School Dinners when "we" were young....

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Tell me what you loved/hated.

My loves-Chocolate pudding with Chocolate custard.

Semolina and Jam.

Lovely cheese salads when they started getting a bit more Jamieish!

Chips!

No - I didn't like them!

Does anyone remember the sweet bars called 'wham'

Sorry waterfalls, its late!

Forgot the Quiche-loved that!

I'm bloody starving now!

In fact, what are you supposed to do with them? Didn't they come with a straw and a sealed hole to poke it through?

I think I liked everything , especially:

Chicken pie
Steak & Kidney Pie
Roast Dinner
Chicken Curry
melting moments
shortbread with cherry yoghurt

I just cut the top of and push it up.

Hated all school dinners, but especially the pink custard and the "meat"balls which had rice sticking out of them. Some of the gross kids said they were dead hedgehogs...

Wham bars were lush!

chocolate pudding with chocolate custard yum!!

Yuck! Still remember the horror of school dinners.

My mother is an excellent cook who uses decent ingredients so school dinners were a real shock - grisly meat, thin, salty gravy, vegetables boiled until they were unrecognisable, Spam fritters (never seen Spam before), watery mash, horrid steamed puddings. Makes me heave just thinking about it. Probably one of the reasons I'm a vegetarian now...

The worst thing was sometimes they'd give us coffee as a 'treat'. But served in metal cups - the red or gold ones you got water in. Made it taste awful, as if you were chewing foil and hit a filling (not that I had any fillings then, but that kind of feeling). And we all had to drink it up.

I hated it so much I never finished mine and one sadistic dinner lady used to make me sit at the table all the way through playtime and then apologise to the cook as the bell rang for lessons. Cow. The worst thing was her surname was the same as my first name so everyone used to tease me that I was her daughter (however illogical that is).

Took me until I was 14 to win the argument for packed lunches... that was a VERY happy day.

sorry, have gone on a bit there, but brought all my long-supressed anguish out. Bleurgh.

I eat school dinners every day and my favourites are:

chicken korma or jalfrezi and rice
chicken supreme
chicken pie
steak and mushroom pie
roast of the week with trimmings (but not beef as always cooked to grey)
vegetable lasagne
roast veg pasta
roast veg quiche
chips and mushy peas on Friday (but never the battered/breaded fish)
jacket potato with salad

cornflake tart
banana and custard
chocolate crunch with choc sauce
flapjack
fruit salad
apple crumble
fresh fruit

Our school also offers all the traditional puds e.g. jam roly poly, choc chip sponge, syrup sponge, melting moments, etc and most things are made form scratch on the premises. I see local butcher deliver meat in morning and can watch it go through the whole cooking process if I want.

Rice pudding with prunes plonked in it. Makes me want to heave just thinking about it.

And spam fritters that when you stuck your fork in the oil pooled out onto your plate.

Mentally scarred by three meals aday in a boarding school.
We had our own weird terminology

Suet pudding=dead man's leg
Tinned peaches=suet pudding

We were so malnourished that the sixth formers in charge of the break bun queue had to have ascorts to stop us physically knocking the tray out of their hands!

Private education eh?

Sorry. Peaches=goldfish

i only remember the milkshake. on a friday. one tiny class allowed. no seconds...oh how it was torture.

Oh the horror of school dinners! What did they do to the peas fgs??

We used to have a slop bowl to chuck it in but if you hadn't eaten enough, (think of those who would be grateful for what you're throwing away) you'd be turned back for another attempt. A boy in front of me was told to go back, turned round and bumped into me. He dropped a huge bowl of school custard on my new shoes and I had to walk the length on the hall with a very large dollop of warm school banana custard on my shoe

Dh was at boarding school and says he nearly starved to death.

I loathed prunes and custard, loved shepherds pie and gyspy tart with coffee.

loved

melting moments
crispy roast potatoes
choc cake with mint custard
salad with half boiled egg and grated cheese(these were in short supply and saved for the teachers so you were really lucky if you got one!)

hated

braised beef
semolina
meat pie with floury pastry