Things you hate

[steve_earwig]

70's school dinners. They used chip fat that must have been a month old and the mushy peas put me off that vegetable for life!

the mashed potatoes they served in school dinners, i can tell you whatever they were they were not potatoes. You would have got more flavour and nutrition out of old newspapers.

Sounds like things didn't change much I'm actually surprised you can remember that far back Teamster - for me it's about 30 years and all I can remember is liver that was more levver and custard that was all skin.

Btw my wife tells me that the kids here get chips and burgers and pizza, not nutritionally wonderful but I reckon we would have killed for that when we were kids. She says it's every bit as good as you'd get from a pizza restaurant or burger bar but the kids still leave it, preferring to fill up on crisps, sweets and other completely nutrition-free goodies.

[FarmerPug]

Btw my wife tells me that the kids here get chips and burgers and pizza, not nutritionally wonderful but I reckon we would have killed for that when we were kids. She says it's every bit as good as you'd get from a pizza restaurant or burger bar but the kids still leave it, preferring to fill up on crisps, sweets and other completely nutrition-free goodies.

when i started secondary school back in first year we had vending machines with sweets, fizzy drinks and crisps, and the dinners were all nice and unhealthy. Then in second year they got rid of all the machines replaced them with a machine selling bottled water and the dinners got a bit boring but not really any healthier.

[Welly]

My skool dinners seemed to consist of 'meat product' pies with arteries/tubes looking up at you *shudders*

[DaiRees]

Junior school dinners were inedible so I had packed lunch.
Secondary school dinners weren't too bad, sausage in batter, beans and chips every day, until we discovered the chip shop, then there were no more beans . Later there was a Cob phase, mostly "cob and crisps" but occasionally "cob and chips" or the ultimate "cob and pie" - mmmmmm

On the baby thing....
Less than 5lb = "Ooooh, how early was he/she? Is he/she going to be OK?"
Less that 6lb = "Awww, tiny!!"
Between 6lb and 8lb = "Awwww"
8-9lb = "Oooh, there's a bouncer"
9-10lb = "That must've hurt!!"
over 10lb = "Jesus!! How many stitches did she have??"

[sirwiggum]

They had pizzas, burgers and chips in my school dinners.

The pizzas were stale breads, overly tangy cheap puree, a tiny sprinkling of cheese, and a minicule amount of ham.

The burgers had aforementioned arteries, bits of bone to crack your teeth on and were usually dry because they were under the heatlamp for hours.

The chips were also dry and overly starchy, usually cold. The vinegar jars had small dead flies floating on them, and on one occasion there was sugar in the salt sprinkler.

[FarmerPug]

we got chips in our school, they served vinegar but being all health and safety salt was not placed on the table. Some of us being a bit inventive smuggled salt in from the local chip shop

healty stuff is usually crap, diet coke, or coke zero your better drinking air for all you get out of it.

[sirwiggum]

The unhealthy stuff tastes lovely.

Unfortunately so, the weight I am now.

The university dining hall had sachets of vinegar and salt.

When I worked in it, they had school dinner-style meals during term, but during summer it became a conference centre and had proper gourmet meals, fry ups every morning. Yum!

[teamster1975]

I'm actually surprised you can remember that far back Teamster

Well it was primary school, late 70's early 80's, I was born in '75. How they could pass that shyte off as food is anyones guess

[sirwiggum]

Remember the old "the world will end tonight" rumours at school?

Or those secret tests 2 people in suits would come in and show cards to us with pictures on and take some kids aside for more tests?

Freaky when you look back

[Welly]

Remember the old "the world will end tonight" rumours at school?

Or those secret tests 2 people in suits would come in and show cards to us with pictures on and take some kids aside for more tests?

Freaky when you look back

I remember the 'cough-and-drop' test (do they still do that?) they probably aren't allowed now.

Come to think of it I am pleasantly drawn to the thought of a Uniformed Woman cupping my vegetables even to this day

[sirwiggum]

[rwb]

I thought school dinners were quite good, but maybe I'm not very fussy. I'm usually happy with "canteen food".
Used to get brilliant puddings: rice pudding, jam roly poly, treacle sponge,...
Rhubarb crumble is the best pudding ever.

The primary school I went to only had about 25 pupils, so the dinners came from a bigger school in aluminium tins transported by mini-bus. This tended to make things like chips and roast potatoes quite soggy.
My first school dinner was fish fingers, chips, and peas. It was really nice and I ate it all up. I thought it would be the same every day, so was rather disappointed on the next day when it was a lamb roast dinner. The lamb was very chewy and I couldn't eat it. I can still remember most of the menus.

Did anybody else get chocolate sponge with pink custard?
The pink custard was only ever paired with chocolate sponge, never anything else. It wasn't flavoured of strawberry or anything, it was just custard coloured pink.

[FarmerPug]

in primary school i used to like sub teachers it made a nice change from the same boring person every day.

Then in secondary school i dispised student teachers especially at A levels. I wanted to learn not to be the test bed for some student teachers 'new or innovative' methods of teaching. plus the normal teachers i had were good craic, the student teachers were not.

[steve_earwig]

Well it was primary school, late 70's early 80's, I was born in '75. How they could pass that shyte off as food is anyones guess

Ah, I guess I'm trying to remember a little further back than that 'cos I started work in 1983. I remember getting a bollocking for nicking a chip off my mate Chris's plate, which would in something like 1978 (he was out here just before I got married ) I can't remember much else bout the food, apart from being told whatever we left would end up as pig food and thinking it was sad that it was all they'd get. I guess school dinners weren't high on my list of childhood traumas. I can remember my first day at primary school though, I remember just standing there blubbing and the nice kind teacher shouting at me for dropping bits of my hanky on the floor. In fact I can remember pretty much all of my teachers and the varying degrees of hatred and fear I had for them, I even remember wondering why they choose to become teachers if they hated children so much.

And now I is married to one

[steve_earwig]

Ooh,on the news just now was a new feature from Facebook - Timeline, which seems to give you the ability to scroll back through your entire life" I bet that's going to be real exciting for someone

Excuse me, I'm off for a dump and I'm taking my camera...