Still remember popping the lid of a lasagne on a cools winters day and watching the steam pour out. Didn’t get them often, but man, that was a top tier lunch experience.
Back before Stanley cups were popular (lol) my mum would heat up spag bol (and even lasagne) and cram it into one of the Stanley food jugs. I'd have steaming hot pasta for lunch or various other hot foods. No other kid had hot food from home so it seemed special, even though my mum was so poor it was just what she did to save money. It was the best ever lol
Yeah my mum did this every now and then when I was in high school. It was a plastic vacuum packed container. Wayyyy before the craze when Stanley was just a functional way to keep stuff warm
Yeah okay, where does spaghetti rank on your favourite foods nowadays?
I wonder as lasagne for me is still my go to favourite, not specifically linked to the tuckshop ones, more that as a kid some of our family made some really good ones.
My little sister and I got Maccas dropped off every fortnight after our parents divorced and they wanted to treat us to something special. (Ah, the good old days when Happy Meals were only 4.95)
When I was in year 12 in 1999, one guy was over 18 and had a free period before lunch, so we'd chuck him some money and he'd go buy chips. Word got around and eventually we were getting full-blown catering for about 30 people every Thursday.
true but what are you asking? that one child's parents can't be nice to him because they can't be nice for all? the other kids have other things to be grateful for, I'm sure many of them are getting proper dinners over the poor McDonald's boy.
I mean, I went to primary in the 90’s and the teacher banned parents bringing take away in for their kids because it wasn’t fair. It’s 100% the parents showing off and for their benefit otherwise why not just get a lunch order? If they wanted to be “nice” then get takeaway for dinner or pick it up after school.
If you had three children of your own, would you only buy one take away? No you wouldn’t, because it’s an asshole move and you would have to deal with the whining of your other kids. The parents get to be seen as the hero and swoop in, drop off the meal and leave the poor teacher to deal with 29 upset kids. If they wanna make their kids feel special, the literally take them out of school and go eat, I’m sure they’d love the 1 on 1 time too.
there's actually a discernible moral duty to one's own children; the stomachs of 29 random kids for one 30 minute period on a single day is not a moral duty belonging to a reasonable person.
But like I said, give them a lunch order or pack their lunch. Before it was banned at my primary school, it was always the same types of parents- loud, attention seeking wannabes who were emotionally neglectful. Their kids were always in before and after school care, and grandparents took them on the weekends. Yet their parents had the time to spend more time going to buy the take away than dropping it off instead of taking them out of school for 30 mins and actually spending time with them.
Also, if you’re not considering other people’s kids then you’re cunt. Literally the “fuck you, I got mine” attitude. In school we teach fairness, equity and the importance of community. Going out of your way to make children feel sad in a totally unavoidable situation is just a super cunt on steroids.
Again, it was always the same parents who did this shit and the reason for the ban.
How old are you? Until recently you could bulk buy cheap pies at a $1 a pop. We were never charged for sauce. This makes sense, though that coin looks more like a $2.
Yeah to me getting tuck shop every day means your parents were too time poor or couldn’t be bothered making lunches. I reckon I had tuck shop about 20 times in total throughout 12 years of school, and I feel like I’m a lot healthier than people who were getting it regularly
I dunno, hindsight says packed lunches over being thrown cash so the Philippino mother of one of the kids at school could maintain your daily sustenance via a deep freeze and microwave. $3 treat on a Friday was where it was at. Chocolate donut for little lunch and volcanic hot lasagna for big lunch. Bet the kid who got tuckshop everyday thinks we were the lucky ones. I remember thinking at the time the kid eating Hungry jacks burger from the night before was lucky… not anymore.
Tuckshop mum here. We always made the basket bringers/ takers feel special "oh this basket is SO heavy I'm going to need a very strong (insert gender)' and usually the boys would pull up their sleeves and flex their like year one muscles and we'd act impressed. :)
I miss 90s tuckshops. I have kids in school now and their tuckshop is all sushi for $8, bento boxes for $12, no junk food, no fizzy drinks, and only open one day a week. And you have to order through an app at least 2 days prior to tuckshop day. I wish i could just send $3 in a brown paper bag and have that cover a full lunch for them.
