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>
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<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>
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<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>
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