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School dinners 1970's .....
balthasar
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What was the meat served during lunch, it was grey in colour and always seemed to have bits of tubes in it.?*
Had a chat with a old friend and we both wondered?*
*He said stingy bits I recall tubes?
Had a chat with a old friend and we both wondered?*
*He said stingy bits I recall tubes?
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Not eggy but kinda lumpy cheesy
Yum! I used to love that.. Also used to love chocolate concrete with mint custard mmmmmmm delicious
But I really don't remember any horrible grey meat with tubes in it. Thank God. It sounds disgusting! :eek:
The tubes are actually blood vessels. You find larger blood vessels in tougher (and therefore cheaper) cuts of meat - since those cuts in a live animal do more work and therefore need a better blood supply.
it was great
you could go up for 2nds and 3rds
liver is just wrong though
I went to boarding school so I had school dinners forced upon me. Fried food and stodge galore.
Remember the matching lunchbox and flask combos, mine was Holly Hobbie I think.
Can't remember the meat, maybe I've blocked out the memory:(.
You might have to make it a bit nicer than it actually was. The 1970's were a bit of a low point, where home cooking had declined sharply but good quality ready meals had not arrived on the scene. I'm not sure how many takers there would be for luminous prawn cocktail, shoe-leather steak in rubbery pepper sauce, stiff and synthetic black forest gateau and Cresta - the fizzy drink that actually made you radioactive.
They were all the rage.
I used to love the mock cream which was normally on a jelly or angel delight pudding. We also had treacle tart a lot with crunchy cornflakes on the top, often with custard you could stand a spoon up in.
The main meal was normally chips and something, like a pizza slice or meat pie.
When I had school dinners in the 1940s, battered Spam would have been considered a great luxury.
Spam fritters.
My local chippy has recently added spam fritters to its menu. 50p each.
I dont remember anything with tubes. Fat and gristle and stringy. All the meat was grey. So was the fish come to think of it.