[Paladin2]

I don’t remember ANY vending machines for kids in K-12 schools in the 50s and 60s.

[gigster]

I don't remember ANY vending machines for kids...in the 50s and 60s.Growing up on the east side of Detroit in the '60's, there was a small business named Variety Vendors next to the body shop two doors down. They used to service and fill the vending machines on our side of town and maintain a fresh stock of candy and snacks. When they rotated their stock, they used to throw the out of date candy in the dumpster behind their building. We dumpster- dove like starving zombies at the sight of all of those goodies.

[Mjaye]

I don’t remember ANY vending machines for kids in K-12 schools in the 50s and 60s.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Nope, but we did have some good comfort food meals that today's kids will likely never see. Spaghetti and salad and garlic bread, chopped steak on mashed potatoes, great stuff. When I got to high school, I was amazed at what they sold during our “Nutrition” break in the morning. All kinds of popcorn, chips, sodas, etc., and some apples in a machine. I pity the kids stuck with Michelle's idea of a lunch, given that her kids dined like royalty at their school.

[tiki]

We had 2 soda machines in Jr. High and the Student Council sold candy at lunch. We walked to a small store and got chips and a soda for lunch everyday.

In HS we ate at burger joints.

[blueplum]

I (vaguely) remember those days when everyone drank water out of the water fountain
and at lunch, free milk (chocolate went first) washed down lunch brought from home (that no one inspected for nutritional content). There were very few weeks when baked goods of a thousand kinds weren’t being sold from a hallway table to raise funds for the student newspaper, cheerleaders, all the different sports teams, home ec club, homecoming committee, Latin club, drama club, dance committees, pep squad, PTA, animal shelter, you name it.

[GailA]

Heck we brought sack lunches, and bought a 5 cent carton of milk and ate at our desks from K-8th. Didn’t see a cafeteria until I hit HS in 1962. And we had recess and were sent outside in good weather after lunch to a playground to run off excess energy or the gym in bad weather.

Grandson has LUNCH at 10 AM. MOOCH’s food gets thrown in the trash.