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

Czarcasm · 18-03-2013 12:28AM

Most school pupils nowadays OP get a bun and milk, but the school my child goes to is now pushing for a breakfast club, which are only available to disadvantaged schools, so you have to be in a disadvantaged area to qualify.

Take the above with a pinch of salt because I'm off my face right now and I can hardly see straight, let alone properly source the information for you, that's just off the top of my head from a board of management meeting last month when we were discussing the issue.

apache · 18-03-2013 12:28AM

Nimrod 7 wrote: »

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

Well thats true. Breakfast, lunch and tea. 2 cartons of milk x 3 times a day =6. And then they rob more when they stuff them down their jocks

Miss Lockhart · 18-03-2013 12:29AM

The paid for milk scheme was not only for disadvantaged schools.

For Forks Sake · 18-03-2013 12:30AM

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

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

Is that you Bill Cullen?

Peregrine · 18-03-2013 12:31AM

a0ifee wrote: »

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

Aoife that's awful. You HAD to drink it? Surely you could refuse. I get sick at the smell of milk, never took the free milk from my school haha

ITS_A_BADGER · 18-03-2013 12:32AM

we used to get those small 200ml cartons that had the puncture hole on the top right where you put in a straw, we never got straws tho, we would pierce the hole with a pencil and try to splash someone when you pierced it. Used to hate the smell of milk "sweat" you know when you held the carton for a while drinking and smell off your hands after

byhookorbycrook · 18-03-2013 12:33AM

Czarcasm wrote: »

Most school pupils nowadays OP get a bun and milk, but the school my child goes to is now pushing for a breakfast club, which are only available to disadvantaged schools, so you have to be in a disadvantaged area to qualify.

Take the above with a pinch of salt because I'm off my face right now and I can hardly see straight, let alone properly source the information for you, that's just off the top of my head from a board of management meeting last month when we were discussing the issue.

No, most primaryschool children don't.Milk can be bought in some schools.

apache · 18-03-2013 12:34AM

Everybody used to stamp on the cartons to make them explode. Rough times.

a0ifee · 18-03-2013 12:35AM

Nimrod 7 wrote: »

Aoife that's awful. You HAD to drink it? Surely you could refuse. I get sick at the smell of milk, never took the free milk from my school haha

yeah I didn't have a choice! after awhile I use to try sneak away before they gave it out, i think they stopped in first class though?

Czarcasm · 18-03-2013 12:44AM

byhookorbycrook wrote: »

No, most primaryschool children don't.Milk can be bought in some schools.

Spot on by hook... Christ that's a long name, but yeah, I forgot about the €20 at the start of the year. I think it was €20 anyway?

byhookorbycrook · 18-03-2013 12:45AM

It's historical, but yes,it's long!

Dwork · 18-03-2013 12:51AM

Huh, free milk. We used to get free sweets on the way to school. Up the jumper in the local newsagents. No cctv in them days.

Quazzie · 18-03-2013 01:01AM

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?

Aren't you a teacher and therefore know the answer to this?

18-03-2013 01:02AM

I went to primary school in France for a few years and we got 3 course meals :pac: And then went for a half an hour nap!

For Forks Sake · 18-03-2013 01:04AM

Lia_lia wrote: »

I went to primary school in France for a few years and we got 3 course meals :pac: And then went for a half an hour nap!

That's because you were drunk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQUSDeptBxE

iCosmopolis · 18-03-2013 01:04AM

Haha, I remember that - my first primary school we got the cheese or jam sandwhiches, corned beef on wens and currant bun on fridays, complemented with a fine serving of warm / sour milk in glass bottles depending on the season. Remember the milk sitting in little crates by the teachers desk all morning, either defrosting or going off, and they'd always give you an nicely clotted left over one to drink while you waited if your mam had to come in for chat after school:pac: the school I went to after just did the paid cartons with the punch hole that were stored in what they called the "wet area"

imitation · 18-03-2013 01:06AM

I can't remember what I got in primary school, I assume they gave me something or I wouldn't be alive. I think my parents gave me sandwiches and the odd packet of crisps !

kowloon · 18-03-2013 01:26AM

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?

