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Was talking with my wife over dinner about our days in elementry school. We would put 25 cents on our desk and the guy would ask if you wanted chocolate, or white. I always had white, she said she always had chocolate! So I thought Id ask you guys what you perfer. White or chocolate? Or maybe Strawberry. LOL j
 
I prefer white now but always took chocolate when in grammar school.

I believe it was only a nickel in those days, and it was in a glass bottle.

Dean
 
White always. Any mine was a dime. I am only 40 too. You must be much younger if it was a quarter.

We used to get a 4x6 slice of pizza for $0.50 too. You could eat lunch every day for $1.25 and be full. I miss those days....
 
It was two cents when I started in early 50's. I think that stayed that cost pretty much all the way through mid 60's. Big subsidy in school lunch then.
 
Depends,if it's at home,almost always white,if it's at a convience store,or resturant,it's usually in replacement of pop,so than it's always chocolate lol.
 
When I was in elementary school in the 60's our milk came in glass bottles. I can remember some being frozen and broken in the winter and I can remember some being sour. Can't say I remember any option other than it being white.
 
Ya know, I must be wrong about 25cents. I guess I dont remember. Im 35 now and this was in the early 80s. Maybe 15 or 20 cents? Dunno, Id have to ask ma and pa if they remember. It was Crowley and came in a paper carton. My wife claimes they got milk in a bag.... I think she nuts.. .lol NO NOT REALLY ;) J
 
First grade was .01 for milk, second grade it went up to .02 per carton. White only
 
I dont know, she said it was individule little bags, you moved the air to the top than poked a straw into it so you could drink it.
 
Milk was .04 than a 5 cent's lunch in grade school went from .30 to .35 loved sloppy Joe day or fish sticks or the big meatball.
 
3 cents 1/2 pint carton when I was in grade school. You paid for it a whole month at a time.White only.
Funny the things a person remembers. Mark
 
When I started school in 1964 milk was 2 cents and it was in glass bottles. Almost everyone got chocolate milk because the plain milk sometimes froze but the chocolate didn't.

In 1971 they moved the 8th graders from the grade schools to 3 portables behind the high school. That was the first that we had cafeteria food. It was $0.45 for lunch, or we could buy a 5 lunch card for $2. Milk was $0.05 or a 20 milk card was $0.95.

Our hot lunch plan in grade school was on Tuesdays (some years also Thursdays) the church ladies and fire dept auxiliary took turns serving hot dogs ($0.15) and Barbeque ($0.20), with potato chips, cup cakes, and brownies all $0.05.

My first grade classroom had the desks bolted to the floor in rows, with the seats that folded up. The upper grades desks had places for holding ink bottles, not that they used ink bottles anymore. The restrooms were a block building next to the school. Some of my high school teachers said that when they went there (when it had all 12 grades) they used outhouses. In fact the outhouses were still there, but they had been moved off to the side and were used to store playground equipment.

Yes, our school was poor, but we didn't know it.
 
Good evening everyone, Guess I must be older than everyone else on here this evening. Many years ago, my first job. Delivering milk with a horse and wagon, milk was 20 1/2 cents per quart, that was in 1954. Cheers, Murray
 
During my early years 1953 thru 1957 milk was 2 cents and lunch was 25 cents mom used to tie my lunch money up in the end of my hanky all in pennies we were poor. I had to drink white milk I was allergic to chocolate even though I still love it and still allergic to it. My doctor said I would grow out of it, I"m 62yrs old. Go figure.
 
When I was in grade school if you didn"t leave home with it you didn"t get it. Water was free if you went out and filled the pail out of the cistern and every one used the same dipper to drink from.
Outhouses where out back one girls and one boys on opposite sides of the yard.
Ya I"m still alive 65 years later.
 
If I remember correctly it was.05 for white.Can't drink it anymore.Lactose intolerant.Sure do miss cereal in the morning.

Vito
 
Well MurrayE you've got me beat but I do remember those good old outhouses we only had one because it was all boys at our house except for mom and no horses around our area (South central Ohio) in 1953 we did have 40 milk deliveries twice a day but I wasn't allowed to bring milk to school because of pasteurization requirements.
 
Back then we drank milk from the cooler, so the white milk at school always tasted funny to me. I always went with chocolate, and I ussually brought in an extra quarter so I could get an extra one.

Once I got older, I think in High School, Mom started buying milk at the store (not really sure why) and now that I'm used to it, it tastes pretty good. Still prefer chocolate from the cartons though...

Donovan from Wisconsin
 
Familiar with those bags,bith the individual and 1/2 gallon sibgle and 2pk.Local on-farm dairy here produced em locally,could beat bids of other suppliers to local schools.Also sold half gallons of milk and fruit drinks at local stores.You could buy a reuseable plastic pitcher to hold em,which had a little pinch slot to reseal bag after clipping corner to open.Believe dairy closed after 2-3 yrs,however local(Exxon)Kwik Trip,still sells "bagged milk".
 
I grew up in North Florida and we had pizza on Fridays, it was square! The best was chilli day, it came with a huge sweet roll! The salsbury steak always sucked. I think lunch was $1.00 with milk, in the early eighties.
 
You might try Soy Milk on yer cereal..different,but not bad.
Only thing is,I didn't know Soybeans were mammals :)
 
we only had white milk, dont remember the price, but the ice cream dixie cup chocolate or vanallia was 06 cents ice cream sandwich was07 cents when jfk was shot I was in the 2nd grade the teachers husband came and told our teacher.
 
In grade school it was 3 cents for a 1/2 pint, the Teacher collected the money every morning and someone came room to room with a push cart at lunch hour and gave out the milk, we ate at our desks and you could not get up until everyone was through eating, then get in line to put the trash in the can and then go outside for recess. I remember it seemed like some of the girls took forever and a day to eat their sandwich.
 
