The desserts were things I can’t even find anymore – Semolina and Rose-hip syrup, that pink custard you could cut, jam rolly polly in meter long logs.
I did like the Mint Sponge cake and Chocolate Custard.
Liver and onion was the best
Saute potatoes. Never seen them outside of school. Yes they’re just disc like chips but they have a specific smell.
> she remembered her primary school dinners as “absolutely awful”.
> “My abiding memory of school dinners is sadly custard with the thick skin on and orange fish fingers,” she said.
Jane Grigson, one of the finest food writers this country has ever produced, describes the skin (on rice pudding, at least, another school dinner “favourite”) as “delicious”, adding
> like so many other English dishes, [rice pudding] has been wrecked by meanness
in her 1974 book English Food. Probably the second best cook book ever published.
School dinners weren’t shit because they were weird old fashioned things we don’t eat anymore (I recommend anyone to make a steamed pudding with suet, or a lardy cake with actual lard), it’s because they were cheap, inconsiderate and spiteful.
I’m going to have a fish finger sandwich for tea, I think.
Because I love garbage I loved school dinners. I still have a soft spot for that industrial canteen kind of food, especially the desserts. My husband has been hospitalised a few times over the past year and the only upside has been getting to indulge in the hospital food. He has a modicum of taste so has the normal response; he didn’t grow up in the UK and so when I was enthusiastically reminiscing about school dinners I could see him trying to work out if I just had Stockholm syndrome or something.
Have managed to bring him over to angel cake and chocolate custard though.
Are they serving water from those big metal jugs that made all the lukewarm water taste like pennies?
I was post Jamie Oliver and I loved school dinners. I grew up in London so the dinner ladies were from various ethnic backgrounds. I suppose that played a part since they were amazing cooks and we’d have things like jollof rice too. This was alongside the traditional school dinner meals. Still had those amazing puddings, loved chocolate concrete and gypsy tarts the most
TIL that there is a Food Museum in Stowmarket.
Is it normal to serve salad with shepherds pie?
Orange fish fingers, lumpy mash, smelly burgers, marble sponge pudding and mint custard.
The day we get decent Swiss roll is the day I’m not in school
I went to a very small rural Scottish primary, and they often had a lot of surplus food at lunchtime. I was always ravenous as a child (there was a running joke about ‘where did I put it all’ as I was still skinny in spite of all I ate), and one time I ate *seven* servings of chicken supreme and rice! School dinners were one of the best things in the world as far as I was concerned.
My ex used to live in Stowmarket. It was one of the most unassuming places I had ever visited up to that point.
Glad to see things are finally coming up Stowmarket!
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The desserts were things I can’t even find anymore – Semolina and Rose-hip syrup, that pink custard you could cut, jam rolly polly in meter long logs.
I did like the Mint Sponge cake and Chocolate Custard.
Liver and onion was the best
Saute potatoes. Never seen them outside of school. Yes they’re just disc like chips but they have a specific smell.
> she remembered her primary school dinners as “absolutely awful”.
> “My abiding memory of school dinners is sadly custard with the thick skin on and orange fish fingers,” she said.
Jane Grigson, one of the finest food writers this country has ever produced, describes the skin (on rice pudding, at least, another school dinner “favourite”) as “delicious”, adding
> like so many other English dishes, [rice pudding] has been wrecked by meanness
in her 1974 book English Food. Probably the second best cook book ever published.
School dinners weren’t shit because they were weird old fashioned things we don’t eat anymore (I recommend anyone to make a steamed pudding with suet, or a lardy cake with actual lard), it’s because they were cheap, inconsiderate and spiteful.
I’m going to have a fish finger sandwich for tea, I think.
Because I love garbage I loved school dinners. I still have a soft spot for that industrial canteen kind of food, especially the desserts. My husband has been hospitalised a few times over the past year and the only upside has been getting to indulge in the hospital food. He has a modicum of taste so has the normal response; he didn’t grow up in the UK and so when I was enthusiastically reminiscing about school dinners I could see him trying to work out if I just had Stockholm syndrome or something.
Have managed to bring him over to angel cake and chocolate custard though.
Are they serving water from those big metal jugs that made all the lukewarm water taste like pennies?
I was post Jamie Oliver and I loved school dinners. I grew up in London so the dinner ladies were from various ethnic backgrounds. I suppose that played a part since they were amazing cooks and we’d have things like jollof rice too. This was alongside the traditional school dinner meals. Still had those amazing puddings, loved chocolate concrete and gypsy tarts the most
TIL that there is a Food Museum in Stowmarket.
Is it normal to serve salad with shepherds pie?
Orange fish fingers, lumpy mash, smelly burgers, marble sponge pudding and mint custard.
The day we get decent Swiss roll is the day I’m not in school
I went to a very small rural Scottish primary, and they often had a lot of surplus food at lunchtime. I was always ravenous as a child (there was a running joke about ‘where did I put it all’ as I was still skinny in spite of all I ate), and one time I ate *seven* servings of chicken supreme and rice! School dinners were one of the best things in the world as far as I was concerned.
My ex used to live in Stowmarket. It was one of the most unassuming places I had ever visited up to that point.
Glad to see things are finally coming up Stowmarket!
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