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School dinners - which meals do you remember?
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I will never forget the homemade Tomato Ketchup from my primary school.
It was absolutely ghastly! They must have stinted on the sugar as it tasted as sour as all hell.
I remember all the kids used to refuse the heinous stuff.
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Home made crisps. That were not crisp. They were greasy, unsalted slivers of potato that somehow managed to be both undercooked & burnt.
Chocolate shortbread, ruined by “mint” custard…. Essentially it was green cornflour slurry.
I did like the mini milk bottle & oatmeal cookie day though. |
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By *ookie46Woman
over a year ago
Deepest darkest Peru |
"Manchester tart
Semolina or rice pudding with prunes and playing tinker tailor with the stones
I love Manchester tart! The independent supermarket near me is the only place that sells it! "
I’ve tried to make it but it never tastes quite the same |
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Prunes in custard.
We used to store the sucked stones in our cheeks like hamsters and on leaving the dining room we would proceed to the top of the boiler house steps and leaning over the parapet, pit them accurately into a rainwater drain at the bottom of the stairs.
Eventually someone will have had to clear out the drain and wondered how the hell it got full of prune stones.
Maybe someone else on here went to the same school and recognises the practice? |
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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago
Newcastle |
"Semolina the nightmare of school dinners!
I like semolina  "
The thought of it had turned my stomach when I wrote, I'd get nightmares dreading what was installed going into the porter cabin which was out lunch room as an infant dinner lady stood beside the bucket where you'd scrape your plate and bowl any chance you got you'd run before she gets there and quickly scrape so you couldn't get turned away to finish it otherwise you'd end up sitting it out throughout lunch  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I remember the desserts the most, lumpy green mint custard with the skin stirred in, that sponge with a thin layer of jam on top and coated with grated coconut, spotted dick |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I mostly remember turkey twizzlers and pink custard with old school iced sponge. 
I didn't eat hot dinners in high school but did grab a grab bag sometimes which would have a sandwich, crisps, chocolate bar and pop. I loved them. |
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Cold luncheon meat, lumpy mash (that was normally equally as cold) served via an ice cream scoop and strawberry sponge cake with sprinkled coconut and lukewarm custard on top.
I believe primary school dinners have upped their game these days. Not that it was a particularly high bar to beat. |
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By *KTim61Man
over a year ago
Tipton |
"I'm old enough to remember us getting milk every date in infants school. Still drink gallons of the stuff now."
I remember getting g free milk too, but the only time I drink it more now is in a cup of tea or over my cereal |
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I used to give my half-yellow free milk to this really portly kid who would just come to me and stand their waiting for it. Realising this is one of my earliest memories! He'd then waddle on to some other kid who couldn't handle that crazy amount of cream. Honestly, the 70's was another world.
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"I used to give my half-yellow free milk to this really portly kid who would just come to me and stand their waiting for it. Realising this is one of my earliest memories! He'd then waddle on to some other kid who couldn't handle that crazy amount of cream. Honestly, the 70's was another world.
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Bear in mind that would happen every morning! pt |
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"I had packed lunches. My first ever primary school dinner was consumed in the week of Mother's Day this year at my daughter's school!
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I did too a lot of the time. My dad put so much mustard in my corned beef sammies that I've been addicted to the English variety my whole life. I'll even spread some on cheese if its at hand. pt |
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By *aizyWoman
over a year ago
west midlands |
"Chocolate concrete with pink custard
I was being to think I was the only one that enjoyed concrete and custard.
I my school it was more high vis yellow. "
I know my school was really boring we never had pink custard it was always a glow in the dark yellow  |
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By *ndycoinsMan
over a year ago
Whaley Bridge,Nr Buxton, |
"Chocolate concrete with pink custard
I was being to think I was the only one that enjoyed concrete and custard.
I my school it was more high vis yellow.
I know my school was really boring we never had pink custard it was always a glow in the dark yellow "
More like Swarfega than custard |
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By *aizyWoman
over a year ago
west midlands |
"Chocolate concrete with pink custard
I was being to think I was the only one that enjoyed concrete and custard.
I my school it was more high vis yellow.
I know my school was really boring we never had pink custard it was always a glow in the dark yellow
More like Swarfega than custard"
Yeah pretty much the same consistency as well! |
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By *ndycoinsMan
over a year ago
Whaley Bridge,Nr Buxton, |
"Chocolate concrete with pink custard
I was being to think I was the only one that enjoyed concrete and custard.
I my school it was more high vis yellow.
I know my school was really boring we never had pink custard it was always a glow in the dark yellow
More like Swarfega than custard
Yeah pretty much the same consistency as well! "
That's what I was thinking,broke of in wobbly lumps. |
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By *aizyWoman
over a year ago
west midlands |
"Chocolate concrete with pink custard
I was being to think I was the only one that enjoyed concrete and custard.
I my school it was more high vis yellow.
I know my school was really boring we never had pink custard it was always a glow in the dark yellow
More like Swarfega than custard
Yeah pretty much the same consistency as well!
That's what I was thinking,broke of in wobbly lumps."
I remember it well, I remember I used to like breaking the rock hard cake in half, then use the custard to glue it back together, I can't actually remember eating any of it tho! |
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By *ndycoinsMan
over a year ago
Whaley Bridge,Nr Buxton, |
"Spotted dick and the custard described already on this thread.
Fridays always brought a tray of fish topped with cornflakes. Never knew WTF that was about  "
Or what the fish was,probably something from the canal. |
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By *ndycoinsMan
over a year ago
Whaley Bridge,Nr Buxton, |
"Chocolate concrete with pink custard
I was being to think I was the only one that enjoyed concrete and custard.
I my school it was more high vis yellow.
I know my school was really boring we never had pink custard it was always a glow in the dark yellow
More like Swarfega than custard
Yeah pretty much the same consistency as well!
That's what I was thinking,broke of in wobbly lumps.
I remember it well, I remember I used to like breaking the rock hard cake in half, then use the custard to glue it back together, I can't actually remember eating any of it tho! "
Oh wow,I'd forgotten about those rock hard things,whatever the Hell they were. |
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By *avinaTVTV/TS
over a year ago
Transsexual Transylvania |
Only boarding schools served school dinners in South Africa. We all took packed lunches. High schools usually had a tuck shop where you could buy s, crisps, chocolates and decidedly unhealthy doughnuts.  |
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By *avinaTVTV/TS
over a year ago
Transsexual Transylvania |
"Only boarding schools served school dinners in South Africa. We all took packed lunches. High schools usually had a tuck shop where you could buy s, crisps, chocolates and decidedly unhealthy doughnuts. "
It edited out c o k e s  |
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"I'm old enough to remember us getting milk every date in infants school. Still drink gallons of the stuff now."
We got this too, with little red plastic straws, only they left them in the sun all morning, can only bare ice cold milk since and never on its own.
So many memories this thread has dredged up that my mind has tried to bury, the semolina, the prunes, the spam fritters, the liver, all foodstuffs that I have never willingly eaten again x |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Didn't have it as I had sandwiches but I do remember having Christmas Dinner which involved something loosely resembling mashed potato. Also the Christmas pudding for dessert having 20p under it  |
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