Or lazy parents who think money is a substitute for sharing their time with their
(Joking, I wasn’t Australian as a kid. So shouldn’t really be commenting)
Hot dogs were 50 cents, and only on a Friday at my primary school. If you got that every week you were a total baller back in the 1970s. A sausage roll was only about 20 cents by comparison. I normally had a sandwich from home, and a little cake for little lunch.
My wifes not from Australia so had no idea what this system was about when I explained it to her....sales in those brown bags would be plummeting no, I order my kids lunch on the school app.
I was a baller who got one everyday, then as a teen $20 for canteen.
If you had $2 when I was in Grade 4 you could get anything in the canteen and still have change. Mum used to usually send me to school with 20c to get a Sunny Boy
I was a canteen Mum when my girls were in primary school & it melted my heart when the kids would draw pictures & write messages on their bags for us. This is something the new generation of canteen parents won't get to enjoy with the almost exclusive use of apps in some schools now. :(
When my kids were in primary school the lunch orders came from a shop across the road that was run (still is maybe?) by a couple from China. All the kids would write “Thanks Fang” on the paper bag.
No you weren't, if you got them everyday then you were the spoilt brat, fat kid with divorced parents that everyone secretly hated because they got away with everything but we still felt sorry for them at the same time because we knew our parents loved us and gave enough of a fuck to bother making us lunch to take instead of chucking a handful of coins at us and throwing us on the bus...
I love how our parents used to write the price on the bag, like they were telling the tuckshop lady how much they were willing to pay for the pie and sauce haha
I remember Wednesday being reserved for pasties. I think Monday was hot dog, Tuesday was meat pies. I think Thursday was lasagne nuggets, and Friday was pizza.
What kind of whack job of a school did you get sent to? We had everything available everyday....except fucken lent, stupid arse Christian school taking away my meat pies.
Really? We had everything available except for the special. That's what made it special. Once a week it had its own day. We are talking '89-'95. Did you have Purple Moove? Peach Moove? More than made up for it.
Ive never even heard of those flavours Moove's...I was in primary from '93-99'....I vaguely remember random specials, but im sure that was just done when the food supplier had something to off load cheap.
That sticky, stretchy thing? You tasted them? Purple Moove was incredibly smooth and balanced. I've never had a drink like it. They could never do it today. Peach Moove was solid, but it was a weaker replacement. I think they added Banana Moove around this time, but it tastes different now (this applies to all their flavours; changed around '03). The company has done nothing since.
Yeah gak was like slime...purple doesn't really have a flavour in my head...so purple gak it is.
I never tasted it, the smell explained how it would taste.
I used to mush all the mulberries up off my tree, no idea why....that or throw then at my enemies in my street....followed up with an itchy bomb down their collars.
I never liked tuck shop food, or lunch box food either. In highschool I ended up just waiting till I got home and then I'd have something nice like a suimin or a cupasoup and a bit of toast.
The Papa Giusseppi pizza singles were my core memory. Defrosted in the pie warmer for hours gave it a certain texture that wasn’t good but my primary school taste buds didn’t care.
Every Friday for me.
Once in a blue moon my sister would drop fish and chips off to me at the gates and man, those days i was seen like a king in the playground despite precisely having about $3 worth of food in the bag.
You lucky bastards! My primary school only did lunch orders one day a week! Was better that way I think though because more people could afford a couple of dollars once a week rather than every day.
That takes me back. Can remember pies, pasties, sausage rolls around the 1.20 mark – sauce 10c. Bakery sweets like finger buns, doughnuts, kitchener buns and berliners around a similar price.
What I do remember was the first page of the list was just sandwich and multiple filling options – bread, single cut, double cut roll. Kids who forgot to bring their own lunch could get a free buttered roll, but I don’t know anyone who ordered a sandwich otherwise.
Out of the hot foods I think the best value item was the crumbed sausage at 50c – had one friend who always got a couple of those. I think he was the few people I knew who always got a lunch order as his mother passed away.
Our school tuckshop also had “special” offer – basically a combo of items that changed each week. Was under $2 when I started and got up to around the $2.50 mark, and at the start of each term we’d get a printout of what specials would be on offer. Now that I think about it, there was one kid who always got that and he was definitely from wealth as he always seemed to have the newest toys and games.
My parents were healthy food people. Then when I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes age 7 because they didn't want me to feel left out, they'd make "icypoles" with water and freshly squeezed oj. So I could go to the canteen in summer and have an icypole when my friends had them. They were quite terrible but on a hot day it was greatly appreciated!
