I used to take bread & honey sandwiches to high school, as it would give me a sugar boost to get through the rest of the school day. By lunch time the honey would soak well into the bread & almost be sugary & hard.
My mom made bread every two weeks. Being a kid, I figured I was missing something by not having store-bought Wonder Bread, and eagerly traded my school lunch with friends. The weird thing about the commercial bread was that you could press it flat and fold it up like cardboard. It tasted like cardboard too unless you put lots of margarine on it. (Few families could afford butter.) One of my friends made his own lunch every day, and the things he found to press between slices of bread varied from garlic cloves to dill pickles to just plain sugar.
Sometimes I traded with him, sometimes I didn’t, but I was always envious of his store bought bread and the way he was allowed to make his lunch any way he wanted to. What we didn’t know about each other was that my mom couldn’t afford to buy commercially made bread, and his mom went to work before he got up. He had to dress himself and his brother, make both their lunches, walk his brother to a neighbour’s house, and then get himself to school. With nutritious meals to look forward to and a mom who was home to look after me, I was the lucky one.
Peanut butter and honey sandwiches are delicious, not so sure about just plain honey and bread. Oh btw, Skippy makes a peanut butter with honey. My husband and I have opted for that one over our regular peanut butter recently. It’s sooo delish!
We didn’t have a whole lot of money growing up and mom really had to be creative to stretch her food budget.
For example, one day she’d make us cream cheese and olive sandwiches to take to school. The next day it would be cream cheese and pimentos – taken out of the olives, from the day before !Peanut butter was a sandwich staple ( mostly because Dad, if allowed, would put peanut butter one everything ). While I liked PB&J’s, my favorites ( to this day ) were peanut butter and bananas, peanut butter and cream cheese, and ( in memory of my Dad ) , a peanut butter and bacon sandwich.
Lynn’s Notes:My parents, on a 5-point circuit after marriage, would be invited for Sunday dinner by some parishioner. Always, in honor of the occasion, they would have commercial white bread when they were so hoping for home made.
TO GWEEDO FROM YESTERDAY: "I wish they would reprint these at the rate of five or more a day. I hate to think I will be counting the years of my life by a comic strip " Imagine this Gweedo, I can count BACK to when these first appeared in the newspaper! i used to buy the local broadsheet ONLY so I could keep up with this strip. Yes, I am old.
@ comicsssfan and nun’ya bidness. I would suggest that you not access this whilst eating or drinking. You may want to have a medical dictionary handy as well unless you don’t particularly want to know specific information about conditions listed.
TEMPLO S.U.D.The passport (and arming the formerly "greatest undefended border in the world) was a Bush-Harper scheme to prevent refugees in either direction. I lived in BC during the exile period. The best illustration was that I never knowingly met an American exile, even though there were 2,000 in the Lower Mainland. Yet in a conference following the UN Conference there, in a workshop on “Marketing small-scale manufacturing in Canada”, one participant facetiously asked, “Do you let Americans in here?” To which the leader replied, “Why not? I’m one.” So were half the rest. We lost a whole generation in that attempt to take over the French colonies in south-east Asia.
Squizzums almost 9 years ago
You’re a genius, kid. Take it to Coney Island. You’ll make millions.
Argythree almost 9 years ago
Playing with your food…
charliefarmrhere almost 9 years ago
I used to take bread & honey sandwiches to high school, as it would give me a sugar boost to get through the rest of the school day. By lunch time the honey would soak well into the bread & almost be sugary & hard.
Frog-on-a-Log Premium Member almost 9 years ago
Now there’s a guy who knows how to impress the girls.
smorbie the great and beautiful almost 9 years ago
No, I think it’s Christopher, isn’t it?
tripwire45 almost 9 years ago
White bread and honey sandwich? That kid’s Mom must hate him.
Aaberon almost 9 years ago
Me, too – they were so good.
