classic33
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You took your own sarnies?
You missed a lot. The guess what this is, and what it was in a prior life. The new kids walking off with the knife and fork...
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You missed a lot. The guess what this is, and what it was in a prior life. The new kids walking off with the knife and fork...
Andy in Germany
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It was a funny place: we we were just south of Manchester and only a few kilometres from one of the largest and most deprived housing estates in Europe, but the town hosted some very large corporate headquarters, so even the kids at the comprehensive school tended to come from incredibly wealthy backgrounds. It means that for many, just having to carry your own meal was considered an example of extreme poverty.
I remember the dinner ladies made the class divide even more obvious by insisting that those who ate sandwiches and those who ate school meals had to sit separately.
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classic33
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You brought sarnies, you had to sit in teachers dining room. Not the main dining room. Fewer than 100 in a school of over 2,000 kids.
Always wondered what were going on in there*. Dimpled glass meant you couldn't see, with any real clarity, what was going on. Especially around exam time, answers being given to questions soon to be asked?
*Disappointed when I found out not a lot, and they were eating the same as us.
Andy in Germany
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Our numbers were a bit more even, so we just had a different row of tables. I always assumed it was so that we wouldn't ask what the h*ll the stuff was that came out of the kitchen.
Old habits die hard and I refused to eat the airline meals served in the canteen at my former (hooray) place of work...
Bobby Mhor
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I loved school dinners,You didn't enjoy school dinners then?Well, maybe not garlic but we definitely got sago and semolina.........oh and for a real treat, pink custard! Fortunately, I enjoyed them even although we called the sago frog spawn!
serious comfort food and the ladies at each school did amazing...
Fish Friday, haddock
Beef Olives and on and on
any custard..
a big lump of duff dolloped with lashings of flavoured custard...
Jeez, I better stop
none of that processed s*** they serve up nowadays.
I'll admit to saying I scoffed the lot (except puddings mentioned earlier) and it was a main meal to me...
classic33
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The only real separation in the dining room/hall was boys and girls. A ten foot gap between the two areas. Seperate lines in as well.
And you brought your own in there as well, I dunno. But having put some of those airline "meals" together, I can understand your reluctance to try them.
classic33
Leg End Member
No sticky toffee pudding day?I loved school dinners,
serious comfort food and the ladies at each school did amazing...
Fish Friday, haddock
Beef Olives and on and on
any custard..
a big lump of duff dolloped with lashings of flavoured custard...
Jeez, I better stop
none of that processed s*** they serve up nowadays.
I'll admit to saying I scoffed the lot (except puddings mentioned earlier) and it was a main meal to me...
Bobby Mhor
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You been watching the adverts for ParsleyBox
EU-114, EU-014 and EU-005 plus EU-029..
What am I?
Mo1959
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.....and you could even have seconds if there was any left.I loved school dinners,
serious comfort food and the ladies at each school did amazing...
Fish Friday, haddock
Beef Olives and on and on
any custard..
a big lump of duff dolloped with lashings of flavoured custard...
Jeez, I better stop
none of that processed s*** they serve up nowadays.
I'll admit to saying I scoffed the lot (except puddings mentioned earlier) and it was a main meal to me...
Strangely, I don’t remember kids being overweight so we must have burned it off.
classic33
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Do I have to give one IOTA?You been watching the adverts for ParsleyBox
EU-114, EU-014 and EU-005 plus EU-029..
What am I?
classic33
Leg End Member
Thirds and fourths even!.....and you could even have seconds if there was any left.
Bobby Mhor
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Even me.....and you could even have seconds if there was any left.
In my first primary, one kid got dropped off by car...
think my there and back journey was about 3 miles.
Hail, rain and snow.. sunshine happened twice a year, if we were lucky
Not a single one...
classic33
Leg End Member
Will you be going back to school!Even me
In my first primary, one kid got dropped off by car...
think my there and back journey was about 3 miles.
Hail, rain and snow.. sunshine happened twice a year, if we were lucky
Not a single one...
You've moved up to cycling, so you'll get there quicker now.
Andy in Germany
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Uphill both ways I expect.
Hail, rain and snow.. sunshine happened twice a year, if we were lucky
One of them you were in Maths, and the other you were on the bog?
