ARIZARD-L Archives

Archiver > ARIZARD > 2008-02 > 1201889509


From: "Pat Brewer" <>
Subject: Re: [ARIZARD] Off-subject--school lunch pails
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 11:11:49 -0700
References: <553214.85028.qm@web83812.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <553214.85028.qm@web83812.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>


Beth it sounds to me like you just described a small lard pail - those were
used by everyone my age group and older. At least those of us (which I
think was the majority in those days) of the lower economic group.

As to being made fun of - oh yes. I saw a lot of it and received a lot of
it. Our clothes mostly, no new clothes. Always hand me downs, and in a
small community sadly someone might recognize the dress you were wearing as
being theirs, or their sister's or - well you get the drift. But for the
most part, each of us was in the same boat.

Here is one that takes the take though. In the early 50's when I was on my
first job after graduating and moving to the big city, this actually
happened. A gal I worked with even told this on herself. She had nothing
for her husband's lunch one morning, so she peeled a potato, sliced it,
with onion and mayo and made a a nice sandwich. Poor guy sitting with the
fellows at lunch time, unwrapped his lunch, and you can imagine how black
those potatoes had turned. I still laugh so hard when I think of this - but
that's one story that would never have been told outside the home.

Pat

----- Original Message -----
From: "Beth Cooper" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 10:40 AM
Subject: Re: [ARIZARD] Off-subject--school lunch pails


> You all, Hi!
> Wilma just reminded me about this,
> My husband's Mother was talking at Christmas I think it was about
> her and her siblings carrying their lunch to school. They were actually
> a little ashamed of pulling out their left-over biscuit with a piece of
> bacon
> or ham or just a doolop of gravy. She said so many of the children that
> they had gone to school with had fancy sandwiches. I just had to laugh,
> how dared cruel kids can be, especially in grade school!
>
> Do any of you remember, someone laughing at something you wore or had
> just because they wanted to make you feel ill? I can remember some of that
> happening in my classes. Sometimes we just had little trouble makers, too.
>
> They usually didn't get away with much because someone would go alert
> the teacher and that would get settled immediately. School teachers
> certainly had more authority and respect then. I, for one, knew if I ever
> got in trouble at school, I have it all over again when I got home. That
> was pretty compiling enough to keep me straight.
>
> Back to the original thought behind all this----I did find my Mother's
> lunch pail from the 1930's. It is this little round container with a bail
> and this little
> lid that you have to pull hard to get it out and the whole thing was made
> of
> aluminum. It was kinda clouded up on the exterior when I discovered what
> it
> was and it did clean up rather well. It now actually has a little shine to
> it.
> I just thought at the time that I discovered it, I think I'll keep that to
> remind
> me how Mother used to talk about taking lunch to school herself and then
> her packing lunch for me in my little Kit Carson lunch box. Me and my
> scrambled egg sandwiches----to this day, one of my favorites and
> list-mom Jean's as well!
>
> You all take care. Now, I'm starving and it isn't even lunch yet!
> Beth
>
>
>
>
> Why is it that everybody starts cooking just because of a little's snow?
> I
> did too. Mine was a pot of chili and corn bread muffins. I still
> remember
> how to make real biscuits; I just don't churn my own butter and keep that
> fresh buttermilk for biscuit making. Dad and mother always grew nearly
> all
> our food at home. Smoked bacon or ham,
> blackberry jelly or molasses, and biscuits were the finest breakfast
> every.
> Then we carried biscuit and ham or sausage sandwichs in our school
> lunch
> pails. MMMMMM GOOD
>
>
> ---
> Wilma King
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "jena moffitt" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 9:51 AM
> Subject: [ARIZARD] (no subject)
>
>
>> Beth,
>>
>> The seed project sounds so interesting. I remember my Grandmother's
>> Morning Glories. Those things were as big as saucers. We used to sleep
>> out on her porch and I would try to wake up before the flowers opened,
>> but
>> I never managed that trick. They were a glorious purple blue and
>> although
>> I would take seeds home every year, I could never make them grow in hot
>> dry Kansas. I think one of the secrets was that Little Grandma kept her
>> water bucket and gourd dipper on a bench right next to the railing.
>> Whenever anyone drank from the dipper they would flip the leftover water
>> right into the flowers. The spring water must have had something special
>> in it.
>>
>> I also remember eating the watercress from the Wiseman Spring. I would
>> sneak off down to the spring where it was cool and quiet. I wasn't fond
>> of Little Grandma's cooking, so I was grateful for the fresh spicy taste
>> of the watercress. Sometimes the boy cousins would bring by a mess of
>> watermelons. We would each have our own and just crack them open and eat
>> the heart out of them with our bare hands. (I sincerely hope the cousins
>> were taking those melons from their own fields, or had permission from
>> the
>> owner, but I doubt it. LOL)
>>
>> This was in the late 50's and it would be nice to think that someone in
>> the future might experience those incredible tastes.
>>
>> Jena Bookout Moffitt
>>
>> P. S. When y'all are finished with the cornbread, could we talk about
>> biscuits? Big old soft pillows of bread so light and fluffy that they
>> practically floated out of the pan. When other children saw pictures of
>> dogs or unicorns when they looked up in the summer sky, I saw my mother's
>> biscuits. Biscuits with chocolate gravy were the best breakfast ever.
>>
>>
>> _________________________________________________________________
>> Connect and share in new ways with Windows Live.
>> http://www.windowslive.com/share.html?ocid=TXT_TAGHM_Wave2_sharelife_012008
>>
>> -------------------------------
>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to
>> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the
>> quotes in the subject and the body of the message
>>
>
>
> -------------------------------
> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to
> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the
> quotes in the subject and the body of the message
>
> -------------------------------
> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to
> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the
> quotes in the subject and the body of the message
>
>
> --
> No virus found in this incoming message.
> Checked by AVG Free Edition.
> Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.18/1255 - Release Date: 2/1/2008
> 9:59 AM
>
>

This thread: