School Lunches from your childhood.

The Princess Bride

I had Galtee processed cheese sandwiches every single day of my 13 years of school.
Every. Day. Without .Exception.
These were wrapped in paper from the sliced bread wrapper.Twas far from lunch boxes I was reared!

The sambos were washed down with full fat milk in a washed out YR sauce bottle- milk was lukewarm by the time I got to drink it.
To this day,I despise full fat milk,and would rather go without than drink it.

Any memories?

MyKeyG

msthe80s wrote: »

I had Galtee processed cheese sandwiches every single day of my 13 years of school.
Every. Day. Without .Exception.
These were wrapped in paper from the sliced bread wrapper.Twas far from lunch boxes I was reared!

The sambos were washed down with full fat milk in a washed out YR sauce bottle- milk was lukewarm by the time I got to drink it.
To this day,I despise full fat milk,and would rather go without than drink it.

Any memories?

Every morning on the way to school we got a 12p bottle of Homestead Kola. Jesus on a bicycle what was in that stuff?

lord lucan

Jam sambos were the norm with the odd treat of Corned Beef. Sometimes i'd get a small chocolate bar too,something like a Penguin.:)

The Princess Bride

You were both lucky- we didn't live near a shop,so never got money for treats:(

fergal.b

Calvita cheese sandwiches and as we were posh it was washed down with miwaddy flavored soda stream and to top it off a marietta biscuit and butter sandwich

Princess Peach

ALWAYS a galtee cheese sandwich! Ham if it was a very special day. And a Capri Sun and a choice of Wagon Wheel or Taz bar.

And I always had one of those square plastic lunchboxes with a sticker on the front of whatever Disney movie was popular that year.

Few fads creeped into the lunchbox over the years. Dairylee Lunchables, Frubes, Cheesestrings. And I'll never forget the year of the amazing Golden Whispa.

admiralofthefleet

i remember the standard issue in school - brown bread with butter applied with a spray can, cheese on monday and thursday, corned beef on tues and currant buns on wednesday and friday

RichieC

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

i remember the standard issue in school - brown bread with butter applied with a spray can, cheese on monday and thursday, corned beef on tues and currant buns on wednesday and friday

We never got those school lunches but I've had them a few times going to work with my old lad as a kid, loved them!

The buns were lovely too.. and the tiny cartons of milk.

Sl!mCharles

Wagon Wheels!!!!

Kylo Ren

It varied but it was always packed in a bad ass lunch box.

starviewadams

Corned beef on white bread in tinfoil every day,alongside an apple/orange and a beaker of dunnes ribena and water.

When I was in 6th class I was finally given money for my lunch and I used to buy a ham roll in the local centra and sugary score cola for 25p in the local newsagents.

In secondary we used to sneak down to the local dunnes timepiece restaurant and get beans,sausage and chips for 2.50.

link_2007

Anyone else get the strawberry flavoured yoghurt drink delivered to their National School? I thought they were called 'Benny Bunny' or something like that but can't find a picture on google.

Lawrence1895

The German version of the lunchbox: (well, late 1970s, early 1980s):
-Sandwich with ham, salami or cheese
-One piece of fruit
-Yogurt
-Small carton of Sunkist (like Capri Sun, but in a triangle shaped carton)

desolate sun

msthe80s wrote: »

I had Galtee processed cheese sandwiches every single day of my 13 years of school.
Every. Day. Without .Exception.

LOL! You poor thing!

Mum had loads of Tupperware so our lunchboxes were some kind of plastic box. I remember a really cool Tupperware one that had road signs on the back. Anyone remember those? It had a clear compartment at the front so you could see your lunch! [Just googled and it seems Tupperware are still on the go - http://order.tupperware.com/coe/app/home]

Sandwiches I remember were white corned beef. I didn't like cheese back then. A yoghurt - I remember this because one day I managed to spill my yoghurt all over my jumper and my classmate called me "Yoghurt Girl" after that!!
There was some piece of fruit and maybe a small bar, like a funsize Milky Way or mars bar.
When Mum was away and my Auntie looked after us, she would always put about 3 treats in our lunchbox - I'll never forget one Friday, seeing a Milky Way, a box of Smarties and another chocolate bar in my lunchbox :eek::D