Atewl almost 9 years ago
Lynn’s Notes:
My mom made bread every two weeks. Being a kid, I figured I was missing something by not having store-bought Wonder Bread, and eagerly traded my school lunch with friends. The weird thing about the commercial bread was that you could press it flat and fold it up like cardboard. It tasted like cardboard too unless you put lots of margarine on it. (Few families could afford butter.) One of my friends made his own lunch every day, and the things he found to press between slices of bread varied from garlic cloves to dill pickles to just plain sugar.
Sometimes I traded with him, sometimes I didn’t, but I was always envious of his store bought bread and the way he was allowed to make his lunch any way he wanted to. What we didn’t know about each other was that my mom couldn’t afford to buy commercially made bread, and his mom went to work before he got up. He had to dress himself and his brother, make both their lunches, walk his brother to a neighbour’s house, and then get himself to school. With nutritious meals to look forward to and a mom who was home to look after me, I was the lucky one.
Linguist almost 9 years ago
…. when corn squeezin’s would be soo much more fun !
Especially if Mr. George Dickel did the squeezin.
Retired Dude almost 9 years ago
We were so poor I used to take onion sandwiches to school. And it was uphill both ways.
Nicole ♫ ⊱✿ ◕‿◕✿⊰♫ Premium Member almost 9 years ago
Peanut butter and honey sandwiches are delicious, not so sure about just plain honey and bread. Oh btw, Skippy makes a peanut butter with honey. My husband and I have opted for that one over our regular peanut butter recently. It’s sooo delish!
Linguist almost 9 years ago
We didn’t have a whole lot of money growing up and mom really had to be creative to stretch her food budget.
For example, one day she’d make us cream cheese and olive sandwiches to take to school. The next day it would be cream cheese and pimentos – taken out of the olives, from the day before !Peanut butter was a sandwich staple ( mostly because Dad, if allowed, would put peanut butter one everything ). While I liked PB&J’s, my favorites ( to this day ) were peanut butter and bananas, peanut butter and cream cheese, and ( in memory of my Dad ) , a peanut butter and bacon sandwich.
summerdog86 almost 9 years ago
Our kids learn more from their peers than from any others.
mabrndt Premium Member almost 9 years ago
Colorist messed up; looks more like wheat bread than white bread to me. No shading in the B&W version to tell the colorist to do that:
hippogriff almost 9 years ago
Lynn’s Notes:My parents, on a 5-point circuit after marriage, would be invited for Sunday dinner by some parishioner. Always, in honor of the occasion, they would have commercial white bread when they were so hoping for home made.
rekam Premium Member almost 9 years ago
Add my thanks to Gweedo’s. I always look for it because I find it easier to read.
summerdog86 almost 9 years ago
Mom was home for us too, but I don’t think she was particularly glad to see us.
Downundergirl almost 9 years ago
TO GWEEDO FROM YESTERDAY: "I wish they would reprint these at the rate of five or more a day. I hate to think I will be counting the years of my life by a comic strip " Imagine this Gweedo, I can count BACK to when these first appeared in the newspaper! i used to buy the local broadsheet ONLY so I could keep up with this strip. Yes, I am old.
Khatkhattu Premium Member almost 9 years ago
@ comicsssfan and nun’ya bidness. I would suggest that you not access this whilst eating or drinking. You may want to have a medical dictionary handy as well unless you don’t particularly want to know specific information about conditions listed.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2686636
hippogriff almost 9 years ago
TEMPLO S.U.D.The passport (and arming the formerly "greatest undefended border in the world) was a Bush-Harper scheme to prevent refugees in either direction. I lived in BC during the exile period. The best illustration was that I never knowingly met an American exile, even though there were 2,000 in the Lower Mainland. Yet in a conference following the UN Conference there, in a workshop on “Marketing small-scale manufacturing in Canada”, one participant facetiously asked, “Do you let Americans in here?” To which the leader replied, “Why not? I’m one.” So were half the rest. We lost a whole generation in that attempt to take over the French colonies in south-east Asia.
gammaguy almost 9 years ago
White bread and honey. Better than white bread and sugar, but still not much besides carbs.