School Dinners

[cojak]

I remember some sort of corn-flake desert. Not sure exactly what it was beyond corn flakes, but it was disgusting.

Still, school dinners didn't prepare me for the horror that was Kent University food.

Oh yeah! a version of treacle tart!

mmm....

[lilelvis2000]

As I lived within walking distance I always had lunch at home. Later when we moved further from the school I took my lunch box..though the odd time I did have chips.

[cojak]

And who could forget the suet jam roly-poly that could have caused serious injury had there been a food fight..

I'm going to lie down now...

[cojak]

Lumpy chocolate custard. I miss it SO much.

Anyone who makes me lumpy chocolate custard will have a place in my heart forever. Ahem.

Edit: in a metal jug!

Bashed to boogery that wobbled when placed on a flat surface...

[Board Game Geek]

Chocolate pudding was nice..well, the pudding itself wasn't but the sauce was fantastic !

After a few minutes, the sauce would form a skin on top and that was my favourite. So much so, that the other kids who hated theirs were quite grateful to pass their skins down the table to me.

Then I had a bowl of chocolate skins and I was in heaven.

Then another term started and it was packed lunches from then on.

Jam sandwiches...yuk.
Ham and mustard...yum.
Garlic and onion...top class.
Banana..super !

[NotAllThere]

Before I went to private school, all I can remember is about school dinners is once being forced to eat some kind of lemon moose, and vomiting profusely afterwards.

The private school had pretty good caterers - Gardner Merchant. The menu was varied, and there was considerable choice.

6th form college was easy - bag of chips then off to the pub for a beer.

[thunderlizard]

For mains: meat stew with tubes in it.
Battered fish - looked at first glance like a normal chip-shop fish, but in fact was 95% batter and had nothing more than a shoelace-sized ribbon of fish running down the core.
Mashed potato that you could fix tiles with. Boiled potatoes, broccoli or cauliflower that disintegrated when touched.

Steamy sponge was the usual pudding (more steam than sponge - it nearly took your eyebrows off when you cut into it). Sometimes with jam on top ("Dead Man's Head" or "Murder on the Mountain"), or plain with custard, lemon sauce or chocolate custard - any of these with a skin so firm you could go trampolining on it.
Or if we were very lucky, huge cream-filled chocolate eclairs ("Linfords").

[Moose423956]

Before I went to private school, all I can remember is about school dinners is once being forced to eat some kind of lemon moose, and vomiting profusely afterwards.

The private school had pretty good caterers - Gardner Merchant. The menu was varied, and there was considerable choice.

6th form college was easy - bag of chips then off to the pub for a beer.

I didn't know we came in flavours. I wonder what flavour I would be...

mousse

[Sysman]

I have fond memories of meat and potato pie with wonderful chunky pastry. Peas and half a boat load of decent gravy on top. Either rhubarb or prunes to follow. Now that was a balanced diet - first course to clog you up, the second to do the opposite. One parents do they served the pie and the parents came home claiming that we ate better than them.

In summer, a Russian salad with lashings of salad cream and new potatoes smothered in butter.
Ice cream and tinned fruit salad was good too.
Bangers, mash and beans were another favourite.

Ah, cheese pie. Most hated it which meant there was oodles to go at for those who liked it.

Whatever the meal, there were always extras for the main course.

The best of the lot was volunteering to do the serving. This meant taking the stuff out on trolleys to each table, and taking the empties back later. For this you got a special table next to the kitchen (for the sitting you weren't working) with as much as you could eat. Magic.

[Sysman]

The private school had pretty good caterers - Gardner Merchant. The menu was varied, and there was considerable choice.

Aargh!, please not Gardner Merchant! In my second and fourth contracts they were the canteen caterers and you soon got fed up the food. It was occasionally top notch, and we just knew that their contract was up for renewal. It would always decline in both quality and choice shortly afterwards. Fortunately there were a couple of rattling good sandwich shops nearby.

Oh, their buffets for working lunches were everything to do with pork. It was a bit of a sod when half a dozen senior folks from one customer turned up and we discovered that all except one were Jewish. We took them to a local restaurant after that little disaster (which was worth going along to to see the permie manager squirm at paying the bill).