Oh I think we got a bottle filled with ribena. And later on we got Capri Sun. I always felt posh drinking Capri Sun for some reason!

bullets

Primary school I had the embarrassment of my mother not actually giving me a packed lunch in the morning before school. Instead she used to cycle down the road to my school at Lunch Time and mortifying me daily by giving me my sandwiches with a squeeze bottle of orange or sometimes if lucky a capri-sun. She used to throw in sometimes a chocolate bar like half a kit-katt (ie one kit-katt might last 2-3 days depending on the amount of fingers allowed) All this was done in front of the other kids who were usually just handed their lunch box in the morning times, so it looked like I was spoiled when I felt deprived )

Sometimes when going to the local shop I can recall my mother when getting sliced meat for the sandwiches specifically asking for the slicer to be adjusted
so it cut thinner slices of meat so they would not cost as much.

Sandwiches used to be Chicken & Ham by default.

Fridays sometimes were a treat with actual (thinly sliced) ham.
Poor days of the month and it was Banana sandwiches

Other poor days it was Pork, onion and tomato slices which were
the cheapeast type of meat available at the time.

Superbus

This delightful fellow, AKA Billy Roll, for reasons unknown; a primary school staple.

MyKeyG

Superbus wrote: »

This delightful fellow, AKA Billy Roll, for reasons unknown; a primary school staple.

I don't want to hear anything about that sneaky bastard! He used to eat the club bar my mam promised she packed. I'd open my tin foil wrap and would be shocked every day. Greedy pr1ck even ate the wrapper!

Funnily enough he stopped eating my goodies when my dad found work.

The Princess Bride

80% pork? That's a surprise. Would reckon it's as processed as my Galtee cheese ! :eek:

Kojak

link_2007 wrote: »

Anyone else get the strawberry flavoured yoghurt drink delivered to their National School? I thought they were called 'Benny Bunny' or something like that but can't find a picture on google.

We used to get those cartons of yoghurt drink in school. I thought, maybe incorrectly, they were called Yummy Bunny. Whatever name was on them, they were not the best tasting in the world tbh. I much prefered the small cartons of milk with my ham sandwiches.

lord lucan

Keno 92 wrote: »

It varied but it was always packed in a bad ass lunch box.

That reminds me of the old Thermos flasks i used to have for school. We'd bring in soup(usually tomato) during the winter and Ribena/Miwadi during the Spring/Summer. I had both of these at some stage.

rainshowers82

This is bringing back memories We had Jam and white bread (which i now hate ) Corned beef on pay day Banana , butter and white bread ( i don't eat butter anymore ha ha ) Bottle of Cadet Orange once a month otherwise it was warm milk bleugh !! Sometimes it was wrapped in Slice pan paper ...... I am sure the lunches we took to school would be frowned upon now :rolleyes:

I used to be Jealous of the people with the little flasks of tea and soup :D

cloud493

Ham sandwiches and a biscuit :P we got told to get water from the water fountain in school

desolate sun

The rest of this thread has jogged my memory. Apart from corned beef, we also had jam and banana sandwiches (not together!).
And we also had flasks in the winter with soup.

Someone wrote that their Mum used to get their meat cut thinner cos it was cheaper? I wouldn't be ashamed of that. In the 80s most people were broke, so it's nothing to be ashamed of. I know the butcher would always ask how you wanted it cut anyway.

bdr529

Hazlet sandwiches.


havn't seen hazlet anywhere in years.....

lord lucan

bdr529 wrote: »

Hazlet sandwiches.


havn't seen hazlet anywhere in years.....

Now ye're talkin'!:)

Still love Hazlet myself even though it's very hard to get these days. It was like the Gur cake of meat and cheap.

The Princess Bride

bdr529 wrote: »

Hazlet sandwiches.


havn't seen hazlet anywhere in years.....

Never heard of that before.When was this?

lord lucan

msthe80s wrote: »

Never heard of that before.When was this?

It was spicy cold meat. It was actually made from a number of different cuts of meat. This is what led to its demise as the Dept of Agriculture said its origins couldn't be traced under the traceability scheme and it was banned.

