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13 cent devon sandwiches: The 1974 Aussie school canteen menu that’s gone VIRAL

All of it would be banned from today’s schools! - by Amy Sinclair
  • 31 Jan 2019

A NSW school canteen price list from 1974 has gone viral across social media, revealing just how different - and more expensive - today’s school tuck shops are. 

Facebook user Kevin Hayes posted the shot of the Berala School Canteen Price List, which was dated June 18, 1974 and featured items most schools have banned from today’s playgrounds - including a wide range of doughnuts, vanilla slices and finger buns. 

13 cent devon sandwiches: The 1974 Aussie school canteen menu that’s gone VIRAL

The other glaring difference? The super low prices.  

On the list were baked bean sandwiches for 11 cents, devon sandwiches for 13 cents - as well as 1 cent Sao biscuits, 5 cent Sunny Boys and 6 cent Wagon Wheels. And when was the last time you saw a 12 cent meat pie?!

The amazing post prompted thousands of Aussies to reminisce about the old tuck shop foods they used to enjoy.

Wrote one: “Space food sticks now there’s a blast from past.”

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Image: Kevin Hayes/Facebook

Added another: “Devon and tomato sauce sandwiches (on white bread of course … there was never any option). Loved ‘em.”

“Baked bean sandwich — oh my god! And what kid would have ever eaten a salmon sandwich by choice,” another wrote.

Others recalled how the lunch orders were brought to school classrooms in brown paper bags with the name and orders written on the front, delivered in laundry baskets. Oh those were the days!

Many commented on how different yesterday’s lunches were in days gone by, especially compared to the strict rules for parens in todays schools. 

“Wow, most of those items would not be allowed to be sold or even consumed in schools these days,” one user said.

Only last year, one Melbourne mother was shamed for putting a lamington in her child’s lunchbox - while only yesterday, another mum was disciplined for giving her son a jam sandwich on white bread. 

‘What has the world come to?’ she wrote in the Facebook post. ‘I grew up on jam sandwiches - and since when is white bread banned?’

Well it certainly wasn’t banned in 1974, as this list shows. Now, who’s up for a 9 cent cream bun?

Amy Sinclair
Amy Sinclair
Amy Sinclair is a contibutor for New Idea Food.

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