Was the same stuff in 1997 too (& the 2000s) & it was always gross. I genuinely thought everything served in all the cafeterias at all the schools I ever attended looked & smelled like vomit. I brought my own lunch every day of school for all 13 years & ate outside of the lunchroom whenever possible. Never understood how people could eat the cafeteria food. Just smelling it was bad enough IMO.