@futurebird @llewelly

My older sister was a pain in the butt, at one point maybe when she was in 2nd grade she pitched a fit about what my mom made. Mom said fine 2nd graders make their own lunches. When I hit second grade that meant me too.

I ate peanut butter and butter sandwiches every day probably until 6th grade.

We also got a gross red delicious apple, and two chocolate cookies, which my sister was in charge of making, and I did get a milk card.

@futurebird @llewelly

My older sister was a pain in the butt, at one point maybe when she was in 2nd grade she pitched a fit about what my mom made. Mom said fine 2nd graders make their own lunches. When I hit second grade that meant me too.

I ate peanut butter and butter sandwiches every day probably until 6th grade.

We also got a gross red delicious apple, and two chocolate cookies, which my sister was in charge of making, and I did get a milk card.

@futurebird @llewelly

My older sister was a pain in the butt, at one point maybe when she was in 2nd grade she pitched a fit about what my mom made. Mom said fine 2nd graders make their own lunches. When I hit second grade that meant me too.

I ate peanut butter and butter sandwiches every day probably until 6th grade.

We also got a gross red delicious apple, and two chocolate cookies, which my sister was in charge of making, and I did get a milk card.

@MCDuncanLab @llewelly

I had the vague notion that a lunch should have such things. But I would end up with a can of creamed corn, a can opener, candied ginger from the back of the kitchen cabinet, a pack of hot chocolate, a thermos of water too cold by lunch to make the coco, a slice of white bread with thick slices of cucumber on it (since I read about "cucumber sandwiches" in a book but didn't know how to make them.)

I had this idea that it was a "fancy lunch"

It was awful.

@futurebird @llewelly

My older sister was a pain in the butt, at one point maybe when she was in 2nd grade she pitched a fit about what my mom made. Mom said fine 2nd graders make their own lunches. When I hit second grade that meant me too.

I ate peanut butter and butter sandwiches every day probably until 6th grade.

We also got a gross red delicious apple, and two chocolate cookies, which my sister was in charge of making, and I did get a milk card.

@MCDuncanLab @futurebird @llewelly Thankfully we had school lunches here, but if I'd had to make my own I 1000% guarantee that even though I don't even like peanut butter, I would have had it every single day just for the sheer lack of effort required to deal with it. And we didn't really have apples/etc lying around for me to toss in either.

That... is probably not healthy.

@corbden @MCDuncanLab @llewelly

We had lunch boxes in elementary school. And I remember the plastic boxes coming out and thinking it was a major downgrade.

I think the selling point was you could put them in the dishwasher (but then the sticker would come off... sad times)

@MCDuncanLab @llewelly

At least it amused my friends to watch me unpack the box (which I pretended someone else made for me) and explain how it was going to work.

@MCDuncanLab @futurebird @llewelly Requesting comment from older sister.

@futurebird oh no help this must have been excruciating in practice but it's so adorable in hindsight

@jgordon @futurebird @llewelly

Yeah neither her nor my mom are reliable witnesses when recalling which of them caused what family drama.

I’m sure there was an incident probably standard stubborn kid stuff, mom over reacted, sis over reacted and as a consequence my brother and I are making the only sandwiches 2nd graders can make somewhat reliably.

Although it is something of an art to get peanut butter on bread without tearing the bread, as I recall.

@jgordon @futurebird @llewelly

And why was it peanut butter and butter?

Could we not afford jelly? Was jelly too high in sugar?

We must have gone through so much butter because we all totally slathered it on.

Oh shoot it wasn’t butter, it was margarine. Was that cheap in the 80s?

@MCDuncanLab @jgordon @llewelly

"fruit preserves have too much sugar ... yes butter is much healthier?"

I mean, it's good I guess.

@MCDuncanLab @llewelly

This surfaced forgotten memories. I was fascinated by the concept of "bagged lunch" begged my mom to let me have a bagged lunch. (I thought it was very exotic like in an anime)

My mom was so confused and annoyed to her "bag lunch" was for "poor kids" and she didn't work in the math mines all day to have her daughter eating out of a paper bag.

Also since she was a math prof she had no time to make a lunch ... and tried to get Dad to do it who was baffled.

@futurebird @MCDuncanLab @llewelly Hot lunch at my school was 85 cents. I hated my bag lunch so much I would go around and ask all of my friends for the change off their dollar so I could be the last one through the line and get whatever was the hot lunch for that day.

My bag lunch was peanut butter and grape jelly on soggy whole wheat bread.

@futurebird The reason I asked about the East Coast thing is that in NM we got local-inspired (️) food that was pretty good.

@jgordon @futurebird @llewelly

And why was it peanut butter and butter?

Could we not afford jelly? Was jelly too high in sugar?

We must have gone through so much butter because we all totally slathered it on.

Oh shoot it wasn’t butter, it was margarine. Was that cheap in the 80s?

@MCDuncanLab @jgordon @llewelly

"fruit preserves have too much sugar ... yes butter is much healthier?"

I mean, it's good I guess.

@Wyatt_H_Knott @futurebird @llewelly

Hmm, maybe this is why we did butter rather than jelly. Peanut butter and butter sandwiches were never soggy, sometimes crushed by the apple or a book, but not soggy.

@MCDuncanLab @futurebird @llewelly I had the sandwich crushing mac too, but no cookies. Never butter, always smuckers grape. Not strawberry. Grape.