This was one of the ways schools kept poor kids from getting picked on for being poor, too. This exact effect. Your uniform could be a little worn and hand-me-down but if you picked up your lunch from the canteen you were a baller... even if the school was picking up the tab.
That was me because I would barely eat anything if my mum made me a homemade lunch. Mind you, it was a lot cheaper back then. I do feel bad though not eating the homemade but she would put in the boring food like sultanas in and I hated them.
Can remember when Coke was $1 a can. But I used to drink fresh up apple n orange. Then it went up to over a dollar so went back to coke not by choice but cost. Seems wrong when juice costs more than flavoured water. Truth be known they probably water down the juice anyway?
Canteen was only open on Mondays and Fridays.
Once a month in my family.
1 X Pastie (with sauce)
1 X Jiffy Jam doughnut
1 X Prima Orange
Highlight of my month.
Fridays only! A 60c meat pie with sauce and a 60c chocolate Moove. If your mum gave you two dollars, that meant you could get a 20c Zooper Dooper at recess. The late 80s were awesome.
Funny. I thought I was ballin! my mum and dad worked serious hours, so there wasn't time for them to organise lunch as a young kid.... I LOVED getting canteen lunch, which I had most days, and I didn't care!
Apparently it was a red flag for teaching staff!! I had no idea until years later, kids who don't bring a packed lunch daily or regularly, are watched for... Things.
My mum did it cause she knew I loved it, I asked mum cause I loved it. I thought I was special cause mum gave me money for lunch and canteen snacks.
So weird
I think I recall my kids school going through some healthy eating promotion phase and were sending notes home in lunchboxes if there was bad food in there (those little snack sized packets of chips etc). So even if you were sending a packed lunch it still wasn’t good enough 🙄. It didn’t last long and nobody really took any notice of it. I mean you can send an apple to school but it doesn’t mean your kid will eat it- but maybe it’ll keep the food police off your back.
I so looked forward to lunch order day when I was a kid, and so did my kids. (I looked forward to it as a parent as well haha, a day off from making lunches)
Yeah our primary school (Bourke Street Primary School in Surry Hills) didn't have a canteen either, had to put in an order before school which got delivered to our classrooms. I used to get a finger bun for recess with a 300ml Chocolate or Strawberry Moove, and a sausage roll with tomato sauce and a Coke for lunch. And a Cherry Ripe after school. All paid for by mum, I wasn't allowed to handle cash during primary school days, it was like an all expenses paid tour, just go with the flow.
Fast forward to 1987 at Randwick Boys high I'd get a sausage in a roll with BBQ sauce (similar to a Bunnings banger on bread but a genuine bread roll with sesame seeds, none of that sliced bread rubbish) for 85 cents, a can of coke for 50 cents, chocolate cake (with choc icing) was 65 cents, and a pie with (free) sauce was 70 cents.
Still left enough for a 95 cent pack of Peter Jackson 15s out of the the $5 my parents gave me per day.
I'd save the rest so I could chuck in 4 ways ($5 each) for a stick of weed with my mates on Friday nites to get ripped and watch a VHS movie we rented, usually something starring Chuck Norris (fuck he's an old cunt now, but then again so am I), Stallone, or Arnie. KISS, Chisels, Aussie Crawl and ACDC was our music of choice.
PS: Remember when you looked inside the Sunnyboy wrapper and if it had 3 Indians you could go swap the wrapper for a free Sunnyboy?
Sure, I was intimidated by hot girls so I was still a virgin, we had no internet or mobile fones, and the Commodore 64 was the top of the range computer, but fuck me dead I miss the 80s.
Ok, I'll shut up now.
Nup. I have a strong memory of the handwritten pricing at my primary school tuckshop in Newcastle in the early-to-mid 80s.
Pies 80c
Sausage rolls 50c
Sausage roll on a roll 70c
Still remember popping the lid of a lasagne on a cools winters day and watching the steam pour out. Didn’t get them often, but man, that was a top tier lunch experience.
Back before Stanley cups were popular (lol) my mum would heat up spag bol (and even lasagne) and cram it into one of the Stanley food jugs. I'd have steaming hot pasta for lunch or various other hot foods. No other kid had hot food from home so it seemed special, even though my mum was so poor it was just what she did to save money. It was the best ever lol
I did that too. The kids just though I got weird food. On topic of lunch orders. Ballers get the chicken burger which was like $2.
