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

[Delores Stevens]

I spoke with my parents who are of the generation that took the Rogers
Golden Syrup tins as lunch tins.  My mother came from a German family and
lived in a German community.  She said that she took syrup sandwiches and
the odd time peanut butter.  She doesn't remember having meat sandwiches.
My father on the other hand lived in an English community and his mother was
Dutch.  He took his lunch in a brown paper bag, as he rode horse back to
school.  Too difficult to carry a syrup tin on the horse.  Dad said his
lunch consisted of chicken or beef sandwiches.  He hated the summer as flies
could get in his paper bag.  At least the syrup tins kept out the flies.
(LOL)

Delores
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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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