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School dinners... share your memories :)
Lentil soup
Cream potato Coleslaw / Cabbage / Turnip Corned Beef Chocolate fudge Raisin tart yum yumm... I think ....well, a 3-course meal for 50p in my day, that's not bad
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but I always avoided the school custard
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I remember semolina - they always served it on a plate for some reason, even though it had the consistency of custard, with a big dollop of seedless jam in the middle. I thought it was the most glamorous dessert in the world ever when I was seven. I loved it so much.
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Lumpy, cold mashed potato. Lumpy, cold mashed swede. Big, fat sausages with bits of innards and the odd eyeball. Cold processed peas - excuse me, need to dash to the bathroom :vommit:
(Not pleasant memories as you may have guessed)
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Chocolate crispies with mint green custard
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Oh I remember one time sprinkling the salt onto the raisin tart, for a laugh. The dinner supervisor came over and exclaimed "That's salt! Not sugar." I pretended I didn't know and got given a replacement
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Caramel shortcake and custard! mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
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This should be merged with food you have a phobia of /// shudders /// when I think of what we used to eat
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Great idea for a thread btw
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oooh yes, caramel shortcake, yumm
I also liked: pineapple upside-down rhubarb crumble and Chelsea buns from the school cafeteria.
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My favourite school dinner was cheese pie, mashed potato, and tinned tomatoes, usually served on Fridays
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Its my first post here and what a great subject to start on!! this brought back some memories of my very first school dinner (a very long time ago!
) it was liver with lumpy mash, then semolina with prunes - all the things I hate!!My favourites were fish fingers and chips, and jam sponge, and I even liked the runny custard with it!! |
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Its my first post here and what a great subject to start on!! this brought back some memories of my very first school dinner (a very long time ago!
) it was liver with lumpy mash, then semolina with prunes - all the things I hate!!My favourites were fish fingers and chips, and jam sponge, and I even liked the runny custard with it!!
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but i was lucky because my nan was a dinner lady, so I could leave what I didn't like!
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Chocolate crispies with mint green custard
i have no idea why, not even a theory |
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chocolate pudding with pink custard
the smell of over-cooked cabbage One diiner lady, called Doreen, made really good cottage pie, but she only worked on Thursdays. |
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scotch broth
mince cottage pie (sometimes with beans in it) sliced roast pork and apple sauce sliced roast beef and gravy, sometimes with dumplings sausages'n'onion gravy always fish on Fridays....(cant remember if it was chips with it, or the usual mash) scoops of mashed potato and turnip. peas, sliced boiled carrot, cabbage lots of lovely desserts with custard - fly cemetry, fly cemetry with fudge on top, caramel flan, raspberry and coconut sponge, syrup sponge, eve's pudding, pineapple upside down cake.... I'm sure there's more! |
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my favourites at primary school were:
minced beef (i think) cobbler gypsy tart chocolate sponge with chocolate custard |
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caramel shortcake and pink custard !!
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We have pretty much the same almost every day, there is little variation. But the ones I liked best were these:
Pasta & cheese in tomato and basil sauce Slice of original pizza Rice with chicken in this sort of sweet and sour sauce Apple crumble with custard or chocolate cake with custard.
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Butterscotch tart and custard. Yum.
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ah, the memories!
bean rounders spam fritters carrots, swede & peas all mixed together blamanche with hundreds & thousands on it semolina with the seedless jam (mentioned earlier!! )tapioca chocolate pud with mint custard chocolate pud with pink custard jam roly poly with normal custard I could go on...but wont!!!
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Things off the top of my head are:
Sausage Pie - Looked like vomit, but was actually delicious!! Chicken Supreme - Always thought it looked awful so never had it until one day when it was the only thing left, and I actually quite liked it ![]() Chocolate sponge with green peppermint sauce. |
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Blamonge
Rice Pudding With Jam in & mixing it up to make it go smooth pink ![]() Beans & Chips Meat & tatty Pies & Chips |
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My Primary School had great cooks, my favourites were:
Mince Pie (Puff Pastry) and Mash Treacle Tart and Custard |
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....well, a 3-course meal for 50p in my day, that's not bad

