Your school lunches

fussyonion

What did you bring for your lunch when you were at school?

I remember going through a phase of bringing tuna sandwiches and a bottle of orange juice (in the infamous Roches Stores drinks bottle that leaked no matter how tight you closed the cap) every day for about five months.
Even now, tuna reminds me of school.

Other kids would bring things like peanut butter sandwiches (which to me, back then, sounded exotic!) and there would always be that kid who brought stinky egg sambos in.

We weren't allowed sweets/crisps or chocolate in primary school so I'd bring a yogurt or a banana (which I'd never eat).

What did you bring?

The_Valeyard

Rice cakes and fruit.

Sir Osis of Liver.

Some marmalade on a playing card.

Keane2baMused

Jam sambos and a banana.

kimokanto

Two custard creams, jam sambos all carefully wrapped in cling film

dollyk

none, was lucky to have breakfast tbh.
but we had those free sambos and milk that smelled of smelly feet

and the nuns used to give me the leftover buns to bring home. Happy days when I look back.

dunworth1

Mars bar and can of coke.

Or sometimes a hot chicken roll from the local shop (bought on the way to school so stone cold by lunchtime but still tasty)

Then they brought in the health lunch thing so used to get a free sandwich, piece of fruit and either milk or juice

Odelay

Jam sandwiches, by lunchtime they were a warm purple mush, had no interest in eating them.

Ciderswigger

In primary school it was bread and chocolate spread, piece of fruit that I rarely ate and a bottle of water.
In secondary school it was either a roll from the canteen or something from down town, a bag of chips or a fancier, more expensive roll. The food didn't matter, going down town was just so we could hang around with the lads.

One eyed Jack

Odelay wrote: »

Jam sandwiches, by lunchtime they were a warm purple mush, had no interest in eating them.

That sounds like blackberry jam?

A bit of a mixed bag really, could be ham sandwiches one day, beef sandwiches another, sugar sandwiches, anything at all really, always just four slices of bread, could be anything in between, I just never knew...


Chrust I was a boring child when the highlight of my day was guessing what was in my sandwiches today...

Ciderswigger

One eyed Jack wrote: »

sugar sandwiches

Oh my god, yeah! I loved when I got a sugar sandwich!!

osarusan

Sandwiches, maybe some fruit or a bar or something. I remember in primary I had the common school flask. Now everybody had something like that, but mine wasn't Snoopy or Muppets or Sesame St or whatever, it was Garfield, and I was very proud of it.

Turtyturd

dollyk wrote: »

none, was lucky to have breakfast tbh.
but we had those free sambos and milk that smelled of smelly feet

and the nuns used to give me the leftover buns to bring home. Happy days when I look back.

Corned beef Monday and Wednesday, Cheese Tursday and Thursday, and currant buns on a Friday, all washed down with a carton of milk that had been sitting in the classroom since 9 that morning.

fussyonion

Turtyturd wrote: »

Corned beef Monday and Wednesday, Cheese Tursday and Thursday, and currant buns on a Friday, all washed down with a carton of milk that had been sitting in the classroom since 9 that morning.

They had that same lunch routine in our school.
Then they swapped the currant buns for chocolate muffins on Fridays and they were lovely.

The cheese sandwiches weren't too bad if you were starving and forgot your lunch, but the corned beef sandwiches...Jesus they were vile.
Big globules of jelly in every bite.

PirateShampoo

Grew up in Wales so we had school dinners. We was on Benifits so free lunch tickets.

Never understood why it wasn't introduced over here, it's actually a great system. It insures the child is getting a proper meal and it also insures they are actually attending school.

Heroditas

Cheese and lettuce sandwich and a Panky or Penguin bar with a bottle of dilute orange.
Ahhhhh the 80s

One eyed Jack

fussyonion wrote: »

The cheese sandwiches weren't too bad if you were starving and forgot your lunch, but the corned beef sandwiches...Jesus they were vile.
Big globules of jelly in every bite.

Ohh yeah, I forgot the easi-singles cheese slices, weird texture them, and galtee cheese. As Croc Dundee said - you can eat it, but it tastes like shìt!

Heh, I still like corned beef, but yeah, the fatty globules, they ain't nice...

failinis

Odelay wrote: »

Jam sandwiches, by lunchtime they were a warm purple mush, had no interest in eating them.

Same here for all of primary.

Keane2baMused

failinis wrote: »

Same here for all of primary.

