Packed lunch or dinners at school?
I dont know what school dinners are like nowadays but I used to love them. Fish fingers chips and beans and choc cake and pink custard for dessert. Packed lunches were wasted as I used to eat the lot on the way to school.
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Eating at school is pretty disgusting either way
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Germs? How did you manage?
all those disgusting people, all around you
you're a saint for coping and not going loopy
up to age 13ish, i was always a school dinners person, but i was insanely jealous of the packedlunch smuggies.
then i started going in the "cold lunch" queue, cos it was shorter and meant an extra 5 mins playing football at lunchtime. lunch was made quicker still, by only having 2 chocolate doughnuts for lunch. it literally took about 2 mins in total.
Packed lunch
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I had a packed lunch always.
But when I was growing up school dinners didn't cover vegetarian food so it wasn't really an option.
packet lunch - school dinners were horrible
then when i went to sixth form college i bought food. inevitably pizza and chips. i put on about a stone in two years, amazed it wasn't more
packed lunches
typically:
- sandwiches
- chocolate biscuit or some other cake or something
- banana
- apple
- crisps
no-one really had school dinners at our school except those who got them for free. sit-down lunches got in the way of a good game of headers and volleys.
you must have been a pretty fat kid.
i really wasn't
just had a high metabolism. and used to cycle to school (which was a fair distance from our village). by the time i left home i was 6'3 and about 10 1/2 stone.
Always packed lunch.
Sandwich
Crisps
Chocolate Bar
and you had to eat it in that order (my teacher once told me off for eating them in the wrong order!)
nonono
Crisps at morning break! Then sandwich, fruit + choc bar at lunch. Standard.
Ps I just remembered meeting you at zonino and repeatedly accusing you of being swedish. HAI!
classic packed lunch
ham, cucumber and dairylea sandwiches (white bread)
packet of skips
Puddings always looked good
but the dinners themselves were fucking horrible. The scoop of mash, the beans in water, the mushy peas...all disgusting.
Packed lunch all the way, plus as similar to meths point above, it gave more time for football...eat & play, thats the way.
school dinners
I used to like the days when they had the flapjacks with the mint cream bit then dark chocolate on the top. Can't get them anywhere now, but oh man they were ace. <3
Here's a question: were the packed lunch people allowed to sit with the school dinners (or hot dinners as it was called)? Because we had separate areas in both lower and middle school. Didn't understand that myself.
What was the school dinner that smelled like someone had diarrhoea?
I think it must have been mince based. It looked like diarrhoea too. Anyway, I was fucking glad I had packed lunch when they were making that one.
It was diarrhoea :(
Was it a camo green colour?
School dinners up until 6th form
when my dad got made redundant and we had to tighten our belts. I prefer crappy hot food over crappy sandwiches any day.
Dinners.
Dinosaur-shaped turkey drumsticks ftw.
School breakfasts every day
£1.65 for a full monty and then a packed lunch unless you were really hungry/fat and had a cooked dinner aswell. Offering 2 cooked meals a day and not letting them outside = lots of fat kids.
i always wanted a packed lunch but my mum was too lazy
so i had school dinners. disgusting.
couldn't you make it yourself?
packed lunches
from about the age of about 13 i was on packed lunch duty, making the sandwiches for me and my 3 younger siblings. my sandwiches were awful i tell you
Aw bless!
Some terms I would have packed lunches and in others I would have school dinners.
Seem to remember in early primary school getting cake with some sort of pink custard which seemed pretty special at the time.
packed lunch on normal days
school dinners on PE days when I had to carry my kit around.
My choice of school dinners were invariably pizza roller and chips with a carton of Zig and Zag Jelly Juice to wash it down.
i think all the boys at my school had pizza, chips and that orange juice drink.
Monday - Hot Dog, Tuesday - Taco
Wednesday - Hamburgers and Chocolate Milk
Thursday - Sloppy Joes and burritos in a bag
Friday was Pizza Day, the best day of the week
It always came with salad and a side of cold green beans
oh my gosh.
i loved school dinners so much. i wish i could still have them. once i went back to visit my school and got to have a school dinner and it was AMAZING. nom nom nom.
hooray, here comes the lunch/dinner/tea semantic argument again!
oh boy, i've missed you old friend!
most of the people who had school dinners at our school got them for free (because parents were on income support or similar)
i'm assuming you're not raising a question about whether it should be called "dinner" or "lunch", right?
well in context it's perfectly clear
OP was asking you to specify between "packed lunch" or "school dinner". I've never heard of "school dinners" referred to as "school lunches". Nor have I heard dinnerladies referred to as "lunchladies".
Rarely is the English language as precise and logical as you would like. That's what you get from being invaded so many times, I guess.
poor matron
They were called dinnerladies
It was "riffraff" wasn't it?
