School Dinners

[lmr3103]

I always enjoyed school dinners partly because I wasn’t a fussy eater and partly because Mom was a dinner lady. Although she wasn’t at the school I attended, ours were shipped in from her School.
My only problem was with liver and dates, sometimes served on the same day. We were strongly ‘encouraged’ to eat everything up. I couldn’t do much about the liver but the dates ended up stuffed into a hankie in my pocket!

 

[Malcolm Robinson]

Mom worked in school meals, this meant she could be home when we boys were off school. She was "cook-in-charge" at Oldknow Rd in Small Heath but trained previously at Central Grammar and Blakenhale schools. This was in the "meat and two veg" days ie well prior to the burger and chip days.

Sorry, I have only just seen this thread, a bit late I know. I went to both Central Grammar and Blakenhale Infants then Juniors. I went to Blakenhale about 1956 and Central about 1963. Maybe I had some of her dinners!

Malcolm

 

[Donbogen]

My Mom used to give me 60p for dinner money every Monday
I used to go without and buy a Airfix kit
or Soldiers as i got older it was Fags

 

[Donbogen]

PS
I did not go without
a bag of Chips was only 5P

 

[devonjim]

Sorry, I have only just seen this thread, a bit late I know. I went to both Central Grammar and Blakenhale Infants then Juniors. I went to Blakenhale about 1956 and Central about 1963. Maybe I had some of her dinners!

Malcolm

Can't really remember her dates but I think just before your time, I think around 1952 at Blakenhale and 1958 at Central before moving on to Oldknow Rd.

 

[Astoness]

as already said i only had school dinners if our mom had to be somewhere else but i did enjoy them..we only lived a few mins away from both infant/juniors and senior schools so mostly we all went home for dinner..having 6 children mom could have got free school dinners but she always used to say that she had us and she would feed us leaving the dinner spaces for the more needy children..

lyn

 

[EA1956]

Does anyone else recall chocolate crunch and pink custard. I can still taste it now.

 

[Morturn]

Does anyone else recall chocolate crunch and pink custard. I can still taste it now.

Most certainly the unforgettable chocolate concrete, not my favourite. I liked the cornflake tart and rice pudding. They also did what we called frog spawn, was it tapioca?

 

[Richard Dye]

My Mom used to give me 60p for dinner money every Monday
I used to go without and buy a Airfix kit
or Soldiers as i got older it was Fags

I think you are not the only one that did that! The school dinners at William Murdoch were terrible……

 

[Richard Dye]

Most certainly the unforgettable chocolate concrete, not my favourite. I liked the cornflake tart and rice pudding. They also did what we called frog spawn, was it tapioca?

And don’t forget toad in the hole. Some apple mush and syrup in a square bun.

 

[Richard Dye]

Does anyone else recall chocolate crunch and pink custard. I can still taste it now.

If it was chocolate concrete then yes. The pink custard, a little vague.

 

[Richard Dye]

PS
I did not go without
a bag of Chips was only 5P

I used to make chip sandwiches, still love them especially with mayonnaise!

 

[EA1956]

Most certainly the unforgettable chocolate concrete, not my favourite. I liked the cornflake tart and rice pudding. They also did what we called frog spawn, was it tapioca?

I recall having lots of milk puddings made with tapioca, macaroni and rice at home. I suppose it was affordable and filled us up.

 

[EA1956]

If it was chocolate concrete then yes. The pink custard, a little vague.

I guess it was chcocolate concrete rather than crunch. Think the pink custard was actually blancmange but loved it all the same.

 

[Morturn]

I used to like blancmange as a set custard dessert

 

[mw0njm.]

our dinners were cooked on site,and the cook was my friends mom so any left over we had afternoon playtime

M

Post in thread 'Chocolate Concrete'

Feb 27, 2016

Remember the plain concrete and, I think we also had fruit concrete at school. Bent many spoons on the stuff. The process of eating it was tricky, it quite often ended up on the floor - well you'd dust it off and pop it back on the plate! Yum........ Vv.

I also remember the variant with dried fruit, and the cornflake tart...on the subject of custard, you used to be able to get sachets of different flavours (sachets in a box), and certainly one was pink, and another was chocolate. By Brown and Polson, I think.

maria

• Maria Magenta

 

[Time Traveller 66]

our dinners were cooked on site,and the cook was my friends mom so any left over we had afternoon playtime

M

Post in thread 'Chocolate Concrete'

Feb 27, 2016

Remember the plain concrete and, I think we also had fruit concrete at school. Bent many spoons on the stuff. The process of eating it was tricky, it quite often ended up on the floor - well you'd dust it off and pop it back on the plate! Yum........ Vv.

I also remember the variant with dried fruit, and the cornflake tart...on the subject of custard, you used to be able to get sachets of different flavours (sachets in a box), and certainly one was pink, and another was chocolate. By Brown and Polson, I think.

maria

• Maria Magenta

All these School Dinners and Puddings has made Men and Women of you all . Dinner Ladies over the decades i salute you.