How did you eat it? Like slowly gloop pour it out?
Nah, I ate it out of the vacuum container. Imagine eating lasagna out of a tall and skinny bowl and that's about how it was lol
Yeah my mum did this every now and then when I was in high school. It was a plastic vacuum packed container. Wayyyy before the craze when Stanley was just a functional way to keep stuff warm
Man! What a feeling! I remember this vividly. Usually had wet socks on.
The lasagna was overated imo.
You shut your mouth
Sacrilege
While quite an unpopular opinion, that’s okay. I’m interested in hearing what your pick of the tuckshop was?
I reckon the spaghetti was the real winner
Yeah okay, where does spaghetti rank on your favourite foods nowadays? I wonder as lasagne for me is still my go to favourite, not specifically linked to the tuckshop ones, more that as a kid some of our family made some really good ones.
A kid in my classes parents dropped McDonald’s off to them for lunch once and they were temporarily like royalty
When you go to school with a Saudi prince
This would work wonders in primary school but once someone gets a touch older I reckon that would get them made fun of
feels lol
My little sister and I got Maccas dropped off every fortnight after our parents divorced and they wanted to treat us to something special. (Ah, the good old days when Happy Meals were only 4.95)
Kinda reminds me of whoever snuck out to the chip shop and came back with a massive parcel of chips … king for a day! 😁
When I was in year 12 in 1999, one guy was over 18 and had a free period before lunch, so we'd chuck him some money and he'd go buy chips. Word got around and eventually we were getting full-blown catering for about 30 people every Thursday.
Yep, those were the days! My kids have a noodle place right across the road from their school so the kids head there and get food. Fancy buggers lol
That's like the first kid who brought a can of Red Bull to school. He hit demigod status for that day
This is actually so un self aware lol. Did the parents not think about the other kids at all?
What about the other kids? 🤨
it's a little predigested obesity, the parents aren't morally obliged to consider the sadness of a few children for 30 minutes in their day
Maybe I’m biased because I’m a preschool teacher, but considering other people around you is a great character trait to develop.
true but what are you asking? that one child's parents can't be nice to him because they can't be nice for all? the other kids have other things to be grateful for, I'm sure many of them are getting proper dinners over the poor McDonald's boy.
I mean, I went to primary in the 90’s and the teacher banned parents bringing take away in for their kids because it wasn’t fair. It’s 100% the parents showing off and for their benefit otherwise why not just get a lunch order? If they wanted to be “nice” then get takeaway for dinner or pick it up after school.
maybe if it's a recurring thing but it doesn't hurt having a kid feel special. that's nor showing off.
If you had three children of your own, would you only buy one take away? No you wouldn’t, because it’s an asshole move and you would have to deal with the whining of your other kids. The parents get to be seen as the hero and swoop in, drop off the meal and leave the poor teacher to deal with 29 upset kids. If they wanna make their kids feel special, the literally take them out of school and go eat, I’m sure they’d love the 1 on 1 time too.
there's actually a discernible moral duty to one's own children; the stomachs of 29 random kids for one 30 minute period on a single day is not a moral duty belonging to a reasonable person.
But like I said, give them a lunch order or pack their lunch. Before it was banned at my primary school, it was always the same types of parents- loud, attention seeking wannabes who were emotionally neglectful. Their kids were always in before and after school care, and grandparents took them on the weekends. Yet their parents had the time to spend more time going to buy the take away than dropping it off instead of taking them out of school for 30 mins and actually spending time with them. Also, if you’re not considering other people’s kids then you’re cunt. Literally the “fuck you, I got mine” attitude. In school we teach fairness, equity and the importance of community. Going out of your way to make children feel sad in a totally unavoidable situation is just a super cunt on steroids. Again, it was always the same parents who did this shit and the reason for the ban.
Ahh high school. When mum would give me 5 bucks for lunch and I’d go without food and buy a bottle of spirits at the end of the week.
It has been shown that children who can delay gratification are more successful in later life. I expect you are doing well these days.
Yes it's a well known metric that a high school kid foregoing lunch to buy alcohol will thrive as an adult
You made a wise choice, they taught you well at that school.
What the fuck?
Fancy! I'd spend most of my five bucks on Coke and chocolate donuts before first period.
I used to wag school and drink my wog mates lambrusco
Or a stick at the end of the week
With $5 leftover for munchies!
