By women. Gonna be a grammar Nazi here, it’s sammich.
Yup. There was line up of brown paper lunch bags each with our initial on it in the fridge, sammiches wrapped in wax paper all made by Mom. That was over 60 years ago. Damn I’m getting old.
Ditto. I can smell the bologna and “Miracle Whip” just remembering it. And pbj’s too all on balloon bread. Gaggg.
I still like MW over Mayo
I relocated to the South East, I can’t stand Duke’s Mayo. I love MW and Hellmans but Duke’s is the king here. Always the rebel, even at sammich time.
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See if you can find Blue Plate mayo. It’s ‘Hellmansey’ only better. It’s a regional southern thang.
And when lunch was eaten we’d take that wax paper and rub it on the surface of that steel slide so you could go faster. Or so we thought.
You folded it in the back pocket of your jeans so that a small portion was exposed to the surface as you slid down.
And, yes, it worked VERY well. A waxed slide is superfast! Dang near broke my ankles a couple of times!!
We weren’t that well off.
Mine is wrapped in wax paper every work day.
I’ve never heard anybody say “sammich” in real life. Must be a Yankee thing, or a short-bus thing.
wax paper or paper towels. i can close my eyes even now, 60 yrs later and smell the inside of that batman lunchbox. great times.
Y’all got to bring sack lunches?! My mother BELEIVED in the school lunch program. The only things that were guaranteed to be eatable were the carton of milk and the dessert. Maybe you could eat the entrée about once a week and a big ‘nope’ on any of the vegetables. I made many a PB&J sandwich when I got home.
Ah yes, I remember wrapping my sandwich in waxed paper. Mom baked bread weekly, at 9 years old I was slicing that bread and making sandwiches for myself and my younger brother (6). PB&J was the best, sometimes there was no PB or J. The possible alternatives were cheese (an occasional thing) plus mayo or ketchup. More often than I’d like, it was a ketchup only sandwich.
The wax paper would be folded and used to wax a slide for that extra bit of performance.
You haven’t lived till you wrap your sammich in toilet paper…
A sammich wrapped in wax paper and placed in a paper bag is just another sign of all that white privilege we had and I’m proud of that shit. They didn’t have free lunches for kids when I went to school. There were a lot of things we didn’t have. Genders, pronouns, food allergies, prayer rooms, inclusive bathrooms, fat kids, school shootings, trans-teachers, teachers bonking kids… WTAF?
My dad being a Sargent, we couldn’t afford to buy lunch at Boeing Elementary. When we moved to Wiesbaden, the cafeteria at my school didn’t even sell milk; we had to bring our own in thermoses. Wax paper was the order of the day for the bologna, PB&J or cheese sandwiches. I don’t remember if baggies even existed yet since I never saw one until I was much older. The consolation was that every year I got a new lunchbox.
By women. Gonna be a grammar Nazi here, it’s sammich.
Yup. There was line up of brown paper lunch bags each with our initial on it in the fridge, sammiches wrapped in wax paper all made by Mom. That was over 60 years ago. Damn I’m getting old.
Ditto. I can smell the bologna and “Miracle Whip” just remembering it. And pbj’s too all on balloon bread. Gaggg.
I still like MW over Mayo
I relocated to the South East, I can’t stand Duke’s Mayo. I love MW and Hellmans but Duke’s is the king here. Always the rebel, even at sammich time.
Spin
See if you can find Blue Plate mayo. It’s ‘Hellmansey’ only better. It’s a regional southern thang.
And when lunch was eaten we’d take that wax paper and rub it on the surface of that steel slide so you could go faster. Or so we thought.
You folded it in the back pocket of your jeans so that a small portion was exposed to the surface as you slid down.
And, yes, it worked VERY well. A waxed slide is superfast! Dang near broke my ankles a couple of times!!
We weren’t that well off.
Mine is wrapped in wax paper every work day.
I’ve never heard anybody say “sammich” in real life. Must be a Yankee thing, or a short-bus thing.
wax paper or paper towels. i can close my eyes even now, 60 yrs later and smell the inside of that batman lunchbox. great times.
Y’all got to bring sack lunches?! My mother BELEIVED in the school lunch program. The only things that were guaranteed to be eatable were the carton of milk and the dessert. Maybe you could eat the entrée about once a week and a big ‘nope’ on any of the vegetables. I made many a PB&J sandwich when I got home.
Ah yes, I remember wrapping my sandwich in waxed paper. Mom baked bread weekly, at 9 years old I was slicing that bread and making sandwiches for myself and my younger brother (6). PB&J was the best, sometimes there was no PB or J. The possible alternatives were cheese (an occasional thing) plus mayo or ketchup. More often than I’d like, it was a ketchup only sandwich.
The wax paper would be folded and used to wax a slide for that extra bit of performance.
You haven’t lived till you wrap your sammich in toilet paper…
A sammich wrapped in wax paper and placed in a paper bag is just another sign of all that white privilege we had and I’m proud of that shit. They didn’t have free lunches for kids when I went to school. There were a lot of things we didn’t have. Genders, pronouns, food allergies, prayer rooms, inclusive bathrooms, fat kids, school shootings, trans-teachers, teachers bonking kids… WTAF?
My dad being a Sargent, we couldn’t afford to buy lunch at Boeing Elementary. When we moved to Wiesbaden, the cafeteria at my school didn’t even sell milk; we had to bring our own in thermoses. Wax paper was the order of the day for the bologna, PB&J or cheese sandwiches. I don’t remember if baggies even existed yet since I never saw one until I was much older. The consolation was that every year I got a new lunchbox.