Worst school dinner 1966

[stevie-p]

What are your most fav..and disliked school dinners??

I hated swede and tried to hide it under my knife and fork,,,,but loved the chocolate cake and custard.

Did you ask the dinner ladies serving it for "as much as possible" or "as little as possible"..but always got the same amount??

Do you remember sixpenny bits at xmas in the pudding???

[stevie-p]

AND DID YOU EVER LOSE YOUR DINNER TICKET!!!!..oooooh big trouble!!!!

[pugwash52]

I loved the Chocolate Shortcake, but it was so hard that you couldn't decide whether to put the custard on first so that it softened a bit, or broke it before the custard went on. Delicious.

[livk]

Swede was horrible at school, but I think I used to dread it when either liver and onion or braised beef was on the menu, and tapioca to follow. Loved jam roly poly and custard though.

[ermintrude35]

...worst was cold luncheon meat with the stuffing in the middle with lumpy mash and cold boiled beetroot...where the hell did they dream that combination up??...and it made your mash psychadelicly pink....followed by semolina and jam...uuugh am gagging at the memory...

...fave was fishfingers, chips and green beans followed by a banana and custard tart...yuuuuummmm...

...we had a sadistic dinnerlady who used to pull our loose teeth out with sewing thread...she would also shove food in our mouths and held our noses until we swallowed...

[sddsddean]

When I was in sixth form, we used to be allowed in first. Usually the trays of food were being brought out of the warming cabinets. I commented on this once to one of our dinner ladies and she said the trays had only been in about 15 mins, so not a problem. She went on to say that she used to work at Butlitz(sorry, Butlins) in Skegness. First call for breakfast was 7.30 am. If you went there in the 60's and thought the fried eggs were rubbery, thats because the first lot of fried eggs went in the warming cabinets at 5am!

[hopalong]

Worst was rice with prunes. It tuned my stomach. Fav for macronni and cheese with chips

[rosyrussell]

my absolute favorite was fudge slice with grated chocolate on top - we only got that once in a blue moon and as the one pudding we all craved...

[jon1968]

Gypsy tart - horrible browny yellowy thing on pastry - yuk!!
Not really dinners but loved the morning milk break, my own little milk bottle and a wafer!

[goldfish1]

I remember ermintrude35's meal - cold meat & beetroot. We always had this on a Monday. I can't remember being served any food that kids would like such as fish fingers. We were always made to finish the stuff on our plates as well. I never had second helpings! Disgusting.............

Secondary school was much better - there was a choice. Actually, though I spent my dinner money on fags - 10 Number Six!

[majjan]

The absolute pits was ginger pudding with white sauce, the very thought makes me sick. It was a plain steamed sponge with dry ginger spice in it and the sauce was lumpy from the stirring in of the supa thick skin that had formed on it.

My sister and I were kept in because we wouldn�t eat it at infants school with the admonishment that there were plenty of starving children in the world who would be grateful for it - I doubt it. We won though because the bell went for afternoon classes and a letter from my mum meant that we were never subjected to the torture again!

I did like the chocolate cake and slightly watery chocolate sauce though

[mata hari]

I was at school in the 1950's and we had good 'proper' dinners and puds every day. (yeah, the chocolate shortcake thingy stuff!) sure there were one or two things we didn't like, but it was good wholesome food, nothing like the stuff we hear they churn out for the kids these days. In France the children get a three course meal for lunch, no rubbish foods, and very little left overs. Bring back 'proper food', I say!!

[smudge]

I used to love the sponge pudding with pink icing on top, cut into squares & served with custard - scrumptious!

[shazbang]

Eeugh - fish cakes and lumpy mash, then lumpy pink custard. needless to say i dont ever eat seafood these days.

Begged my mum to let me come home for lunch. I won in the end but only because the doctor thought I was anorexic (I was 9yrs old). But I wasnt, I just couldn't bear to put any of that food near my mouth.

[smudge]

Yuk - I couldn't stand fish cakes either shaz - still wouldn't touch one, although our daughter loves them!

Amazingly, I can never remember having lumpy custard at school, but then I always asked for "Custard with no skin please miss"!

[asciwhite]

fondest memories are of the roast potatoes and the dinner ladies bringing around the trays for us to finish them off....

[ronnie963]

we had stew everyday for about a year and sometimes if we were lucky we got cabbage with it. And there was never anything to drink except when the inspectors were in school and then every table had a jug of water on it.

[Pebbles]

I loved cheese and rice soufle, whimpies...........(slice of warm luncheon meat with grilled tomato), rice meatballs. Hated braised heart.

I went on to become a school cook in the 90's, and I made everything from scratch, none of this ready made yuck Jamie O wants banning. The school childrens favourites were roast dinners, homemade pizza's and spag bol, and we didn't have chips everyday !

[zara 4]

I used to love the slimy chips really unhealthy but god they were lovely,on the days we had them we would all sit on the edge of our seats and when they called "SECONDS" we'd all run like hell to get in line and we used to have this jam and coconut sponge covered in custard as well cant still taste it now!

[Cheesefreek]

I think it took me years to realise that turnip wasn't an animal! I'm convinced it had bones in it. What were those crunchy things? Semolina, tapioca and sago. Even the words make me feel sick.

[zara 4]

You make me laugh cheesefreak,was it just school turnips that had the bones in or turnips in general.