Care Packages
Courtesy of the Florida Memory Project
At the HBCU Virginia State (Virginia State University Today (VSU)) students ate what they called “wonder meat” because “we wondered what it was,” says Lamenta Watkins Crouch, a 1970 Virginia state graduate. Her older sister Francis Watkins Neely graduated from Virginia Union in 1967. “I really did not like the lamb chops,” that they served in the cafeteria. The food at Virginia State, according to her younger sister Lamenta was unappetizing. Here older sister Francis adds, “we southern students were always receiving care packages from home filled with good food. So we always knew somebody on campus who had just received a care packages so we would go and eat that instead of the cafeteria food.”
