Do You Remember ?.

Do you remember your School Meals ?..

Some of ours were passable others were Vile.

I remember a delicacy pudding we got many years ago,I believe it was called,
(Sago). The nickname we gave it was (Frog Spawn) and that was what it looked like, and did not taste much better.

Porridge.---Instead of issuing a spoon,a sharp knife and fork would have been better. It would have been a good foundation for laying slabs..

What are your good or bad memories of School Dinners ??..

 

I got it at home as well, Mum was the school cook.

I remember some meat stew that had tubes in it and really sickly sponge puddings, still can't eat sponge.

We didn't know it at the time, but the school meals system was the reserve food supply for the cold war, there was 6 months worth of food in it. Didn't matter to the government that us kids were eating old food.

 

Think mine were 7/6d for the week.

 

School custard was the best never found any that tastes as good

 

At my infant/junior school, the dinner time staff were evil.

I remember being 5 year old and taking my jelly back to report that there was a massive fly inside it. I was made to eat it all anyway. On another occasion, also 5 year old, I was made to eat all of my pudding, despite the fact that I'd just been made to eat a whole starter and main course, and the pudding alone was easily an adult portion. I'm pleased to say that that school got closed down a few years later and the staff were told there was no alternative employment for them. Some of them had no right to work with kids.

But on a more positive note, curry day at secondary school was my favourite. The curry was divine. It had bits of fruit in it so was a lovely combination of sweet yet spicy. delicious.

 

I remember chocolate crunch. I did'nt have the chocolate sauce that went over it. Never have liked to cover/drown or flood a pudding with anything. But we all used to have a competion to see how far a bit would fly when you jammed it with a spoon. It was really rock hard and you really had to WHACK it to get a piece off. So, it was an amusing pudding and tasted pretty good too,
Jenny

 

We had very nice dinners, I enjoyed Sago, and still eat it today. We had a very good head cook, and she made strawberry shortcake with a cream to die for. I loved the prunes and custard. Cannot think of anything that I would not eat.

 

My school memories of school dinners were divine until I went to secondary school.
Everything turned into fast food.
At primary school my favourites were spam fritters, cornflake tart with pink custard, butterscotch tart.

 

Me too Jenny. Ye gods that stuff was hard! I once took a particularly violent stab at piece with my spoon, the crunch simply stayed intact and went shooting across the table, but the dish broke.


Other fond memories of school dinners.

Strange dome shaped dollops of mashed potato (with added lumps).

'Salad' consisting of a limp lettuce leaf, beetroot and some grated carrot.

Lemon meringue pie; hard dry pastry, covered with yellow rubbery sharp tasting goo, all topped off with lump of something akin to sugary polystyrene. The most vile creation I've ever been forced to eat, to this day I cannot stand it.

 

Hmmmm...Chocolate crunch with pink custard.....that was the only pudding that you never got seconds they couldn't get rid of the 'wall paper paste'....aka Semolina....and some kids actually fought for the skin off the custard

 

Now the good thing about the custard was slitting one side of the skin & blowing a bubble across the dish till it made a flollop sound coming out the other side

 

Chicken supreme... loved it!