1966 Lockport, Louisiana
We all paid for our school lunches but it was subsidized by the state and even the poorest could afford it. High in carbs rice and beans but beans have high protein content. A small salad that most did not eat but I did.
I loved the days that they had olives in the salads as I like olives and most kids did not. I had more olives than I could eat. Occasionally we had fried catfish, everybody ate this and occasionally a good stew. There was always sufficient protein in the meals despite the high levels of carbs in the meal.
We ate it and did not throw it in the trash like with Michelle Obama’s meals today.
Question, who is doing the better job, Lockport, Louisiana in 1966 or Michelle Obama today?
Also note if a student walked through the line for lunch their was no id check, we did not even have ids. If a students parents could not afford the very nominal fee the student was feed. There were a few but not many.
1966 Hays, KS 5th grade.
Mom packed fried egg sandwich for breakfast because we went to church before every school day.
Neighborhood ladies were the lunch ladies. Knew them all. Favorite lunch was “pigs in a blanket” which was a hot dog inside homemade roll served with sauerkraut and mashed potatoes. The way to eat it was to get a bit of each on the fork. Pizza was good too.
I have no recollection of ever throwing away anything because my Mom drilled into our heads that there “were starving kids in Africa”.
Good times. Hope my grandkids will be able to have the same.
I carried a Bologna sandwich, or Peanut Butter, with a cookie mom made, to school daily from Grade school through HS. There were no cafeterias back then, all ate out of a brown sack at our desks, and got a 5 cent half pint of milk from the school. By HS there was the crap food from a cafeteria. My Bologna sandwich tasted better than any thing they fixed. With 4 kids, there was no money for school lunches when it could be fixed for a fraction of what the school charged. All we got was the 5 cents for milk. Mom had a real cooked dinner waiting for us when we got home.