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School Dinners

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!
 
devonjim said:
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.
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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
 
Malcolm Robinson said:
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
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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.
 
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
 
Morturn said:
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?
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I recall having lots of milk puddings made with tapioca, macaroni and rice at home. I suppose it was affordable and filled us up.
 
our dinners were cooked on site,and the cook was my friends mom so any left over we had afternoon playtime ;);):(

M

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Vivienne14 said:
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.
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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
 
mw0njm. said:
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'

Vivienne14 said:
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.
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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
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All these School Dinners and Puddings has made Men and Women of you all . Dinner Ladies over the decades i salute you.
 
I found school diner to be variable. My first school had a kitchen, but the food was tended to revolve around cabbage, carrots and sweed. Not much meat, very few chips and a lot of veg.

My next school had food bought in in alloy insulated containers, it was quite dire and seems like it came from the kitchen of my first school.

My last school had its own kitchen and cafeteria. The head cook was this wonderful lady called Mrs Stephens. She like an angel who cooked the tastiest school meals one the very limited budget she had. It was better than going home lunch time.
 
mw0njm. said:
infant junier school was close to home so we went home for chomp:(. the sec mod was too far so it was the first school we dined at and was better cooked my mom bless her must have been the worlds worst cook even a fried egg was like a doily
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Yes but if the egg was like a doily it was somewhere to put your mug of tea. Never had school dinners only took sandwiches a coward really.
 
Morturn said:
I found school diner to be variable. My first school had a kitchen, but the food was tended to revolve around cabbage, carrots and sweed. Not much meat, very few chips and a lot of veg.

My next school had food bought in in alloy insulated containers, it was quite dire and seems like it came from the kitchen of my first school.

My last school had its own kitchen and cafeteria. The head cook was this wonderful lady called Mrs Stephens. She like an angel who cooked the tastiest school meals one the very limited budget she had. It was better than going home lunch time.
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Lovely praise for a lovely lady .
 
Morturn said:
I found school diner to be variable. My first school had a kitchen, but the food was tended to revolve around cabbage, carrots and sweed. Not much meat, very few chips and a lot of veg.

My next school had food bought in in alloy insulated containers, it was quite dire and seems like it came from the kitchen of my first school.

My last school had its own kitchen and cafeteria. The head cook was this wonderful lady called Mrs Stephens. She like an angel who cooked the tastiest school meals one the very limited budget she had. It was better than going home lunch time.
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My school, William Murdoch was the same as your second school. The food always tasted like leftovers and was never warm!
 
devonjim said:
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.
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It might come as a surprise that the school cook had to submit her week's recipes to "the office" and each day's menus had to show a balanced content, carbs, greens etc.
 
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