This is Bull****! Why did I never get a sandwich?! I got screwed. :mad:

Schwiiing · 18-03-2013 01:44AM

Did anyone else have benny bunny? It was drinkable yogurt that came in the same small cartons like the milk and it had a pink rabbit on the front of it. F uckin gorgeous tack that was.

Richard Dower · 18-03-2013 01:45AM

thought about this last week while passing my old infant school....no memory of food but we did get those 250ml bags of milk, with a straw....though you were fecked if the straw wasn't glued to the bag

in the EU butter/beef mountain days the mother got butter and beef vouchers....huge chunks of prime beef.

and Ribena the mam made when we got home

Retrovertigo · 18-03-2013 01:49AM

To the people complaining about never getting the sandwiches consider yourself lucky, they were vile. Tons of butter, potentially stale bread/buns and rubbery cheese or meat.

Milk was delicious though, especially when you jumped on an unopened carton and surprised your classmate.

Ruu · 18-03-2013 01:51AM

Had milk cartons, can't remember the brand. Had a cyclist on the packaging, could have been champion.

WoollyRedHat · 18-03-2013 01:52AM

LizT wrote: »

We used to get Smooth n Juicy instead of milk

Rich bitch!

We used to have to go out into the fields, find a cow, milk it, pasturize it and by the time that was done, our break would be over. Thug life.

Richard Dower · 18-03-2013 01:52AM

ITS_A_BADGER wrote: »

we used to get those small 200ml cartons that had the puncture hole on the top right where you put in a straw, we never got straws tho, we would pierce the hole with a pencil and try to splash someone when you pierced it. Used to hate the smell of milk "sweat" you know when you held the carton for a while drinking and smell off your hands after

this....they were the weapon of choise for bullies, they wait for you to pass by and squirt the entire bag all over you.......

actually, I don't like this thread...its bringing back too many bad memories I thought I had buried deep down

sunbeam · 18-03-2013 02:06AM

I remember the milk back in the 80s, but it was optional and you had to pay for it. I never bothered with it. Also in the late 70s we were occasionally given a large bag of cocoa/drinking chocolate to take home with us-one per family.

This was in a small rural school that I think was officially classed as disadvantaged in recent years.

wardy2 · 18-03-2013 03:14AM

id remember my school use to get chocolate muffins on a Friday

guppy · 18-03-2013 03:19AM

sunbeam wrote: »

I remember the milk back in the 80s, but it was optional and you had to pay for it. I never bothered with it. Also in the late 70s we were occasionally given a large bag of cocoa/drinking chocolate to take home with us-one per family.

This was in a small rural school that I think was officially classed as disadvantaged in recent years.

I think it was free in Dublin schools as the thinking was that Dublin kids didn't drink enough (but of course everyone outside Dublin had a cow on tap :rolleyes:).

Free sandwiches etc was only for schools designated as disadvantaged (my mother in law, a former teacher, told me they were referred to as "DESI" schools).

My son still gets free milk in school, in Dublin. It may be factored into the fees they charge, or the €100 donation they ask for (they're not nasty about it in fairness), but I dont get asked for cobtributions for milk.

(on the up side, food hygiene is good these days and the milk remains in a fridge till its distributed)

Karen23 · 18-03-2013 03:29AM

Kids still get free lunches in school. Now they get a menu at the beginning of the year. For small break they can choose from biscuits , scones, yogurts , cereal bars or fruit bag. Lunch is a choice of baguette , bap , wrap , sandwich with a choice of fillings from chicken, ham, turkey , egg mayo , tuna. Or you can have pasta. Water or milk and a choice of apple, banana or satsuma.

Kids are NOT allowed to bring their own lunch so need to choose carefully.

irish son · 18-03-2013 05:11AM

I can't be the only one who used to get Kool Kroc milk in school am I?

It was a choice of plain milk called Bainne or Kroc, a Yop like drink. Kroc everytime please :cool:

recyclops · 18-03-2013 10:23AM

wardy2 wrote: »

id remember my school use to get chocolate muffins on a Friday

I was the same only came into play in 6th class for me though

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

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