We can discuss lunch but I will need some audience participation....
Lunch was prepared by "Mr. Drach" z"l and Mrs. Drach. Mon, Wed, and Thurs. was milchigs: macaroni, wet and cold. This was one of the many foods that caused kids to invent Bais Dovid exclusive recipes just to get the food down your throat. Kids would sprinkle that mixture of sugar and cinnamon, a Mr. Drach special, onto the macaroni.
"Grilled cheese"... That was made by placing slices of Franczos white bread on trays, then with a PAINT BRUSH (yes, I saw it many times!!) The goyim would "paint" them with some tomato concoction. On that would be a single slice of American cheese; from the huge bricks supplied by the USDA.
Theses would be placed in the small ovens, the ones with small doors and baked until brown. Those unique spatulas with the handles spray painted blue would be needed to break each piece loose.....
"Pizza".... Need we go there?! Also baked on those pans and doled out using those spatulas. Pieces were cut in to squares, religiously.
One of the more dreaded "dishes" was fish sticks! Next was potatoes sliced in half and baked with more paprika than any other spice.
Potato knishes were actually pretty popular.
But then there was Tuesday. Tuesday was fleishigs. Now, that doesn't necessarily mean that that's better than milchigs. Just that it was a whole different “sugya”. The fleishiger menu consisted of chicken and Meal Mart turkey rolls. It never really varied much from those two items. Chicken was usually baked with two-three inches of paprika on top.
The turkey (or, on rare occasions, salami) was also baked, in deep trays with plenty of fat and oil. The correct, Bais Dovid way to eat it was to place a few slices of turkey on a paper towel (the brown, sand paper ones), place another paper towel on top. Then place the palm of your hand on top and press all the oil/fats out. Then you would eat it. We can spare you the details of the rest of the process… Turkey was ever present. Even the “goulash” had, instead of cubes of meat, cubes of turkey roll!
To be continued….
Wow! Great job. I cannot fathom what you can add to this summation.
ReplyDeleteHey, what about the spreads? Mrs. Biller and the mother on "lunch-duty' would stand at a table near the sink behind over sized canisters of peanut butter, jelly and another thing (I don't recall). She had a knife that was used exclusively for 'shmearing'. I was atill in BD when she started using gloves.
ReplyDeleteYour're right. And btw, the other thing was 4 sticks of margarine, she would swipe that "shmearer" along the tops of it and then smear it on to the Franczoz bread. "Who vuntz maw?"
ReplyDeleteAnd that "Rebbe" on duty, usually Rabbi Rosen that made sure like a police man that everybody washed, and how we used to fake that we were washing or sneak around him.
ReplyDeleteAnd then of course the major "benching matzav". We can go on and on about that part
How can you forget and not mention the legendary shvartze Pierre who had a smashed nose, and would always say "Hashem sit on my nose".
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