I enjoy this "really" because I thought I grew up poor but when I was in Viet Nam and we would come back from an air mission during the night shift we would jump off the plane and race to midnight chow for a lot of powdered eggs and reconstituded milk along with what tasted like cardboard toast and maybe once in awhile "real bacon" and we thought we were in heaven. I guess things are relative for the times.:->LOL
 
Well I don't remember how much it was, but it was in a glass bottle.
Was up to school a few years ago for some event, eating in the cafeteria, and the milk was in these plastic bags! I was told to stab this little pointed straw through it! Boy did I make a mess of that! Couldn't get enough of a flow through that stupid little tiny tube, so I ripped open the bags, and dumped them in a glass. They were so tiny it took several. What a mess.
 
Went to the one room schoolhouse and you only got what you brought from home, will always remember the outhouses--2 seats and a trough, those were the good days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
We only had white Mon. - Thurs. Fridays got a choice and always took chocolate. Usually took extra money for second carton. Now I usually have a small glass of chocolate every morning and night to take my pills, seems to float them and they go down easier. Steven
 
She's not making that up...We had those for a few years at school too. (I'm 36, so we were in school more or less the same time)
 
Chocolate. Won't drink town white milk if I can help it. Drink about 1/2 gallon a day from the bulk tank though.
 
I was born in 1929 and at that time my father was milking and selling bottled milk delivered to the house for .25 cents a quart. He was buying Oats for grain at .10 cents a bushel. He was able to buy a new Ford car in 1929,32,34, and 36. Compare the prices today milk $2.50 a gallon, Grain @ $200-300 per ton. In the 50's bottled pasturized milk for schools in 1/2 pint bottles. Son and I made cheese till I broke down four years ago. He still has some Guernseys hanging around for there beauty and showing.
gitrib
 
When I was in grade school, milk was 2 cents for a half pint. In grade school, it was served in paper cartons. When I got to junior high [1965-68], we were bussed to the high school for lunch, and initially we had milk in glass bottles. By the time we were going to high school, they'd also switched to the paper cartons. As I recall, the glass bottles with the foil caps were from Kannapel's Dairy in New Albany, IN [long since gone], and the paper cartons were Sealtest. Chocolate milk was only available on Fridays, and not every Friday at that.

Ween I started school, lunch was 30 cents a day. By the time got to high school, it was 45 cents. We were served such delicacies as "corn flake cookie" [made with peanut butter] and what the kids called "grubworms in dirt"--some sort of goulash recipe made with hamburger and elbow macaroni. But we also got our share of navy beans and cornbread...which some kids would make look quite disgusting with an overload of ketchup.
 
Don't remember taking milk to school. I do know the milking better be done before the 1-1/4 mile walk to school. Maybe we had it figure out, our lunch bucket(yes bucket) would be a lot lighter if we didn't take milk. Lunch buckets all set on two shelves at the back of the school. No hot, no cold just room temperature lunchs.
 
One day a week we got the choice of chocolate milk. I loved it until I had my tonsils removed in second grade. After that, I could never drink chocolate milk! For some reason, the smell reminded me of the ether they anesthetized me with for my tonsillectomy. Strangely, chocolate milk mixed up at home never bothered me, only the pre-mixed stuff.
 
It's fun to recollect those days, I remember the first year of school, kindergarten as it was called, 2 of us would get sent down to the cooler near the kitchen, and we would each tow one of those metal red wagons with the little milk cartons in it, I don't recall there being a choice though, just whole milk, right to the classroom, and the rest sent back, every day 2 kids were chosen to do this, so everyone had a turn at it, the following year you went to the cafeteria, you brought a lunch, they sold milk, ice cream sandwiches (15 cents), once in awhile frozen pizza (obviously heated up) and that was about it.

The odd thing was that both the elementary and high schools had full service commercial kitchens, the school was relatively new, less than 10 years old at the time, but no hot meals were provided, through out the entire time I was there. I ended up at a private catholic/military school and the same thing, but I don't even think there was much of a kitchen in that place, but there sure was no shortage of junk food in the vending machine room, funny how little we thought of our diet/nutrition, as was reflected by what was offered in the schools. That same school costs a fortune to attend now, and I'm sure they have meals served, as is the case at the other one I attended I would think.
 

I know in Wisconsin, or atleast in Kaukauna where I went, they yanked all the vending machines out except the ones that have milk and healthy stuff in them. There's a big push to make the meals and snacks healthier.

That said, I think they've gone a little overboard. I've already heard people complaining that they sent their kid to school with a pop in it, and they weren't allowed to drink it because it wasn't healthy. I think if a parent wants to send their kid to school with a pop, so be it. It's their kid and can raise as they see fit, even if it's not the "best" way to raise their child according to others.

Donovan from Wisconsin
 
We had white only, in the mid-50's when I was in grade school. We also had something called "snacks"- a "big kid" (6th grader) came to each classroom in mid-afternoon with a cart of milk and cookies- I think you paid at the beginning of the week and got scrip for it- I think it was a nickel a day. Sixth grade boys all wanted to be the snack guy- it got you out of class for 20 minutes or so.
 
They had bags in several local schools- local producer-handler supplied it, they could outbid the others because packaging was cheaper. Drawback- little kids, especially, couldn't master putting the straw in without bursting the bag, milk all over the place. So the dairy supplied each classroom with a large sponge, big enough to absorb an entire package. Then the teachers weren't rinsing out the sponge well enough, so it got sour- no problem, milk delivery guy would pick up the sponge (and leave a clean one) when he delivered, and the dairy would run them through the dishwasher at the owner's house.
 
I remember when milk cost 2 cents for a half pint in school for a few years. Would have been in about 1947-1950. I always bought 2 bottles.
 
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