On Feb 13, 7:58*am, George Shirley > wrote:

>
> Pinto beans and rice, both government commodities, were served twice a
> week in the Texas elementary and high schools I went to in the forties
> and fifties. That and those cafeteria rolls I still crave today. Luckily
> the local school system makes them the same way so I eat lunch with my
> school teacher wife at least once a week.

George, I love pinto beans cooked with onion and a ham hock, and put
over big slices of buttered cornbread and topped with some good hot
pepper relish "chow chow". Grew up on those and I still make them
once in a while to feed my comfort food cravings.