No messing about in the queue! Tell me your school dinner order

[WomanhoodIsABirthright]

I'll have sausage roll, chips and beans please, with butterscotch tart for pudding.

And seconds of cracknell and custard.

From my old secondary school, either chips and cheese or chips, cheese and gravy. [droooool]

I'll have fishfingers, chips and beans please. Or luncheon meat (what WAS that) and two scoops of mash and spaghetti hoops.

For pudding I would love the sort of treacle sponge pudding they made in a huuuuge tin where it was white and fluffy and the bottom just faded into being syrupy goo. With custard obvs.

Or the choc cornflake slice with a layer of mint buttercream in the middle. They were extraordinary.

My school used to serve a super-stodgy meat pie with soggy green beans and packet mash. I'd kill for a plate of that! Plus a square of chocolate sponge with mint custard. Seconds of both.

At middle school; Lasagne (chewy and tough and nowhere near my mum’s lasagne but I loved it!), chips.

Chocolate brownies at 10p each

At high school the lunches were really crap so I didn’t bother but at morning break there were hot sausage rolls and chocolate balls (basically mashed cornflake cake) and they were both lush!

Fishfingers, chips and beans.

Chips and beans with a Diet Coke for £1.10. Eaten quickly before I had to go open the school tuck shop (in S6 only, I was in charge of the tuck shop because I worked in a sweet shop after school) where I would the eat a few hundred penny sweets and throw 50p on the cash tin every few months 😂

There weren't many things in my 1980s school dinners that weren't revolting. Can I have a packed lunch? I'll have a flask of homemade chicken soup, a cheese sandwich with sandwich spread instead of butter and ideally an orange club but I'll settle for a gold bar or a penguin.

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How is it you are still LIVING!!!

From Primary School it was brisket, gravy and mash, with jam and coconut sponge with custard for pudding. And a teeny bottle of milk.

Hot dog and chips please. And none of that “it’s Wednesday so there’s only pasta” business.

@bluechameleon

Well. I emigrated some years ago and this thread has unexpectedly brought me to tears 😭

After rejecting the pre-Thatcher bottle of milk at break time, because I hated the cream on top, I’d have gone for sausage, chips, peas and beans please Miss. Vanilla or chocolate sponge with thick Birds Eye custard on top, or pink blancmange if they had it. Extra points if it had sprinkles that day (hundreds and thousands).

Those really were the days. Today I put salmon avocado sushi rolls, a granola bar, satsuma, cherry tomatoes and sugar snap peas in my DS’s bento box! Poor child 😕

Fishcake, chips and beans with chocolate sponge and peppermint custard for pudding

@Ravageur East End?

at primary

Corned beef pie with potatoes and peas

semolina pudding with jam or chocolate shavings oN

chocolate sponge with raspberry custard

treacle tart

cornflake tart

Im clearly all about the puddings.

I was a vegetarian in a school that didn't cater well for vegetarians (this being the early 90s). I mostly remember eating chips or boiled white rice, with a side of over-cooked veg, and a pudding (can't remember what now, but it was usually the only nice bit).

All the good stuff!

@mindutopia, judging by this thread, you might have made the same choices even if you weren't a vegetarian! Reminds me of our old landlord who came to this country from India as a child, back in the 1960s or early 70s. He was a vegetarian and the only food the school cook could think to give him was a plate of grated cheese. He'd never seen, far less tasted, Cheddar before, so was unable to eat it. Different times.

Gammon and chips please (was the only meal that ketchup was allowed at!) plus a milkshake (strawberry please, most definitely NOT banana) with a coconut cookie tucked in to the side of the flimsy plastic square tray the milkshake cup was put in.

@BumpyaDaisyevna It was balanced out by the brown rice and plentiful green vegetables my mum cooked at home! I wish I could eat like that now.

@shewolfsout Yes! Those. God knows what was in them.

@bluechameleon

Kwenchy Kups

For allergens please see ingredients listed in bold.
Water, Citric Acid, Flavouring, Preservatives: (Potassium Sorbate, Sodium Benzoate), Artificial Sweeteners: (Aspartame, Saccharin, Acesulfame K), Colour: (Sunset Yellow).
May have an adverse effect on activity and attention in children
Contains a source of Phenylalanine

You can still buy them and this is what's in them now so I dread to think what worse was in them back in the day!

Cheesy chips, a slice of questionable pizza, a mars bar and a panda pop please, followed by a sly B&H in the girls loos...

Large Grammar school, West Yorkshire, late 60s/early 70s. Large slab of minced beef pie with mash, gravy and processed peas, please. Followed by bright yellow sponge cake with pink custard, all washed down with tepid water from a huge and battered aluminium jug.
Happy days!

My school used to do a bake potato with melted cheese and this incredible tomato sauce. Can I just have a vat of the tomato sauce please? They also made great french bread pizza with said tomato sauce.