This school canteen price list from 1978 is unbelievable
These days, 35 cents seems like it would be barely enough money for sauce, but there was a time when that paltry sum was all you needed for your school lunch!
A man named Barry Porter has shared a school canteen price list from 1978, and users online have been stunned by just how affordable everything used to be.
Kids had quite an interesting variety of food to choose from when it came to lunchtime back in those days, and didn’t have to hand over a king’s ransom for a simple feed.
One user made an interesting point, comparing the school lunches of yesteryear with today’s high prices that have seen many students venture outside school grounds.
One of the people commented said he remembered when prices were even cheaper than that, when he was able to purchase a pie for just 12 cents.
“My earliest memory is back in 1969 when my mum would give me 20 cents a day for school and I would get a pie for 12 cents and a small carton of orange juice for 6 cents and go home with 2 cents change. how things have changed,” he wrote.
What did you used to get for lunch at the school canteen?
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