With a layer of butter about an inch thick...bleugh

failinis

Keane2baMused wrote: »

With a layer of butter about an inch thick...bleugh

But no matter how thick the butter it never saved the jam from "bleeding" into the bread itself.

Still can't eat strawberry jam now.

In primary, it was salad sandwich with chicken, yoghurt, piece of fruit, bottled water. Different yoghurt and fruit most days, for variety.

In secondary I was a boarder and it was usually a sandwich or salad with a piece of fruit and fruit juice or water in summer/spring, and in autumn/winter it was toasted sandwich or soup and roll and fruit with tea or sometimes hot chocolate.

Barry Badrinath

Primary, it was usually tomato and scallion sandwiches because by lunch they transformed into a gooey mess that perfectly moulded into a sandwich ball for throwing.

foggy_lad

Mostly cheese or Jam sandwiches or that awful luncheon,
Banana sandwiches, sometimes sliced but mostly mashed to make more out of the 1 or 2 bananas available.
sometimes cheese and sometimes soda bread and currant bread.
Sugar sandwiches.
Milk in a HP brown sauce bottle or coffee(I was weird) or soup in a flask.

None of yer posh spar shop rolls or cup soups back then, no fancy trappings and most didn't have those fancy flasks, we had whatever flask was available and free. The only fancy thing we had was when the school milk program was started and we all got lovely warm(sometimes sour) or really cold(frozen in carton) milk.

We also sometimes had crisps and small bottles of orange or had the sauce bottle filled with TK orange from a large bottle.

Xaracatz

Billy Rolls! Remember that weird meat-like substance that has a smiley face on it. Was pretty much all I ate for lunch in primary school.

We had a canteen in secondary and I think it was mostly chips.

Weirdly enough, nobody was overweight, but I'm amazed we didn't all have scurvy.

Barry Badrinath

Oh yeah,

Id also usually have KVI crisps! Remember that crap?!

And either a touchdown bar or banjo bar.

Heroditas

Xaracatz wrote: »

Billy Rolls! Remember that weird meat-like substance that has a smiley face on it. Was pretty much all I ate for lunch in primary school.

We had a canteen in secondary and I think it was mostly chips.

Weirdly enough, nobody was overweight, but I'm amazed we didn't all have scurvy.

I remember Billy Roll. Hazlett was another one, as was the real cheap slimy garlic salami.

Sheep in a field

Eat sandwiches given my mummy. Also had money to spend in school shop so also stocked up on crisps, chocolate, coke, Fanta etc.

Needless to say this didn't help my school work or my health!

rubadub

Cheese sandwiches, or ham & cheese. United bars, trios, breakaway, telex. Later on came those panky bars (think thats the name) they were incredibly dry wafer things covered in cheap chocolate. Subsidized milk in blue cubic cartons. I used to freeze a star wars flask with a small bit of milk in it and refill with the by now luke warm milk.

The Trio girl was the same one singing in the bodyform ad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlJSjJAg-GM

FizzleSticks

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madmaggie

Blackcurrant jam sandwiches and a baby Power bottle of milk. I went posh in secondary school with a proper lunch box and flask, still had the bloody jam sandwiches.

strangel00p

A delicious poverty sandwich(Jam) squashed between my soundings english book. Kids nowadays with their gluten free wraps and ciabattas...grr!

failinis

FizzleSticks wrote: »

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I forgot to say, it was normally my mum who made my lunches when I was at primary school, with the jam sandwiches that bleed to mush, an apple or bruised banana and maybe a slice of home made scone.

But when it come to my dad making it, on the rare day he needed to have parental responsibility?
Crips, sweets, chocolate, ham sandwiches, the works.

Lucky he never made mine every day to be fair or I would have scurvy and no teeth!

Andre 3000

Depending on the day of the week, Nutella, jam, ham or cheese sandwiches. I have distinct memories of struggling to eat lukewarm cheese sandwiches after lunch because you were too busy playing soccer or hurling.

A bar of chocolate or the mothers homebaked cakes as a side. The school milk scheme provided the beverage. I still have the scars from racing the rest of the lads to the sink to get the red and white straw because "it's the Cork straw".

JupiterKid

Ham & Cheese sandwiches
An orange
Banana
Bag of crisps
A roll with sliced chicken and lettuce
Cucumber sandwiches

rainbow kirby

Penguin bar for break, cheese and Trista's garlic mayonnaise sandwich, piece of fruit and milk for lunch.

