Your school lunches

fussyonion · 21-05-2016 09:58PM #1

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 · 21-05-2016 10:00PM

Rice cakes and fruit.

Sir Osis of Liver. · 21-05-2016 10:06PM

Some marmalade on a playing card.

Keane2baMused · 21-05-2016 10:10PM

Jam sambos and a banana.

kimokanto · 21-05-2016 10:10PM

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

dollyk · 21-05-2016 10:11PM

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 · 21-05-2016 10:11PM

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 · 21-05-2016 10:12PM

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

Ciderswigger · 21-05-2016 10:18PM

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 · 21-05-2016 10:22PM

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 · 21-05-2016 10:23PM

One eyed Jack wrote: »

sugar sandwiches

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

osarusan · 21-05-2016 10:27PM

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 · 21-05-2016 10:29PM

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 · 21-05-2016 10:31PM

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 · 21-05-2016 10:36PM

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 · 21-05-2016 10:38PM

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

One eyed Jack · 21-05-2016 10:39PM

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 · 21-05-2016 10:40PM

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 · 21-05-2016 10:44PM

failinis wrote: »

Same here for all of primary.

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

failinis · 21-05-2016 10:45PM

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.

21-05-2016 10:51PM

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 · 21-05-2016 10:55PM

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 · 21-05-2016 11:07PM

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 · 21-05-2016 11:10PM

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 · 21-05-2016 11:15PM

Oh yeah,

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

And either a touchdown bar or banjo bar.

Heroditas · 21-05-2016 11:16PM

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 · 21-05-2016 11:30PM

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 · 21-05-2016 11:37PM

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 · 21-05-2016 11:42PM

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madmaggie · 21-05-2016 11:44PM

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 · 21-05-2016 11:44PM

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

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