School Lunch

KingK · 17-05-2012 10:21AM #1

I recently worked in a school in Dublin and the best part of kids (12 - 17) for lunch would be having big rolls or heading off for McDonalds or Burger King,some would even go to a local cafe for a big fry. What ever happened to the days of a jam sambo and banana? What was your school lunch like?

Sky King · 17-05-2012 10:22AM

Allowing your kids to eat sh!te like that every day is nothing short of child abuse.

I want to a very disadvantaged school in the early 90's. You want to see some of the lunches... a packet of biscuits... or plain bread and butter... or nothing.

I had sambos. They were grand.

Archeron · 17-05-2012 10:25AM

Banana sambos, a packet of thrift crisps, an apple and a glass of diluted something or other. Cheese and brown sauce sambos on every other day (nom nom nom).

Mr Benevolent · 17-05-2012 10:27AM

Sky King wrote: »

You want to see some of the lunches... a packet of biscuits... or plain bread and butter... or nothing.

A packet of biscuits for lunch is not much better than McDonalds tbh.

Scioch · 17-05-2012 10:27AM

Chicken and ham paste sandwiches, packet of tayto and a bottle of cadet. At least kids now are getting fed. Notting wrong with a roll or a burger when your growing like nobodies business.

Rosy Posy · 17-05-2012 10:28AM

I remember being morto for having homemade brown bread sandwiches. I craved white sliced pan like the 'normal' kids. Now I send my kids to school with...homemade brown bread sandwiches.

I used to love those little baby bell cheese thingys, mostly for the wax that you could mould into shapes.

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy · 17-05-2012 10:29AM

Archeron wrote: »

Banana sambos, a packet of thrift crisps, an apple and a glass of diluted something or other. Cheese and brown sauce sambos on every other day (nom nom nom).

Cheese and brown sauce sambos

forgot all about them boyos. They were tasty!!

jellygems · 17-05-2012 10:30AM

Confab wrote: »

A packet of biscuits for lunch is not much better than McDonalds tbh.

dont agree, a big mac meal has over 900 calories

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 17-05-2012 10:30AM

Was close enough to go home for lunch and three miles from the nearest fast food joint. Was too ****ing lazy to do either.

The Big Red Button · 17-05-2012 10:31AM

Ham and cheese sandwiches ... and sometimes Liga too, for a treat.

There were always babies in my house all through primary school!

ElleEm · 17-05-2012 10:31AM

I think most kids (in secondary schools) are given money now as opposed to a packed lunch. My local Subway/ Supervalu deli counter is packed at lunchtime with kids getting their lunches. We had a canteen at school where they sold soup and sandwiches, as well as crisps and chocolate, but it wasn't the done thing to be given cash by our folks every day.

In primary school we got free sambos provided. Cheese or ham I think. And free milk.

Mr Benevolent · 17-05-2012 10:32AM

jellygems wrote: »

dont agree, a big mac meal has over 900 calories

But 200g of Digestives have over 900 calories as well. That's not even half a packet.

cloud493 · 17-05-2012 10:32AM

Most of the kids I go to cram into the local hillbillies. There's.. that, two kebab places, a pizza place, two chippies, a cafe, and a mcdonalds not too far.

I mostly go for sandwiches from tesco myself. I am partial to the odd bag of chips mind, but I limit myself to once a week.

bbam · 17-05-2012 10:34AM

LordSmeg wrote: »

Notting wrong with a roll or a burger when your growing like nobodies business.

Oh FFS.
There is a big difference in having a burger an odd time as a treat, and kids having them five days a week for lunch.
Growing they may be but most of them are growing into obese blobs with short life expectancy and will be a huge drain on public resources as their health fails.

There is an epidemic of obesity in children in this country and it's disgusting. Parents have a duty to ensure their kids eat well.

It was different when I went to school as a jam sambo was the only option. Only lazy parents send buiscuits with their kids as a lunch.

The Big Red Button · 17-05-2012 10:34AM

Confab wrote: »

But 200g of Digestives have over 900 calories as well. That's not even half a packet.