RayM

Little break (11:00) - A Penguin or a United Bar (anyone remember them?)
Big break (12:30) - Sandwiches (usually cheese, ham, turkey or chicken) and an apple/orange/banana
All washed down with a flask of diluted MiWadi (blackcurrant)

foggy_lad

strangel00p wrote: »

A delicious poverty sandwich(Jam) squashed between my soundings english book. Kids nowadays with their gluten free wraps and ciabattas...grr!

All the wussies with their gluten intolerance, it is all because they never had the gluten filled bread wrapped around warm brown banana mush.

whatdoicare

Horrible ham sandwich with just butter and brown bread. Not proper ham but that awful salty processed crap.

My mam used to pack it in with a mandarin orange and NEVER wrap them up separate so the sandwich was flipping orange rind flavour by the time I got it.

Straight into the bin every day for the whole of primary school. Pure waste.

Secondary school I packed my own lunches and usually made a sandwich out of dinner left overs. So yummy.

Olishi4

RayM wrote: »

Little break (11:00) - A Penguin or a United Bar (anyone remember them?)
Big break (12:30) - Sandwiches (usually cheese, ham, turkey or chicken) and an apple/orange/banana
All washed down with a flask of diluted MiWadi (blackcurrant)

Oh I forgot all about those "united" bars. How good we're they!!

In primary I had cream crackers or a ham sandwich. I remember for little lunch I would sometimes have some rich tea biscuits with butter spread on them, don't know what that was about I always drank the Bainne provided by the school. Two people were picked every week to go on "Bainne Duty" which meant they had to collect it and bring it to the class.

In secondary I went home for lunch so usually scrambled eggs or beans on toast or something.

One eyed Jack

What the hell have they done to Liga biscuits? I used have them for lunch too, googled them there and they're not the same at all

Used get 20p a day going to secondary school too, two packs of frosties I used eat in class trying not to crunch too loud

Crumpets

Penguin bar for little break and ham sandwiches for big lunch

muddypaws

I can't remember primary school lunches, but secondary school I would get a doughnut from the school canteen at lunchtime and keep the rest of my dinner money to play Space Invaders in the local launderette when we got off the bus - it was a long time ago.

Lyaiera

Small break: One Benson and Hedges and a Penguin.
Big break: Three Benson and Hedges, a can of coke, and a ham sandwich thrown in the bin. Although there were enterprising young lads who could steal a chicken curry from the canteen involving judicious use of sandwich bags.

A fierce posh school, breeding tomorrows young leaders.

prinzeugen

We got free meals in Scotland..

Burgers
Haggis neeps and spuds (should be tatties but dinner lady was English!)

She would go round with the icecream scoop looking to get rid of the smash.
Salads

Every day was different.

High school was better. 3 "rooms".

The mass produced pizza was the best.

JupiterKid

One eyed Jack wrote: »

What the hell have they done to Liga biscuits? I used have them for lunch too, googled them there and they're not the same at all

Used get 20p a day going to secondary school too, two packs of frosties I used eat in class trying not to crunch too loud

Oh Liga biccies. Forgot about them - I used to love them in primary school. And anyone remember Farley's rusks?

Often had scrambled eggs on toast for breccies before school. I never had the luxury of being able to go home for lunch. In the school canteen I often had sausage rolls. They also did chips but these were pure rank.

well spoken man

We were poor so either apple sandwich or onion sandwich...whatever was in the garden at the time....urrrrrgh..

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

We usually had prairie sandwiches - two slices of brown bread with a wide open space in between. On a good day it was a soggy jam sandwich..

Badly Drunk Boy

RayM wrote: »

Little break (11:00) - A Penguin or a United Bar (anyone remember them?)

I had United bars or penguins too, and what just about to use that same 'United' photo! I loved the chunk of chocolate in the top half.

The other constant in my lunch was the corned beef sandwich, and in the winter, there'd be oxtail soup in the original Thermos flask. The corned beef sandwiches were often dipped into the soup, since that'd be the most natural thing to do.

well spoken man

I'll never forget the salad cream sandwiches.....

Badly Drunk Boy

well spoken man wrote: »

I'll never forget the salad cream sandwiches.....

They were more of an after-school treat for me.

ToddyDoody

I used have liga up until quite an old age... remember liga? It was like biscuits for toddlers.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/health/liga-product-recalled-over-baby-choking-fears-127446.html