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I ate a sack lunch all through elementary school,  just about every day I had bologna and mustard and when we had extra money and wanted to go wild I would actually add a piece of cheese to it...........man,  I was living high on the hog when I got the bologna cheese and mustard !  Oh,  and I did always have a little sandwich bag of either potato chips or fritos corn chips..........still love my bologna,  but not as much as back then.  By the 6th grade I started to get a little burned out on it. 

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Dude! Same lunch!  Bologna, cheese, and mustard with a bag of BBQ chips...Lunch of Champions!!!  Even now, I still have that on occasion.

 

When I got to high school, my mom gave me $10/week to eat lunch...a tray was $0.85 then.  I ate the equivalent of two trays every day...get my first tray + at least 1 extra whatever the main course was (burger, hot dog, pizza, sub)...sometime two extra, an extra order of fries, an extra milk, and a Susie-Q for dessert. 

 

Sometimes I ran out of money by Thursday and would have to use my own money on Friday.  People would sit at our lunch table just to watch a 125-pounder put away all this food.

 

My senior year, my buddy (6'4", 240) challenged me to a hot dog eating contest, at 145 lbs., I smoked him...he got seven down and said "no more", I quit at 12 and then ate a Susie-Q for dessert.

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Yea GMan,  I still eat the same sandwich myself,  just not quite as often as I did back then,  now I go all fancy and fry my bologna once in a while and add an egg when I am really hungry....lol

In high school, mom didn't give me $10 for the week,  she would just give me anywhere from $1.50 to $2.00 every day because she knew if she gave it to me all at once,  I would be starving by Wednesday !  The school I went to in Maryland ( 9th and 10 grade )  had really good food and especially the peanut butter cookies.........man,  you got 2 for $.50 and I would at least buy 4 and if I had enough I would go for 6,  unless it was hamburger or pizza day, then the extra money went to an extra hamburger or slice of pizza ! 

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I went to school with a guy named Mark Blankenship who ate a packed lunch everyday. He never missed a day of school either. Our senior year he received his perfect attendance award and they announced his packed lunch record too. Some of our buddies would try to hide it so he'd buy lunch, but he never broke. I always had a packed lunch of PB and grape jelly up until high school. I never packed lunch again. We never got chocolate milk during elementary but at the high school, you could buy 3 or 4 if you wanted to.

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Did yall not have good cafeteria cooks?  Im thankful for that as they could prepare pretty good lunches more often than not at my alma mater.  I did have a couple of friends in school who would only eat the same thing.  One transferred after 4th grade so I do not know if he kept it up but it was PB&J every day, even on field trips when we stopped somewhere.    Another either had plain lays potato chips or would eat the schools mashed potatoes and that was all I ever remember him having.  

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I too, went to elementary school in Maryland, (Hillsdale Elementary in Aberdeen) we had the most awesome lunches, we had shrimp, pizza, and philly cheesesteak sandwiches, crab cakes and apple pies. we came back to Scott Co. in sixth grade and the cook at Yuma Elementary School was fantastic she made homemade rolls that were to die for  and her hot dog chili was homemade. Soup Beans and cornbread with real butter, turkey and dressing. man the memories. I was glad to partake in the hijacking of this thread just for nostalgia's sake!

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I too, went to elementary school in Maryland, (Hillsdale Elementary in Aberdeen) we had the most awesome lunches, we had shrimp, pizza, and philly cheesesteak sandwiches, crab cakes and apple pies. we came back to Scott Co. in sixth grade and the cook at Yuma Elementary School was fantastic she made homemade rolls that were to die for  and her hot dog chili was homemade. Soup Beans and cornbread with real butter, turkey and dressing. man the memories. I was glad to partake in the hijacking of this thread just for nostalgia's sake!

I went to Aberdeen ele. for the first 3 years of school until they built Hillsdale and then went to Hillsdale for my 4th through 6th grade.  My favorite teacher of all time (  with the exception of my wife...lol )  was a guy named Mr McCarty,  just a great teacher and person !.

What years were you there ?  I was there 1968/69 through 71/72.  My best friend back then was a guy named David Easter,  just in case you might know him.  What a small world it is at times.  Do you remember the great peanut butter cookies....lol

They did have great food there,  but mom always made my lunch,  but would give me enough money to buy the cookies and get extra milk,  She worked at Bata shoe company, and dad worked in Havre de Grace for American Cyanamid.

Mom and Dad were from Richlands so after football season my Jr. year ( 75/76 ) we moved back here and I graduated from Richlands in 77.

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My dad was a maintenance supervisor for Bata, and my mom worked there too, we lived in the company houses at Belcamp and I spent hours playing in Bush Bay and the Gunpowder River, truly a wonderful place to live. We were there from 1969 until the spring of 1979. I have a brother and sister that were born there. We would go to Havre De Grace and buy shrimp and crabs from the fisherman as they came into dock. Bata made the hockey pucks for the NHL and got to go see the Capitals play a lot in Landover, Grew up a huge Colts fan and still am, my allegiance to the Orioles has faded, now a Braves fan. It really is a small world, our next door neighbor at the time moved to Lebanon, Va. And my best friend Chad moved to Oregon. Mom and dad just returned from a trip there (five weeks ago) they were saddened to find out that the Musical Inn had closed, it was dad's hangout. Our barber we used to go to pitched for the Orioles in the sixties, he lived in Bel Air. Good times. I am sure the Aberdeen Proving Ground kept you alert.   

