What do you remember about school dinners.

[DanTheMan3]

I was chatting to my youngest yesterday about school dinners and what we used to have back in the 50's - 60's.

I remember lots of vegetables (cabbage was my favourite).
and the best dessert was chocolate cake and pink custard.
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[SalusLibrorum]

Liver and onions with bacon, mashed potato. I loved that. I loved the veg too. There wasn't anything in the school dinners that I didn't like, it was wonderful.

Mince pie in squares with very thick gravy inside the pie, covered with very thin gravy outside.

Very watery carrots, and equally watery cabbage.

It was also a complete contrast with what I got at home, my mother was a cook "in service" and did everything properly, so the overcooked, mass produced food we got at school was a revelation.

Real thick skin on top of the custard, that came with almost all the puddings. Jam roly poly...yum.

[meebo1]

I never had school dinners as school finished at the latest 1.30pm. I remember asking my son what he had for his dinner, and often the reply was dandilion. To this day I have no idea what it was. He liked everything, except chocolate eclairs which he still doesn't like.

[DanTheMan3]

I never had school dinners as school finished at the latest 1.30pm.

Part time school.
Bet that was good.

[meebo1]

I don't know: lessons started at 7.50. I had to be out of the house no later than 7.15. and it wa Mon- Sat. Lots of homework as well

[madelaine]

From my junior school I remember the MOST delicious pudding. We called it cement but I understand it was butterscotch tart. I've never come across a similar pudding to match it.

From secondary school, my most vivid memory is Isabel Maltby carrying 6 plates of pudding at once. We had table monitors and the more you carried the fewer trips you had to make.

[Fossy]

At infant school, as far as I can remember the meals wern't too bad, apart from the famous Spotted Dick with a blob of jam in the middle. Yuck!

At Grammar School I only stayed for 1 day and nearly threw up. After that I took my own lunch.

[DanTheMan3]

Jam roly poly...yum.

Hated school liver.
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Jam Roly Poly.
Forgot about that.
Ours was made with suet pastry.
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[CrowlasCrafts]

I remember having to have prunes for pudding at primary school - still hate them today - oh and mushy peas - can't bear them - the smell of them makes me heave! My son has packed lunch as he is even fussier than me!!

[UniquenMornique]

I had school dinners in primary school they were good as I remember, and everyone sat round tables together like we did at home. (there was six kids & mum & dad) I think that is probably the only time some children get to eat like that now-a-days.
What I didn't like was cooked celery (yuk) still don't like it cooked now, can eat it uncooked though. We were made to eat it couldn't leave the table until we had they were long dinner times it was like eating sn--!!!!!!!!!