Did Your Parent Ever Wrap Your Lunch In The Loaf Wrapper?

The paper then was sort of crackly, not todays fine plastic. I was mortified when my pals moved on to “snappies’ or greaseproof bags, and we couldnt afford such a little .Did Your Parent Ever Wrap Your Lunch In The Loaf Wrapper?

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  1. aye
    and with fond memories to and she still do it to me and my dad when we were working together year’s later waste not want not and all that
    a few wee piece’s and a flask o tea

  2. Ms Mat Urity

    Oh yes most certainly. What I recall it was a sort of slidy, greasy paper. In Glasgow where I come from your lunch would wrapped in loaf paper from places they made bread like Milanda’, Beatties etc. I am tlaking of the 1950’s so guess you were in later years has nobody then would have moved on to ’snappies’or greaseproof bags as they were unheard of.

  3. i think most who lived in the country did this, while our town cousins were more posh and used the snappies or the greasproof bag. My mortification was that my loaf was the plain not the finer pan, and my sarnies looked like something from the back of beyond! My schoolpals had triangled pan bread. With hindsight, it was a big poverty issue in my family.

  4. When I was in grade school, we carried out lunch and Mother did use the loaf wrapper to put our sandwiches in to keep them fresh.
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  5. Lunch? Loaf? Wrapper?
    By Gum, where I come from you were lucky if you got tea, never mind lunch. I’d have cried with gratitude if we’d been able to eat bread that came in a wrapper - we had this rubbish stuff that tasted of bread and was sometimes still warm when it came out of the oven.
    And we had Jamie Oliver pushing T*sco meat pies through our school fence when our mam used to make her own with real meat and passtry that was not frozen.
    And real chips cooked in beef tallow that were brown rather than white.
    And there were 150 of us living in a shoebox in the middle of the road.
    “What, Cardboard Box”
    “Aye”
    “Luxury”

  6. My mom always used waxed paper when packing my lunch. When I was in grade school, I carried a lunch pail w/matching thermos. When I got into Jr. High, I carried my lunch in a paper lunch bag.
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  7. my lunch was always wrapped in wax paper, and it was always disgustingly nutritional, lol, so i used to swap it for jam sandwiches, they were so much nicer. kids, who knows what went on in my head. foghorn, i loved that sketch on monty python, haven’t heard it for years. ha ha ha

  8. That is quite a modern thing. Loaf wrapper. We did not have loaves in wrappers when I was young. Nor did we have sliced bread.
    I did not have sandwiches because I had school dinners. But they used to wrap it in greaseproof paper or a paper bag.

  9. Yes, I did it. Also in the early days of marriage. Wharburtons still do bread in the waxed paper and occasionally I wrap my snap in it.

  10. ᵸᵃṩᵢᴄᶦṱ TieBuster â˜Í¼Í½â˜”☃☮☯✈âœâœ‰â¨â¨‚

    very often it was sheets of paper from the co-op the white surfaced paper they used to wrap butter in.
    or occasionally the paper from the butchers (waxed ) which could also be used as tracing paper.
    enjoy the day

  11. that was so embarassing but with 8 of us i always got what was left as i was the runt and mom thought i wouldn’t complain as much.
    But bigger than all of them now
    Course it took 40 years to get there.

  12. Doesn’t this make you think how times have changed? The sad part is that no one is any better for the fancy wrapping paper. We haven’t progressed in a nicer way at all.

  13. I Dream of Jeannie

    I remember the wax paper kind. I loved the smell of that paper and it always made the sandwich smell fresh too. Strange isn’t it? lol

  14. We didn’t buy bread while we lived on the farm, it was all homemade. I remember wrapping sandwiches with wax paper before we had plastic sandwich bags though.

  15. Then science discovered that food wrapped in ’snappies’ was more likely to produce cancer in the youngsters bodies.

  16. i remember waxed paper,but my dad used to take his sandwiches to work in an old oxo tin,anybody remember them

  17. My mother usually used waxed paper.

  18. yes, but I don’t remember the name of the bread, but I remember it was very popular .That was when sliced white bread was thought to be the best.

  19. No, it was always in waxed paper but she did wrap my feet in the bread wrappers underneath my snow boots.

  20. Of course my friend,i was sick of ink-stained sarnies from the newspapers.

  21. My mom always used wax paper.

  22. I still wrap mine in the loaf wrapper! No sense in letting good plastic go to waste!

  23. Yes, all the time ! , I used to take it home to be reused.

  24. all the time. It was waxed paper

  25. yes, and also a paper bag
    long before plastic bags and plastic tubs were invented…….Lol

  26. You got a lunch?
    Blimey - How the other half lived :oP

  27. That’s a yes!! and also the inside paper from cereal boxes..still do after all these years.

  28. no, but she used waxed paper.

  29. no never

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