A WORKING MAN'S LUNCH

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 3, Issue 232, 22 September 1914, Page 1

A WORKING MAN'S LUNCH

What Should It Contain ? Writiug with regard to this competition, held at the Spring I lower Show tinder the auspices ol the St. James' Ladies Guild, a correspondent writes : The remarks of the judge with i regard to a working man's lunch at | once causes us to mentally query : (1) Where are the students of scientific cookery who attend our technical school i Why do they not exhibit and show the general public the advantage to mankind of scientific training in cookery ? Most spectators appeared to think that the lunch exhibited was an ideal one for a working man (that is, for any manual labourer). But the judge quickly dispelled that idea with a scientific explanation of why that lunch, although sufficient in (quantity, did not contain [sufficient nourishment to replace the loss of vitality expended after four hours' work. " If," said the judge, "my interpietation of the words ' working man' as it appears in the schedule is correct, I cannot make an award." The class could have been more definitely stated and split up into several classes with advantage. The judge added : " That lunch is a sufficiently nourishing one for a clerk, and anyone doing similar office work." The exhibit contained beef sandwiches, home-made biscuits and plain cake. Cheese, instead of beef, said the judge, would have substituted the nourishment required, so would a Cornish pasty.