Re: Prevent The Church Hijacking Our Schools : Thu May 17, 2012 12:20 pm  

McLaren_Field wrote:

What ???!!!

You never had chips at school - and who could forget battered spam, or battered fish that stunk like it was dead a long time before the school got hold of it.

I'm a couple of years older than you my dear so I'm sure you must have had the same...



(Retires inside the coal bunker)

I never recall having chips on offer until the very beginning of the 1980s in my final year at school. I do remember mash though. Lots of it. Frequently. Divvied out so that you got a spherical dollop on your plate. Spam fritters – possibly.

Re: Prevent The Church Hijacking Our Schools : Thu May 17, 2012 1:12 pm  

Mintball wrote:

I never recall having chips on offer until the very beginning of the 1980s in my final year at school. I do remember mash though. Lots of it. Frequently. Divvied out so that you got a spherical dollop on your plate. Spam fritters – possibly.

Mash ... oh yes, what seemed like every day, we had mash.
Grey and lumpy but mash nonetheless.

In the winter, pudding always seemed to be some form of steamed pudding ... jam sponge, treacle sponge, chocolate sponge, vanilla sponge etc always with custard.

Re: Prevent The Church Hijacking Our Schools : Thu May 17, 2012 1:21 pm  

Same era as Minty, I can only remember chips on a Friday once a month and always with fish.
They introduced a cafeteria system in the last year, nowt much changed apart from fish and chips available every Friday.

Re: Prevent The Church Hijacking Our Schools : Thu May 17, 2012 3:08 pm  

I don't remember chips.

I do remember "mash", which looked (and tasted) like t had been processed by a tramp with 6 teeth.

The only decent meal was roasters. That would usually be accompanied by apple crumble and custard. People used to do their best to eat at two sittings. (Obviously everyone had spare dinner tickets, as half the time it wasn't worth bothering). But if rumbled, you'd earn an almighty crack on the head and then off to the Deputy head's office for some abuse with a size 12 running shoe.

Aye, them were't days.

Re: Prevent The Church Hijacking Our Schools : Thu May 17, 2012 4:42 pm  

I can't believe that it was only me who was given those god-awful fried spam fritters once a week (Wednesday I think it was, our school dinner menu follwed a strict rota), if it was just me then I want some legal advice on suing Leeds City Council because its played merry-hell with my digestion ever since.

Re: Prevent The Church Hijacking Our Schools : Thu May 17, 2012 6:32 pm  

cod'ead wrote: And in other news: the scummy, dirty, conniving bastads in the catholic hierarchy are attempting to absolve themselves of responsibility for paedophile priests So if the church doesn't employ these priests, where do they magically appear from? Who pays them? They cannot expect their priests to have any morals when they refuse to accept moral responsibility themselves. Get it into the court and let even more of the fools see just what a religion they are following. Good to see they've won an award Because we had a complaint about an earlier thread that included a link to this site, I'm adding a warning: do not click if you are easily offended. Mintball

cod'ead wrote: And in other news: the scummy, dirty, conniving bastads in the catholic hierarchy are attempting to absolve themselves of responsibility for paedophile priests So if the church doesn't employ these priests, where do they magically appear from? Who pays them? They cannot expect their priests to have any morals when they refuse to accept moral responsibility themselves. Get it into the court and let even more of the fools see just what a religion they are following. Good to see they've won an award Because we had a complaint about an earlier thread that included a link to this site, I'm adding a warning: do not click if you are easily offended. Mintball

Gillingham : Thu May 17, 2012 8:54 pm  

McLaren_Field wrote:

I can't believe that it was only me who was given those god-awful fried spam fritters once a week (Wednesday I think it was, our school dinner menu follwed a strict rota), if it was just me then I want some legal advice on suing Leeds City Council because its played merry-hell with my digestion ever since.

Plenty of deep fried spam fritters in my Junior School days, circa '75. Not so much custard with puddings but a substance we affectionately nicknamed 'jungle juice'. Some p!ssy orangey flavoured liquid adornment to the rock hard sponges they used to serve up.

Re: Prevent The Church Hijacking Our Schools : Fri May 18, 2012 8:01 am  

El Barbudo wrote:

Mash ... oh yes, what seemed like every day, we had mash.
Grey and lumpy but mash nonetheless.

In the winter, pudding always seemed to be some form of steamed pudding ... jam sponge, treacle sponge, chocolate sponge, vanilla sponge etc always with custard.

I don't recall any sponge puddings – but there seemed to be an endless variety of sago and semolina and rice pudding: always with a dollop of red jam in the middle that, for some unexplained reason, you were not supposed to twirl around into the rest of the pud.

Re: Prevent The Church Hijacking Our Schools : Fri May 18, 2012 9:19 am  

Sago, semolina, spam fritters, yep, school staples they were. The spam fritters always accompanied by the remains of beans which had been through at least 5 full boil-washes.

Re: Prevent The Church Hijacking Our Schools : Fri May 18, 2012 9:33 am  

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:

Sago, semolina, spam fritters, yep, school staples they were. The spam fritters always accompanied by the remains of beans which had been through at least 5 full boil-washes.

And all of it still loads better than turkey twizzlers etc.