School Dinners -- Likes/Dislikes

jeffn · Post by **jeffn** » Mon 26 Jul, 2010 8:22 am

Remember at Asket Hill, going for what I thought were chips, turned out to be parsnips disguised as chips, , teacher made me eat every last one of them, still don't like them to this day . . . .

Leeds Hippo · Post by **Leeds Hippo** » Mon 26 Jul, 2010 8:57 am

I well remember when they moved over to artificial powered potatoes in the 60's - they hadn't quite perfected the art and they tasted like wall paper paste.Funny I will always remember the disappointment of biting into what I thought was a large chip only to find that it was a roast parsnip - If I hadn't have been so hungry I wouldn't have eating it!

tilly · Post by **tilly** » Mon 26 Jul, 2010 1:10 pm

Brandy wrote: OOOOOOH! Spam Fritters, aka Concrete waggon wheeles, I can taste them now! As to the prunes and custard; I hate to disabase your memory, but, stewed prunes never came with custard, they always came with rice pudding. My Mam worked as a dinner lady at Crossgates [Primary] and more often than not, what I'd had at dinner-time arrived on the plate at tea-time [otherwise known as lunch and dinner times] ergo, I can assure you that custars never came home with prunes, only ever with rice pud! -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-yep the dreadded prunes allways came with the rice at wykebeck school dinners too.remember that pudding that was made of cornflakes with golden syrup over the top?? mmmmmmmmmmmm heaven Hi Brandy the sweet with cornflakes and golden syrup is still on the menu at Fulneck School they call it corn flake tart.

Cardiarms · Post by **Cardiarms** » Mon 26 Jul, 2010 1:20 pm

Bedford Fields, 1979, I was offered a 'California Salad' which consisted of some lettuce, cucumber, tomato, cress and a slice of ham."What's Californian about it?" I asked.the dinner lady looked at it and then out of the window, then she said:"it's sunny outside".

Si · Post by Si » Mon 26 Jul, 2010 1:44 pm

Leeds Hippo wrote: ...artificial powered potatoes in the 60's... We had to make do with naturally powered potatoes. That's progress for you!

tilly · Post by **tilly** » Mon 26 Jul, 2010 8:36 pm

Si wrote: Leeds Hippo wrote: ...artificial powered potatoes in the 60's... We had to make do with naturally powered potatoes. That's progress for you! Hi Si i think that was called Pom well thats what we were told it was called. Come to think of it that was in the fiftys so i dont think it would be the same thing you had.

Bert · Post by **Bert** » Tue 27 Jul, 2010 8:59 pm

I remember the first day they started providing hot school meals at Templenewsam Colton County Primary School around 1950 - served in Colton's little wooden village hall just down Meynell Road from the school, which until then I had only gone in to watch Mam and Dad play in whist drives. I was thrilled because it meant I no longer had to take Mam's sandwiches with me (sometimes jam, sometimes curled-up cheese, in bread with enormous crusts that looked about a foot thick to my child's eye). The very first hot meal there was spam fritters and mashed potato, followed by hot apple pie and thick yellow custard. I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. Eventually though they did start inflicting the thin runny pink custard on us - vile - looked and tasted like distemper.

zip55 · Post by **zip55** » Wed 28 Jul, 2010 1:57 am

I remember when I was at Low Road school (in around 1960 / 61) .. we used to have to walk from the school to another place further along Low Road (towards Thwaite Gate) for our school dinners. I recall gorging out on Gooseberry Crumble once and after my third helping nearly threw up. I can't go near the stuff to this day.

Patexpat · Post by **Patexpat** » Wed 28 Jul, 2010 7:22 am

can't remember much about school dinners at junior school - other than we didn't have a separate dining room so lessons in the two classrooms that were used for eating in finished 30 minutes earlier for lunch so the tables/cutlery could be laid out ........ grammar school however I do remember (Central High School) ... traditional meat n two veg fair ...thumbs up:SPAM fritterschoc sponge n custardsausage and mashbakewell tart and custardyorkshire puddingsthumbs DOWN:liver - yukky grey - never touched it sincesago - frogspawn with bloody saucesalads.. and other gloop that has been erased from my memory for my own protection

tilly · Post by **tilly** » Wed 28 Jul, 2010 9:55 am

Patexpat wrote: can't remember much about school dinners at junior school - other than we didn't have a separate dining room so lessons in the two classrooms that were used for eating in finished 30 minutes earlier for lunch so the tables/cutlery could be laid out ........ grammar school however I do remember (Central High School) ... traditional meat n two veg fair ...thumbs up:SPAM fritterschoc sponge n custardsausage and mashbakewell tart and custardyorkshire puddingsthumbs DOWN:liver - yukky grey - never touched it sincesago - frogspawn with bloody saucesalads.. and other gloop that has been erased from my memory for my own protection Hi Patpexpat Would that be the stuff that was like wallpaper paste.?I think it was called semolena sorry if the spelling is wrong.