Comments on: School lunch memories!

By: Pat B

Pat B — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 11:43:27 +0000

Fried chicken. Every single Thursday. It was the best. Now they don’t ANYTHING fried.

By: SherryPA

SherryPA — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 00:38:24 +0000

Oh my ABBE, sent home because they had peanut butter on their breath! Wow..that seems pretty extreme… It is a shame. We have a friend who is severly allergic to peanuts/peanut butter. The aroma from it causes her to leave the room. What a shame…she is a chocoholic and can’t have chocolate and peanut butter together! And you had indoor plumbing too. So did DH…ya’ll have no idea of the ‘joy’!!! LOL!!!

By: Becky

Becky — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 21:33:16 +0000

I don’t remember a lot of school lunches.
I do remember one place we lived, the teachers ate in the cafeteria with the kids. When lunch included cookies, one of the teachers would lick her cookie so no kids would be tempted to snitch it!

Another place we lived, they had the best dinner rolls – melt in your mouth yummy!

Those peanut butter bars look good – don’t remember having anything like that but they sure do look delicious.

By: Nalani

Nalani — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 15:52:56 +0000

We always had a mid morning snack of a graham cracker and a 1/2 pt of milk or juice. Now that was a very good memory.

Oh my, Sherry, that was a scary experience you had in the out house. I agree with you indoor plumbing is great!

By: Abbenanny

Abbenanny — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 14:50:17 +0000

All through my school ‘career’ I was lucky enough to leave school at lunchtime to walk home, but on the occasion that i had lunch at school it was usually chicken or ham sandwich an apple or banana a sweet treat of some kind and for mid-morning break a small bag of Humpty-Dumpty potato chips which of course shared. When i was little we had an icebox, our milk was delivered by horse and d wagon but we did have an indoor bathroom The kitchen stove was oil fired and we also had a space heater and between the two our apartment was cozy all winter.
Now as to peanut butter, it is such a shame that so many kids are allergic it was and still is a staple in my house. ( My kitchen is not a kitchen without peanut butter and oreganeo ) I can’t remember if it was my nephew or my granddaughter who was sent home because they had peanut butter on their breath. and one of the kids in their class was allergic.

By: SherryPA

SherryPA — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 22:38:58 +0000

Nalani, Your lunches from the 30′s sound awful! I’m glad things improved..wow! Soggy lunches…ugh….We lived almost in the backyard of my elementary school at the time so I was able to walk to school and go home for lunch each day. We had a milkman that delivered the milk in glass bottles too….and an outhouse! Now that was a thrill…NOT! One time as a preschooler, a mouse ran out while I was ‘on the throne’, scared me half to death, I screamed, let go with my hands for a second and almost ended up you know where! Sure was glad when Mom came to rescue me! Another childhood trauma!!! LOL!!! That’s probably the root of every problem I have today…LOL!!!! Really, really glad for the convenieces we enjoy these days…really grateful! Oh the memories!

By: Nalani

Nalani — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 20:18:27 +0000

Sherry, what I remember of grade school lunches was what I would call ‘glop’ plus a slice of bread, 1/2 pint of milk and a small cup of icecream. It was just glob on a tin plate. This was in the 30s. But when I changed schools after the start of WW2 the lunches were really good with a variety of choices. I should also say that my mother often packed my lunch in a little blue metal lunch box, with a sandwich, a cookie or fruit, and she would freeze milk in a glass milk bottle with a stopper in it. Once in a while I’d drop my lunch box and then I couldn’t eat any of it with the broken glass and soggy sandwich.