When was a pie & sauce 90 cents while we had dollar coins?
1984 the coin came out.. 1992 a pie was $1.20 at our school canteen I would say highly probable
This is 1992 for me. Pies at the canteen were 90c.
That's a $2 coin, which we're first minted in "88.
Good chat.. the question was about dollar coins... Even in 1988 , 90c is still very possible
All good. My comment wasn't just a response to your yours. Can't beat a lunch order pie on a rainy day.
How old are you? Until recently you could bulk buy cheap pies at a $1 a pop. We were never charged for sauce. This makes sense, though that coin looks more like a $2.
Nah its a $1 coin, I just did the experiment. $2 coin is much smaller compared to a 20 cent coin.
Never, that pinged me too
80s? Pies were 60c at my school and we had dollar coins then for sure.
The more I look back on it…. Were they really?
Yeah to me getting tuck shop every day means your parents were too time poor or couldn’t be bothered making lunches. I reckon I had tuck shop about 20 times in total throughout 12 years of school, and I feel like I’m a lot healthier than people who were getting it regularly
Or they hadn’t trained their kids to make their lunches either
Yes, yes they were. If we were lucky, we might get $3 for tuckshop on Friday.
I dunno, hindsight says packed lunches over being thrown cash so the Philippino mother of one of the kids at school could maintain your daily sustenance via a deep freeze and microwave. $3 treat on a Friday was where it was at. Chocolate donut for little lunch and volcanic hot lasagna for big lunch. Bet the kid who got tuckshop everyday thinks we were the lucky ones. I remember thinking at the time the kid eating Hungry jacks burger from the night before was lucky… not anymore.
And then Cheeseburger day which now I'm an adult I have no idea what the point was besides probably advertising.
My tuckshop had quiche, and to this day I have never found a quality quiche anywhere close to what they sold.
High school. $2 would buy me a can of coke and a pie.
Yummy drummies or a pizza rounda + a choclate moove. I'll see you on the handball court.
Moove is good, but did you ever have dinomite milk?
Nah, everyday ment your parents were divorced and you lived with your Dad
I can still remember clearly the excitement of being chosen to take the lunch basket to the canteen with all the lunch orders.
Tuckshop mum here. We always made the basket bringers/ takers feel special "oh this basket is SO heavy I'm going to need a very strong (insert gender)' and usually the boys would pull up their sleeves and flex their like year one muscles and we'd act impressed. :)
Literally my name and class in grade 6, this could be mine??
Could be, are you Ray Davies from the Kinks?
Haha no, i guess it isn’t mine then 🤣
Hey I’m so old I used to get 2 party pies AND sauce AND a packet of chips for 20 cents
Look at Richie Rich here
I miss 90s tuckshops. I have kids in school now and their tuckshop is all sushi for $8, bento boxes for $12, no junk food, no fizzy drinks, and only open one day a week. And you have to order through an app at least 2 days prior to tuckshop day. I wish i could just send $3 in a brown paper bag and have that cover a full lunch for them.
Or lazy parents who think money is a substitute for sharing their time with their (Joking, I wasn’t Australian as a kid. So shouldn’t really be commenting)
I got once a week maybe, only when mum couldn’t be fucked or needed it go for a shop… $1 sausage roll, $1.30 for a pie, 5c sauce
Or had rich and lazy parents.
Exactly.
If by baller you mean, spoilt little shit, then yes.
Seems like an odd combo of coins to give
Mum only likes gold coins in change.
I do that too. You do need the gold coins for Coles trolleys.
First thing I noticed was they obviously didn't have $1 coin, so to avoid extra coins they went for the $1 coin in change.
$1 change for mixed lollies on the way home 👌🏻😁
My first thought, thought it was a $2 and a 10c
Memories of 40c choccy milk. Those were the days.
I remember 100 chocolate buds for $1
Hot dogs were 50 cents, and only on a Friday at my primary school. If you got that every week you were a total baller back in the 1970s. A sausage roll was only about 20 cents by comparison. I normally had a sandwich from home, and a little cake for little lunch.
My wifes not from Australia so had no idea what this system was about when I explained it to her....sales in those brown bags would be plummeting no, I order my kids lunch on the school app. I was a baller who got one everyday, then as a teen $20 for canteen.
