School Canteen Menu from the 70's Goes Viral

A NSW school canteen menu from the ’70s has gone viral after being shared on social media.

Kevin Hayes posted a photo of the old Berala school canteen menu to Facebook this week and it has attracted a lot of attention, with people commenting on how different it is to menus today.

The treats on offer for kids back in 1974 were certainly a LOT different to today’s menu, including doughnuts, cakes, finger buns, custard tarts, chocolate eclairs, Wagon Wheels and apple pies. Even cough lollies were 2 for 1c.

What was your favourite treat from the canteen?

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18 Comments

- - Frankiielot said
  - 28 Jun 2022
    9:19 pm
Holy moly I can’t even imagine getting a meat pie for 20 cents!!!
How amazing would that be?!
I loved getting a lunch order every Friday when I was in year 6.
I still remember the days when we had one and two cent coins and one dollar was a note!
It’s so good seeing how different things were back in the day compared to now.

- - Mum2archer said
  - 31 May 2019
    3:12 pm
I used to love getting a lunch order! What a treat! We had little cartons of frozen orange juice that we would dig away at with a paddle pop stick… it would last us all day!!

- - mom762 said
  - 10 Mar 2019
    9:19 am
Love it. Would never pass the scrutiny of todays generation though!

- - littlehandsofmine said
  - 12 Feb 2019
    7:49 am
wow I can’t believe someone kept that all these years!

- - BellaB said
  - 06 Feb 2019
    6:50 pm
Never had a school canteen, so I never experienced these joys.

- - MisChip said
  - 06 Feb 2019
    6:29 pm
Well I’m not that old so zooper doopers may not be a surprising canteen item.

- - Ellen said
  - 06 Feb 2019
    3:30 am
I was at primary school in the 70’s and from ’76 in High school, but neither had a school canteen ! Near High school was a stand told sold hot chips, frikandellen and crocetten thought

- - mom93821 said
  - 05 Feb 2019
    7:03 am
Razz’s and Sunnyboy’s were such a cool treat on hot Summer days!

- - LuckyMum said
  - 05 Feb 2019
    6:34 am
Those were the days ! Really wasn’t an issue that there were all those ‘sometimes ‘ foods on the menu.. because most kids only got to order lunch every so often ( usually when mum ran out of bread )
- mom93821 replied
  
  06 Feb 2019 , 6:40 am
  Lunch orders were indeed so very rare and were such a treat.
- - mom343701 said
  - 05 Feb 2019
    6:05 am
Love it, so simple and affordable

- - mom320037 said
  - 05 Feb 2019
    1:54 am
Such a cool canteen menu list!

- - mom265671 said
  - 05 Feb 2019
    12:25 am
Can’t believe how different it was back then

- - Blossom said
  - 04 Feb 2019
    9:17 pm
The only food we ever bought from the school canteen was a pie or pastie on Mondays as there was no fresh bread and an icecream in the very hot weather.
Now you can buy a loaf of bread and basic filling to last a week for less than you can buy a basic sandwich for one day. How parents can afford to buy school lunches every day especially if you have 2 or more children is unbelievable. Is it because of luxuries like that which cause both parents to work and one have 2 jobs instead of one

- - ashna9 said
  - 04 Feb 2019
    6:49 pm
Such good offerings..lol. My favourite was the red frog lollies.

- - becstalou said
  - 04 Feb 2019
    6:05 pm
Ahhh the old canteen meals. Less healthy canteen meals but kids were probably still eating a lot healthier overall back then

- - mom112217 said
  - 04 Feb 2019
    2:00 pm
My favourite treat was a sausage roll and sauce or salt and vinegar chips and a sunny boy!

- - mom90758 said
  - 04 Feb 2019
    1:36 pm
What a difference in price with nowadays! They offered amazing desserts!!!