School Dinners Pink Custard With Chocolate Sponge

[Chinajan]

Was just reminded of this abomination by someone. What was that pink custard all about? What was in it? Even the yellow lumps were preferable.

And while I'm here, a special mention for the sadistic school dinners boss who first thought up disguising parsnips to look like chips.

[Mozz71]

Chocolate sponge? What kind of hell hole was your school? Chocolate custard with chocolate sponge, pink custard with jam sponge! (Plain custard with spotted dick)

[roopower]

Also green custard with chocolate crunch, also known as chocolate concrete

[Chinajan]

Cuh. We never got chocolate custard.

[Chinajan]

Green custard roopower? Blimey.

But does anyone know what was in the pink stuff? It wasn't just colouring - it tasted different from the yellow lumps.

[ichkeria]

For years I had a mince pie phobia, after being traumatised at school by “flies’ graveyard” with salty custard.
It used to make me feel ill just smelling it.
The weird thing was, there were indeed no flies in the playground for several days after it.

[AuntPollyGrey]

https://www.littlestuff.co.uk/school-dinners-recipes-pink-custard/

[gingejbee]

Looks lovely....

https://fyf20quid.co.uk/recipes/old-school-choc-pudding-pink-custard/

[Mozz71]

Green custard??

It wasn't Soylent Green custard was it?

[Mamyalynne]

https://www.littlestuff.co.uk/school-dinners-recipes-pink-custard/

[Chinajan]

OIC. Strawberry or raspberry flavoured blancmange powder added. Bleurgh.

Thanks.

[tonyav]

No Pink crap when I was at school, only the the Green crap ( with chocolate flavoured concrete ) or plain crap ( with plain concrete ).

[zylaphone]

Warm jelly and custard .

[tamborine]

pink = blamange
roast parsnips look like chips but taste much better.

[AuntPollyGrey]

Nothing could be worse than Tapioca with a blob of jam in the middle

We had chocolate cake with green (mint) custard
coconut sponge with pink custard
but my favourite was cornflake tart with vanilla custard.

(thanks for best answer BTW )

[Maydup]

Those school puddings have a lot to answer for! I blame them for my sweet tooth, and I could probably manage a portion of pink custard at a push.

The worst one was the White Custard. Lumpy and tastless, likened to glue and often served over coconut slice.

[AuntPollyGrey]

Maydup I think they called that 'White sauce'. It had no taste and I think it was just milk and cornflour.

[webbo3]

Chocolate sponge with green mint custard

[Chinajan]

One of the few puddings I did like was treacle sponge served with warmed golden syrup.

Just remembered another weird combination we were given - salad with roast potatoes [brown bullets].

[AuntPollyGrey]

Ham salad and roasties was one of my favourites. Do you remember the really lumpy mashed potato serves in a scoop -we called them igloos lol!

[Apc2604]

I so hated school dinners. I was so used to really lovely home cooked food I ended up having packed lunches until the end of my school days. College lunches were great. The smell school dinners was awful.