We couldn’t buy snacks or sodas when I was in school. In fact, just HAVING a soda in a can was a demerit. You could bring soda with your lunch but it had to be in your thermos. Ie, your PARENT provided it, you hadn’t snuck into the teachers lounge and snagged one out of the machine there. That was the *only* machine in the school btw. One drink machine per school, in the teachers lounge.
I don’t get this drink machine/snack machine business. You either ate in the cafeteria or brought your lunch. If you wanted cheetos you bugged your mom to put them in your lunch bag. In elementary school, just prior to recess there were trays of milk and fruit and you could eat a snack you’d brought from home if you had it.
If the teacher caught you with candy out of the recess period or lunch time she’d confiscate it and throw it away. Gum, tictacs, now-n-laters, you name it. Just don’t bring them to school.
No drink or snack machines. We somehow managed to survive to adulthood. We weren’t overweight then either.
It’s why I’m glad I was home schooled. Didn’t have to put up with that. Although I did have to go, or rather, chose, to participate in extra-curricular activities like soccer and band. I saw what they had to put up with. Liberal madness.