To ask whether you had this bizarre school dinner dish & if anyone knows what it is called

[Frightmare]

It was round breaded meat (no idea what meat it was) and inside it was filled with baked beans like a weird kind of chicken Kiev.

This was a regular dish at my school in South London in the early 90s. Never seen it anywhere else. Occasionally, we would also have smaller versions filled with ketchup. Although, I think they may have been sold in supermarkets.

Was anyone else served this at school? Or have any other tales of weird school dinners?

No idea but it sounds horrific

Haven't the foggiest but it doesn't sound very nice.

I dont know but the description has made me feel quite ill, sounds horrible

No, never had it - it sounds gross, frankly

My "weird school dinner item" to contribute: Surf Burgers. They consisted of a round, fat little puck made of the worst kind of fishcake innards - grey, rubbery, ulcerine - which had been battered instead of breaded. Soggy, smelly and utterly inedible. Circa 1987.

I've no idea OP! Sounds like some kind of chicken pocket?

Whilst we're on the subject of "never seen outside of school" lunch items... did anyone else have a kind of "stewed" beetroot side dish with school lunches? It was chunks of cooked sweet beetroot in a syrup-y sauce (also beetroot coloured) Usually served with beef burgers I think. This was c1982. For reasons I cannot fathom, I have been thinking about this dish a lot recently and am really craving it. Am definitely not pregnant (menopause).

Yes i think. Possibly sold in M and S or sainsbury.
They had beans in the middle, surrounded by meat and then breadcrumbs. I loved them

Like a bean rounder?

Surely it’s a convenient way of doing chicken nuggets and beans for tea?

I didn't realise until recently that they were not a staple of everyone's school dinners.

Maybe, it was just my school and we had some maverick cooks in the kitchen.

www.schoolrecipes.co.uk/index.php/school-dinner-recipes.html

But I think I've eaten what you're describing. Like a large chicken nugget/kiev with its own ketchup. Definitely supermarket bought.

The ones with ketchup sound like "chicken sovereigns" which I remember my mum buying from the freezer section in the supermarket in the 80s/early 90s. Don't seem to exist any more.

Oh yes I think they were called Rounders!

Find us crispy pancake?

@MrBigTiger

Yes, just googled baked bean rounders and you've correctly identified them! Thanks

Can't beat spam fritters!

I must say this little boy does not look delighted!

Always loved the spam fritters too.

[quote Frightmare]@MrBigTiger

Yes, just googled baked bean rounders and you've correctly identified them! Thanks[/quote]
Aha!

You used to be able to get them in the chippy back in the day.

There I was also thinking I was reading about good old spam fritter until the beans become involved. Got to say it sounds awful.
Haven’t had a spam fritter since the 70s - can see and almost smell it as if it was in front of me ! Loved them. Home food was so healthy and parents were great cooks so they were bliss for me when on the ‘menu’

We didn’t have the baked bean weird things, but we had a pork pie that was a thin pastry base with a sort of sausage meat filling but no pastry top. I loved that.

Also a caramel / toffee tart that I still dream about now.

I was a weird child - I loved Rounders.

There were various different ones. Beans, cheese and a weird mushroom one.

That sounds like a human rights infringement.

No, never had that.

We had cold ‘salad’ of pasta shells in a coronation chicken style mild curry/mayo sauce. But no chicken. Was delicious!

I grew up in Edinburgh in the 1970s. We had haggis about once a fortnight. These days I love haggis, but I have no idea who thought it was a good idea to feed it to a bunch of primary school children. Practically no-one ate anything except the "mash" that went with it - which I think was instant Smash.

The spam fritters though - they were delicious!

We used to have 'hit pot and crisps' - unidentifiable meat stew with thinly sliced potatoes cooked until they were crisp, served together so you had to be quick to avoid getting too much hot pot on the Crisps.

*hot pot