Lunch
Monday, December 7, 2009 at 1:45PM Alright, so Auntie Diane got Grandma for Thanksgving, but I learned a few things anyway.
My parents both went to country schools -- you know, one room with multiple grades and one teacher. In fact, my mother was the only one in her class.
Anyway - on to the dads.
It was common practice at my dad's schoolhouse to bring a potato to school for lunch. That's it. A potato. When the students got to school in the morning, they would put their potato in the stove and it would be ready for lunch time.
Forget your to put your potato in the stove? Well then, forget having lunch.
My father-in-law went to school in Alby, SD. Population is around 10-ish these days. (I don't really know, really). Every day, 2 students were selected to walk down to the post office and retrieve the hot lunches for everyone -- which was about 10 students. Good stuff.
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Love, love your blog. Other lunches consisted of butter and sugar sandwiches on of course fresh homemade bread. Add an apple from Grandma and Grandpa V's orchard that was a little wrinkled from being stored in the cellar wrapped in newspaper and you had lunch.