Lol I'm sure you're a deliberate parody sometimes
I understand the logic, but then that's just how the word "dinner" is used in everyday language
English is full of such imprecisions and much of what we say relies on context. I think Japanese is even more complex in terms of context, isn't it? (PocketMouse to thread)
It's a North/South thing I think.
I lived in Liverpool until I was 14, it was always dinner and tea. Then I moved south and had to get used to having lunch and dinner. It was all quite confusing. School dinners, are school dinners across the country though. Never school lunch.
When I moved from Liverpool to Dat London
I got laughed at in my first job for saying I was going for my dinner. I got my revenge by being awful at my job and moving away from London- stitch THAT, Souths!
I wish I still lived in London.
pretty simple:
at school its called dinner. at all other times its called lunch.
not rocket science really.
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Except if you pack it yourself in which case it's always a packed lunch!
Oh wow! Even in the darkest reaches of the North.
i believe that at boarding school one's evening meal is referred to as
"supper".
*child abuse
.....you ever wish you could delete posts?
NO, no, keep to your guns
That was a classic.
Although I might have gone with
*buggery
it was all crap
I used to hate sandwiches and have to take soup in a flask and felt like people were laughing at me (which they weren't)
I also used to pretend I was going home for lunch and just wander about in the community, then got caught and got into loads of trouble.
Primary school it was dinners
I liked the cornflake cake thing that had a layer or jam, we had it with custard and it was the best. It wasn't pink though, the blancmange was. I don't really remember the dinners much apart from eating a salad and my tooth falling out and I nearly ate it.
I loved when we had a school trip and they made packed lunches and we had them in a little brown paper bag.
At high school I saved my dinner money for magazines and lip balm and push pops.
:D CORNFLAKE CAKE!
I thought it was only my school that did that. Amazing stuff.
I thought so too! It was AWESOME
The bakery near me do something pretty similar but definitely not the same. I've never seen it anywhere else and it was so good!
The only thing that used to put me off is that there was a boy in another class called Craig Cornthwaite and when I was eating the lovely cake I'd think of him and he was a bit of a geek and it sullied the loveliness of the cake for a moment.
I just found the recipe!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/northeast/sites/askalocal/pages/gen21.shtml
Cornthwaite sounds like how you might pronounce cornflake if you got cornflake cake stuck in your braces*
* teeth-related braces, not old men's belt substitutes.
Sandwiches 4 out of 5 days, Dinners on a Friday as a 'treat'.
My Primary school were nuts and separated the packed lunch kids from the hot dinners kids on separate tables in the dining hall. Talk about segregation...
We also had a strict order that we had to eat our packed lunches. Sandwich first, then crisps, then chocolate bar, then yoghurt/fruit.
Crazy times. School dinners are now healthy and shit.
green custard anyone?
yes please!*
* no thanks
1 term of money for school dinners, 2 terms on butties. Repeat.
3 children, and not enough money for us all to have school dinners.
Until I leave and SUDDENLY there's enough money for Simon to have money EVERY DAY. The little shit.
I wasn't cool enough to save my money for magazines and lip balm and push pops. I saved it for MD 20/20 and a mix.
Packed lunch, except for the last day before christmas
when we'd get a christmas dinner, complete with candles on the table and paper hats.
I used to be envious of the other kids whose packed lunches...
seemed to consist of 6 packets of Frazzles, a KP Dip, a 10 pack of Tesco doughnuts and their own body weight in Tizer.
I suffered the middle class nightmare alternative...
Sandwiches on wholemeal bread, dried apricots, dates, grapes, a banana, a flapjack and maybe a petit filous.
Always packed lunches
A habit that has continued in my adult life.
i want some pink custard right now
And some fish fingers
My first primary school didn't have school dinners
Packed lunch for everyone. Eaten in silence, sandwich first, prayers before and after.
Packed lunches throughout primary school
My mom was pretty creative -- I got pasta salads, various sandwiches, etc. One year, my teacher let us use the microwave in the classroom so a bunch of us brought in leftovers every day. That was awesome.
My high school was half day, half boarding so we were required to have hot lunch. Thankfully, the food was usually pretty decent and there were a lot of options. The only truly gross thing I can remember was going to the sandwich bar in hopes of having a tuna salad sandwich only to find out they had made some sort of ham salad abomination. Disgusting!
our school dinners were pretty bad
nobody wanted to eat them, so one day the headmaster was dinnerlady for the day and made damn sure everybody ate their spagbol or nobody would go to lunch time break. but still nobody would eat it. he tried shouting, reminding us of the consequences, etc etc
then he moved on to reasoning with us that they were actually quite good by eating a few mouthfuls himself. two minutes later he let us all go and we never saw spagbol again.