Our childhood lunches should have killed us!

Ralphy1

Ralphy1

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Yes, all of those bologna sandwiches on white bread along with a twinkle or such should have given us cancer that would have taken us by now. Not to mention those potato chips and cokes after school. According to research all of my favorites are carcinogenic, as were probably yours...
 

Lincoln said “If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will.”

I think the same might be said for our childhood lunches.

IMO stress and lack of exercise kills more people than bologna!
 
And the there were all of those Cracker Jacks and Necco wafers. I am on borrowed time...
 

Good, but enjoy your remaining time, have a balogna sandwich, but make it on wheat from now on...
 
Pappy said:
I ate so much white school paste, the one in the big glass jars, it's a wonder I'm not stuck permanently to the wall. I liked the little glass bottles of milk with a layer of cream on top.
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Who knows, maybe the paste is what has saved you! They have a knack of turning things around, things we once believed to either be healthy or unhealthy often are twisted. I wonder if there are still paste-junkies in our grammar schools today? How on earth did we ever decide to eat the stuff anyway?
 
I remember school lunches being a luxury and that my sibs and I always brought our lunch. There were bologna sandwiches and sometimes a BLT, but always an apple and a homemade cookie.

I totally agree with Aunt Bea about stress and exercise ...
 
OK, you can have balogna sandwiches, too, but try to at least use multigrain bread...
 
jujube said:
I think we ran all that stuff off......riding bikes and playing tag and climbing trees burned all those bad calories a lot faster than a rousing session of Grand Theft Auto does for today's kids.
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Absolutely! We had very little to do indoors, outside was our only "Facebook" and in my neighborhood there were plenty of kids. For the most part, we all got along. In the winter, we ice skated and sledded. During the warm months, we were out till dark. Our worst punishment was not being allowed outside. Can't remember one kid on our block being overweight.
 
jujube said:
I think we ran all that stuff off......riding bikes and playing tag and climbing trees burned all those bad calories a lot faster than a rousing session of Grand Theft Auto does for today's kids.
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For sure! Diet is only one part of the equation....Exercise is equally, or more, important. These kids sitting around all day playing video games, or living on their cell phones, are going to have some serious health issues when they get older. Half of today's kids are already becoming overweight, and Obesity, and its side effects, is rapidly becoming the nations number one healthy issue. I wouldn't be surprised it life expectancy begins to decline as people develop a more sedentary lifestyle.
 
I remember this non-descript stuff called chicken roll. My mother got it sliced at the deli and it was delicious. Looking back it had the texture and flavor of cat food. Probably highly processed poultry remains, never mind the added fat and sodium. Funny that you remind me of school lunch food in high school. It was dreadful and I was really unpopular. Rather than deal with the cafeteria I was welcome to eat in the library. Being in the library council was a blessing for the nerdy kids. I'd get a chocolate shake and 3 pack of cookies and go upstairs to hide in the book stacks. I did that every day for three years and still weighed 110 pounds. Ah the metabolism of youth:D
 
I always brought my lunch. For two solid years, during grammar school, I wanted nothing other than yellow sliced cheese with sliced dill pickles on white bread. Once in awhile my mom would give me a left over meat loaf sandwich. That was a real treat. What amazes me is the fact that we never refrigerated our lunches. I did have a little Thermos with a glass insert that kept my milk cold though. My Grandsons have these heavily insulated bags with ice packs inside for his little already prepared lunch that looks like something from outer space..
 
My mom used to make us eat egg salad or peanut butter sandwiches on whole wheat bread and fruit for dessert. We used to love going over to Rosemary's house for lunch because her mom made the good stuff - bologna sandwiches with mayo on white bread with Twinkies for dessert. We did get Hostess Cupcakes as treats sometimes and popcorn balls wrapped in different colors of cellophane.
 
My parents were children of the depression. I remember white bread sandwiches with ketchup. They were yummy at the time. But it's interesting that even when they had grown up and become comfortably middle class, we still had ketchup sandwiches, fresh potato and pea cream soup, recipes that came from lean times that brought back warm memories.
 
Ruth n Jersey said:
I always brought my lunch. For two solid years, during grammar school, I wanted nothing other than yellow sliced cheese with sliced dill pickles on white bread. Once in awhile my mom would give me a left over meat loaf sandwich. That was a real treat. What amazes me is the fact that we never refrigerated our lunches. I did have a little Thermos with a glass insert that kept my milk cold though. My Grandsons have these heavily insulated bags with ice packs inside for his little already prepared lunch that looks like something from outer space..
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Very true on the lack of refrigeration, I think modern day Americans have become obsessed with germs or else my mother was such a bad cook even the cooties wouldn't eat it, LOL!!!

Nothing better than a cold meatloaf sandwich!

Also cold baked beans on white bread with a little ketchup and onion.
 
In Catholic grade school we got warm lunches and one of them was big chunks of balogna on top of noodles and lots of butter over it. I really liked that. Some of the other stuff made me barf, though.
 
My mom made our lunches all through my school years --- mostly cold cut meat on rye bread and an apple. No complaints, except they were small, which probably explains why I was a skinny kid and teen. In those days luncheon meats might not have had so many chemicals and sulphites as they do today.
 
Interesting too how there was no ban on peanut butter or chocolate in school lunch rooms. I'm sure there were kids allergic then too, but you seem to hear so much more about it now.
 
Ralphy1 said:
Yes, all of those bologna sandwiches on white bread along with a twinkle or such should have given us cancer that would have taken us by now. Not to mention those potato chips and cokes after school. According to research all of my favorites are carcinogenic, as were probably yours...
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Ah yes, gotta love that white bread that sticks to the roof of your mouth! I guess if a person continued eating those bologna sandwiches on white bread along with a twinkle every day for the next 60 years, there might be a health impact.... :shrug:

.....I think adding a slice of lettuce(and onion....and mustard!) would neutralize the carcinogenic effect.....<wink>
 

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