What was your favourite school dinner?

[TheQueef]

Mine was sausage meat pie in grey pastry.
Always served with lb carrots mash and gravy.

I was at school when they invented blackboards though, doubt it would pass nutritional needs now.

What was your favourite and what decade was it?

Oh and if anyone knows how to make the cheese and onion croquet ts I will pay you two million internet pounds.
I've tried every single croquetvs available in the shops and they are all wrong.

Fish fingers on a Friday

Late 90s
Proper stodgy Mac and cheese

I don’t remember any nice dinners but Swiss roll and custard was a fab pudding.

Fishy Friday was ok if it was smoked finny.
The fishfingers had a paste not a fillet, tasted like breaded salt.

Universally disgusting. The staple was mac n cheese. Plastic overcooked pasta and pale yellow tasteless gunge. In the US. So I'm always amazed to see it on so many menus here - I don't care if it's a totally different thing it's yuck.
Actually the peanut butter and jelly on white cotton bread sandwiches were quite moreish.
My daughter says the chicken nuggets at her school (made on the premises) are the best. Plus the curry. Plus the sponge pudding and custard...

Oh I loved so much of my school dinners. Absolute faves were chicken in mushroom cream sauce (chicken supreme) with rice, cheese pie with spaghetti hoops or spam fritters with mash.
Desserts were chocolate sponge and chocolate custard or apple crunch (cornflake topping) with custard.

No such thing 🤣🤣 packed lunch all the way....literally until I left school at 18!!

At primary in the 90s I used to love the shit sausages, the chips, beans, TURKEY TWIZZLERS!!! Fish fingers, the sweetcorn. I liked the sponge puddings, the trifle and the fudge tart.

I loved the flat, soggy, flaky, greasy sausage rolls at secondary school. The closest I’ve found since are the ones they sell at our local BP garage. Also liked the iced buns.

We didn't even have chips!
My Ddad did the snap (packing up) for everyone Lipper
Cheese sandwich or pilchards....or worse

In the 90s we had some sort of cornflake cake for dessert. I think the cornflakes were stuck together using jam as a glue then put on a pastry base. Doesn't sound that great when I'm describing it now but I loved it.

Roast chicken and mash potatoes with gravy followed by sponge and custard (pink, yellow or chocolate to match the sponge).

The worst was the liver and bacon but even that was ok compared to home. Quite liked the salad with cress, grated carrot, raisins and peanuts though. School dinners in the seventies were awesome.

Meat pie with mash and veg, or stew. My favourite pudding day was the once a month cream cake and milkshake.

Our school dinners (1970s) were really good.

Anything with mash. Don't know what it was about school mash but it was always much nicer than what we had at home! And Friday dessert was always a ring doughnut with custard.

Cheese roll - 20p
Prawn cocktail crisps dipped in Philadelphia -10p
Cheesy Bread -40p and Australian crunch -20p

Squares of cheese quiche with chips, baked beans, and tinned tomatoes.
The 1970's.
We often had doughnuts for pudding too, with chemical flavoured milkshake. The milkshake was foul but the doughnuts were big fat jammy things.

If anyone knows how to make 'gypsy tart' ... I will sell you my first born.

@TheQueef my packed lunches were amazing, usually a carefully put together ham or chicken salad sandwich made by my dad, crisps, crackers fruit, a bit of chocolate etc (back before the healthy eating buzz!)

My dc also have no idea what a school dinner is... they are 6 and 4!

Cornflake tart @Marinetta! The recipe is still out there and it’s lush!

Late 80s primary school.Mince beef and onion pie with over cooked veg,potatoes and gravy.Jacobs crackers,butter and dairylea triangle for pudding.

Turkey twizzlers! A really delicious chicken ‘stew’ or curry perhaps, it was in a very thin sauce without any obvious sign of red peppers but it tasted sort or red peppery and sweet. Loved the bad sausages until I ate one with bone in it. Smiley faces! I would like to eat all these things again. And arctic roll!

Cheese hamwhich. Some sort of (baked or deep fried) cheese and ham in breadcrumbs. I loved it. I remember one lunchtime I ate quite a few of my classmates ones too as they really didnt like them. I pretty much hated most other school dinners and puddings so it was a bit of a novelty.

@Fivetillmidnight www.sweet2eatbaking.com/gypsy-tart-recipe/ p.s I dont want your firstborn

www.sweet2eatbaking.com/gypsy-tart-recipe/

Aaaaargh sorry link wont work.I googled it its definitely online