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Half a Grapefruit
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Half a Grapefruit
Rose wrote the Entrance, she went across the bridge, she went to high school.
There were four large clean windows along the wall. There were new fluorescent1 lights. Theclass was Health and Guidance, a new idea. Boys and girls mixed until after Christmas, when theygot on to Family Life. The teacher was young and optimistic. She wore a dashing red suit thatflared out over the hips2. She went up and down, up and down the rows, making everybody saywhat they had for breakfast, to see if they were keeping Canada’s Food Rules.
Differences soon became evident, between town and country. “Fried potatoes.”
“Bread and corn syrup3.”
“Tea and porridge.”
“Tea and bread.”
“Tea and fried eggs and cottage roll.”
“Raisin pie.”
There was some laughing, the teacher making ineffectual scolding faces. She was getting to thetown side of the room. A rough sort of segregation4 was maintained, voluntarily, in the classroom.
Over here people claimed to have eaten toast and marmalade, bacon and eggs, Corn Flakes5, evenwaffles and syrup. Orange juice, said a few.
Rose had stuck herself on to the back of a town row. West Hanratty was not represented, exceptby her. She was wanting badly to align6 herself with towners, against her place of origin, to attachherself to those waffle-eating coffee-drinking aloof7 and knowledgeable8 possessors of breakfastnooks.
“Half a grapefruit,” she said boldly. Nobody else had thought of it.
As a matter of fact Flo would have thought eating grapefruit for breakfast as bad as drinkingchampagne. They didn’t even sell them in the store. They didn’t go in much for fresh fruit. A fewspotty bananas, small unpromising oranges. Flo believed, as many country people did, thatanything not well-cooked was bad for the stomach. For breakfast they too had tea and porridge.
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