It's middle school in the 90s or 80s and it's PIZZA DAY.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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 Requesting comment from older sister.
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@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.
@nazokiyoubinbou @MCDuncanLab @llewelly
effort isn't always a good thing.
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@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)
In elementary, we were too poor for hot lunch. I was happy to have a lunch box and food from home so I could have the same meal every day. I loved my Holly Hobby metal lunch box.
By the time I was in high school, I was able to have hot lunch. I don’t remember a high demand for the bubble. Our bubble was doughy not crisp or burnt.
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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.
@futurebird oh no help this must have been excruciating in practice but it's so adorable in hindsight
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@MCDuncanLab @futurebird @llewelly Requesting comment from older sister.
@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.
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@futurebird oh no help this must have been excruciating in practice but it's so adorable in hindsight
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@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?
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@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.
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@MCDuncanLab @jgordon @llewelly
"fruit preserves have too much sugar ... yes butter is much healthier?"
I mean, it's good I guess.
@futurebird @jgordon @llewelly
The goal was to make the ‘butter’ layer the same thickness as the peanut butter layer, so probably at least two tbps of both.
I was rail thin as a kid so it couldn’t have been too terrible of a diet.
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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.
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@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.
@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.
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@futurebird The reason I asked about the East Coast thing is that in NM we got local-inspired (
️) food that was pretty good.I was on the east coast back then and in addition to pizza day we also had fiesta pizza day which was basically an Old El Paso taco on a piece of crust. Fiesta pizza day was only slightly behind regular pizza day for the best day of the week.
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@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 @futurebird
I grew up in the 1980s in a household that used a ton of margarine, and a little butter, and from memory, the margarine was typically less than 1/4 the price of butter. And back then I think the margarine was still made from murdered whales. Eventually Star Trek 4 and preceeding whale conservation movements changed all that, but there was a lag. -
@MCDuncanLab @jgordon @llewelly
"fruit preserves have too much sugar ... yes butter is much healthier?"
I mean, it's good I guess.
@futurebird @MCDuncanLab @jgordon
my mother regularly made fruit preserves with 1/4 the normal sugar, so ...... mold grew on it. Because, actually, the whole point of using so much sugar is to preserve the fruit!!!
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@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.
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@MCDuncanLab @futurebird @llewelly I had the sandwich crushing mac too, but no cookies. Never butter, always smuckers grape. Not strawberry. Grape.
@Wyatt_H_Knott @MCDuncanLab @futurebird crushed macaroni sandwich?? wtf?? I mean, that sounds good, but I feel confused.
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I was on the east coast back then and in addition to pizza day we also had fiesta pizza day which was basically an Old El Paso taco on a piece of crust. Fiesta pizza day was only slightly behind regular pizza day for the best day of the week.
@victorvonvortex @Meowthias @futurebird I remember that! Also, one time, the class clown took a slice of pepperoni off the pizza and wrapped it in a napkin and squeezed. when he released it and unfolded the napkin, the pepperoni was gone but the napkin was entirely soaked in grease and had turned an odd red-orange color. Literally no meat. just grease.
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@futurebird oh no help this must have been excruciating in practice but it's so adorable in hindsight
This is why I have soft spot for strange somewhat hard headed kids. TBH.