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Mom and Dad both worked at Bata when they first moved up there,  we lived for about a year in the old hotel there at Bata until they built a house in Perryman.  Our house was only about 1 1/2 miles from the main gate of the proving grounds.  I use to love to go on base to the ordnance museum and play around the tanks and stuff.  Man,  when they would test and shoot off the big guns it would shake the house and at night in the summer all the tracer shells would look like fireworks,  but the mosquitoes were terrible there ! 

 Grew up a big Colts and Orioles fan and still a BIG Orioles fan,  but now a Ravens fan.  Grew up and was good friends with Cal and Billie ripken,  Billie was about 2 years younger than Cal and Cal was about a year younger than me.  The best athlete in the Ripken family was their sister Ellen,  man she could play some softball,  but was very good at soccer and basketball too.

Dad use to go to a place called the Bavarian inn on Route 40.  Great place to get steam crabs,  we usually went to the same place you did in Havre de Grace to get live crabs and steam them ourselves,  but when we wanted them already steamed we went to the Bavarian.  Every year the company dad worked for would have a crab feast and picnic up at the VFW grounds in Havre De Grace,  man.......that was good times and great food !

Sorry guys for the hijack,  just nice to talk to someone from up there again.  I know one of the guys I knew up with there in Aberdeen moved to Honaker almost the same time I moved here,  but I lost track of him.

Again,  sorry about the hijack !

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We grew up well, didn't we. We were there long enough to soak up the culture and the area but not long enough to let it jade us. We would take Sunday rides to Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania and we thought it was normal. We went back and spent some time at Conowingo Dam and Peach Bottom, Pa. My mom's favorite place was Longwood Garden's in Longwood, Pa. The 4th of July Fireworks over the Chesapeake Bay at Havre De Grace was and is still awesome. The Ripken Family sponsored our Little League team in the Aberdeen Little League met their Cal, Sr. a couple of times. The trip down memory lane has been fantastic. I am a railroad nut and the trains there were awesome to me the  Northeast Corridor of Amtrak was is a sight to behold trains zooming by at 100 mph plus. The big rail gun at the Proving Ground everyone should see.

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You are absolutely right SXSW,  about having the best of both worlds !  I loved growing up there ( in Aberdeen ) and would not change it for anything !  Going to the O's game every weekend and us having season tickets to the Colts was awesome !   The fireworks at Havre De Grace was fantastic,  but having the opportunity  go see them at Fort McHenry is something I will never forget !   Some of my favorite family memories were going to Ocean City most weekends during the summer.........except for the sun burns.....lol

Mom loved Longwood Gardens also and always took family members up there when they would come to visit and also made trips with family and friends to Washington when they would come up.  One of the advantages of growing up there where the fact that we were able to take some great schools trips just because of all of great places that were within a couple of hrs of travel distance of the area.  One of my favorites was a couple of trips to Annapolis,  just a beautiful town and seeing the Naval Academy and the tomb of John Paul Jones was fantastic and so memorable.  In the 6th grade we took a trip to New York and took Amtrak which was so great as a young man,  but I did not like New york at all,  but at least I was able to experience it and the view from atop of the empire state building was fantastic, although I did get a bit light headed....lol

My dad and I use to go to Conowingo Dam to fish for white perch and it is some of my favorite memories,  especially after he passed.  We also took a couple of school trips to peach bottom which was fascinating.  That's one of the things I hate for some of the kids in schools around here.  My wife teaches at one of the local elementary schools in Russell Co and when I tell her about and show her pictures of the trips we were able to take in school it amazes her.  Some of the kids she has had have rarely been out of the area and love just getting a trip to Bristol,  so we were very lucky going to school there,  but,  and I want to stress this,  BUT,  I absolutely love Southwest Virginia,  I would live no other place or want to raise a family no where else.

The people here are the best and I had the choice of where I wanted to live and here is where I chose to stay because I love it so !  I wish there were more job opportunities here so our young ones had more choices ( my daughter moved to Kansas City for her career ) and maybe in the future more local opportunities will come here,  but I still love this place !

 I will add one more thing as far as sports goes,  I wish Lacrosse was in schools here,  I absolutely love the sport and played up there and if you take the time to learn the sport most would become a fan !  It's a wonderful sport that has constant action and just a blast to play,  but I know with the shrinking budgets in our school systems that may never happen.  

   Well,  I guess everyone would wish I would shut up so I will ,  but it was a nice trip down memory lane.  Maybe some day we can get together at a game or somewhere and talk more about it SXSW,  but until then take care ! 

Again,  so sorry for the long winded reply, I just started typing and didn't realize I was typing so much so please forgive  !

Thanks

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P.M me and I will give you my number sometime and we can text and meet up for dinner sometime. My gosh all the memories. I think we lived the same life just a few years apart.

 I sure will SXSW,  I'll send you a PM in the next couple of days.  I ride my bike over around Kingsport quite a bit when the weather permits so we will try to work something out.

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