School dinners

[joybee]

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Used to love school made Cottage Pie - yummy!
...and for pud, concrete pudding and custard (if you could catch the pud before it flirted off the plate as you stabbed at it with the fork !!)

[ariesangel1985]

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cheese flan in secondary....yum!!! and any pudding in primary!!! oh and cod roll! mmmm

[karenbrown18]

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cheese flan in secondary....yum!!! and any pudding in primary!!! oh and cod roll! mmmm

mmmmmmmmmmm The only time I have every known Lindsay to eat fish!!!

[ariesangel1985]

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! doubt there was much fish in it tho mum, prob just fillers!

[rossobantam]

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Fishfingers chips & peas yummy

mince/chilli type affair with fried bread cut into triangles.....lovely

pud....any sponge pud, esp the 3-colour one (green, yellow,pink...does it have a name?) with pink custard.......scrummy!

[Morcar]

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Only had school dinners a few times as I has a packed lunch kind of kid. I remember our school did a horrid lemon custard. You couldn't tell it was the lemon one until you tasted it as it smelled of nothing. Many a good pud ruined.

Fav pud - apple and blackberry slice.
Used to love school jacket spuds to.

[kabrluja77]

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does anyone remember what they called 'shaving cream' in the seventies.????.....it was served with a pudding/dessert and was delicious!! never seen it since.....ohhhhh!!

[Monkey Tennis]

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School in England we used to have lots and lots of Brown stuff.
I never knew the name of any of it, oh also dry white bread, which everyone ate with a knife and folk

But that was Heaven compared to

School in Ireland for lunch we had a small bottle of milk and a current bun delivered by...the current bun man in a black bin liner in the playground...it was grim. On my first day there I asked the bin bag man "please sir, can I have some more" and he said "as it's your first day you can have another (stale) bun" gee thanks
And everyday we ate in the playground.

[Viki]

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I remember Spanish meatballs in a bright orange coloured sauce and chicken pilaf which contained peanuts - couldn't do that now!- and those of us that had school dinners loved these two meals.
We also had a cornflake cake which seemed to be made with condensed milk and cornflakes but sadly no-one appears to have a recipe for it. I do make butterscotch tart from a school recipe that I got from a friend who used to be a dinner lady. YUM!

[Viki]

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Back again!! Just seen the one on shaving cream. We had that with the butterscotch tart. Apparently you can make it with evaporated milk, although I think you have to boil the tin first!!??

[Shania Twain]

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When I was a kid all I got for dinner in my lunchbox was something like a carrot or rotten apple

[Bozebo]

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I can remember having semolina at primary school and refusing to eat it - the headmistress slapped me! Needless to say my Mum had words with her! She said she thought I was trying it on! I still refuse semolina and tapioca now - just off to the lav to throw up

My fave's were jam rolypoly and custard & chocolate 'concrete' and mint custard (Heather, I think that may be a potteries thing!). Always had a thing for puddings - I still have!! I went out with a friend last week and couldn't resist the chocolate chip pudding and custard (it was delicious too!!)

[sixtyten]

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Mint custard!

[Heather74]

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Oh dont knock it until you have tried it, It was to die for, *drool* Bring it back!

[systemaddict]

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Very rare;y had school dinners - I was a packed lunch boy. We were treated like scum! The hot dinners always got to go in first, then we were made to sit in the back of the room. I'll always remember a big metal jug of water with multi coloured plastic beakers stacked next to it. The water ALWAYS had bit of "something" floating in it.
Everyday I had a "Hi!" juice box which me and my friend always compared flavours and dates....oh what a day when both matched! Also used to collect banana stickers which was stuck around my lunch box.

It was always a game to try and avoid the dinner ladies if you were last or near to last, they'd always make you help to put the chairs up!