Lunch lady

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Lunch lady is slang American term for a woman who serves lunch in a school cafeteria. Since the 1960's, Lunch Ladies have sometimes been caricatured as overweight uncaring women with hairnets, rubber gloves, glasses and moles.[1]

[edit] Lunch ladies in popular culture

• Dinnerladies is a British sitcom about lunch ladies
• Lunchlady Doris is a lunch lady from The Simpsons
• Adam Sandler and Chris Farley from Saturday Night Live did a "Hoagies and Grinders" song and skit with Chris Farley dressed up as a stereotypical lunch lady.
• The school lunch lady plays a key role in the plot of Earshot, an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer