School Lunch

anniehoo · 17-05-2012 11:24AM

Corned beef and salad cream sambos...i loved it! The corned beef tasted so much better in the 80s than the crap skinny fatty slivers of so called meat ye get now.

Dunnes crisps and a penguin bar if it was a "good" week in our house.

kfallon · 17-05-2012 11:28AM

anniehoo wrote: »

Corned beef and salad cream sambos...i loved it! The corned beef tasted so much better in the 80s than the crap skinny fatty slivers of so called meat ye get now.

Dunnes crisps and a penguin bar if it was a "good" week in our house.

Dunnes Cola wasn't too bad if I remember correctly! Cans of that were better than getting an old bottle full of KVI coke :pac:

Totally went off Cornedbeef when I was about 11, just refused to eat it but in recent years I have rediscovered my love for it

fussyonion · 17-05-2012 11:52AM

jellygems wrote: »

dont agree, a big mac meal has over 900 calories

Where are you going with your 900 calories?!
A Big Mac has a little over 500 calories.

Warper · 17-05-2012 11:52AM

Chips - simple

summerskin · 17-05-2012 11:56AM

used to alternate my lunches. on monday i would have turkey burger and beans from the school canteen and spend the rest on ten silk cut to last me the next two days. on tuesday i would eat like a king, steak pudding, chips and curry sauce with a can of coke, followed by an iced bun. then wednesday would be turkey burger and smokes day. and so on for 7 years almost....

languagenerd · 17-05-2012 12:19PM

Primary school - sandwiches made with Billy roll in the early years and Philadephia after that, biscuits, yogurt and banana.

Secondary school - got very bored of cheese sandwiches very quickly and started bringing pot noodles or rice, thermos flask of soup or ciabatta rolls to heat in the microwave. I used to go to my grandparents' house for lunch twice a week as well, and without fail, they would give me noodles, a cup-soup and whatever desert my gran had made the day before... followed by a Dairy Milk and a packet of TicTacs from the school shop when I got back. (Those were the days :P)

vard · 17-05-2012 12:28PM

Dravokivich wrote: »

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.

Ehhhhh no it's not?

Doesn't matter what you eat. Whether it's the healthiest food there is - if you're taking in more calories than you're burning off you will gain weight.

Unhealthy foods just tend to be more calorie dense.

I think lack of education and basic knowledge is the killer here. Most people just have very misguided views on what denotes a healthy diet. They can't be blamed, as devious and misleading advertising seems to be all the information they receive.

Breakfast cereals, for example, are a farce. Obviously you can eat what you want, and in moderation its no harm at all, but seeing sugar ridden crap like Special K marketed as a health food really winds me up.

thebigbiffo · 17-05-2012 12:30PM

chatterpillar wrote: »

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

lettuce has zero nutritional value

cheese sandwichs every day for moi - except friday, when uyou'd be given 3 pound for the lunch special down the chipper...and this was from about 92 till 97.

my wife still laughs at me (we met in school) about how i used to literally shove a quarter sandwich in the side of my mouth and chew like a chipmunk. this would last approx 2.7 minutes until i'd shoved the grub down so i could leg it out for a smoke.

RoryMurphyJnr · 17-05-2012 12:33PM

one lad goes to school with a chicken mayo and lettuce sambo the other goes with ham, I take ham, corned beef etc.
All made at home that morning
Crisps and yogurt and fruit
nothing fancy

Mr Benevolent · 17-05-2012 12:34PM

kfallon wrote: »

If me Ma was up early enough in the morn we might get 'red lead' (luncheon) blaas for school lunch

So a 'sneaky sandwich' then? What about sneaky fish finger sandwiches?

Rabies · 17-05-2012 12:35PM

Jam sandwiches in the 80's with an apple or orange. Bottle of tap water or milk to drink.
Kids have it too easy now.
Our treat was 50p on a friday to buy some candy if we were lucky

iguana · 17-05-2012 12:37PM

A sandwich, a piece of fruit and a chocolate bar like a Penguin or a pack of crisps from a cheap multi-pack, and a bottle of diluted orange/blackcurrant. Sometimes we'd mix it up with a slice of cake on Monday if it was left over from Sunday's baking or a flask of soup in the winter. I can't say I was ever particularly hungry at school.

