School dinners. What are your memories?

[Pogue Mahone]

Same here. At junior school it was trad school dinners but secondary it was canteen where we chose.....so we spent 5/6 years eating chips, sausages and burgers.

Oh, and blue, if I'm not too late. Phone dead.

 

[Winker]

Favourite meal:

Mincebeef with triangles of fried bread, mashed potato and peas.

Treacle pudding and custard.

 

[Hiney]

Fritters (indeterminate meat)

Rock cakes (made of actual rock)

Pink custard

Big metal jugs of water

Smell of cabbage

 

[nicko31]

Junior school, not bad, I always hung around for second

Secondary was horrendous, Thatcher the milk snatcher outsourced to the lowest and it was chips with processed meat proper 3rd world. The nations health today is her legacy..

 

[Arthritic Toe]

I had a note from my mum to excuse me from pilchards and custard. Secondary school, was also chips and beans every day so I had enough for 10 JPS Black.

Pilchards and custard? Flippin eck. Thats outright cruelty.

 

[looney]

Was gen OK with school dinners at junior school, the exceptions would be evil spam fritters and an overfried donut ball with jam sauce on it. Liked butterscotch tart but didn't like custard, which I was able to refuse and they didn't pour it on.

Secondry school was prettyy gash untill 14ish when started going up the pub or of to have a spliff.

 

[grummitts gloves]

Pilchards and custard? Flippin eck. Thats outright cruelty.

That was West Blatchington for you!

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

Primary school/juniors I hated school dinners especially the minced beef and onion pie...YUCK...the smash potatoes and the diced carrots/swede...

Secondary school...lovely. Pizza and chips every day for 5 years.

 

[Seagull kimchi]

I'm 43 and I am still subjected to school lunches! To be fair, Korean lunches are relatively ok, some kimchi and rice, soup, some veggies, fruit and a fishy/meaty mulch that I decline. There's only 2/3 lunches I dread, one is their take on spaghetti that tastes like worms with ketchup and the other is a Korean version of Chinese food called Jjajang myeon which is like tarmac on noodles.
Miss the puddings tho'. Coconut custard tart c'mon..........

 

[Dick Head]

Chips and scraps at the Model Fish Fryer.

 

[smeg]

Crates of those mini bottles of milk at junior school, always off in the summer and frozen in the winter

 

[Honky Tonx]

Never been myself but reading the reviews it sounds right up my street.

 

[Boroseagull]

Patcham junior & senior school in the 1950's, awful meats served covered in thick, burnt gravy like substance. Everything scraped out of aluminium trays. Being made to sit there and eat everything has to this very day made me unable to face swede, parsnips, beetroot & turnip. Managed to escape from them by the time I was 13 and then walked over to Patcham village and 'Toms' for Tizer & sweets!

 

[symyjym]

I have a memory from infant school of getting a long straggly bit of bacon rind stuck in my throat and struggling to pull it out to save me from certain death.

 

[pasty]

Crates of those mini bottles of milk at junior school, always off in the summer and frozen in the winter

Ha ha. When I was at St Wilfreds infants/junior school in Haywards Heath, I remember the milk was either a Unigate or CO-OP (I think) bottle and for some reason there was always a bundle to get the Unigate bottles.

 

[Albion in the north]

Primary School - Bananas and custard was baaaad. Cant look at a banana now Any other pudding made with milk was fine by me
Secondary school seem to remember living off of chips and beans.

 

[GT49er]

Primary School - Bananas and custard was baaaad. Cant look at a banana now Any other pudding made with milk was fine by me
Secondary school seem to remember living off of chips and beans.

Yes, agree, banana custard was B A D !

 

[smeg]

Pretty sure all of ours were Unigate, I was at Patcham Junior school

Ha ha. When I was at St Wilfreds infants/junior school in Haywards Heath, I remember the milk was either a Unigate or CO-OP (I think) bottle and for some reason there was always a bundle to get the Unigate bottles.

 

[thisistips]

Spam fritters, with double their weight in grease, accompanied with watery mash served up from an ice-cream scoop. I used to love the puddings, always seemed to be lots of variety in different colored custards throughout the week.
Luckily for me my Auntie was a dinner lady so I got off lightly.

This is my exact first thought, minus the auntie bit

 

[Nigella's Cream Pie]

As I read this thread, I'm singing what we used to sing to the tune of Out of Town:

Say what you will,
School dinners make you ill,
And Davy Crockett died of shepherd's pie
Our school din-dins come from pig bins
Out of town

As to what we ate, the colour pink stands out in my memory: semolina and custard