sf > wrote in
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> On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 08:39:12 -0500, Kathleen
> > wrote:

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>>My son trades steak sandwiches on crusty sourdough for cafeteria
>>hamburger soft tacos. Makes his dad nuts. I try to put it into
>>economic terms for him.
>>
>>The leftovers the boy traded away cost less than the tacos he got in
>>return. Fact. He gets the tacos he craved, the other boy gets a
>>steak sandwich, the cafeteria contractor gets the profit on the tacos
>>they sold.
>>
>>It's all good, given that I can't follow him to school and stand over
>>him to make sure he eats what i sent.
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>
> Kids will be kids!
>

For a while in my first year of high school I sold my lunches to a girl who
never brought lunch from home. She was always given money to buy something
from the canteen (we don't have cafeterias at schools here)and craved home
made sandwiches. I only ever had money to buy food from the canteen on
special occasions so getting the chance to buy it on extra occasions was
very tempting for me. In those days the school canteens sold junk food and
lollies - not the healthy options they sell today. I don't remember exactly
what I used to spend the money on but it wouldn't have been anything my
mother would have approved of for lunch on a daily basis :-) The canteen
did sell sandwiches but I'm pretty sure I didn't buy those.

--
Rhonda Anderson
Cranebrook, NSW, Australia

Core of my heart, my country! Land of the rainbow gold,
For flood and fire and famine she pays us back threefold.
My Country, Dorothea MacKellar, 1904