Mr Benevolent · 17-05-2012 12:38PM

Rabies wrote: »

Jam sandwiches in the 80's with an apple or orange. Bottle of tap water or milk to drink.
Kids have it too easy now.
Our treat was 50p on a friday to buy some candy if we were lucky

Sounds about what I got. 50p and I was rich. These newfangled 50c coins don't buy nearly as many sweets and Cadet. Thank fcuk.

hairyprincess · 17-05-2012 12:39PM

Where are kids getting the money to go to cafe's, McDonalds or wherever? I'm presuming it has to some from the parents.
So we'll say €5 a day, the secondary school year is generally 167 days so 167 x €5 = €835 for lunch for the year!! Sweet holy Jesus and the little donkey! It'll be bread and jam for my little cherubs; if they are lucky :eek:

real stig · 17-05-2012 12:44PM

Sandwiches (the filling depended on the dinner the day before) a penguin or kitkat and a carton of ribena or capri-sun. Tomatoes occasionaly ruined a good sandwich

kingtut · 17-05-2012 12:45PM

In my school we were never allowed out for lunch so McDonalds and all that crap food was never an option so lunch usually cosisted of a caron of orange, banana / apple / orange, a sandwich (usually egg, salad or tuna) and a penguin bar.

kfallon · 17-05-2012 12:45PM

real stig wrote: »

Sandwiches (the filling depended on the dinner the day before) a penguin or kitkat and a carton of ribena or capri-sun. Tomatoes occasionaly ruined a good sandwich

Tomatoes ALWAYS ruin a good sandwich :mad:

BigFatGiant · 17-05-2012 12:49PM

I ate Touchdown bars. Lots and lots of f***ing touchdown bars.

kingtut · 17-05-2012 12:50PM

kfallon wrote: »

Tomatoes ALWAYS ruin a good sandwich :mad:

Makes the bread all soggy! If I ever had salad sandwiches I always put the tomato in just before I was eating them

hairyprincess · 17-05-2012 12:51PM

Are swans the new penguins? :eek:

SEPT 23 1989 · 17-05-2012 12:52PM

I had a cigarette at lunchtime

kingtut · 17-05-2012 12:56PM

hairyprincess wrote: »

Are swans the new penguins? :eek:

Are all princesses hairy? :eek:

Flincher · 17-05-2012 12:59PM

I'm still traumatised from years of eating Easi-singles cheese.

Possibly the most vile substance ever created by man.

Shudder.

readyletsgo · 17-05-2012 01:01PM

Cheese sambos and maybe a pack of crisps in primary. Secondary I would get a roll some days from the local shop or sambo from home. the ODD time I would get chips from the chip shop, like once a month, when chips were 50p a big bag, not the €2.50 price for a small bag now a days.
I remember when a Spar opened in my small town, we used to be able to get 6 sausage rolls for a £1, why is it €2 for 4 now?

Corned beef, what was/is in that?

jessiejam · 17-05-2012 01:04PM

Corned beef and onion sandwiches wrapped in the bag that the corned beef came in. The smell of onions from my bag was awful. A 2 finger kit kat and a bottle of diluted orange...
Still love those sandwiches cept the corned beef was a lot nicer back then...

17-05-2012 01:07PM

Corned beef sandwiches, jam sandwiches, banana sandwiches. For secondary school I just went home for lunch and either had a burger, some pasta, one of those manky small circular pizzas or a findus crispy pancake. Or maybe some chicken dippers or the like.

Think_then_talk · 17-05-2012 01:12PM

I had a thermos flask of OxO with bread and marge,
Once a week I had a pack of johnny onion rings cost 2p,
use to love the free Current Buns,would love one of them now yum yum:)

phasers · 17-05-2012 01:16PM

When I got to secondary school there were vending machines, but my parents wouldn't give me money for them. I had the knack of giving the machine a good wallop in the right place and a bag of sweets would almost always fall out. good times.

Once the man who was filling the vending machines left them open during our lunchtime and the entire thing was emptied in a matter of minutes! We had a big serious announcement over the intercom where the principal demanded that the culprits return the stolen chocolate immediately.

Jayo11780 · 17-05-2012 01:17PM

Red sauce sandwiches for me.... you know the 'Kandee' brand Dunnes stores stuff you get in the big plastic litre bottle..
They were bloody nice too!

After that i progressed to crisp sandwiches :eek: - and the rest as they say is history!

kfallon · 17-05-2012 01:17PM

BigFatGiant wrote: »

I ate Touchdown bars. Lots and lots of f***ing touchdown bars.

Poor man's 54321 :P

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