I'm running behind due to a dental procedure that included sedation and me being out of the loop yesterday. So here I am playing catch up!

When I entered first grade, we had a cafeteria (lunch room) which was staffed by ladies of the community. As I strolled down the line looking at the offerings, I saw a few things I recognized as food...rolls and "fat back" or known in my home as salt pork. Yum, I thought...lunch. Yes, I was not like everyone else, something my mom alluded to, no actually stated, to my husband-to-be years later.
However, mom decided that was not the best lunch for me even though I thought she would have unwillingly agreed with me (because we both loved bread and salt pork).
What has this got to do with lunch money. Well, nothing except that I would not have spent good money on milk. Ice cream, yes - milk no! Needless to say, after that I took a boxed lunch each day, but I still bought ice cream!
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It's funny as I can't imagine too many schools serving a lunch like that anymore. One of the schools I work in now -- the one cafeteria is basically 100 percent from scratch. It's crazy the things they come up with and serve. Healthy and a lot is locally sourced. A lot different than I was in school!
ReplyDeleteWow, did I have a flashback! Milk money... 3 cents, (75 cents for lunch). My mom would stack pennies on top of each other, in front of my lunch pail.
ReplyDeleteThis is string memories that I will be thinking about all day!