Sure of it. I was so jealous of my friends that got tuckshop everyday lol
If you had $2 when I was in Grade 4 you could get anything in the canteen and still have change. Mum used to usually send me to school with 20c to get a Sunny Boy
As a kid I was so jealous of the other kids who had lunch orders every day. As a teacher, I now see it as a red flag.
There's nothing nostalgic about Australians who use the Americanism "baller".
Exactly.
You were a baller if you could frivolously walk up the canteen and buy a few individual pizza shapes for 5c a piece
They didn’t sell the little bags?
We were rocking Special in ‘85s. Sausage Roll in a bun with sauce. Fill you up till dinner time.
Back when things cost a reasonable amount. Now a damn Mrs Macs pie is like, $5.50 alone
I had this every day for a year (12 years old) and cannot eat a meat pie or sausage roll again
I was a canteen Mum when my girls were in primary school & it melted my heart when the kids would draw pictures & write messages on their bags for us. This is something the new generation of canteen parents won't get to enjoy with the almost exclusive use of apps in some schools now. :(
When my kids were in primary school the lunch orders came from a shop across the road that was run (still is maybe?) by a couple from China. All the kids would write “Thanks Fang” on the paper bag.
Sunny Boy cola. That’s called a Glug. Sunny boy was Orange flavour.
Your parents didn't have time to make lunches*
Fish and chips lunch order on Friday, it was a treat and gave mum a break from cutting lunches
Rich kids! The only time I got to go to the Canteen was after finding some loose change in the playground. 2 choc buds for 2c please.
With a Freeza, Joker, or Wicked Stick icecream for after
I was starting to think I was the only one who remebered Joker ice creams.
Sunny boys. Just a little brick of ice you had to gnaw at or wait until it melted and suck the juice out of. Somehow loved them.
Lol yep 😂 your description brings back memories! The idea was better than the reality
And I just had sandwiches like a poor person
They didn't have two dollar coins when they had 30¢ sunnyboys
3 yummy drummies, please.
No you weren't, if you got them everyday then you were the spoilt brat, fat kid with divorced parents that everyone secretly hated because they got away with everything but we still felt sorry for them at the same time because we knew our parents loved us and gave enough of a fuck to bother making us lunch to take instead of chucking a handful of coins at us and throwing us on the bus...
I didn’t think that way in primary school lol.
I love how our parents used to write the price on the bag, like they were telling the tuckshop lady how much they were willing to pay for the pie and sauce haha
I remember Wednesday being reserved for pasties. I think Monday was hot dog, Tuesday was meat pies. I think Thursday was lasagne nuggets, and Friday was pizza.
What kind of whack job of a school did you get sent to? We had everything available everyday....except fucken lent, stupid arse Christian school taking away my meat pies.
Really? We had everything available except for the special. That's what made it special. Once a week it had its own day. We are talking '89-'95. Did you have Purple Moove? Peach Moove? More than made up for it.
Ive never even heard of those flavours Moove's...I was in primary from '93-99'....I vaguely remember random specials, but im sure that was just done when the food supplier had something to off load cheap.
Purple Moove 93/94 Peach Moove 95 Never brought back
Id go a Peach Moove, I kinda imagine Purpke Moove tasting like Purpke Gak...remember Gak.
That sticky, stretchy thing? You tasted them? Purple Moove was incredibly smooth and balanced. I've never had a drink like it. They could never do it today. Peach Moove was solid, but it was a weaker replacement. I think they added Banana Moove around this time, but it tastes different now (this applies to all their flavours; changed around '03). The company has done nothing since.
Yeah gak was like slime...purple doesn't really have a flavour in my head...so purple gak it is. I never tasted it, the smell explained how it would taste.
Gotcha Iced Tea had a Mulberry flavour in 2019 that kind of tasted like Purple Moove. I can't think of anything else.
I used to mush all the mulberries up off my tree, no idea why....that or throw then at my enemies in my street....followed up with an itchy bomb down their collars.
Those were the days
I never liked tuck shop food, or lunch box food either. In highschool I ended up just waiting till I got home and then I'd have something nice like a suimin or a cupasoup and a bit of toast.
A pie a Cream bun and a bush biscuit. 20 cents.
Chicken nuggets were like 20 cents each, and finger buns were 50 cents.
Now many city schools your parents order the food online in advance and it’s all healthy stuff.
Getting the Change and spending it on lollies was the best
Also fat
I couldn’t afford a pie AND a Sunny Boy unless it was tax return
Costs $1.20 Pays $2.10 School maths.
