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Your school lunches

fussyonion

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?

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failinis

FizzleSticks wrote: »

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I forgot to say, it was normally my mum who made my lunches when I was at primary school, with the jam sandwiches that bleed to mush, an apple or bruised banana and maybe a slice of home made scone.

But when it come to my dad making it, on the rare day he needed to have parental responsibility?

Crips, sweets, chocolate, ham sandwiches, the works.

Lucky he never made mine every day to be fair or I would have scurvy and no teeth!

Andre 3000

Depending on the day of the week, Nutella, jam, ham or cheese sandwiches. I have distinct memories of struggling to eat lukewarm cheese sandwiches after lunch because you were too busy playing soccer or hurling.

A bar of chocolate or the mothers homebaked cakes as a side. The school milk scheme provided the beverage. I still have the scars from racing the rest of the lads to the sink to get the red and white straw because "it's the Cork straw".

JupiterKid

Ham & Cheese sandwiches
An orange
Banana
Bag of crisps
A roll with sliced chicken and lettuce
Cucumber sandwiches

rainbow kirby

Penguin bar for break, cheese and Trista's garlic mayonnaise sandwich, piece of fruit and milk for lunch.

RayM

Little break (11:00) - A Penguin or a United Bar (anyone remember them?)
Big break (12:30) - Sandwiches (usually cheese, ham, turkey or chicken) and an apple/orange/banana
All washed down with a flask of diluted MiWadi (blackcurrant)

foggy_lad

strangel00p wrote: »

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

All the wussies with their gluten intolerance, it is all because they never had the gluten filled bread wrapped around warm brown banana mush.

whatdoicare

Horrible ham sandwich with just butter and brown bread. Not proper ham but that awful salty processed crap.

My mam used to pack it in with a mandarin orange and NEVER wrap them up separate so the sandwich was flipping orange rind flavour by the time I got it.

Straight into the bin every day for the whole of primary school. Pure waste.

Secondary school I packed my own lunches and usually made a sandwich out of dinner left overs. So yummy.

Olishi4

RayM wrote: »

Little break (11:00) - A Penguin or a United Bar (anyone remember them?)
Big break (12:30) - Sandwiches (usually cheese, ham, turkey or chicken) and an apple/orange/banana
All washed down with a flask of diluted MiWadi (blackcurrant)

Oh I forgot all about those "united" bars. How good we're they!!

In primary I had cream crackers or a ham sandwich. I remember for little lunch I would sometimes have some rich tea biscuits with butter spread on them, don't know what that was about

I always drank the Bainne provided by the school. Two people were picked every week to go on "Bainne Duty" which meant they had to collect it and bring it to the class.

In secondary I went home for lunch so usually scrambled eggs or beans on toast or something.

One eyed Jack

What the hell have they done to Liga biscuits? I used have them for lunch too, googled them there and they're not the same at all

Used get 20p a day going to secondary school too, two packs of frosties I used eat in class trying not to crunch too loud

Crumpets

Penguin bar for little break and ham sandwiches for big lunch

muddypaws

I can't remember primary school lunches, but secondary school I would get a doughnut from the school canteen at lunchtime and keep the rest of my dinner money to play Space Invaders in the local launderette when we got off the bus - it was a long time ago.

Lyaiera

Small break: One Benson and Hedges and a Penguin.
Big break: Three Benson and Hedges, a can of coke, and a ham sandwich thrown in the bin. Although there were enterprising young lads who could steal a chicken curry from the canteen involving judicious use of sandwich bags.

A fierce posh school, breeding tomorrows young leaders.

prinzeugen

We got free meals in Scotland..

Burgers
Haggis neeps and spuds (should be tatties but dinner lady was English!)

She would go round with the icecream scoop looking to get rid of the smash.
Salads

Every day was different.

High school was better. 3 "rooms".

The mass produced pizza was the best.

JupiterKid

One eyed Jack wrote: »

What the hell have they done to Liga biscuits? I used have them for lunch too, googled them there and they're not the same at all

Used get 20p a day going to secondary school too, two packs of frosties I used eat in class trying not to crunch too loud

Oh Liga biccies. Forgot about them - I used to love them in primary school. And anyone remember Farley's rusks?

Often had scrambled eggs on toast for breccies before school. I never had the luxury of being able to go home for lunch. In the school canteen I often had sausage rolls. They also did chips but these were pure rank.

well spoken man

We were poor so either apple sandwich or onion sandwich...whatever was in the garden at the time....urrrrrgh..

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

We usually had prairie sandwiches - two slices of brown bread with a wide open space in between. On a good day it was a soggy jam sandwich..

Badly Drunk Boy

RayM wrote: »

Little break (11:00) - A Penguin or a United Bar (anyone remember them?)

I had United bars or penguins too, and what just about to use that same 'United' photo! I loved the chunk of chocolate in the top half.

The other constant in my lunch was the corned beef sandwich, and in the winter, there'd be oxtail soup in the original Thermos flask. The corned beef sandwiches were often dipped into the soup, since that'd be the most natural thing to do.

well spoken man

I'll never forget the salad cream sandwiches.....

Badly Drunk Boy

well spoken man wrote: »

I'll never forget the salad cream sandwiches.....

They were more of an after-school treat for me.

ToddyDoody

I used have liga up until quite an old age... remember liga? It was like biscuits for toddlers.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/health/liga-product-recalled-over-baby-choking-fears-127446.html

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Primary school would be a ham sandwiches, salmon sandwiches and some fruit maybe and a bar or variations on the above what ever my parents have me basically.

Secondary school then we had a canteen and a shop so small break nearly everyday was a can of Coke, bag of prawn cocktail crisps and a mars bar for small break and then a sandwich or soup and a roll or a bag of chips for lunch. When were allowed down town in leaving cert so then it was a hot chicken roll for lunch everyday.

strangel00p

Catherine Tangy Oarlock wrote: »

We usually had prairie sandwiches - two slices of brown bread with a wide open space in between. On a good day it was a soggy jam sandwich..

I think we have a winner...Your prairie sandwich trumps my poverty jam sandwich anyday.