Identical to yours Guy less the milk. I would ocasionally have mixed up with a penguin or a viscount and a tuna and cucumber sarnie that had by lunch time gone totally soggy and stank to high heaven
When people first stated questioning the healthiness of school dinners, my school introduced chip-free Tuesdays when they served fried potato wedges instead.
At secondary school I lived though the glory years of school dinners when you could eat chips each day accompanied by hot dogs burgers or pizza for variety.
'Supper and breakfast'? We had the usual brown mush for school lunch, who knows what it was. Once anyone turned 18 it was their round at the pub next door to the school.
Teachers didn't care. They were there drinking away.
School breakfast was good. Piping hot porridge, strong tea and plenty of toast. Lunch was a bit meh, TBH. Nothing was quite fresh. Supper was abysmal - small and cold.
Indeed Cookie. Some of us used to borrow cigs off the teachers. It was supposed to be a posh school. More like a den of somewhat bright reprobates. We were 'frowned upon' from above.
Half a round of Dairylea sandwiches, half a round of Marmite sandwiches, pack of crisps, Trio or Club biscuit. Weak squash in a Holly Hobbit flask, replaced by a CapriSun once they were invented.
Only when some of us started inviting girls from the school over the road to the pub did the powers that be thought it best to intervene. The girls were 18, same legal rules.
Fun times. One couple have been married for years now, live in Australia, a few kids.
I loved 1980’s school pizza which was an inch of dough topped with tinned tomato, spam and cheddar. The low point was hard boiled eggs in generic brown curry sauce.
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I never had packed lunches at skool.
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Disgusting stewed meat, three quarters fat. Cabbage boiled for hour
Stewed apple with ants still in them
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Lunch? Do you mean school dinners?
Mince pie
Shepherds pie
Fish pie
Fish cakes
Sponge and custard
Not a vegetable for miles around
Served by dinner ladies :)
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Didn’t have packed lunches either, we sat on house tables and were served by the prefect at the head of each table.
Senior school was different, we queued up in houses and took it in turns at the dining hall.
Good food actually apart from ‘gunk’ which was the faux milkshake they sometimes palmed us off with at supper with a cookie Instead of dessert.
Breakfasts were decent too, could have kippers every day and no one cared.
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Identical to yours Guy less the milk. I would ocasionally have mixed up with a penguin or a viscount and a tuna and cucumber sarnie that had by lunch time gone totally soggy and stank to high heaven
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Cheese pie ftw.
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What Wang and guy said, but replace milk (seriously, wtf?) with panda cola. Peter Kay truly spoke to my childhood.
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Corned beef and brown sauce was the variety sandwich
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When people first stated questioning the healthiness of school dinners, my school introduced chip-free Tuesdays when they served fried potato wedges instead.
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I was talking about primary school mainly -
At secondary school I lived though the glory years of school dinners when you could eat chips each day accompanied by hot dogs burgers or pizza for variety.
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'Supper and breakfast'? We had the usual brown mush for school lunch, who knows what it was. Once anyone turned 18 it was their round at the pub next door to the school.
Teachers didn't care. They were there drinking away.
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And who could blame them chambo? In the circs.
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School breakfast was good. Piping hot porridge, strong tea and plenty of toast. Lunch was a bit meh, TBH. Nothing was quite fresh. Supper was abysmal - small and cold.
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Indeed Cookie. Some of us used to borrow cigs off the teachers. It was supposed to be a posh school. More like a den of somewhat bright reprobates. We were 'frowned upon' from above.
We didn't do too badly afterwards.
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From the teachers.
v bright.
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Did you give them back when you’d finished them?
Northern was it?
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- Meat paste sandwiches in doorstep slices of bread (yuck - quickly traded for something more appetising).
- Hula Hoops or Walker's crisps (usually traded for KP Skips or Frazzles).
- Penguin, Trio or Club.
- Piece of fruit.
- Capri Sun, Five Alive or (occasionally) Um Bongo or Quattro.
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Back in chambo's day smoking was mandatory.
shyt it was back in my day too tbh.
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Um bongo was the business.
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It certainly was.
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Was your school situated somewhere in Africa ?
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Half a round of Dairylea sandwiches, half a round of Marmite sandwiches, pack of crisps, Trio or Club biscuit. Weak squash in a Holly Hobbit flask, replaced by a CapriSun once they were invented.
My mum was a home ec teacher.
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Argh, Holly Hobbie.
(Holly Hobbit was obviously a twee Victorian-ish character with weirdly hairy feet looking for treasure.)
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Only when some of us started inviting girls from the school over the road to the pub did the powers that be thought it best to intervene. The girls were 18, same legal rules.
Fun times. One couple have been married for years now, live in Australia, a few kids.
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Strawberry Jam sandwiches (good cheap jam; luminous with no bits in)
two finger kit kat / penguin
banana
water (from the jugs on the table)
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I loved 1980’s school pizza which was an inch of dough topped with tinned tomato, spam and cheddar. The low point was hard boiled eggs in generic brown curry sauce.
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