It was popular during the 80's as it was cheap and could be gotten in butchers and supermarkets.

HavingCrack

Always had a ham and cheese roll with a 'baby orange', a kit kat/time out and apple juice. It was always in a plastic ziplock bag because I had a really odd phobia of lunchboxes. To this day I cannot eat anything that has been in a lunchbox . Weird eh?

Aglomerado

HavingCrack wrote: »

Always had a ham and cheese roll with a 'baby orange', a kit kat/time out and apple juice. It was always in a plastic ziplock bag because I had a really odd phobia of lunchboxes. To this day I cannot eat anything that has been in a lunchbox . Weird eh?

No, that's not weird, I never liked the confined plasticy taste off the food from a lunchbox.

I used to have ham/cheese sandwiches on white bread, an apple/ orange, a Penguin and sometimes a bag of crisps. The school supplied tea during the winter months.

The wagon teacher I had in 6th class had a problem with the Penguin and crisps, I think she was just too mean to buy them for her own children, but she never confiscated them, just made snide comments about the "goodies" I had. This was back in the 80s, long before schools began the whole healthy eating initiatives.

ICANN

White sliced pan and pork&onion sandwiches. I'd never dream of having things like that now. Every so often I'd have a jam sandwich and when I started in secondary I had gotten onto ham and coleslaw sandwiches.

I used to get milk in primary school everyday too.

Once I took my brothers lunch by mistake cos we had the same lunchbox and he was after making himself a butter sandwich. Yep, bread and butter sans anything else- there was so much butter it looked like a thick wedge of cheddar. I nearly gawked it up :-/

Damokc

ham sandwiches and capri sun....that is it!

WindSock

Butter and jam sangwijes with 2 custard creams and carton of school milk when I was in infants. I remember my mam used to use too much butter and it mixed horribly with the jam. I feel ill thinking of it now.

Then cheese spread sangers with a united bar and strawberry school milk or Amiga in junior school.

Can't remember what else when I was older...think it was just an crispy roll thawed from freezer with proper butter and I'd lob crisps into it.

Rotten stuff, cheese spread. I was sweet on it for ages shudder :pac:


I always wanted Billy or Dino Roll but I hated ham (or whatever else it was)

taato

Primary School - invariably corned beef and ketchup on stale white bread with a flask of tea (lukewarm by lunchtime). My mam had a thing about fresh bread being hard to digest??? WTF was she thinking. Secondary school......Brown soda bread and tomato! Wish childline was around when I was a kid, deprived I was.

xzanti

Mostly sambos with a variety of pork & onion, "cheese", cornbeef, ham, egg, banana, or some days I'd get just buttered bread and a pack of cheese and onion crisps

Would also always get a piece of fruit or some biscuits in tinfoil aswel and some cordial in an old 7up bottle.. Ah memories

Although my friend always got a couple of quid for a roll and sweets in Spar so I was always jealous of her.. but looking back now I can see that my Mother took the time to lovingly prepare my lunch, bless her

Rubberlegs

My mother made what me and my sister called the pure dairy sandwich:(. Either badly sliced lumps of block cheese, or a cheese slice, with slabs of not properly spread butter. Some days you'd see her handprint still in the bread where she'd squashed it all together. Used to get a bag of Chipsticks and maybe a Penguin or a Busker bar. There used to be a chipper directly opposite the school, and if you brought in a note, you were allowed to go there on Friday lunchtimes.:p
Just remembered, my best friend and I used to share lunches. I gave her half mine, and she gave me half hers. Down to the crisps, we'd nearly count them out:). She used to have luncheon sandwiches, much nicer than the pure dairy variety. We used to put the crisps in the sandwiches. Seem to remember drinks in a ribbed plastic see through carton, with a foil lid that you pushed a straw through.

Lpfsox

god I remember those drinks - were they called "Tip Top" or something?

philstar

monday - cornbeef sangwiches
tuesday - cornbeef sangwiches
wedneday - cornbeef sangwiches
thursday - cornbeef sangwiches
friday - guess what...yes, cornbeef sangwiches

it was the 80s we were poor

flahavaj

Mixed fruit Kia Ora. Every day.

houseplant

link_2007 wrote: »

Anyone else get the strawberry flavoured yoghurt drink delivered to their National School? I thought they were called 'Benny Bunny' or something like that but can't find a picture on google.

