School dinners

[peppy]

What was your favey one ? I remember chicken in a white sauce with bacon and fried bread followed by chocolate sponge and scrummy raspberry sauce.
I'm hungry now, again !! x x

[RATTER15]

Chocolate cracknel with chocolate sauce!! scrummy!!

I nearly missed the r in scrummy, "Scummy" just isn't the same.

[Pippa68]

I used to like the beef curry..and the beef cobbler. Puddings were awesome and I think I was the only ome who loved the semolina and rice pudding. Treacle sponge custard, chocolate sponge & chocolate custard...butterscotch tart..the list is endless!

I am a real foodie :o)

[Tha-Flash]

Ahhhhhh, my fave had to be the marsbar and doctor pepper from the vending machine!

[bigmamma]

Oooo peppy , strange as it may seem.........lol..........I can only remember the desserts ......mmmmmmmm :-)

[stewey]

Every Friday we had fish and chips, and they always slopped on some mushy-peas which I hated. Now I love mushy-peas! Vaguely recall treacle sponge cake with custard...very good.

[ummmm]

Vaguely....!!!!!!

Is that because it was sooooooo long ago :-)

[cazzz1975]

I didnt really enjoy any school dinners, there was too much fake potato (smash) and garden pea's! (which I hated then but love now!)

my fave pudding was blancmange, cheesecake (with the chocolate button on top!) yoghurt (strangely served in bowls, then divider trays) chocolate brick cake (you know the one with the sugar sprinkled on it, absolutely yummy!)

[Emz26]

My school dinners were HORRIBLE. I remember being served up rice pudding with a dollop of jam. Eeeeew! Makes me shudder just thinking about it.

[cazzz1975]

yeah but I would sell my own mum for a piece of that chocolate brick cake

[stewey]

Crikey, blimey, stone the bleedin crows, ummmm, you almost nailed me! Anyway you're wrong: the "vaugely" is coz of the 3 wobbly-pops I had between chippies and sweets. So there!

[sleepy1]

mashed potatoes was always lovely

[Pippa68]

What about that strange strawberry mousse with cornflakes sprinked on top..or was that just my school?

Ginger sponge with lemon sauce :o)

[Pippa68]

Caz our mash was real..lumpy, but real!

[peppy]

We had metal cups to drink out of, and the colours were of Christmas baubles ( that gorgeous bright purple in particular )
Do you think it was a regional thing as I've spoken of this before and nobody knew what I meant.
I'm a Derbyshire girly btw x x

[Pippa68]

Ours were plain coloured plastic, peppy. However the big water jugs were bright coloured metallic..yes, just like Christmas tree baubles!

This was in the South East.

[annie0000]

When I was at primary school, we had a mum and dad on each table who were primary 7 pupils and the dad had to go and collect the dinner for the table which came in large dishes which mum then dished up to everybody, the tables had a mixture of pupils from all the agegroups so that the little ones were looked after by the big ones - aww sounds great doesn't it. except that if the mum on the table didn't like you, you got a big dose of cabbage on your plate and not much else, and the smallest portion of pud ever - safe to say that all the mums were the most fawned upon people in the school - I don't think they even had to wipe their own bottoms for a year!!! LOL

Best food though had to be the roast potatoes and that minty sort of pudding that you got with the cornflakes on the top - they used to serve it with cold creamy custard - mmm!

Oh and the macaroni cheese - recently had to have dinner in a hospital canteen and the macaroni was exactly the same as they had at school over 30 years ago! There is something about the cheese sauce that reminds me of semolina for some reason.

[4getmenot]

Semolina and the teacher used to write my name on it in strawberry sauce :-)

[Pippa68]

In the beginning we had 'servers'..the upper year school kids who were in charge of serving from the trays.

They would ask 'big or small'. If we said 'small' and the server was particularly nasty we would end up with a big dollop of what we didn't like on our plate.

A few years later it was changed to cafeteria service :o)