I started elementary in the mid-eighties, and we only got milk at lunchtime, with the lunch itself. I think lunch was $1.10 when I began, and $1.25 when I stopped eating it in junior high. Chocolate was always an option, and one I always took–so I don’t know what kinds of white milk there were.
Hmmm, I hadn’t heard that. (I do remember the part about his son getting sick, but Big Al still courted the good publicity from the situation, no doubt about it.)
Elementary school did not have a kitchen, or lunch, but we did have a cafeteria (or a room set aside for eating at tables, anyway). I don’t know if our milk was subsidized by the government; I went to Catholic school.
Never go up against a Scicillian when milk is on the line!
But on to the OP: due to my very foggy memories of childhood, the only thing I clearly remember about elementary school milk was that once, in milk line, just because I was bored, I put my nickel in my mouth. And accidentally swallowed it. My mother had to watch my poop for a week to make sure that nickel passed! She was in a worse mood than usual that week!
In my youngest daughter’s school, they have a choice of whole white, skim white, or lowfat chocolate, and I believe chocolate is the overwhelming preference. Sometimes, some of the schools get some unusual flavors like strawberry, banana, and orange cream. Milk in her elementary school is 35C.
Don’t recall the cost in elementary school, but in HS (1979 graduate), it was a quarter. Chocolate or whole as I remember. I was a chocolate girl.
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Catholic school, 60’s, Al Capone had a residence less than 0.5 mile from where I grew up (old people still talked about what a great guy he was when I was in high school in the 70’s). In my early years the milk came in pint sized glass bottles. I was a chocolate milk girl until the World Series of 1968. The nuns let us watch the games at lunch time. I drank a carton of chocolate then arfed my guts up all over. Turns out I was the first person in the neighborhood to get Mono (otherwise known as the kissing disease 
). I got a rep as being “fast” even though I’ld never even kissed anyone yet. :dubious:
Bottom line, Chocolate milk–>yuck 
Oh, and white milk was $0.02 and chocolate was $0.03, subsidized by the state I think.
Chocolate, but only because it was the only kind that didn’t taste like the cardboard cartons. I guess the chocolate flavor masked it.
:eek: Am I the only person who thinks it might be a bad idea to give first graders that much caffeine?!?
Growing up in America’s Dairlyland, we had fully homogenized white milk for two cents a carton (1960s).
I still go through at least two gallons a week today. Current price is $1.95 a gallon of homo white.
Whole white (red carton) for me, it was 7 cents in elementary school (New York state, mid 1970s). 2% white (blue carton) was also available. Chocolate (brown carton) was not a usual choice, it was for “special” days. To this day, I don’t know what made the days special, they weren’t related to holidays or anything like that. I think perhaps “special” meant the dairy supplier brought chocolate by mistake.
When I started elementary school in 1978, we bought lunch and milk tickets at the beginning of every week. Lunch tickets (which included milk) were .35 and milk tickets were .05. By the time I was in high school, they were 1.25 and .25, respectively (no tickets in HS, just cash).
I drank chocolate milk until fourth grade. That year, I was assigned (with four other kids) the job of helping the lunch ladies by handing out milk to the students as they went into the cafeteria (nice gig. Even though we were the last to get lunch, we got to leave class 20 before lunch and screw around in the empty cafeteria before every arrived). Anyway, most kids took chocolate, and by the time I was done, my hands were covered in a film of sticky chocolate milk residue. And not only did it stink, it smelled exactly like shit.
I switched to regular milk by the second day, and I don’t thik I’ve had chocolate milk since.
We had no choice. If you bought lunch you got a glass of milk, and there was an option to buy a single glass (extra, or if you brought a bag lunch) for 35 cents. But no choice on type–one girl did sometimes get juice claiming he was allergic to milk. Said girl ate ice cream, and occasionally would have a glass of milk with NesQuik mixed in :dubious:
At any rate, what they served us must’ve been 2%, I probably would’ve complained had it been anything else. (I can tolerate 1% and whole–can’t stand skim)
A friend of mine told me that her doctor recommended she give her hyper 6 yo a small cup of coffee to calm him down in the evening. I couldn’t believe it, but said the doc said it has a calming affect on kids. I have no cite, just hearsay.
When I wasn in elementary school (mid to lat 70’s) we didn’t have a choice. I’m assuming we just had whole milk. It might have been 2%. It was 15 cents. When my son attended Catholic school last year and the year before he had a choice of 2% white or chocolate. He always chose white because he said the chocolate tasted funny and he didn’t want chocolate milk he didn’t make himself. It was 35 cents. Now he can have chocolate milk for lunch as he’s homeschooled and can make it himself.
We had white (2%), chocolate, strawberry, and for a short while, orange and banana milk. It cost .25 for most of the time, and my junior year in high school, it bacame .30, and I never bought it. I can’t stand milk.
I suppose I should add, I started school in 1992, and graduated in 2004.
In most of my elementary school career in the Prince George’s County, Maryland school system we only were offered white whole milk for 2 cents.
In kindergarten, I happened to live in Casey1505’s neck of the woods in Scranton. I got chocolate milk there, and I don’t remember how much it was. (Hey! 1962 was a long time ago…)
What school did you go to?
In Kindergarten, I was at Stowe (now closed), 1st grade was Webster (now closed), 2nd grade was Sacred Hearts (now closed), then they finished McNichol’s Plaza (still open, YAY!!) and I went there for grades 3-5.
I rarely bought my lunch (I was a VERY picky eater, and much preferred my mom’s well-known sandwichcraft to God-knows-what in the lunch line), but when I did, my dear mother would often give me a small plastic vial of Nestle’s Quick to mix in with the milk. I was the envy of the lunch table.
Went to grade school in the 70’s in the southwest suburbs of Chicago. We had milk - I believe it was only regular - each day at lunch - you picked it up as you filed in the lunchroom on your way to your table. We all had to bring our lunch - there was no cafeteria. The lunchroom was also the gym - the tables folded up into the wall. Once a month or every two months (it’s hard to remember) we would have hot dog day - the room mothers would pass out hot dogs to all the kids instead of us having to bring lunch - there were order forms and everything.