re: Friday was the best day for the school cafeteria!

Two fishsticks, catsup, rice, English peas, and some type dessert. And those school house rolls.

I sort of get emotional when thinking about school lunches. You see, I grew up in the day when there were no free school lunches yet lunches were priced so cheap thanks to Earl Long that $1.25 a week would feed you.

Yet a lot of kids brought their lunch and their sack was really pretty pitiful. They weren't bring a lunch because they didn't like the food, they couldn't afford the 25 cents. Often we'd share our food knowing they didn't have two nickels to rub together.

A lot of kids back then actually got their best meal at school. Lots of poor, sawmill town youngsters whose families had a difficult time making ends meet.

And we were a segregated society back then so I ain't talking about minorities. Every damn body was poor but most of us didn't realize it.

No doubt the situation was as dire in the black schools if not worse.