[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Fw: [GR-HERITAGE] German lunches in country schools in the early years

[Delores Stevens]

Do you mean Rogers Golden Syrup and not Honey
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From: "Lloyd Friedrick" <lloydfriedrick at telus.net>
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Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 5:24 PM
Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Fw: [GR-HERITAGE] German lunches in country
schools in the early years


> I am writing a story for Lee Remmick Web page on Lunch pails in country
> schools on the Canadian prairies during the late thirties and early
forties.
>
> So far I have described the favourite pails that were used such as Swifts
> Silverleaf lard pails, Rogers Golden Honey and Squirrel Peanut Butter
pails.
>
> Our school in rural Saskatchewan was equally divided with English and
German
> students so I have decided to write about our lunch pail contents and how
they
> differed. For example, us Germans ate "good", heavy with home made sausage
or
> ham with thick bread. The English tended to use "store bought" bread with
> lighter ingredients. One day, my older brother insulted an English pupil
by
> calling his cucumber sandwich "sissy food" and World War 11 came to
> Saskatchewan school yard!. It is also worthwhile to point out that in our
> school at this time many of our  games and competition were  "Germans
against
> the English"
>
> Mother made some sandwiches that were sort of a ground up fried liver and
> bacon bits [homemade bits that is] but my family cannot remember the exact
> recipe.
> We also had good stuff like summer sausage that Dad and Mum made. Now why
did
> they call it summer sausage ?
>
> Would other listserve subscribers tell me some of the typical German
> sandwiches and lunch pail things that their parents made for them. I would
> like to make up a composite list. I checked on the Internet but our kind
of
> lunches were not generally included.
>
>
> lloyd friedrick in Victoria British Columbia
>
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