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School dinners... share your memories :)
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Louismum
07-01-2008
Manchester Tart which was pastry with jam on it and then a set custard on top of the jam mmmmmmmmmm

I remember the burnt sausages and onions

The cheese and potato pie was good

The biscuit that was served with half a peach on top surrounded by this false cream that was yummy. We always had milky coffee with this too

The custard with the skin on

The pink white and brown blancmange

Whats gypsy tart anyone ?
kit123
07-01-2008
everyone seems to remember chocolate concreate with pink custard! lol
orangebird
07-01-2008
Originally Posted by Sad_BB_Addict:
“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.”

I think we went to the same school - that's all I can recall, cabbage and pink custard (wtf?!?!?)
GinaGold
07-01-2008
Originally Posted by Louismum:
“Whats gypsy tart anyone ?”

Gypsy Tart.

I've never had this before and after reading what's in it, I don't think I would like to try it.

I liked the Chicken Curry, Cornflake Tart, Chocolate Tart, and the steamed puddings at my high school.
mad1
07-01-2008
I always had nice school dinners. I really loved Chicken Fricassee (sp?).
snuffle_-_uk
07-01-2008
Originally Posted by mad1:
“I always had nice school dinners. I really loved Chicken Fricassee (sp?).”

They always called that Chicken Supreme in at my school.

on the subject of another food, i can't believe that a disc of luncheon meat (aka Spam? i could never tell) was an acceptable thing to be feeding kids for lunch in the late 80s and early 90s.
Arthur Pringle
08-01-2008
we used to be given mud and coal dust and if we didn't eat it we'd be marched off the the head to be birched
darkpaw
08-01-2008
Originally Posted by snuffle_-_uk:
“They always called that Chicken Supreme in at my school.

on the subject of another food, i can't believe that a disc of luncheon meat (aka Spam? i could never tell) was an acceptable thing to be feeding kids for lunch in the late 80s and early 90s.”

I love fried spam.
diablo
08-01-2008
I quite liked school meals. Nearly all the teachers had them too, so they can't have been too bad.

There was never a menu though, we sat six to a table and were brought the food. The only choice you had was whether to eat it or not.

Various unidentified meats in sauce was one of my favourites. Cheese pie was very nice as well - as was cottage pie.

Potatoes were usually mashed but sometimes whole, occasionally oven roasted - but never, ever chips.

Steamed puddings were good. I once got told off by my fellow diners when I put the custard skin back into the jug when it lodged halfway out of the jug.

The school made all of the stuff on the premises in big kitchens. This was in the 60s though, so they probably ripped them out when Thatcher got in.
paddysu
08-01-2008
At primary school we had proper meals with two sittings and there was always a race to be the one when you were on second sitting to grab the playground assistant who had the bell and say 'please miss can i ring the bell?'

From the dinners then I remember things like the roast potatoes, yorkshire pudding toad in the hole, all the sorts of thing that my mum never cooked at home.

The other thing I always remember as well but never understood at the time was why it was fish on a friday. I hate fish, can't stand the bones but thankfully it was fish pie most of the time so I could eat a bit of it.

I understand now why they dished up fish cos of Jew(i think) not eating meat on a friday it just seems rather ironic that it actually happened at my school as it was a church of England School back in the days when I think there was only one pupil in the whole school who left assemble when ever the vicar was there doing prayer and that was cos he was a seik.

I'm glad we had proper school dinners back in them days (1070's) but I'm also glad as well that by the time I went to secondary school 1979 they'd gone over to the current day fast food type of serve your self type of food and it would then be hot dog beans and chips as I can fully understand and have experienced both types of school meals that they talk about these days.
A proper sit down meal for primary school was the right thing to have though and still think it should be.
AGirlCalledkill
08-01-2008
Originally Posted by mad1:
“I always had nice school dinners. I really loved Chicken Fricassee (sp?).”



Yeah I loved school chicken fricassee but my mum could never make it like that at home.

But I hated school dinner and all the stupid rules! In primary school we had to eat everything on our weido plastic prison trays. I was traumatised by being force fed sprouts and then sicking up on the dinner table infront of my friends. Also we couldnt have a drink untill we'd eaten everything and that crap about elbows on tables which might be okay for adults but its really hard for little people to eat at oversized tables.
I went Packed lunch as soon as I could

And then secondary school dinner was a nightmarish battle to get to the food. We only had half an hour for lunch, the 6th formers and yrs 10 and 11 went first and ate up all the good warm food and spent ages at it leaving us lower school freezing outside in a massive que to get into the dinning room to crappy meals of luncheon meat with fishfingers. As soon as the lunch bell went there was a stampede towards the lunch line because if you wern't in the first half you wouldnt get time to eat.

The best food was the blue icing buns for when Leicester did okay in the football.
Sambda
08-01-2008
In my day (early/mid Seventies at Primary School), you were let into the dining-hall class-by-class as sufficient room cleared from the class before. Everything was cooked on the premises and "dinner money" was 10p per day. It was served by a miserable bunch of Bella Emberg-lookalikes.

Mostly, the dinner consisted of two choices per day from a total repertoire of: mince pie, liver*, meat (beef or lamb - not differentiable) in gravy, toad in the hole, cheese tart. Toad in the hole was my fave - I guess it was the closest to "junk food" that they used to dish up back then. Christmas time would see turkey appear, and the summer would see some salads. I can remember once asking what the meat (in gravy) was, and getting the flat answer: "just meat". The meat (whatever it was) was quite poor quality, with lots of lumps of fat, but then again, what else could you do on 10p per day?

