Remember your school dinners - tubes in meat, stodgy custard, mushy peas and all that? Were they any good or did you avoid it like the plague? Packed lunch instead? Or did you nip off behind the maths block to smoke your fags that you spent all your dinner money on?
The canteen at my comprehensive was pretty good actually - and they did a real good christmas lunch. I do remember some very unusual features that only a school food could have, plates of unexplicable slabs of grayish meat with tubes in it, burgers that had cows toenails in them, that sort of thing. I only had school dinners for one year when my mother worked from 6am, aftert hat it was packed lunches all the way up top 6th form. Then I spent my pound on the same thing everyday - can of coke, crunchy roll and a sausage roll that I put in it.
Where my wife went to skool the parents were that incredibly protective (read sanctimonious) type where they petitioned to have everything like burgers and that banned. And they did. She did however visit her cousins in Texas (where my wife and her brother were the "show-and-tell" because they'd seen snow) and she said that their canteens had a Taco Bell, Burger King, and all that stuff in it like a food court. And from what I understand skools in some states take contracts from providors like Coke
that bring in a huge amount of money.
I swapped from one thing to another all through my time at comp. From packed lunches (so we could eat them in the playground), school dinners (which were pretty OK) and tuck shop! D Before comp. I always had school dinners and even though some of it was totally disgusting I do look back on it all with fond memories.
My kids here are mixed regarding their school lunches. At the school for 3-5th Graders, the kids don't like the dinners and generally end up sticking to peanut and jelly sandwich or cream cheese bagel. I do think it is good value at $1.25 as it includes fruit and drink too. My only complaint is if the children want water to drink they have to pay extra! In the middle school my son loves the school dinners and feels the choice is excellent and everthing tastes good. He no longer sticks with his cream cheese bagel. It's a little more expensive but only by 5 to 10c more. It would cost way more than this to give the children a packed lunch which I do provide when the children ask for it, as long as they give me plenty of notice.
Well that's me off me food for the day. o
I was forced to have school dinners at primary school. Disgusting. At high school it was a cafeteria and that was fine.
We're going to be giving Hebe packed lunches -no question. School meals here are $2 and from the principal's descriptions Hebe wouldn't eat what they serve if you paid her $2.
I had school dinners until they introduced the 'packed lunches' thing. Hated them. We had School Dinner Lady Nazi's too who wouldn't let you leave the table till you'd cleaned your plate (including disgusting cabbage type stuff). We used to have a chicken soup type ravioli type thing. To this day I don't know what the he^% is was but it tasted disgusting.
I used to love the school dinners, the only thing we wouldn't eat were the " cornish nasties" o these were always served right after biology lessons and it made you think what the main ingredient was roll
Chicken curry n chips was my all time favorite and sponge pudding with custard for afters.Boy I could really go for a heinz sponge pudding with custard right now D My husband thinks eating anything with hot custard on is disgustin 8) .
My husband thinks eating anything with hot custard on is disgustin 8) .
Yep. Wife does too, and eating Christmas Pudding with hot custard...
At my secondary school we could only buy our lunch tickets at the beginning of term and with a cheque.
So I used buy the tickets off the first and second years at 25 % of their value then flog them to anyone who wanted a school dinner that day for more than face value. Some days were much more in demand than others.
As for myself, my mum gave me money each day to get food at the local shop, but would pocket that for beer money. For food I'd go and take a plate and pudding bowel with a knife and fork from the dirty pile, sneak them into the toilet, give them a good wash and go back when they offered "seconds." Once you have a plate they never asked you for a ticket, just assumed you had already been in line.
But the Thursday and Friday afternoons spent down the pub were great and more educational than school. 8)
I wasn't too keen on the food at the primary/ middle schools. Lots of cold mash and tapioca, that we were forced to eat all of before we were allowed away from the table. -?
High school was much better as my mum was in charge of the kitchens.
I got most of my lunches for myself and my friends by raiding the pantries in the kitchens or by having what the staff had cooked on the side for themselves. D
I liked school dinners, we took it in turns to serve them out ourselves in primary school, which was always an occasion to cut yourself the biggest piece of treacle pud. In secondary school we had self service, it was good, I never wanted to bring in a packed lunch.
Moo...I'm not sure whether to praise you for your entreprenurial (or however it's spelt) skills or reprimand you for your dodgy dealings....either way, pretty impressive for a kid.
Do you tout tickets for sporting events or concerts by any chance? )