[Sca-cooks] Re: bundt cake?

[Kirrily Robert]

Anahita wrote:
> Grades 6-8 - junior high (ages 11-13)
> We were all bussed to junior high, where the kids from several local
> elementary schools converged. We all ate together in the school
> cafeteria. We either brought our own or ate what the cafeteria was
> serving. Occasionally they had something edible... but not often.

Did you pay for cafeteria lunches in junior high or high school?  On
Buffy etc, you never see the kids actually paying.  Most Australian
schools have "canteens" or "tuck shops" or "cafeterias" (same thing,
different names) where you can buy your lunch.  The food tends to be a
range of reasonably decent hot and cold quasi-convenience foods:
sandwiches, meat pies, hotdogs, packets of chips, slices of cake,
muffins, juice, milk, cans of soft drink, ice-creams, etc.  Parents at
some schools exert pressure for the school to provide healthier foods at
the tuckshops, with varying degrees of success.  The tuckshops are often
run on a non-profit basis with parents as staff.

Some tuckshops have a "lunch order" system where if you write your order
on a paper bag and leave it in a particular place, they will prepare
your lunch for pickup and "express" payment.  Some schools have similar
deals with local shops, where you can drop off your "lunch order" at a
certain place at school in the morning, along with the cash for your
lunch, and the shop delivers a big basket of packed lunches at
lunchtime.  My primary school had this latter arrangement... some kids
got to have lunch orders every Friday, but I was only allowed on my
birthday or if I reeeeeeally begged.

I remember a really bad birthday lunch order experience... when I was
aged about 11-14, my stepmother was convinced I was obese (I wasn't) and
forced me to diet (apparently just to be manipulative and nasty).  So
when my birthday came I was given my $3 (or whatever it was) to buy my
lunch.  Of course I ordered a meat pie with sauce, chocolate donut, etc.
When I got home, one of my stepmother's friends was there, and asked me
how my birthday had been, and what I'd ordered for lunch.  Since my
stepmother was right there, I lied and said I'd had a salad sandwich and
I forget what else, but healthy food anyway.  Stepmother then proceeded
to taunt me, in front of her friend, about how it obviously wasn't
worthwhile having special birthday treats if I wasn't going to take full
advantage.  Though I know that if I had told the truth, it would have
been much worse.

My favourite tuckshop treat of all was these cheese rolls they had.
They were flattish, soft-crusted bread rolls with cheese sprinked on top
before baking.  The tuckshop staff would cut them in half, butter them,
then stick them in a toaster oven thing so they would be all hot and
dripping with butter when served.  Mmmmmm.  They were 50 cents.

Yours,

Katherine


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