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Lunch lady is an American slang term for a woman who serves lunch in a school, or other institutional, cafeteria. Since the 1960's, lunch ladies have sometimes been unfairly caricatured as overweight, uncaring women with hairnets, rubber gloves, glasses and moles. While in fact, the traditional "Lunch Lady" is more highly compensated than her counterparts in retail food service, because of the rigid federal requirements of food sanitation, food quality and record keeping that school systems must adhere to. This attracts a higher quality, more caring and professional employee. Most school Lunch Ladies are Mothers, Grandmothers and neighbors to the students they serve, and care more for thier customers than any other type of food service employee.

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Although rarely, a male lunch worker is referred to as a 'lunch lord', 'lord' being the male form of 'lady'.

• 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.
• Rosa Petitjean, fictional lunch lady of Kadic Junior High School in the animated television series Code Lyoko)
• Edna is the lunch lady for Bullworth Academy in the videogame Bully. She is highly hygenically challenged, often coughing, sneezing, and blowing cigarette smoke in any food she prepares, believing it "adds flavor." She also is unconcerned about the opinions of health inspectors.
• "The Lunchlady" from popular BBQ culture is Michelle Taft of the "lunchmeat" championship BBQ team. She is know for her warm heart and winning ribs. Although she never worked in a school lunch room.
• The band The Darkness has a song named "Dinner Lady Arms" on their album One Way Ticket to Hell... And Back.
• Ms. Sara Macgrady, the lunch lady for Lakewood Elementary School in the TV show Arthur.

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