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School Meals in the mid 60's
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Graham | Report | 19 Apr 2015 16:03 |
If you're in your mid 60s aren't you a bit old for school meals? :-S |
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Wendy | Report | 18 Apr 2015 12:34 |
MANY THANKS TO EVERYONE FOR YOUR HELP I AM NOW PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 17 Apr 2015 00:20 |
I used to make the occasional burger from scratch, for my children, which they loved. |
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Sharron | Report | 16 Apr 2015 22:59 |
I remember my first school dinner, |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 16 Apr 2015 22:31 |
Yes, I've got 2/6d in my mind as well. We used to be sold Saving Stamps for that amount, which was probably were I was getting confused. |
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Chris in Sussex | Report | 16 Apr 2015 22:10 |
I would have sworn that when I was in the Infants (early 60s) a week of school lunches cost 2/6d. Obviously I have misremembered. |
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ChrisofWessex | Report | 16 Apr 2015 21:09 |
Rollo I do take exception to 'unkown table etiquette. My parents were strong on this as was I when I became a parent. My adult g.children know how to behave. |
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ChrisofWessex | Report | 16 Apr 2015 21:00 |
When I had school dinners in the early/mid fifties for two years - the menu never changed during that period. Monday I can recall - sausages/cabbage. |
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JoyBoroAngel | Report | 16 Apr 2015 20:45 |
Sixpence for a tooth Sharron baby Satan gets a tenner :-D |
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lavender | Report | 16 Apr 2015 20:29 |
Puddings often consisted of a big square of sponge. One I remember eating regularly was topped with white icing and sprinkled with multi-coloured 'hundreds and thousands' which bled into the icing. It was always served with pink custard. |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 16 Apr 2015 17:37 |
PM sent to Wendy in case she was expecting personal messages instead of people adding to her thread. |
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jax | Report | 16 Apr 2015 17:28 |
I remember it costing 5s as we had to take the money in ourselves, mum's were not allowed to escort you to the classroom like today |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 16 Apr 2015 10:22 |
........and quite often you did :-D |
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Sharron | Report | 16 Apr 2015 10:17 |
A tooth was 6d from the fairy so you would need to lose two teeth per dinner. |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 15 Apr 2015 23:48 |
Found this about the daily cost of a school meal |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 15 Apr 2015 23:09 |
Dermot - Coffee in primary school? :-S |
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Dermot | Report | 15 Apr 2015 16:33 |
Ahem! All you lucky people. |
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Fly | Report | 15 Apr 2015 16:33 |
I had a look on this thread this morning it made me feel ill. Don't remember much about school dinner but after lunch we had to take it in turns to carry all the waste food in metal buckets to the local farm for pig swill Yuk :-0 |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 15 Apr 2015 16:31 |
Primary school food in the 1950s was mostly terrible the worse thing being that there was not enough of it, not the least reason being theft by the food providers. For the kids the choice was roughly between terrible food with odd high spot (eg jam roly poly) or starvation. Hence the high number of thin kids you see in old photos. Other delicacies which went on into the 1960s were snark (whale meat), Fray Bentos corned beef (luxury?) dried eggs and mince of unknown origin. |
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Dame*Shelly*("\(*o*)/") | Report | 15 Apr 2015 16:01 |
looks like i had the best school dinner so far |
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