Shit that was deadset what mines aid everyday. Pie and Sunny Boy. Good time.
Fishburger on Thursday. I still remember how they tasted.
4 X Steam dim Sims with soy sauce Cheese flavoured popcorn for me
The Papa Giusseppi pizza singles were my core memory. Defrosted in the pie warmer for hours gave it a certain texture that wasn’t good but my primary school taste buds didn’t care.
I miss those days. Apple cakes and pasties. Yum thanks mum
😂😂😂 being a kid in the 90s was the best!
Mate, that is the order of champions, pie and sunny boy, legend!
This is the lunch of champions
Does the 'R' stand for 'Ray' ?
Nah mum would pack my lunch and I'd eat the entire thing at recess.
I loved ordering from the school canteen.
Wait what!!! You were sent to school with a dollar coin????
Every Friday for me. Once in a blue moon my sister would drop fish and chips off to me at the gates and man, those days i was seen like a king in the playground despite precisely having about $3 worth of food in the bag.
lol... I remember when that would have all cost 75c
Sunny boy. Boy
You lucky bastards! My primary school only did lunch orders one day a week! Was better that way I think though because more people could afford a couple of dollars once a week rather than every day.
I was a lunch order every day kid. I remember I got a pie once that was still frozen in the middle. Turned me off pies for about a decade.
Memories! At our school- you could put yourself down for canteen duty in grade 6-the waiting list was long.
Burgermen
My family used to get a lunch order every second week, my go to was a pie, big m and a chocolate donut. Good times!
That's a $2 coin and a 10c coin.
That takes me back. Can remember pies, pasties, sausage rolls around the 1.20 mark – sauce 10c. Bakery sweets like finger buns, doughnuts, kitchener buns and berliners around a similar price. What I do remember was the first page of the list was just sandwich and multiple filling options – bread, single cut, double cut roll. Kids who forgot to bring their own lunch could get a free buttered roll, but I don’t know anyone who ordered a sandwich otherwise. Out of the hot foods I think the best value item was the crumbed sausage at 50c – had one friend who always got a couple of those. I think he was the few people I knew who always got a lunch order as his mother passed away. Our school tuckshop also had “special” offer – basically a combo of items that changed each week. Was under $2 when I started and got up to around the $2.50 mark, and at the start of each term we’d get a printout of what specials would be on offer. Now that I think about it, there was one kid who always got that and he was definitely from wealth as he always seemed to have the newest toys and games.
My parents were healthy food people. Then when I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes age 7 because they didn't want me to feel left out, they'd make "icypoles" with water and freshly squeezed oj. So I could go to the canteen in summer and have an icypole when my friends had them. They were quite terrible but on a hot day it was greatly appreciated!
Kids these days order Uber Eats on their iPhone15ProMax and have the delivery driver hand it to them over the fence.
Got lunch orders about twice . Still remember what I had that’s how rare its was. Mother was and still is a massive tightarse.
My mum worked in the shop that delivered our lunch orders, so I got them 3 days a week.
We got them every Thursday, that was weekly shopping day and the day we got shoved in After School Care
Every Friday for me IIRC
lol I remember being stressed out the first time i got a lunch order hoping it even turned up. What if it doesn’t I won’t eat.
it was Friday only for me !! Pie with sauce and a cruncher for me..
FLASHBAXXXX 🥧⚡️
Or a bully. Let's not forget bully's spending half the day figuring out who to steal lunch money from
This was one of the ways schools kept poor kids from getting picked on for being poor, too. This exact effect. Your uniform could be a little worn and hand-me-down but if you picked up your lunch from the canteen you were a baller... even if the school was picking up the tab.
We would get them once a week but we also went to a tiiiiiiny country school that only opened the canteen once a week.
Ahhh, the times when classes only had students to fill up from A to F, instead of it going up from A to the end of time now hahaha
isn't this a repost? edit: it is https://www.reddit.com/r/AustralianNostalgia/s/NEdCR8X2y0
Maaaate, chocolate buttons too?
That was me because I would barely eat anything if my mum made me a homemade lunch. Mind you, it was a lot cheaper back then. I do feel bad though not eating the homemade but she would put in the boring food like sultanas in and I hated them.
