Disgusting school dinners


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Our school dinners were so so. I can remember cabbage that splattered on the plate it was so over cooked and full of water, chocolate and pink custard which I hate. The school always smelt of cooking fish on fridays, put me off fish for life it was so gross (can manage fish fingers but that is it).  It was a relief when my mum started letting me take sandwiches instead.

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12 hours ago, IAN123. said:

images-11.jpgI loved them, cornflake tart, beef cobbler, chicken supreme and chips and salad!

Grub was superb...and if you went to the last sitting- you got seconds.

The Dinnerladies were lovely at our school..one womans husband escaped from occupied France through Lifeline during the war.

Did'nt like the yellow fish though.

That was smoked haddock, beautiful  !

Loved school dinners.

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I never had school dinners as a child. At primary school, I went home for lunch every day and at Manning, I took sandwiches. The dinners smelled pretty disgusting. Sandwich girls were supposed to eat them in the dining room but we soon stopped doing that.

 

I remember a pudding bowl amnesty being issued. The dining room was running short and most were discovered in the science labs, growing penicillin! It was all the sponge and custard was fit for!

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17 minutes ago, catfan said:

That was smoked haddock, beautiful  !

For his tea, every Saturday, when I was a child, dad liked smoked haddock. Mum bought it from the fishmonger near to St Paul's church on Radford Road. Can't just bring the name to mind**  It was run by a plump lady in a blue overall.

 

Dad would eat his haddock and then check his football coupon against the pink newspaper. He was usually lucky!

 

** Braddocks comes to mind but perhaps just because it rhymes with haddock!

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19 minutes ago, Jill Sparrow said:

I never had school dinners as a child. At primary school, I went home for lunch every day and at Manning, I took sandwiches. The dinners smelled pretty disgusting. Sandwich girls were supposed to eat them in the dining room but we soon stopped doing that.

 

I remember a pudding bowl amnesty being issued. The dining room was running short and most were discovered in the science labs, growing penicillin! It was all the sponge and custard was fit for!

We were allowed to take sandwiches in the 6th. form. The school canteen at Mellish was run by an angry looking woman called Mrs. Frost. Her cooking skills were negligible. Universally disliked. I remember the day she retired and there was a presentation to her in assembly. I was up front in the choir and she stood next to me whilst the headmaster read out a eulogy. It caused her to burst into tears and I had to put my arms around her and let her cry on my shoulder. Never lived that one down! :biggrin:

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Beardall Street school in Hucknall housed the main kitchens for all the local schools. The smell from that place sticks in my memory even now. Nothing like cooking food at all but showed a great resemblance to our washing machine at home on the 'boil' setting.

Chocolate sponge and pink custard - both of which devoid of any flavour, YUK!

Pink potatoes (as they'd been cooked together with beetroot).

Lumpy mash, lumpy custard, carrots that must have been cooked for days, they were so soft, cabbage a ghastly grey colour. Does all that need a special talent, I wonder?

 

When I was full time at the technical college, the restaurant was on the top floor of the Newton Building and run by Mrs Mawson. That place was excellent (compared with the school dinners I was familiar with). My only problem with it was (and this is not the restaurant's fault) was that we had practical zoology on Friday mornings and with wasn't particularly pleasant to go from dissecting stinking, half-rotted fish to having Mrs Mawson's excellent cod, chips & peas. 

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I remember that restaurant. I was only a part time student at one time but I managed to get a card to enable me to eat there. Very cheap and they did a good curry. Cracking views as well. I remember dissecting rabbits, dogfish, frogs and earthworms for A level biology at school. They were preserved in a tank of formalin for ongoing dissection. Not the right subject for an accountancy qualification but then I never experienced a quadratic equation or differential calculus after leaving school.

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Never had a school dinner,, if Mam and Dad were out or working,,just went to Grandma's or one of many Aunts,, spoilt proper i was,,

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When on the road 70s 80s 90s loved the 'Little Chef's'  used em all the time,, sad when they more or less vanished,, the odd times i'm on the road now i always look out for the 'American Diners' love their ''Yankee doodle dandies''...........used to sing a couple of lines from the song (al la james Cagney) to the Waitresses......don't know why,, just got blank looks.........:(

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I used to look forward to a Little Chef breakfast after an early start on a business trip. Must have visited most of them over 25 years. If I was really hungry it was the Olympic Breakfast with a side order of beans. There are still a few around. The nearest to me is on the Hykeham roundabout on the A46 near Lincoln. Just checked - it's gone, soon to be a Greggs and a Burger King. Is nothing sacred?

 

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Same here Phil,,used them country wide over 3 decades,, liked em all,,and the one at Hykeham used to do interviews there for Security Guards,, for the Lincolnshire area.

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The wife and myself always stopped in the one on the way to my sons in Cheshire for a large breakfast, his wife was a very good cook , but she was a "healthy" food cook. It was our last chance for real food until we returned home. A sad day when they disappeared .

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If I remember correctly Little Chef were mainly on the "A" trunk roads and were a great place for a good value meal unlike the Motorway Service areas Blue Boar and Kennings etc.

 

School dinners, "How would you like your mash, one lump or two?" and your gravy, "lumps or slices"

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Little chef was quite unpopular among trucking fraternity. They seemed to specialise in buying out the busiest transport caffs - and then banning lorries from using them.

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Yes Brew i would agree with that........the thing was Little Chefs'' were consistent on Quality,,you knew what you'd get,, whereas Transport Cafes varied so much.. don't get me wrong ,there were some excellent ones.

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