Whilst we're on the topic of schools today, what was your memories of school dinners? What did you eat? Today's kids haven't had it so good with packed lunches, McBurgers and chips everyday and cans of Coke. In my day [god I sound old] we sampled the delights of:
Dinners:
Meat stew - (cubes of rubber swimming in gravy)
Spag with Bolognaise sauce - (sickly mince in tomato sauce that faintly smelt of vomit). I threw up once and couldn't face anything Italian until I was an adult. The spag was always cold, overcooked and stuck together.
Artificial mashed potato - (Smash - just add water to potato granules)
Soggy swedes and cabbage (completely tasteless green and orange mush)
Meat pie with no pasty on the bottom. Only a pastry lid.
Roast dinner: this was the bees knees. Usually beef or lamb with roasties and sprouts. Seconds please, miss!
Puddings:
Gypsy tart (some revolting grey mousse in pastry)
Bakewell tart (anything with marzipan in is vile)
Chocolate sponge and custard (correction: brown sponge with brown custard)
Jam sponge and custard - the jam was vivid pink and had no fruit in it
Semolina with a blob of 'jam' in the middle - (have fun and see it turn pink)
Rice pudding (the worst pudding in the world)
Spotted Dick - (sponge with dates in it)
Rhubarb or plum crumble - this was fabbo. Seconds please! Normally served on roast dinner days too.
Drink:
A tumbler of tap water from a jug on the table.
Dinners:
Meat stew - (cubes of rubber swimming in gravy)
Spag with Bolognaise sauce - (sickly mince in tomato sauce that faintly smelt of vomit). I threw up once and couldn't face anything Italian until I was an adult. The spag was always cold, overcooked and stuck together.
Artificial mashed potato - (Smash - just add water to potato granules)
Soggy swedes and cabbage (completely tasteless green and orange mush)
Meat pie with no pasty on the bottom. Only a pastry lid.
Roast dinner: this was the bees knees. Usually beef or lamb with roasties and sprouts. Seconds please, miss!
Puddings:
Gypsy tart (some revolting grey mousse in pastry)
Bakewell tart (anything with marzipan in is vile)
Chocolate sponge and custard (correction: brown sponge with brown custard)
Jam sponge and custard - the jam was vivid pink and had no fruit in it
Semolina with a blob of 'jam' in the middle - (have fun and see it turn pink)
Rice pudding (the worst pudding in the world)
Spotted Dick - (sponge with dates in it)
Rhubarb or plum crumble - this was fabbo. Seconds please! Normally served on roast dinner days too.
Drink:
A tumbler of tap water from a jug on the table.
lumpy chocolate custard
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