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[quote=Anonymous]GenXer here.

Milk AND juice at breakfast. Milk at lunch and dinner.

My private school kindergarten snack was red punch in a paper cup and one tiny sugar cookie.

Class party? Someone’s mom brought cans of Hawaiian Punch (and the tool that “punched” triangular pour holes - ours was aqua). We loved punch and juice from cans - also served at every Brownie and Girl Scout meeting.

Sometimes they’d be a line at the water fountains in every school hallway especially after recess. You’d get one quick sip before your classmates will yell at you to hurry up.

There were good water fountains (large, aluminum sided, noisy with high stream and clean drain that would shoot out freezing cold water with simple push button) near the main office and then there were the gross white ceramic water fountains mounted in the gyms and hallways that barely emitted room temp water that you had to turn clockwise. Tough to do while holding books.

One of my first life lessons from my parents was to NEVER get your mouth anywhere near the faucet. I recall a habit of flicking your wrist to try the fountain - always had to check the pressure-if it was dribbling out, hard pass.

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