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Blast from the past! This bizarre 1974 school canteen menu will SHOCK you

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A NSW school canteen menu from the 1970’s has made the rounds on social media and has caused a major stir online for its ridiculous prices and insane menu list. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kevin Hayes posted the image to the </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Old Shops Australia </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Facebook group showing a Berala Public School tuckshop menu, some of the items not even available to be purchased anymore. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Things allowed to be sold to young kids were a lot sweeter back in 1974 with doughnuts, cakes, custard tarts, chocolate eclairs, apple pies, finger buns and Wagon Wheels available for purchase for less than a whopping 20 cents. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Many people noted the insanely cheap prices that used to buy you a meal for less than 50 cents. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A large meat pie was just 20 cents, a sausage roll went for 12 cents while a baked bean and spaghetti sandwich went for 11 cents. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Peanuts were just 5 cents and a Wagon Wheel biscuit put you out of pocket by 6 cents.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Those were the good days,” one nostalgic user commented below the post. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Just LOOKING at that image evokes smells and tastes of our canteen!! Thank you!!” another wrote. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Back in the day when having tuckshop was a treat so the kids got what they didn’t bring from home like a sausage roll or pie and a cream bun,” one comment read.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Food prices back in 1974 were definitely different to now in 2019, as well as the food standards expected in schools – peanut butter sandwiches are not typically found in school menus anymore.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Scroll through the gallery above to see the whole menu.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What food did you buy from the tuck shop when you were in school? Let us know in the comments below.</span></p>

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This school canteen price list from 1978 is unbelievable

<p>These days, 35 cents seems like it would be barely enough money for sauce, but there was a time when that paltry sum was all you needed for your school lunch!</p> <p>A man named Barry Porter has shared a school canteen price list from 1978, and users online have been stunned by just how affordable everything used to be.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><iframe src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fabcmidnorthcoast%2Fphotos%2Fa.639452779443195.1073741847.118452998209845%2F1540638019324662%2F%3Ftype%3D3&amp;width=500" width="500" height="613" style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true"></iframe></p> <p>Kids had quite an interesting variety of food to choose from when it came to lunchtime back in those days, and didn’t have to hand over a king’s ransom for a simple feed.</p> <p>One user made an interesting point, comparing the school lunches of yesteryear with today’s high prices that have seen many students venture outside school grounds.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><iframe src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/comment_embed.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fabcmidnorthcoast%2Fposts%2F1540638029324661%3Fcomment_id%3D1541142062607591&amp;include_parent=false" width="560" height="160" style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true"></iframe></p> <p>One of the people commented said he remembered when prices were even cheaper than that, when he was able to purchase a pie for just 12 cents.</p> <p>“My earliest memory is back in 1969 when my mum would give me 20 cents a day for school and I would get a pie for 12 cents and a small carton of orange juice for 6 cents and go home with 2 cents change. how things have changed,” he wrote.</p> <p>What did you used to get for lunch at the school canteen?</p> <p><em>Hero image credit: Facebook / ABC Mid North Coast </em></p>

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