Was that not called Cool Crocker or something like that with a picture of a crocodile on the side? I think they changed it then to something like Yogi? Either way it was something I'd look forward to every day at school

Cheese sandwiches every day, and a thermos of cocoa.

I used to look upon unbreakable flasks as a challenge, so my schoolbooks were usually stained and smelled vaguely of chocolate.

KevIRL

Home made brown bread and butter. Flask of very weak diluted orange

up for anything

I was a boarder during primary school but because they were phasing out the preps I was the last one of my age so I was sent to the primary day school. At lunch time the boarding school kitchen sent down hot midday meals for the nuns and one for me and I had to sit in the class room and eat gristly, fatty stew or whatever the meal of the day was on my own, while the nuns ate in the staff room and the rest of the kids ate out in the playground. I used to shovel half of it down behind the piano to get rid of it.

After a few weeks of this, at the age of four, I took on the establishment for the right to have a packed lunch with jam or banana sandwiches like everyone else. Looking back I must have created a huge fuss, I remember their argument was that meant I would miss the main meal of the day and mine was that I hated being different, eating on my own and I preferred sandwiches anyhow and I could howl and stamp my feet for longer than they cared to listen to me.

I won. My packed lunches were jam or banana sandwiches with a bottle of orange squash and one of the rectangular, thin bars of Cadbury's milk chocolate.

Toilet paper down in the primary school was squares of newspaper and in the boarding school it was those squares of Jeyes shiny paper that doubled as tracing paper. Our bottoms must have been rank. :eek:

The Princess Bride

up for anything wrote: »

eat gristly, fatty stew ......I used to shovel half of it down behind the piano to get rid of it.

Toilet paper down in the primary school was squares of newspaper and in the boarding school it was those squares of Jeyes shiny paper that doubled as tracing paper. Our bottoms must have been rank. :eek:

And I thought I had it bad!

westendgirlie

My favourite school dinner memory......

Chocolate sponge pudding with mint flavoured custard yummy yum yum.

Kat1170

Remember sugar sandwiches and chef brown sauce sandwiches.

bdr529 wrote: »

Hazlet sandwiches.


havn't seen hazlet anywhere in years.....

Can still be bought in Nolans butchers in Kilcullen. Still buy it every week or two. Used to be my Da's favourite.

bdr529

up for anything wrote: »

Toilet paper down in the primary school was squares of newspaper and in the boarding school it was those squares of Jeyes shiny paper that doubled as tracing paper. Our bottoms must have been rank. :eek:

you hann't lived until you've tried to wipe your arse with shiny non-stick loo paper.....

sungem

In National school early to mid eighties, the treat and cool thing was a bag of chips from the local chippie, my mother couldnt afford to give us 3 kids money to buy chips so she would arrive at school at lunchtime (occassionally) with 3 bags of chips in brown bags like from the chipper but she had made them herself... just so we wouldnt feel left out.. mothers love!!

marwelie

Ham, Egg and Tomato, all mashed up together and stuffed into a White Bread Roll, still love them. Up there as comfort food with Superquinn sausages, as far as I'm concerned

I also distinctly remember getting ham slices with a slice of boiled egg in the middle of them.

jaybee747

Had the standard school issue cheese sambo's and "corned beef".
Not a word of a lie, those corned beef sandwichs turned me off corned beef for life, can't even look at it,all them jelly bits,sweet jebus.

Tayla

Superbus wrote: »

This delightful fellow, AKA Billy Roll, for reasons unknown; a primary school staple.

FACE MEAT

sungem wrote: »

In National school early to mid eighties, the treat and cool thing was a bag of chips from the local chippie, my mother couldnt afford to give us 3 kids money to buy chips so she would arrive at school at lunchtime (occassionally) with 3 bags of chips in brown bags like from the chipper but she had made them herself... just so we wouldnt feel left out.. mothers love!!

Aw, that's so sweet.

Martyn1989

I got that soft galtee processed cheese, billy roll or jam up until about 4th class when I discover those packs of sambo chicken tikka. Im still remembered for having the smelliest sambos in the whole class.