Day 243
Schumeister’s
Bakery---peanut cakes
4-years
of high school found me and three classmates eating lunch together in the back
room of “Mom & Pop’s” café in old downtown Waterloo; they had a 50¢ special
offering the patron a hamburger and fries with a Coke, a full meal for a high
school kid. We played pinochle as we dined on the delectable food-fare. After
our meal and card game, we trekked across the wide street to Schumeister’s
Bakery where the elderly matron happily served “her” noon-day boys with the bakery’s
signature peanut cake.
My
card-sharp trio of friends each ordered the lunch-“special” which cost half a
dollar, with tax, it came to 52¢. My Dad gave me 50¢ for lunch each day, so I
could not afford the “special”. I ordered a hamburger and a Coke which left me
with a dime to split a peanut cake; Dad would have given me the additional
money for tax and, even, the dessert, but, I never told him of my
dining-dilemma. I felt horrible taking money, as it was. Thanks! Dad! I owe
you.
The
dessert cost 20¢; we bought two of the cakes, each of the 4-some investing a
dime; our server dutifully sliced the large confections in half (down the
middle, the “long” way). Sustenance-in-hand, the quad-gang headed on down
yonder to “Sealtest” Dairy Bar where the “Public”-school kids congregated for
lunch where we sashayed amongst the horde of myriad non-Catholics while eyeing
the “forbidden-fruit” offerings and punching guys in the arm.
Education leads to knowledge!
I sure enough got some “street-smarts” on the adventure-way!
Some
years later, but not too many, I
introduced my progeny to the delights of Schumeister’s peanut-cake; I even had
the clerk cut them in half (the long way); the kids loved it---me, too!
Ah! Cookie Jar Sweet “peanut-cake dessert”
Memories!
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