carrots.
In the series Johnny Test, one of Johnny's enemies is a lunch lady. This lunch lady has greenish skin and speaks in a German accent. She can be very cruel when students don't eat her disgusting (albeit sometimes healthy) food.
^Weale, Sally (4 April 2015). "The new dinner lady: 10 years on, can an Ottolenghi chef prove Jamie Oliver's revolution wasn't a flash in the pan?". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
^"The Lunch Lady: A Documentary" – via www.imdb.com.
^Brown, Scott (October 9, 1998). . Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on 2009-04-25.
^Krosoczka, Jarrett (2009). Lunch Lady and the Cyborg Substitute. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN978-0-375-84683-0.
^Pfarrer, Steve (February 5, 2012). "Mass. children's writer flourishes after setbacks". Daily Hampshire Gazette. Retrieved February 19, 2013.
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