What is a miner meal?

What is a miner meal?

Miner Meals is a program that offers a 10 percent discount at participating food venues on campus. Funds in Miner Meals can be deposited online with a minimum deposit of $5.00. There is no need to renew Miner Meals balances, as they roll over each semester.

What did child coal miners eat?

The work that children did in the mines was very dangerous and the fact that there were often few safety rules resulted in many serious injuries and deaths. Children’s health was also affected by the constant damp, draughts and coal dust. Ordinary people ate a limited diet, which mainly consisted of potatoes and bread.

What did coal miners eat UK?

A miner’s diet usually consisted of bread and dripping (mucky fat) or bread and jam. Other types of food were either too expensive or went off quickly in the hot conditions underground. Coal dust made the miners fingers dirty so dirty bread crusts were discarded.

Do coal miners get paid well?

While ZipRecruiter is seeing annual salaries as high as $95,500 and as low as $24,000, the majority of Underground Coal Miner salaries currently range between $37,000 (25th percentile) to $55,000 (75th percentile) with top earners (90th percentile) making $62,000 annually across the United States.

What food did gold miners eat?

In the gold rush the most common food for miners was damper a simple bread, made of mainly flour, salt and water usually cooked over an open camp fire. If they miners and their families were lucky they might get cabbage or carrots but this was rare.

What did coal miners eat for lunch?

When Italians emigrated from Calabria, Italy, to North Central West Virginia to work in the coal mines, they brought traditional foods with them: fresh pastas, breads, cured meats and more. It was common to see pieces of bread and salami in lunch buckets underground in the late-1800 and early-1900s.

What was the biggest problem facing coal mines?

A special problem in coal mines was the methane (a gas) that sometimes accompanied coal, and which could–and too often did–catch fire and explode.

Why do Northerners call food snap?

A colloquialism for ‘lunch’ in the East Midlands and parts of Yorkshire is ‘snap’. Possibly a reference to the specially-shaped, waterproof ‘snap tins’ that miners used to take their food underground. (Miners in the North East refer to their lunch as ‘bait’).

Why is lunch called snap?

Miners used to take a tin box down into the mines with their food in it. The sound of the tin snapping open and shut led to the meal itself being referred to as snap.

What did people eat in the coal mines?

Ordinary people ate a limited diet, which mainly consisted of potatoes and bread. The sub-commissioners were very interested in children’s health and how they were affected by working in a coal mine.

What foods can you eat in a mine?

When you first arrive at the mine, they warn you in the health & safety briefing not to eat too much. “People have been known to put on thirty pounds while staying here, and that is not healthy,” they remind you. But how can you resist a huge steak cooked rare, loaded with gravy, and surrounded by green beans, carrots, and potatoes?

Why did the miners eat the same food every Sunday?

Feeding the mining families was a way to bring in some money and keep the cooks gainfully employed. And maybe give some fleeting pleasure to underpaid miners and thier families. The meal was the same every Sunday. First soup: thin gruel served in thick ceramic plates that would kill if thrown with accuracy.

Why did people work in the coal mines?

Most of the single men were somewhere else– riding their motor cycles and entertaining women. Feeding the mining families was a way to bring in some money and keep the cooks gainfully employed. And maybe give some fleeting pleasure to underpaid miners and thier families.