Senior Citizens Do you still remember,( how ever old you may be)?

Question

School dinners! Oh how I would love to be able to make that butterscotch pie we used to have in the infants. That was 50 years ago. The smell of cabbage was gross though.!What was your favourite/least favourite? and how long ago was that?

btw. This question wouldn't go in the catergorie I wanted again until I typed Senior in the title!

I'm enjoying these answers, and isn't it nice not to see a chicken nugget amongst it all! We knew how to eat in those days! lol

Answer 1

TOFFEE CREAM TART
7 inch pastry case
¼ pint milk
2 ½ oz margarine
1 ½ oz brown sugar
1 oz plain flour
3 oz golden syrup
Heat the milk but be careful not to let it boil.
Melt the margarine and sugar, then stir in the flour. Whisk in the hot milk and stir as it thickens and reaches boiling point. Keep stirring all the time while you are waiting for the mixture to boil, then cook for 2-3 minutesm stirring all the time.
Remove from the heat, and add the syrup, then whisk the mixture.
Spread the filling into the flan case and serve hot or cold with whipped cream or custard.
Yes this is it! I Make it at home and its as good as the real thing. yum.

Answer 2

Okay....now I feel truly left out!!

I see answers from British as well as American people, and you all had school lunches. (Amazing school lunches from the sound of it!)

I live in Canada--in it's biggest city, Toronto--and we never had school lunches even available until high school - Grade 9. In public school the students were (and still ARE) either able to go home for lunch, or bring their lunches with them. NO ONE gets a hot meal, because the only means to heat food (a microwave) is in the teacher's lounge.

And since I lived within 5 minutes of my high school, I didn't get school lunches then either. All I remember hearing about them from my friends was that they were truly gross--but I don't remember details.

Ah, but I DO have very fond memories of the food at Agricultural College. It was the first time I had ever had roast mutton, and I absolutely LOVED it!! There were a lot of special foods that we had in that cafeteria that could have graced a four star restaurant. Their barbequed chicken and cole slaw meals were always standing room only (with some of the townspeople sneaking in, I swear!)

And I have to admit, that I also love boiled cabbage. Sprinkled with salt and vinegar just before you eat it...yummy!

Answer 3

I hated 'Frogspawn'. To this day I don't know what it was meant to be! And it was always served with a dollop of watered down jam on it - revolting!

Wednesday was salad day. A nice change from the run of the mill.

I remember spotted dick and custard - very nice but not too good if you had a sports practice during the second half of the lunch hour!

I remember Gypsy Tart coming on to the menu when rationing stopped and as I now live in Kent am able to buy it at the Baker's. I don't though, as it is almost pure sugar!

Answer 4

Oh yes, I remember school dinners-but since I lived in a rural area-I only got to eat school lunch on holiday meals and those were the best school lunch. They used to make this red jello with whip cream on top and then a few times there was this fruit concoction that had bananas in it. I just loved it and then the cookies they fixed were great. The rest of the time I would have to take a pail and mom would fix me lunch-it never looked like the school lunch though-I used to take 35 cents to school to pay for it. I don't think I had a least favorite food there! That would have been back in the 60's.

Answer 5

I can't remember much about school dinners except every Friday we had either figs or prunes with custard, which we all seemed to like, I suppose it made a nice change from squashed fly pudding, or lumpy semolina.

You mention the dreaded cabbage, - for a few weeks I was the envy of the entire school when, after an illness, my doctor ordered 'no greens' for me. Strange because I eat loads of cabbage now, as long as it's either raw or al dente.

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Answer 6

Strangely enough , it was not dinner that still has my lips
aquiver some 50 years later. It was Breakfast. The wonder-
ful women of Burnside School baked French bread 2 days
a week. We all know what baking bread smells like. and
back then, there was not an X net to the butter. So they took
the long loaves (still Hot) and slathered them with frothy
butter, and we picked up what had to be the coldest chocolate milk in the world. Oh my! I can only dream. That
slug of bread would have me stoved up for a week if I tried
it today. bona -petite -memoir

Answer 7

Well, I don't think I'm a senior citizen yet at 33 but I'm beginning to feel out of touch with the youths of today.lol.
I loved my school days and school dinners.
We never had such things as chicken nuggets & chips was a once a fortnight treat with fish with the bones in.
I loved the cabbage, remember spam fritters.
Puddings were my favourite apart from Sago which we called Frogs spawn. I still can't stand the feel of it in my mouth.
And Pink custard was my favourite. Everyone got so excited on Pink Custard days. Chocolate sponge & pink custard.
Never seen it since my school days.
How did they make that pink custard??

Answer 8

I started school in 1956 and left in 1966 all though school a weeks dinner money was 5 shillings (25p) collected on a Monday morning. I liked the cheese pie but the mash potato was horrible the peas hard like bullets. Coconut sponge and custard was nice

Answer 9

If you're talking school dinners there was no favourite,they were all foul, least favourite was school breakfast porridge complete with fat weavels, it was in 1944 at the end of the war. Most favourite home meal was Plaice fried in egg and breadcrumbs with new potatoes and fresh peas out of the garden, Mum was a great cook and Dad was the best vegetable grower I've ever come across.Rest their souls. I'm in tears thinking about it.

Answer 10

I can honestly hold my hand up and say that I Ioved the school dinners of 50 years ago
Meat and potato pie,peas, red cabbage
liver,onions, butter beans and mash
Meat pie,boiled potatoes and peas with gravy
sausage,potato cake,baked beans
Bacon,potato cake,baked beans
Jam roll, custard
Rhubarb pie, custard
Rhubarb crumble, custard
Apple crumble, custard
Jelly
Chocolate sponge and chocolate sauce
These are some of my favourite dinners,I feel so hungry now !!!