What was Jamaica like in the 1970s?

@winniethomas2501 | Most children would take lunch to school or go home for lunch and come back to school. Back then, cherry malt was 15 cents, and 1 patty was 5 cents. So you may get 25 cents as lunch money. The girls would jump rope, or skipping, dandy Shandy, hop sachet, wolawho. The boys would play cricket and football.

We didn't have much, but we were happy, and we shared our lunch with those who could not afford it.

@timthomas4301 | In those times going to school as a youth. Fry dumplings, fritters, roasted plantain, Jack fruit, dry coconut 🥥. Rose apples, common apples, plums, sugar cane, oranges 🍊, grapefruits, pudding, blue jaas, and lots of natural fruits and vegetables. Etc. We never used to these fabricated snacks.,only original bulla, crackers, and bread.

@lizbeth7189 | I went to school in the 70s. Primary school lunch was horrible., you get bulgar and curry chicken which they add a lot of flour to make a curry sauce or it would be large boiled dumplings and that same curry sauce. At break, you get a free milk powder drink served in an aluminum cup. Secondary and high school lunch was so much better.

Rice and peas stew chicken or stew beef with vegetables we paid $2 or we buy beef patty and cocoa bread with a soda that would cost $2 or a little less. When you didn't have lunch money no matter how hungry you were your pride would not let you tell anyone so you stayed in the classroom and said you had a stomach ache. Those were the days.

@Mercia Mascoe-Bryan |I left Jamaica not long after Independence I got five Shillings a day for bus fare and lunch and attended Holy Rosary Prep School.

@Dominica Pradere |Chalk was definitely being used until I retired in 2008 but whiteboards have been introduced gradually since then.