did you eat school dinners, were they good?

[sojourner]

We used to get fried eggs with runny yolks back in the day too

 

[DotCommunist]

During upper school the CJD/BSE hysteria reached epic proportions and beef was off the menu, replaced by turkey burgers.

It was then that I started selling my dinner tickets and spending the profit on a mars bar and 10 fags.

Turkey burgers and BSE hysterics made me smoke

 

[mrsfran]

Yes, they were included in the school fees so there was no such things as packed lunches. I liked them, but then I didn't really care much about food at the time. There was a lot of tomato pasta, I seem to remember.

 

[Guineveretoo]

Once at secondary school, and still without anything decent on the menu, we used to sneak out of school and go and buy cigarettes and crisps with our dinner money (this was in the days when you could buy cigarettes singly!). My mother refused to let me have a packed lunch, because she thought I would be better off having school dinners! Silly woman

Mind you, we did caught a few times, and put into detention, and letters went home, and so on, but it was always believed that this was an occasional transgression, so we just carried on...

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Primary school was awful, real old-school Beano stuff. You weren't allowed out until you'd finished what was on your plate either, which resulted in a considerable amount of sausage-smuggling.

Secondary school was quite good though, probably because the teachers - and also any visitors - ate it too. Proper salad bar, reasonable choice of hot food.

 

[Geri]

I was too fussy to eat them. I would occasionally buy a plate of chips, but mostly I would just buy some spam or corned beef from the local shop, then spend my dinner money on records.

 

[Chester Copperpot]

Always found the main courses lovely. The afters were always rank though. I put that down has the reason I can't face them today.

 

[kyser_soze]

All those semolina and tapioca dissing h8rz can fuck right off.

I used to enjoy school dinner when I was a wee 'un. There was this thing called a 'choppy' which had an unspecified meat interior and a breadcrumb outer. Lovely, but to this day I have no idea what they were made from.

 

[Fuchs66]

Does nobody remember tapioca? It was like semolina, but with tadpoles in it. It was gross and used to make me want to vomit.

mmmmmm Tapioca, food of the Gods, I liked it

 

[Roadkill]

There's no option for 'Yes, and they were okay.'

I preferred them to packed lunches mainly 'cos packed lunches never included chips but I remember too many semolina puddings and vegetables boiled into an amorphous mush to say I loved them....

 

[sojourner]

go and buy cigarettes with our dinner money (this was in the days when you could buy cigarettes singly!).

I often rhapsodise about the glories of 'loosies' to my lass - we used to always ask the shopkeeper to open the kingies, so you got more for your 7p

 

[Rollem]

oooh, just rememberd we used to have a kind of spanish omlette in a pie form :confused that was delish!

and spam fritters yum!

 

[Guineveretoo]

All those semolina and tapioca dissing h8rz can fuck right off.

I used to enjoy school dinner when I was a wee 'un. There was this thing called a 'choppy' which had an unspecified meat interior and a breadcrumb outer. Lovely, but to this day I have no idea what they were made from.

You LIKED tapioca?

 

[Kanda]

Is tapioca a private school thing???

 

[Guineveretoo]

I often rhapsodise about the glories of 'loosies' to my lass - we used to always ask the shopkeeper to open the kingies, so you got more for your 7p

We used to go to the newsagents during Guides, and buy a single cigarette, and smoke it in the toilets at the church hall while the meeting was going on!

Ooh, we were bad.

Sorry for the derail - as you were.

 

[sojourner]

Is tapioca a private school thing???

Must be

we only had rice pudding or semolina


we DID have tapioca out of a tin at home though, about twice a year. frogspawn

 

[weepiper]

Some of it was great and some of it was vile.

Great:
Spam fritters
Squashed fly cake
Coke floats
Sponge pudding

Vile:
tapioca/rice pudding
catering custard, which came in yellow, pink and brown flavours and all made me gag
vegetables boiled to within an inch of their lives

At secondary school we had a cafeteria style dinner hall where you paid your money and took your choice, which meant that everybody just had chips and cheese

 

[Guineveretoo]

Is tapioca a private school thing???

No.

I went to state schools.

I thought it was only an Old Thing, but someone up there said that it was in the 80s, too.

 

[weepiper]

Is tapioca a private school thing???

nope, we had it at Scottish state primary in the 80's

 

[Guineveretoo]

Some of it was great and some of it was vile.

Great:
Spam fritters
Squashed fly cake
Coke floats
Sponge pudding

Vile:
tapioca/rice pudding
catering custard, which came in yellow, pink and brown flavours and all made me gag
vegetables boiled to within an inch of their lives

At secondary school we had a cafeteria style dinner hall where you paid your money and took your choice, which meant that everybody just had chips and cheese

Eew, remember when that strangely coloured custard started to go cold, because you hadn't eaten it quick enough, and got a thick and slimy and chewy skin on it?

 

[Fuchs66]

You LIKED tapioca?

What's wrong with Tapioca?

Is tapioca a private school thing???

Nope comprehensive and I was virtually brought up on the stuff

 

[Guineveretoo]

Must be

we only had rice pudding or semolina


we DID have tapioca out of a tin at home though, about twice a year. frogspawn

I was at school in the North East. Perhaps it was a Northern thing?

 

[Guineveretoo]

What's wrong with Tapioca?



Nope comprehensive and I was virtually brought up on the stuff

It used to make me want to gag, just the thought of having to eat it, and to want to gag having been forced to eat it. It's gross. It's slimy and gross. No amount of sugary jam could make it palatable, because it's just slimy and gross.

IMHO, of course

Oh yeah, it was called Sago Pudding, too. I just found that on wikipedia...

 

[FridgeMagnet]

oh yes, spam fritters, those were good

I liked semolina because you got to put jam in it. And also, treacle sponge with custard. Though sponge was a minefield; not only did they sometimes serve a non-treacle sponge which looked practically identical, but they also did one which had lumps of tinned pineapple or some awful shit in it.

 

[weepiper]

yeah I hated it, I think it's the texture, I can't stand rice pudding or semolina either

 

[Fuchs66]

I was at school in the North East. Perhaps it was a Northern thing?

Me too (North Yorkshire) maybe you have something there

 

[Guineveretoo]

oh yes, spam fritters, those were good

I liked semolina because you got to put jam in it. And also, treacle sponge with custard. Though sponge was a minefield; not only did they sometimes serve a non-treacle sponge which looked practically identical, but they also did one which had lumps of tinned pineapple or some awful shit in it.

I actually remember liking spam fritters. I wasn't going to admit that, because I am sure they were totally gross.

I also remember liking some of the sponge puddings, so long as they didn't put that revolting custard stuff on them.

 

[Fuchs66]

Must admit I was never keen on Spam fritters (fat, battered and fried in even more fat) Í could eat them but would always try to swap with the nearest fat kid to me

 

[Guineveretoo]

Me too (North Yorkshire) maybe you have something there

Perhaps we went to the same school

 

[weepiper]

noooo spam fritters were ace fatty salty yum