[Food] What was your favourite school dinner?

[Doc Lynam]

What was your favourite thing on the menu back in ye old school dinner days?

Some it was dross but occasionally you'd find gold.

For me cornflake tart with custard

 

[Is it PotG?]

 

[maltaseagull]

I used to love the liver at school although I was told it was ox liver and the cheapest cut.
Also iced gingerbread.

If spotted dick was for pudding I skipped dinner - yuck.

 

[Moshe Gariani]

Nasi Goreng

 

[Mo Gosfield]

Wow....lucky you!
I was weaned on Meat ( varieties ) + 2/3 Veg ( varieties ) plus stodgy pudding and custard....and to be honest, it didn't vary very much. When they finally opened a Tuck Shop, I reckon 50% of the kids abandoned school meals and switched to Mars Bar and Crisps.

 

[Boroseagull]

In the 1950's - none! It was awful 'food' that you had to sit and eat before being allowed to leave the canteen. 60+ years later I still cannot stomach swede, turnip, parsnip or beetroot.

 

[Gwylan]

I think it was the horror of school dinners that made me veggie!

I used to like the cheese pie though.

 

[pasty]

Spam fritters, chips and beans. Followed by banana and custard with cornflakes sprinkled on top.

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

Burger, chips and beans followed by jam tart.

The rest was mediocre at best. The worst was spam fritters.

 

[Algernon]

I used to love the delicious frothy white sauce that was drizzled over various puddings. I remember asking a dinner lady what it was but she wouldn't let me in on the secret.
It was only in adulthood I figured out it was just evaporated milk that had been whipped up.

 

[Is it PotG?]

I used to love the delicious frothy white sauce that was drizzled over various puddings.

From the school I was at I believe it was courtesy of the P.E. Teacher.

 

[zefarelly]

Spam fritters, chips and beans. Followed by banana and custard with cornflakes sprinkled on top.

Salty lardy deliciousness, I loved spam fritters.

our school dinners late 70's/80's were pretty good I think.

liver and bacon, sausage and mash, macaroni cheese, treacle sponge pudding and custard.

at Steyning grammar they made really good pizza, not authentic Italian style more a sweaty cheesy fat septic type with loads of oregano, yum.

 

[Trufflehound]

I went to grammar school in Kent, so Gypsy Tart, Gypsy Tart and Gypsy Tart all the way.

Basically brown sugar, evaporated milk and more brown sugar whipped up into a cream and baked in pastry. It can probably make all your teeth fall out from 50 paces, but when you are 12 with a sweet tooth it was the best thing ever.


Strangely not that many people outside of Kent seem to know of it.

 

[Mackenzie]

I’m not sure what it was called, but the chicken in white sauce with bits of toast on the top was my favourite.

 

[Fignon's Ponytail]

Always liked the shepherds pie and then chocolate sponge and chocolate custard for dessert. We used to argue over who would get the skin off the custard.

 

[Peteinblack]

Cheese flan, followed by Spotted Dick (oo err, missus) or Jam Roly-Poly for pudding - at Boundstone Comp in Lancing

 

[Trufflehound]

Always liked the shepherds pie

Davy Crockett died of Shepherd's Pie. ...FACT

 

[Questions]

I’m still. unable to talk about the whole experience

 

[Chicken Run]

Fish Fingers, Chips and Baked Beans, it was during one of these meals I was introduced to the concept of salad cream on chips in 1980, and the rest they say is history, obviously I’ve upgraded to mayo now.

 

[Guinness Boy]

When I was 6 or 7 it was chocolate cake with chocolate custard.

When I was 15 it was ten B&H