School Dinners -- Likes/Dislikes

Lilysmum · Post by **Lilysmum** » Fri 11 Jul, 2008 12:35 pm

Liver with horrid gristly tubes in,a funny grey in colour and that hard you could have soled your shoes with it.Also cauliflower that had been cooked so long that it turned to a pinky mush.Eating disorders and food intolerences hadn't been invented then and you just had to eat what was put infront of you.

weenie · Post by **weenie** » Fri 11 Jul, 2008 6:20 pm

i had these things called bean rounders they were very nice sausage meat in breadcrumbs with baked beans in middle, i kept asking my dad to buy them but couldnt find them anywhere, and have never done since.

stevief · Post by **stevief** » Fri 11 Jul, 2008 7:39 pm

Lilysmum wrote: Liver with horrid gristly tubes in,a funny grey in colour and that hard you could have soled your shoes with it.Also cauliflower that had been cooked so long that it turned to a pinky mush.Eating disorders and food intolerences hadn't been invented then and you just had to eat what was put infront of you. LOL you're quite right Lilysmum.I think I'm looking through rose-tinted spectacles,I loved schoolmeals.It might have depended on the school.If we were on 'second serving' we could hang back to see if there were any left-overs.On one memorable occasion we had 2 trays of apple crumble between about 6 of us.One lad did us proud,we had to walk him round like Paul Newman in'Cool hand Luke'but he helped us finish the lot!

Leeds-lad · Post by **Leeds-lad** » Fri 11 Jul, 2008 8:22 pm

It sounds like(after reading these threads) that the ability of school cooks could be brought in to questionThe liver we had at school was always melt in your mouthSausages were massive, browned allover but soft centredRice pudding beautiful and creamyShepherds/Cottage pie,always tasty Which begs the question - Why was it called pie when there was nopastry topping?We used to get a lovely meat pie with short crust pastry that was delicious,we wrongly assumed it to be Shepherds Pie.

bramley13 · Post by **bramley13** » Fri 11 Jul, 2008 11:15 pm

i loved dinner at school,one of our dinner ladys was a really good looker, lol

liits · Post by **liits** » Sat 12 Jul, 2008 12:07 am

FLOJO wrote: Lilysmum wrote: Luncheon meat fritters! swimming in grease and the luncheon meat was a very bright pink euk!!Billberry pie with blobs of pretend cream on each portion was lovely and we all came out of dinners with purple teeth. The luncheon meat fritters still put my teeth on edge when I think of them, I went to Crossgates girl school and our dinners I think came from Temple Newsam ,I hated the prunes and custard. 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!

Brandy · Post by **Brandy** » Sat 12 Jul, 2008 1:02 am

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

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Sun 25 Jul, 2010 10:48 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 I've just come across this thread during a search. Reading through the posts I thought I would mention the delicious teacle pudding with cornfalkes and custard but it was mentioned in the last message I came to! Yummy, and also spam fritters. Loved the frogspawn (sago) but not the thick skinned blamange (? spelling). Hated that. Pink custard was fun.

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Sun 25 Jul, 2010 11:06 pm

I only started having school dinners when I went to Pudsey Tech. The puddings were generally some sort of upside down cake with custard. I remember that on Fridays the choice was mince, which like eating rubber bands, or fish. In those far off days, Catholics weren't allowed to eat meat on Fridays, so the school meals service always offered fish as an alternative. Given the state of the mince, we were all Catholics on Fridays.It was the early sixties and there was some sort of potato famine, so we used to have roast parsnips with the main course plus a slice of dry bread.

FLOJO · Post by **FLOJO** » Mon 26 Jul, 2010 8:11 am

Trojan wrote: I only started having school dinners when I went to Pudsey Tech. The puddings were generally some sort of upside down cake with custard. I remember that on Fridays the choice was mince, which like eating rubber bands, or fish. In those far off days, Catholics weren't allowed to eat meat on Fridays, so the school meals service always offered fish as an alternative. Given the state of the mince, we were all Catholics on Fridays.It was the early sixties and there was some sort of potato famine, so we used to have roast parsnips with the main course plus a slice of dry bread. Trojan I can remember early sixties having parsnips and they looked like chips until you put them in your mouth and they were sweet, that put me off them for years but now I love them but here in SOUTH AFRICA it is a short season for them so it is get them while you can.