Old Fashion School Dinners

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I hated school dinners and spent most of the lunch times sobbing over cold food I was being forced to eat.

The only think I liked was Gypsy Tart. Sounds a bit like your caramel cake Marydoll

I only liked the chocolate crunch pud with chocolate custard. I think it was supposed to be a sponge but it was always over cooked and became a crunch. Loved it.

School dinners at my junior schools were vile, they were the bane of my early school life under age 11, along with the compulsory milk. I had an ongoing phobia about being forced to ingest lumpy matter that was ever present in any white foodstuff That fear overshadowed the occasional nice pudding, or something agreeable like the chipolatas, sadly always ruined by the accompanying lumpy mash. They improved somewhat at my convent, senior school, cooked in the kitchens by the nuns who seemed to at least have some culinary know how, rather than being supplied by the local council in industrial sized containers as they were at junior school. We were also given the choice at senior school to have a hot cooked meal or bring our own packed lunch if we wished.

Don't start me off. Suet in all the many forms known to woman.

Sausage roll, the dinner ladies would cut a slice off of a huge roll, with mash and peas and gravy the pastry was just perfect. Chocolate pud with chocolate custard oh yummy.

I liked shepherd's pie followed by anything with custard.
School custard tasted nothing like home custard, of course. I'm a big fan of both.

we had cornflakes on top of the caramelMarydoll .our dinners were cooked in the convent kitchen and were very good .I liked them I remember stewed sausage with mash scooped out n an ice cream scoop and carrots as a particular favourite.Thats quite odd as sausages have never been things I've bought or eaten since .

Oh I absolutely hated school dinners, ?apart from the caramel cake.
I was trying to find a picture. Basically a shortcrust pastry case with a tin of Carnation Caramel poured on top.