@DefinitelyMaybeBaby yes I don't really understand why we get pakora up here but it's not really a thing in England
Loving the Scots and northern Irish families who are loading up on visits and taking food back away with them, thought that was just my lot. I also remember being able to play "spot the Scot" on the train on the way home. The non Scots would have "normal" sandwiches and snacks or maybe would be buying from the extortionately expensive buffet car. The Scots were eating sandwiches made from pan loaf and/or well fired rolls (cue comments from the non Scots "isn't that burnt?"), flasks of home made soup, cans of irn bru, strawberry tarts, snowballs (barely intact) bars of tablet and macaroon, tunnocks snacks,
Not been able to get a pea fritter for AGES, they don't appear popular now
@Iheardarumour I'm veggie but used to get just sticky rice and satay sauce when living in Netherlands among other delights
Cadbury chocolate. American chocolate is a joke. how long since you had any? Cos it's been bought and ruined by an American company!
@Kote Does it still taste better than other American chocolate? Cos if so American chocolate must be rank!
Various school dinners
Yes! I was very lucky that one school I went to was a small village school and the food was all cooked from scratch still and the food was AMAZING and fairly "exotic" for the time (70's) we had a lot of "traditional" dinners like shepherds pie, steak and kidney pudding, mince pie, all of an excellent standard, but we also had spaghetti bolognese (made far closer to the Italian style than many places served at that time), curries (served with popadoms or naan bread), chilli, quiche with salad (and the radishes were all fancy cut and there were hand made crisps lightly salted, just a few on each plate)
And the puddings! Chocolate tart, the usual sponge and custard but again excellent quality, custard made totally from scratch no powdered birds nonsense, lemon curd tart - again both pastry and curd made completely from scratch, Bakewell tart...
Those cooks would have done very well on something like masterchef or gbbo, they'd occasionally do birthday cakes for the teachers for milestone birthdays and they were STUNNING and tasted fabulous.
They did a 3 tier anniversary cake for 2 of the teachers on their pearl anniversary for the party that was held in school for them.
@PunishmentSnart it's a chippy thing usually, a pizza box filled with various chippy snacks, chips, pakora, fritters, battered sausage, kebab meat, pizza crunch slice, bhajis, garlic bread...
All sorts
You choose a pizza size - 10" 12"
And that determines how much you get and sometimes what items depending where you're buying from
You can get "breakfast" ones too so they're filled with square sausage, black pudding, white pudding, bacon, tattie scones, fried tomatoes, fried mushrooms, fried bread, well fired rolls
Generally the 1st usually comes with a bottle of irn bru the 2nd with either that or a good strong cup of scottish tea, most prefer made builders style - good dash of milk and 2 sugars