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Post by Pilch on Feb 20, 2024 20:52:04 GMT 1
what were your favourites ?
love to try some again
I remember a meat pie (beef) nice pastry on it, big rectangle shaped tin, mash was a bit bland , and veg soft but the pie and gravy , yum
also I dont even know the name of it but I remember a creamy cheesy sauce dish that had boiled eggs in it , loved it but no idea what it was called
pudding, anything spongy with those big silver jugs of custard or chocolate sauce was great
does anyone know if there is a definitive list online of what we used to have back in the 70s ?
do primary schools still have a set dinner or is there a choice ?
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Post by barrynic on Feb 20, 2024 20:56:09 GMT 1
I loved the chicken curry with boiled rice...lots of apple and sultanas in it.
Manchester tart or prunes and custard...I was in heaven.
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Post by Pilch on Feb 20, 2024 21:01:11 GMT 1
I loved the chicken curry with boiled rice...lots of apple and sultanas in it. Manchester tart or prunes and custard...I was in heaven. yes good call both of them, not had manchester tart for decades , it was a bit life a trifle pie if I remember right
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Post by edgmond on Feb 20, 2024 21:28:00 GMT 1
The eggs in cheese sauce were great, as was the curry.
I never liked the sponge though - used to take out and eat the sultanas and leave the rest! If my parents had known how much of their money I wasted….
We used to have this hard chocolate shortbread biscuit which was really nice but impossible to break with cutlery without it shooting half way across the hall!
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Post by GrizzlyShrew on Feb 20, 2024 21:44:09 GMT 1
Liver and onions. Love it.
Was so enjoying it the one day I had all 9 of the pieces still left over (on top of the 2 or 3 dishes out as standard).
Think that was at junior school. Used to take sandwiches to senior school and eat them sneakily during or in between lessons. Left more time at lunchtime for other activities.
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Post by Pilch on Feb 20, 2024 22:12:22 GMT 1
Liver and onions. Love it. Was so enjoying it the one day I had all 9 of the pieces still left over (on top of the 2 or 3 dishes out as standard). Think that was at junior school. Used to take sandwiches to senior school and eat them sneakily during or in between lessons. Left more time at lunchtime for other activities. yuk, Ive never liked liver , did we really have that at school ? maybe we did
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Post by venceremos on Feb 20, 2024 22:14:36 GMT 1
I loved the chicken curry with boiled rice...lots of apple and sultanas in it. Manchester tart or prunes and custard...I was in heaven. Manchester tart was great, although I had one more recently and the sweetness was off the scale. Not such a sweet tooth these days, thankfully. I used to love the simple delight of jam tart and custard, and the cherry shortcake (I'd still love that, to be honest).
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Post by Pilch on Feb 20, 2024 22:19:42 GMT 1
just remembered semolina, im sure I had some but cant honestly remember what it was like
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Post by venceremos on Feb 20, 2024 22:20:39 GMT 1
Liver and onions. Love it. Was so enjoying it the one day I had all 9 of the pieces still left over (on top of the 2 or 3 dishes out as standard). Think that was at junior school. Used to take sandwiches to senior school and eat them sneakily during or in between lessons. Left more time at lunchtime for other activities. yuk, Ive never liked liver , did we really have that at school ? maybe we did Since I stopped eating meat about 7 years ago, I've hardly missed any of it at all. But I did used to like, very occasionally, some good quality, nicely cooked liver - which rules out the school meals version for sure.
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Post by GrizzlyShrew on Feb 20, 2024 23:12:02 GMT 1
Liver and onions. Love it. Was so enjoying it the one day I had all 9 of the pieces still left over (on top of the 2 or 3 dishes out as standard). Think that was at junior school. Used to take sandwiches to senior school and eat them sneakily during or in between lessons. Left more time at lunchtime for other activities. yuk, Ive never liked liver , did we really have that at school ? maybe we did We certainly did. As for the taste of semolina - disgusting, but like eating frog spawn.
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Post by kenwood on Feb 21, 2024 0:20:00 GMT 1
At my secondary school I was a server . Me and another lad were in charge of a table of 8 . Our job was to collect the food and serve it up fairly . This used to really bug me and it happened often . We had a large metal tray of say meat pie which we divided up into 8 peices . Lads always wanted a corner piece and those quick enough would wet their finger and stick it into the piece they wanted saying “ I want that piece “.Drove me mental and I ended up t**tting them with a ladle cos I was so annoyed . Anyway , jam rollypolly , however it’s spelt was nice with lovely thick custard . The cabbage was always wet and too soft but overall diners went down well . If you were lucky you would get seconds ( extras ) Some lads had it made, they ended up serving the teachers who had their own dining area within the dining hall . For some reason they sat on different tables than the rest of us and ate like bloody kings the gutsy f.ckers ( the pupils not the teachers ) Always a bone of contention with the rest of us . Nothing wrong with a nice dollop of semolina , fill belly if nothing else .
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Post by edgmond on Feb 21, 2024 0:44:02 GMT 1
The frogspawn one was tapioca. Pretty disgusting.
Semolina was just like sloppy rice pudding. We used to have jam with it - not too bad if the proportions were 50:50!
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Post by jamo on Feb 21, 2024 8:25:13 GMT 1
At my secondary school I was a server . That does surprise me. I always had you down as a taker.
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Post by The Shropshire Tenor on Feb 21, 2024 14:38:35 GMT 1
When I was at the Priory (1958-65) dinners were served to younger kids by 6th formers who most of the food for themselves and starved those they were supposed to be looking after.
