Lunch. For most of us it evokes memories of school. Once there was an expression: There's no such thing as a free lunch. But there were free lunched for Milwaukee saloon patrons. Usually cold sandwiched or finger foods, but they were used to entice drinkers into their establishments. But over time the phrase came to mean that freebies shouldn't be expected.
In my day, unless you were very poor, you brought a lunch or bought school lunch. If there were kids getting a free lunch I didn't know them. My Mom was very thrifty. She insisted we bring home our paper lunch bags and we used them until they almost fell apart. And if the wax paper our sandwich was wrapped in wasn't messed up, we were expected to bring it home, too, all folded neatly.
We bought a small carton of milk for .25 (not chocolate, we weren't allowed it) and we got to buy the school lunch only on special occasions: Thanksgiving, Easter, Christmas and our birthday.
Our lunches were simple. If Mom made cookies that week, we would get one in our bag. We always had a sandwich and a piece of fruit in its season. We saw our fair share of PB & J, balogna and cheese, tuna, egg salad and sometimes ham from a dinner.
This section is about lunches. Of course you could eat these meals any time. But they're all designed to be toted. I hope you enjoy!
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