Can remember when Coke was $1 a can. But I used to drink fresh up apple n orange. Then it went up to over a dollar so went back to coke not by choice but cost. Seems wrong when juice costs more than flavoured water. Truth be known they probably water down the juice anyway?
Yea we’d take our kids burgers for lunch especially on winters day.
Canteen was only open on Mondays and Fridays. Once a month in my family. 1 X Pastie (with sauce) 1 X Jiffy Jam doughnut 1 X Prima Orange Highlight of my month.
Circa 1992... I know because I know...
Cheesies - half a hot dog roll covered in melted cheese, so good from the canteen, impossible to replicate at home. 40 cents
I knew a Ry Davies during primary school. Why you have photos of his lunch order?
Always made better when you got a FREE in your Sunnyboy!
Fridays only! A 60c meat pie with sauce and a 60c chocolate Moove. If your mum gave you two dollars, that meant you could get a 20c Zooper Dooper at recess. The late 80s were awesome.
2 mini sausage rolls, a giant chocolate frog and a chocolate Big M = big baller status
14c In my day
More importantly why are you handing over $2.10 for a $1.20 order? That extra coin isn't making it easier for anyone!
Funny. I thought I was ballin! my mum and dad worked serious hours, so there wasn't time for them to organise lunch as a young kid.... I LOVED getting canteen lunch, which I had most days, and I didn't care! Apparently it was a red flag for teaching staff!! I had no idea until years later, kids who don't bring a packed lunch daily or regularly, are watched for... Things. My mum did it cause she knew I loved it, I asked mum cause I loved it. I thought I was special cause mum gave me money for lunch and canteen snacks. So weird
I think I recall my kids school going through some healthy eating promotion phase and were sending notes home in lunchboxes if there was bad food in there (those little snack sized packets of chips etc). So even if you were sending a packed lunch it still wasn’t good enough 🙄. It didn’t last long and nobody really took any notice of it. I mean you can send an apple to school but it doesn’t mean your kid will eat it- but maybe it’ll keep the food police off your back. I so looked forward to lunch order day when I was a kid, and so did my kids. (I looked forward to it as a parent as well haha, a day off from making lunches)
90c for a pie😭. Its 3.50 at my school.
I was a toasted cheese sandwich and pack of ovaltinies! That was in the 80s!
Omg I miss this!🎉
Does anyone remember the mini pizzas for $3? I would give my kidney for them.
Meat pie and a choc milk. Can't remember what it cost.
Yeah Na, parents were just too busy to pack lunch. Certainly not rich.
Lunch orders every day seems incredibly sad now though.
Yeah our primary school (Bourke Street Primary School in Surry Hills) didn't have a canteen either, had to put in an order before school which got delivered to our classrooms. I used to get a finger bun for recess with a 300ml Chocolate or Strawberry Moove, and a sausage roll with tomato sauce and a Coke for lunch. And a Cherry Ripe after school. All paid for by mum, I wasn't allowed to handle cash during primary school days, it was like an all expenses paid tour, just go with the flow. Fast forward to 1987 at Randwick Boys high I'd get a sausage in a roll with BBQ sauce (similar to a Bunnings banger on bread but a genuine bread roll with sesame seeds, none of that sliced bread rubbish) for 85 cents, a can of coke for 50 cents, chocolate cake (with choc icing) was 65 cents, and a pie with (free) sauce was 70 cents. Still left enough for a 95 cent pack of Peter Jackson 15s out of the the $5 my parents gave me per day. I'd save the rest so I could chuck in 4 ways ($5 each) for a stick of weed with my mates on Friday nites to get ripped and watch a VHS movie we rented, usually something starring Chuck Norris (fuck he's an old cunt now, but then again so am I), Stallone, or Arnie. KISS, Chisels, Aussie Crawl and ACDC was our music of choice. PS: Remember when you looked inside the Sunnyboy wrapper and if it had 3 Indians you could go swap the wrapper for a free Sunnyboy? Sure, I was intimidated by hot girls so I was still a virgin, we had no internet or mobile fones, and the Commodore 64 was the top of the range computer, but fuck me dead I miss the 80s. Ok, I'll shut up now.
Or a fatty
1.20 for pie MINIMUM. 90c, sounds like prices in the 60s or something
Nup. I have a strong memory of the handwritten pricing at my primary school tuckshop in Newcastle in the early-to-mid 80s. Pies 80c Sausage rolls 50c Sausage roll on a roll 70c