Does anyone know what typical school dinners (or meals in general) in 1956 consisted of please?

Answer 1

I started school in 1960 and over the next few years the meals were mostly dinners, beef & yorkshire pud, irish stew, fish in batter but never with chips and once a week we had a primitive salad. The puddings were various sponge puddings, baked rice and jam, semolina and various custards, ie choc, strawberry etc. Not a frozen product in sight............i was and am still impressed what we were given in those days....
Chef

Answer 2

Fatty Meat
Lumpy Mashed Potato
Stringy Spring Greens
Watery Gravy

Vivid Pink Blancmange

Answer 3

We had hot meals in a very clean cafeteria prepared by very talented staff at Schenley High School and Arsenal Jr. High School in Pittsburgh PA. We had freshly prepared , on site, baked bread or biscuits, Real mashed or baked potatoes, fresh salads, sandwiches, a hot vegetable ( corn, spinach, peas etc.) Meats ( roast beef, meat loaf, chicken, sometimes liver and onions) Desserts. Freshly baked meringue, apple, cherry pumpkin pie, or parfaits made with layered jellos and puddings, or fresh fruit in season. The best Boston Cream pie and Chocolate cake you ever ate. Drinks were milk or sometimes hot cocoa. This was available for less than a dollar.

Answer 4

We had well-balanced meals, but no selection.
Each day had a different menu, such as:
Mince in gravy; liver and bacon; stew; fish; macarroni cheese,etc.
The veg were always seasonal in those days; cabbage, carrots, swede, dried beans and peas in winter. Plus bolied, mashed or jacket potatoes and chips on fish days (usually Fridays).
Summer veg. included runner beans and peas, cabbage, carrots, etc. and occasionally salad and ham.
Puddings were yummy! We had milk puddings, fruit tart and custard, stewed fruit and custard, spotterd Dick with custard, two Welsh cakes with jam on one, butter on the other and a lump of cheese (that was everyone's favourite!)

Answer 5

Hard, overdone, tubey liver and rubbery bacon, with lumpy mashed potato and tasteless over-boiled cabbage. Followed by a big bowl of chocolate semolina. Yum!

Answer 6

If perhaps it's a fruit it includes seeds, otherwise it's a vegetable. And vegetables are usually grown in the ground while fruits are grown in trees.

Answer 7

hang on, i'll ask someone, they're all about that age here, right, they had chips, sausages, sometimes curry and rice (which they hated apparently), square piece of cake with pink custard (hmmm, i got that too and i should imagine is was just as disgusting then as it was when i was at primary school, all of 15 years ago), mushy peas, beans, sheppards pie etc etc

Answer 8

dont know about 56 but by 1960 it was things like stew, liver and onions, fish in milk, rice pudding, jam sponge, and water.

Answer 9

yes it was meat potatoes and a veg like peas or buttered beans or carrotts and after it was jam sponge pudding or spotted dick and custard or milk pudding like rice or semolina

Answer 10

fish in a parsley sauce, cabbage, potatoes.cottage pie, braised meat in gravy.
milk puddings, sponge puddings, to drink we had water with our dinner