You had potatoes (mashed, roast or boiled - depending on how the cook did them that day). All were edible but they used to "case harden" the roast ones, so they were best avoided. The mash used to have loads of butter in it. You were allowed one veg (perm choice of 2 from: green beans, carrots, peas, mashed swedes, "greens"). The swedes used to literally make me retch, but for some reason you used to force it all down.

"Afters" was usually a sponge pudding and custard (vanilla or a revolting "strawberry" type), or sometime semolina or rice pudding with a spoon of brown sugar in the middle (as kids we always used to stir it round and round till the whole lot went brown).

That's all they ever did. Didn't matter what religion you were (lots of Muslims & Hindus in my school) or whether you were a veggie or not, you ate that or starved (couldn't go outside school). Nobody brought packed lunch that I can remember.

All this was gulped down (I doubt we were ever in there for more that 10 mins, tops), so we could go outside and play again (or listen to one of the dinner ladies read us a story, if wet).

*I always was cross in later life that school liver was cooked to death. Tough, powdery and bitter. Then, as an adult, I had properly-cooked liver in a restaurant and it was *delicious*. I think schools reuined liver forever for lots of people in the UK today.
sezegg
08-01-2008
i loved them! i dont think they had anything healthy on the menu

chips gravy and a cheese swirl
cheesy garlic bread
pie chips and gravy
chocolate flapjacks
Claratana
09-01-2008
We had good school dinners on the whole, although there was always a mad dash for the front of the quesue for jacket potatoes because they never cooked enopugh of them.

But every Wednesday without fail, we had Cheese Slop. It was officially called Cheese Pudding but no one called it that. It was an eggy, cheesy concoction which looked somewhat like undercooked scrambled egg. It looked and smelled vile. I was there for 7 years and never once even tasted it.

Anyone who went to my school would immediately think of Cheese Slop if they think of school dinners!
NathalieR
09-01-2008
In my primary school, I just remember crips sandwiches, and custard pudding (some pink custard as well!)

In secondary school i had a pack lunch which was usually disgusting as my mum would after a certain age get me to make my own sandwiches and I would rush it as i would want to play football or watch TV and then have to eat gross sandwiches the next day!

When i did my A Levels, i was in a school in France and the canteen food was gorgeous! Fresh bread, all kinds of meat, chips sometimes, i loved it!!
dickyhart001
12-01-2008
spaghetti hoop pie, that was a bizarre meal we used to get, with mashed spuds and peas generally
brokennews
12-01-2008
School dinners at one of my primary schools were horrible- it was the 1990s but still felt like the 1960s. We didn't have any options- you had to eat it. We had this horrid boiled cabbage and shepherd's pie among many, many other foods (I use the term lightly ).
petra12
12-01-2008
Originally Posted by purplecatz:
“My favourite school dinner was cheese pie, mashed potato, and tinned tomatoes, usually served on Fridays ”

Mine as well , i loved it
ontheloop54
12-01-2008
I remember fondly the pink custard too!

The thing that I remember most was the chicken pie...it had small round lumps of chicken in it, absolutely vile

We did PE in the same hall we ate lunch - there was always food on the floor...squashed peas etc
snowy2007
12-01-2008
Originally Posted by AGirlCalledkill:
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The best food was the blue icing buns for when Leicester did okay in the football.”

Bet you didn't have them very often then!

*ducks to avoid angry football mob*
brokennews
12-01-2008
Originally Posted by ontheloop54:
“I remember fondly the pink custard too!

The thing that I remember most was the chicken pie...it had small round lumps of chicken in it, absolutely vile

We did PE in the same hall we ate lunch - there was always food on the floor...squashed peas etc ”

Me too! It was absolutely disgusting. It was at the same school where we had the horrible school dinners and we did PE barefoot (and if we forgot our kit we had to do it in our vest and pants ), so I was scared of treading in the peas.

And I remember the pink custard- I think that's what gave me my fear of custard today!
ice cream
12-01-2008
It was similiar to my old primary school. We too had to do PE in our vests and pants if we forgot to bring our kit. Sometimes, it was really cold and the floor was quite dirty too. We used to get all this dirt on our feet after we'd done PE- rather unpleasant.
But in secondary school, whenever we do dance lessons, we do it in the hall where we have lunch everyday. Thankfully, we didn't have to do it in bare feet; we were allowed to wear trainers.
AGirlCalledkill
12-01-2008
Originally Posted by ontheloop54:
“I remember fondly the pink custard too!

The thing that I remember most was the chicken pie...it had small round lumps of chicken in it, absolutely vile

We did PE in the same hall we ate lunch - there was always food on the floor...squashed peas etc ”

Heh heh yes same here I remember getting mashed potato in my hair after doing pe.

snowy2007 Yes I suspected someone would say something like that

What about potato balls? I loved them when I was at school but it took me ages to work out that it was potato inside them because we just called them 'balls' at school lol
Jakob
12-01-2008
I've never had one in my life they are the smell made me want to hurl. We did PE in the sam hall as we ate lunch, there was
squashed peas, mashed potatoes, sweetcorn on the floor.
Daisy Bennyboots
12-01-2008
I've no idea what chocolate concrete or gypsy tart are!

My fave at primary school was an egg, cheese,bacon and onion hot quiche -crackly burnt cheese on top it was gorgeous!!!! I went to an inner city school and for many kids it was the only decent meal they got in a day....better than you'd get a home! (sorry mum ) Food was great - we had a roast dinner once a week.Everything got eaten. We even had milkshake an mini doughnuts on a Friday. But then we got milk one way or another every day until they ended school milk.

But I moved to the south...and it was different there - the budgets must have been much smaller. I remember eating nothing but luke warm sausage rolls, grey peas and frozen chips for years.
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