Going to school or to work in times gone by most of us purchased our lunch on Monday. The bakers did not work on Sunday and the bread available then was not full of extenders and other chemicals and went stale in a day.
The school I wenyt to had a very limited range and for US readers one pound equalled 4 US$. There were 20 shillings in a pound and one shilling was what I was given for lunch. Thus equivalent to 20 cents or 2 dimes.
I could choose between a meat pie (steak encased in pastry) plus one doughnut or 4 doughnuts. The doughnuts were more like a Bismark, about 4 inches in diameter, dusted with icing sugar with cream and strawberry jam.
The health police banished the purchase of such a menu years ago,