School dinners

You're right M0nica, and I've just remembered the pig bins outside the back door of my junior school! So we can't have eaten in all!

Oh, God, I remember the pig bins and the truly disgusting smell and the swill lorries that collected it - and the smell that surrounded them - . I think we left an awful lot. Those of us whose mother's were even half-decent cook reeled in shock from the food we got fed at school.

My mother was an excellent cook, even if the food in thisendaysnwas fairly plain.

There were no packed lunches and no-one was allowed home at lunch-time unless they had a letter from a parent with a good excuse!
This went on right up to sixth form - there was never any choice.
Some food was OK, I remember a steak pie with a kind of short crust pastry, cut into squares, that was good and sponge puddings were nice if the custard wasn't lumpy.

I went to infant school in 1947, and loved the school dinners. We had a small school, and the cooks were great. We had on site kitchens, which probably helped, as I think these days, a lot of food may be cooked and brought to the schools in containers.
I loved all the milky puddings and it was the first time I had crunchy, raw cabbage with mince, I enjoyed the different textures.

I have always hated onions, raw cooked what ever, when I was in primary school must have been about 7 ,we had them one day in salad and I left them ate the rest. A dinner lady came over told me I had to eat them and stood over me until I had , as she went to take the plate away I was promptly sick all over her, karma ? so no fond memories of school dinners.

I always loved school dinners when at school and when teaching.
The best ones were at a school outside Glasgow where they were cooked on the premises - excellent!

I was born in 1944 and I liked the school dinners except for that pink custard stuff.Ugh! Special place in my heart (gut?) for chocolate concrete which we would smuggle into the pocket of our regulation navy blue knickers to sustain us through a double maths lesson in the afternoon. Didn't like maths, loved that concrete
Years later I made some chocolate shortbread - dodgy oven, too low temperature, result? chocolate concrete!
I met a lady years ago who was a school cook and had all her recipe books,btw.

MaggieMaybe Did the same for me over the Manchester Tart! Mrs Pearson, stern lady with a black bun, tall and thin!

I actually liked the liver casserole ....

Now that cheese pie anyone have that recipe?

The school I attended had the kitchens which supplied meals all the other local schools so the food we ate was always over-cooked and tasted disgusting.