And they're mostly just sugar! At least in a Big Mac you might get some "meat" ... maybe a little wilted lettuce ...

17-05-2012 10:34AM

jellygems wrote: »

dont agree, a big mac meal has over 900 calories

how many calories in a packet of biscuits?
e.g. Mcvitties digestive with around 20 biscuits

Scioch · 17-05-2012 10:38AM

bbam wrote: »

Oh FFS.
There is a big difference in having a burger an odd time as a treat, and kids having them five days a week for lunch.
Growing they may be but most of them are growing into obese blobs with short life expectancy and will be a huge drain on public resources as their health fails.

There is an epidemic of obesity in children in this country and it's disgusting. Parents have a duty to ensure their kids eat well.

It was different when I went to school as a jam sambo was the only option. Only lazy parents send buiscuits with their kids as a lunch.

Oh FFS starve the kids to save the taxes !! Its not the burger a day thats making these kids obese its the constant influx of crap, crips and sweets they eat all day and downing it with a litre of coke. A burger as a school meal isnt a bad option, keeping them constantly hungry or forcing them to eat stuff they dont wanna eat wont help anything.

mtjm · 17-05-2012 10:39AM

I remember getting sambos made, 2 sambos with lettice, mayo, relish, to this day can't make it the way mother made it

dmcronin · 17-05-2012 10:39AM

We had a canteen that I never got grub in, the ppl running it had a chipper van in town and the menu reflected that, chips, burgers, beans etc.
No wonder there were so many fat arses around the place.

There were a lot of them that went up town for sh*tloads of penny sweets, refreshers, black jacks and the like. Mr Freezes were popular, but a b*stard to open and consume IMHO.

I usually had a sambo and soup from home.

phasers · 17-05-2012 10:40AM

ham sandwich, a frube, a penguin bar and a carton of Amigo juice. Frubes are dangerous though, I can't count the amount of times the bastard would spill out all over my jumper. Or when I sprayed it all over some bitch who pissed me off

Sometimes I'd get peanut butter and jam sandwiches, those were the best days.

Mr.Biscuits · 17-05-2012 10:43AM

Lunch, we were lucky to see breakfast and that was just gravel from pit.

17-05-2012 10:46AM

I used to get ketchup sandwiches and a kitkat. Loved it, but the thought of it now makes me feel a bit ill.

philstar · 17-05-2012 10:48AM

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

kfallon · 17-05-2012 10:49AM

A load of ham sandwiches, packet of meanies, a United, Telex or 54321 bar and a can of pop!

Lollipops23 · 17-05-2012 10:51AM

For years it was ham/billy roll and cheese sambos, penguin bar and a little box of raisins. Bottle of orange squash to chase it. YUM.:)

admiralofthefleet · 17-05-2012 10:51AM

sammiches and stuff, once a week we were treated to a 'pound special' from the chipper which was 2 sausages, chips and curry sauce

kfallon · 17-05-2012 10:52AM

Lollipops23 wrote: »

For years it was ham/billy roll and cheese sambos, penguin bar and a little box of raisins. Bottle of orange squash to chase it. YUM.:)

Jaysus I hated that Billy roll stuff

FatherLen · 17-05-2012 10:57AM

phasers wrote: »

ham sandwich, a frube, a penguin bar and a carton of Amigo juice. Frubes are dangerous though, I can't count the amount of times the bastard would spill out all over my jumper. Or when I sprayed it all over some bitch who pissed me off

Sometimes I'd get peanut butter and jam sandwiches, those were the best days.

holy shit i miss frubes

Dravokivich · 17-05-2012 11:01AM

jellygems wrote: »

dont agree, a big mac meal has over 900 calories

It's not the number calories that are the problem with a diet. It's the shíte that makes up the number of calories.

kfallon · 17-05-2012 11:11AM

If me Ma was up early enough in the morn we might get 'red lead' (luncheon) blaas for school lunch instead of ham sandwiches, oh they were (and still are) delicious!!!

Battered Mars Bar · 17-05-2012 11:17AM

Head of brocelli usually. Sometimes I'd try to do a swapsies for a bottle of Tipperary kidz...how they laughed.

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