Blast from the past! This bizarre 1974 school canteen menu will SHOCK you
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A NSW school canteen menu from the 1970’s has made the rounds on social media and has caused a major stir online for its ridiculous prices and insane menu list. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kevin Hayes posted the image to the </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Old Shops Australia </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Facebook group showing a Berala Public School tuckshop menu, some of the items not even available to be purchased anymore. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Things allowed to be sold to young kids were a lot sweeter back in 1974 with doughnuts, cakes, custard tarts, chocolate eclairs, apple pies, finger buns and Wagon Wheels available for purchase for less than a whopping 20 cents. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Many people noted the insanely cheap prices that used to buy you a meal for less than 50 cents. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A large meat pie was just 20 cents, a sausage roll went for 12 cents while a baked bean and spaghetti sandwich went for 11 cents. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Peanuts were just 5 cents and a Wagon Wheel biscuit put you out of pocket by 6 cents.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Those were the good days,” one nostalgic user commented below the post. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Just LOOKING at that image evokes smells and tastes of our canteen!! Thank you!!” another wrote. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Back in the day when having tuckshop was a treat so the kids got what they didn’t bring from home like a sausage roll or pie and a cream bun,” one comment read.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Food prices back in 1974 were definitely different to now in 2019, as well as the food standards expected in schools – peanut butter sandwiches are not typically found in school menus anymore.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Scroll through the gallery above to see the whole menu.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What food did you buy from the tuck shop when you were in school? Let us know in the comments below.</span></p>
