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We got a meat pie and plain milk. No other choices.
Every morning, all of the classes would meet on a parade ground and we stood at attention, in two columns. A couple kids would wheel something over that looked like a very tall wooden chest of drawers on wheels and a kid at the head of the line for each class would go and retrieve one drawer out of it. He would then walk up and down both sides of his class and each kid would throw in an envelope with their name on it and payment for lunch. The kids would then put the drawers back in the apparatus and it would be wheeled somewhere off of the school grounds where they made the lunches. It would return at lunchtime and make the rounds of all the classrooms, where that classroom’s drawer would be pulled out and the pies distributed. We ate lunch at our desks.
Bizarre.
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