Palmwoods
District News

May 13,
1999

Page 8

A closer look at lunches

Where have they gone, those glorious school lunches of old?

Remember these delicacies? Damper and treacle (alias Bog). By lunch time the treacle would have well and truly soaked into the dry bush bread, making a sweet soggy mess.

Bread and dripping - particularly popular with children of English migrants.

The best dripping was the nut brown variety, found in the very bottom of the dripping pan.

It had a pleasant meaty flavour that brought back memories of Sunday Roast. Sugar sandwiches, with some children preferring the brown unprocessed kind.

Sugar was combined with dried fruit, lettuce or apples. Tomato sauce sandwiches. A more popular variation of the same taste is spaghetti or baked bean sandwiches. After the second world war, weetbix and honey found much favour for little lunch. Another favourite was lamingtons, the great Queensland offering to world cuisine.

The most popular lunch, however, still seems to have been the vegemite or peanut butter sandwich - a great leveller and a most nutritious big lunch, the sandwich still holds pride of place against competition from bread roll and pie.

(Taken from an education dept. Centenary Times, Souvenir issue 1975)

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