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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???
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I didn't actually eat turnip outside of school for about 20 years. Even though at this stage I understand that they weren't once running round in a field, I just couldn't face the memory of them! And yes, it was just school turnips (we used to call them snaggers where I came from for some reason) that were crunchy. They must have been the oldest and cheapest or something. And don't forget the mashed potato that was covered in black bits. Eventually I was allowed to take sandwiches before I starved to death.
oooooooooh......manchester tart was always good! And on wednesdays we always had a melting moment biscuit with semolina....I really liked that.
Wasn't too keen on the jelly cubes with custard though. Or the salad. Or the drinking chocolate.Every glass came with its own bit of skin......yuk.
And spam fritters......a taste sensation all on its own! lol
Well I was always hungry so I thought school dinners were great, well mostly.
I didn't like the braised liver in gravy cos it tasted too strong (probably ox liver) and i'm sure they cooked it for a week before serving it cos you could sole your shoes with it.
Jelly, yuk!!!! I told em I didn't like it but did they listen? Nah. They did once I brought it all back over the table. They didn't make me eat it anymore. Even now I can only eat it if it is just set, almost runny.
I liked swede, I told my Mum I had mashed carrots!! at school and they were yummy.
Tapioca and sago?!!! Don't even go there.
the worst I remember was whole lambs hearts, with all the tubules and things still sticking out of them. And this strange stew twith little black carrow seeds floating in the gravy. The best was roast dinners and cabbage.
And I think I'm one of the strange and sad few who actually liked milk puddings, particularly semolina, with jam on it.
Jack I too disliked the heart meat, the first time i thought my friend was pulling my leg and that it couldnt possibly be REAL heart. It never passed my lips.
I lived close to school so went home mostly, but when I knew they were given pudding every day, I begged my mum to let me have school dinners, Oooo chocolate sponge and custard, green pink, any colour custard I would eat. The only pudding I didnt like was the frogs spawn milky one? Was that tapioca? Loved prunes and custard semolina and jam, trifle, yummy.
My first school dinner, i'll never forget- cold lumpy mash potato and over boiled cabbage. The head mistress made me stay in a big dining room with the cold plate of food in front of me, all alone and she wouldnt let me go till I ate it. SHE gave in in the end and wrote a letter to my Mum saying I should go home for dinner. Also warm milk at break in those triangle cartons, I hated that and got in trouble for not drinking that too! IIts not as if I wasnt a healthy looking child, why do they force you to eat poor quality goods!
There was a boy James who sat on my table, he had a false tooth , and he was always swallowing it , we all found it funny cus his face was a picture when he said Oh my dad will kill me!
My fave dessert was this chocolate tart and the chocolate tasted like Aero, it wasn't too rich, yum! Also used to love Semolina and make it turn pink with the jam. Who remembers the nicknames for some of them? Jam Roly Poly=Dead Man's Leg.
Worst food: that sweaty cheddar cheese wrapped in plastic for cheese and biscuits. Meat pie with strange fatty 'tubes' in them.
Spam fritters were disgusting, also the liver was so bouncy it took all your strength to cut it up, as it was mostly made of elastic bands - bleh.
My fave pud was rice pudding with rose hip syrup - fantastic ! Hated manchester tart and millionaire's shortbread though, and I also got into trouble for not drinking the free milk, mind you it was always frozen in the winter, a bottle handed to each of us with a wee pink or blue 'sweetheart' drinking straw you had to stab the foil cap several times to get past the frozen cream layer that settles to the top.......bleh bleh bleh.....
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I used to like the chicken curry, the semolina, the shortbread with chocolate custard and absolutely loved the chocolate tart...Mmmmm, it was gorgeous.
Detested the gristly meat and the stewed prunes, curdled with custard...Uuuuurrrggghhh, revolting!
I worked in a school kitchen a few years ago and some of the combinations of food the children would ask for were disgusting. Some of them would also ask me to give them the skin from the custard jug!!! Always made me wonder what they were given at home.
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