Do they still give you milk and a sandwich in primary school?

B.A._Baracus · 18-03-2013 12:01AM #1

It just randomly popped into my head :pac: corned beef sandwiches and milk... oh and hot cross buns!! Man, we're talking years ago.

Do kids still get free lunches in school these days?

Peregrine · 18-03-2013 12:02AM

Some schools do, some don't. Mine used to give out just milk. Little Avonmore boxes.

Praetorian Saighdiuir · 18-03-2013 12:02AM

I think it's 3-1's now and something from the minibar.

squod · 18-03-2013 12:03AM

That was just a way of getting you to hold a tray with two hands so the teachers could feel your bottom with impunity.

mikemac1 · 18-03-2013 12:03AM

The local creamery supplied milk at very cheap prices but it was paid for ever term. Cost very little, probably were getting it for cost price

If you were early to school you brought it in
On winter days it would be frozen into ice outside!

Never got sandwiches but we did get butter vouchers

LizT · 18-03-2013 12:03AM

Hot cross buns... that brings back memories. The girls in our school used to let them fall on the tarmac before bringing them to class sometimes

Dwork · 18-03-2013 12:04AM

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

It just randomly popped into my head :pac: corned beef sandwiches and milk... oh and hot cross buns!! Man, we're talking years ago.

Do kids still get free lunches in school these days?

No, only bankers are still getting a free lunch.

Stained Class · 18-03-2013 12:07AM

Nope. The budget has been taken up.

Teach them more Irish.

That's the answer. Now, Is there anything to be said for giving another Mass?

Mint Sauce · 18-03-2013 12:07AM

mikemac1 wrote: »

The local creamery supplied milk at very cheap prices but it was paid for ever term. Cost very little, probably were getting it for cost price

If you were early to school you brought it in
On winter days it would be frozen into ice outside!

Never got sandwiches but we did get butter vouchers

And sour in the summer by the time you got to drink it.

apache · 18-03-2013 12:07AM

Ah memory lane!
We used to get cheese sandwiches and milk every day except wednesday which was corned beef sandwich day and friday which was current bun day.

I think nowadays they all go to the chipper for their lunch or to Spar for a chicken roll. We were locked in at breaktime. Probably just as well!

amdublin · 18-03-2013 12:09AM

Only schools in "disadvantaged" areas got it - my school did.

Man I loved the corned beef and the rubber ham sandwiches! And the milk cartons! (although I remember the little mini milk bottles as well

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Don't think they were hot cross buns, think just regular currant buns. I don't like currants so used to pick the currants out, the rest of the bun was lovely

I don't know if they still get the free lunch in schools these days though??

Edit.
Oh god I just remembered the eeky cheese. I used to throw that in the bin and eat just butter sandwiches that day!!!! (ugh!)

Talib Fiasco · 18-03-2013 12:12AM

The milk is still going anyway. Was in TP last week and nearly all the kids were having it...it's not free though. Hasn't been free in yonks I'd imagine. Was never free for me anyway.

apache · 18-03-2013 12:13AM

amdublin wrote: »

Only schools in "disadvantaged" areas got it - my school did.

Man I loved the corned beef and the rubber ham sandwiches! And the milk cartons! (although I remember the little mini milk bottles as well )

Don't think they were hot cross buns, think just regular currant buns. I don't like currants so used to pick the currants out, the rest of the bun was lovely

I don't know if they still get the free lunch in schools these days

Yeah it was just current buns. Hot cross buns my hoop!
Loads of butter on the sambos too. They came in big plastic sleeves.

Miss Lockhart · 18-03-2013 12:14AM

We got milk but we paid for it. Never got any free food.

byte · 18-03-2013 12:15AM

mikemac1 wrote: »

The local creamery supplied milk at very cheap prices but it was paid for ever term. Cost very little, probably were getting it for cost price

If you were early to school you brought it in
On winter days it would be frozen into ice outside!

Never got sandwiches but we did get butter vouchers

Yeah, that's pretty much how it was in our school in South Donegal. Donegal Creameries little 250ml cartons if memory serves. It was imperitive that they were taken in off the wall outside as quick as possible incase it froze/soured depending on time of year.

We didn't get any sandwiches though

LizT · 18-03-2013 12:15AM

We used to get Smooth n Juicy instead of milk

Toto Wolfcastle · 18-03-2013 12:16AM

People paid for milk in the school I went to. We had a milk room and the smell of gone off milk in there made me feel sick.

Truncheon Rouge · 18-03-2013 12:17AM

Sandwiches and buns ??
wtf ... this isn't fair, we only got milk.

bastards.

apache · 18-03-2013 12:17AM

LizT wrote: »

We used to get Smooth n Juicy instead of milk

You must have went to a posh school.

LizT · 18-03-2013 12:19AM

apache wrote: »

You must have went to a posh school.

Nope! I wish. I think we used to get milk as well but I never drank it.

SEPT 23 1989 · 18-03-2013 12:20AM

I was lucky that my parents could afford to feed me

byhookorbycrook · 18-03-2013 12:20AM

No, it's only in disadvantaged schools that is there anything free.

mikemac1 · 18-03-2013 12:21AM

Dawn Dairies gave us 250ml cartons of their new flavours like strawberry milk or banana milk and asked our opinion.

Cheap market research

The stuff was awful as I remember, it never became a success for Dawn

apache · 18-03-2013 12:21AM

LizT wrote: »

Nope! I wish. I think we used to get milk as well but I never drank it.

Me neither. Hated it! I got my liquid intake from licking the butter off the insides of the big bag the sambos used to come in. Have to say they never skimped on the butter.

Rasheed · 18-03-2013 12:22AM

8 years in primary school and we never got one carton of milk, never mind a sandwich. How did the rest of you manage it?

a0ifee · 18-03-2013 12:23AM

I hated getting milk because it was a big glass bottle and you had to drink it all if you wanted to go on your break..cue children drinking fast then running around, not the best mix

I can still taste it

can never just drink milk by itself now

apache · 18-03-2013 12:24AM

Rasheed wrote: »

8 years in primary school and we never got one carton of milk, never mind a sandwich. How did the rest of you manage it?

Was it a generation thing or maybe "disadvantaged" v "advantaged" areas? Dunno.

Peregrine · 18-03-2013 12:24AM

Used to live near Mountjoy's gate and they used to get all sorts of milk and cream delivered there at 7am.

It's official, prisoners get more free stoooff than children

SEPT 23 1989 · 18-03-2013 12:26AM

Rasheed wrote: »

How did the rest of you manage it?

Ragged clothes,no shoes and a dirty face was the passport to milk and sambo land

ian87 · 18-03-2013 12:26AM

A school I used to teach in gave free lunches. €86000 they spend a year to feed the kids. For a good lot of the kids it was the only square meal they would see all day.

amdublin · 18-03-2013 12:27AM

Rasheed wrote: »

8 years in primary school and we never got one carton of milk, never mind a sandwich. How did the rest of you manage it?

apache wrote: »

Was it a generation thing or maybe "disadvantaged" v "advantaged" areas? Dunno.

Yes:

amdublin wrote: »

Only schools in "disadvantaged" areas got it - my school did.

Man I loved the corned beef and the rubber ham sandwiches! And the milk cartons! (although I remember the little mini milk bottles as well )

Don't think they were hot cross buns, think just regular currant buns. I don't like currants so used to pick the currants out, the rest of the bun was lovely

I don't know if they still get the free lunch in schools these days though??

Edit.
Oh god I just remembered the eeky cheese. I used to throw that in the bin and eat just butter sandwiches that day!!!! (ugh!)

Do they still give you milk and a sandwich in primary school?

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