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Maybe just the chips.
Or a chicken and mushroom pie.
Or a jacket potato with beans and cheese.

All main-stays of my secondary school canteen. I have had flu and no appetite for a week - still can't taste much - but the thought of dinner lady food makes me consider eating again

I went to pack ups eventually, there's only so much stodge a girl can take.

What did you eat at school?

How could I forget the toasties
Beans and cheese inside - volcanic temperature but amazingly goey and good!

Gutted we got rid of our toastie machine now. First thing I've fancied eating
in nearly a week!

Pizzas made on half a roll

Sausage rolls

Chocolate cake and banana custard

Oh yeah- think we had those too, like half a baguette?
I liked the jam sponge and custard too

Nope literally on half a roll like a crusty bap. The tomato sauce had onions in and was really tasty.

pizza on half a breadcake
jam and cornflake tart and custard
chocolate cake and chocolate custard
chicken pie
cheese flan
dumpling pie

mmmmm school dinners

oooh and friday fish & chips

All very tasty carbs! I remember the teachers could just swoop in and go to the front of the queue though

I had a jumbo sausage and chips in Scarborough today. They were swimming in vinegar and salt. Beat meal ever!

Now was that a battered sausage, SP?

It was not. It should have been though

That's poutine...

Are you Canadian OP? <narrows eyes>

Chips and gravy should be illegal!

At primary school we were allowed ice-cream with custard on.

Very delicious and had to be eaten before the main or the custard would melt the ice-cream

At secondary school the pizza was home made on a thick doughy base and very filling. There was also home-made caramel shortbread. If it had just been made it would still be soft and gooey.

Mmm. I loved school dinners.

I would love some chips and gravy, not so sure about the cheese too.
My school dinners were rank. The alternative was to go to the baker, buy a bloomer loaf with your friend, have it cut in half, pull the filling out and either get it filled with soup or chips.
Fucking lush. I haven't thought about that for years.

Sole, are you one of them < lowers voice > southerners? What eats strange forrin foods like jellied eel and pie with licker? Gravy is essential with chips otherwise what's the point? It would be like bangers without mash, toad without the hole, Ant without Dec...

< Grabs hard hat and runs away >

Dolly Midlands

I love saveloys, ooh gosh yum!

Sole, Midlands?

<nods sagely>

Yep, I knew you'd be one of them southerners .

Saveloys are the end. They are pure shite. I am a southerner and love pie and mash and liquor (it's made from the boiling eel juice and parsley). Only to be eaten with vinegar and spoon/fork.
My DH shamed me by asking for HP and a knife. A fucking knife.

@ knife.

Eel juice? Eeuw. I'll definitely stick to gravy. Or maybe mushy peas. But probably gravy.

I'm just starting with a cold. Can't sleep as too bunged up. Have just had Options hot chocolate and 2 slices of soda bread. What I'd REALLY like are some cheddars. OR fish and chips. OR chicken pie (cannot remember ever having had chicken pie before, but bet it would be lovely and could just fancy that).
At school we had: roast lamb, very liquidy mint sauce, mashed potato, mashed swede and gravy. And spam fritters. Little wrinkly sausages, gravy and mash. Livery and onions. Salad. Fish on friday. Savoury scone with stew. For pud: spotted dick and custard, chocolate pudding and pink custard, coconut sponge and chocolate custard, semolina/tapioca/ rice pudding with jam. Ice cream and wafers. I used to love nearly everything except the tapioca and the liver.
Oh now I could just eat some school sausages and mash!

I don't even like fish. The liquor is essential. It's a green, jizz like consistency with the taste of ambrosia.
I'm not really selling it am I?

I'm a southener but would prefer gravy with chips by a mile!

I really fancy jam sponge and custard after reading this thread!

Definitely, I wasn't suggesting liquor and chips. That would just be wrong. I am currently defrosting a roti and some dahl.
I would much prefer some chips and mushy peas and strong vinegar.