So I used to go to the market and buy a coconut and a wedge of cheese for my dinner and sometimes a bag of chips for variety. When we were about 15 we could get served in The Old Crow, mine was a pint of bitter and a cigar. The back room we sat in had a door onto the path by the river and if any teachers or police came in the landlord rang a bell which was the signal for us to leg it out the back door.
When I got into the 6th form I knew that I would be able to eat as much as I wanted so it was back to school for dinner. I’ve never been a fussy eater so was happy with anything they produced, even semolina or tapioca. My favourite was mince, gravy and mash. Walking now past the local old folks home near my house that familiar smell wafts out and I can imagine that it won’t be long before I’m in there enjoying it once more.
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Post by gainsparkshrew on Feb 21, 2024 15:39:51 GMT 1
Recounting my school days up on The Wirral,the type of foods seem to be the same as Shropshire although how they tasted was very different... absolutely disgusting...perhaps I was a fussy eater?...the puddings where nice though.
Could get fish and chips etc for a week from the local chippy for less money than a week's school meals, lots of us went for that instead
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Post by martinshrew on Feb 21, 2024 15:45:18 GMT 1
I remember our chippy did a burger & chips for £1, I dread to think what I consumed ... 🤢
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Post by Minormorris64 on Feb 21, 2024 16:04:08 GMT 1
Apparently for the first couple of years at Primary School (started 1969) all I ate was Potatoes & Gravy !!
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Post by kenwood on Feb 21, 2024 16:20:26 GMT 1
At my secondary school I was a server . That does surprise me. I always had you down as a taker. Trust you to know the difference 😉👍
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Post by jamo on Feb 21, 2024 17:59:39 GMT 1
That does surprise me. I always had you down as a taker. Trust you to know the difference 😉👍 👍😁
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Post by The Clash 1966 on Feb 21, 2024 18:08:27 GMT 1
Steak pie, new pots, green beans with trifle or cheese and biscuits. Yum.
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Post by davycrockett on Feb 21, 2024 19:04:33 GMT 1
Steak pie, new pots, green beans with trifle or cheese and biscuits. Yum. Think that would be my favourite although I seem to remember a roast. Pretty well everything else I hated and haven’t eaten since. Mashed potatoes with eyes and lumps, cheese pie that was a bit runny and burnt custard that tasted of petrol. And the smell as you walked in the canteen, well the old memorial hall in Meole village we had to walk to. Not my happiest times 🤮
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Post by gainsparkshrew on Feb 21, 2024 19:05:40 GMT 1
Steak pie, new pots, green beans with trifle or cheese and biscuits. Yum. That was a school dinner?..wow😯..or is that your dinner tonight at home?
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Post by The Clash 1966 on Feb 21, 2024 20:01:21 GMT 1
Steak pie, new pots, green beans with trifle or cheese and biscuits. Yum. Think that would be my favourite although I seem to remember a roast. Pretty well everything else I hated and haven’t eaten since. Mashed potatoes with eyes and lumps, cheese pie that was a bit runny and burnt custard that tasted of petrol. And the smell as you walked in the canteen, well the old memorial hall in Meole village we had to walk to. Not my happiest times 🤮 i can't do mashed spuds unless they are on top of a cottage pie
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Post by The Clash 1966 on Feb 21, 2024 20:02:51 GMT 1
Steak pie, new pots, green beans with trifle or cheese and biscuits. Yum. That was a school dinner?..wow😯..or is that your dinner tonight at home? Public school lunch . Overall the food was ok for the 70s / 80s
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Post by gainsparkshrew on Feb 21, 2024 21:03:20 GMT 1
That was a school dinner?..wow😯..or is that your dinner tonight at home? Public school lunch . Overall the food was ok for the 70s / 80s Ah OK that makes sense, although with your user name you would have been the last person I would have thought of as a former public school pupil😯
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Post by cabanas2017 on Feb 21, 2024 21:39:15 GMT 1
Slightly better than the hospital food I tasted last year Although I did enjoy the school Jam Roly poly and custard.
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Post by The Clash 1966 on Feb 21, 2024 21:44:36 GMT 1
Public school lunch . Overall the food was ok for the 70s / 80s Ah OK that makes sense, although with your user name you would have been the last person I would have thought of as a former public school pupil😯 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I'm a bit of a chameleons to be honest. I can blend in anywhere
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Post by albionshrew on Feb 21, 2024 22:11:15 GMT 1
I enjoyed everything as it was free! Well, maybe not the liver (always had an elastic band inside). The tapioca was disgusting. Roast potatoes were a treat. Loved the semolina. My mum was one of the dinner ladies at school (Harlescott Grange Secondary Modern). Happy days. Oh, and Alf Wood was my hero. Still is. Always will be.
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Post by staffordshrew on Feb 21, 2024 22:50:18 GMT 1
Junior school dinners came in a big tin from another school, disgusting. sandwiches for the rest of my time in school.
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Post by dewsburyshrew on Feb 22, 2024 0:23:30 GMT 1
At Holy Cross (a brand new school then) the meals weren't bad. Lots of cabbage of course, with square slices of pie, and other cheap choices. I was a pud boy, but struggled with the tapioca served at least once a week. The food at the aPriory was rank. I soon myself off to the Greyfriars chippy where they hid us away in a room at the back and fed us for the price of a school dinner.
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