School rice pudding.

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Wacky Racer

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38,099 posts

246 months

Friday 2nd December 2016
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Yum Yum lick

Discuss.

elanfan

5,516 posts

226 months

Friday 2nd December 2016
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I'm with you. Particularly the skin!

TR4man

5,208 posts

173 months

Friday 2nd December 2016
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We used to be able to hold the dish of school rice pudding upside down for several seconds before gravity started to win.

There was always the option of having a blob of jam in it too!

glenrobbo

35,077 posts

149 months

Friday 2nd December 2016
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Not quite as bad as ending up with spotted dick...

Not much of a choice for a young boy, is it?

And don't even mention semolina, tapioca or sago... hurl



How long before someone calls "Custard!" on this? wink


Monkeylegend

26,226 posts

230 months

Friday 2nd December 2016
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Makes good wallpaper paste if you don't mind the lumps.

Alex_225

6,234 posts

200 months

Friday 2nd December 2016
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I'll be honest, most of the school food I had was utterly crap and it's not like I'm a fussy eater either, it was just naff.

I can honestly say there's nothing I look back on from my school lunches and think it was nice. I went to secondary school in the mid 90s, not that it's got much to do with it haha

tr7v8

7,186 posts

227 months

Friday 2nd December 2016
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Gypsy tart, (it's a Kent thing), & the variations on rice puddings I loved. Some of the mains were dire!

kiethton

13,883 posts

179 months

Friday 2nd December 2016
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At my old school nothing beat the turkey twizzler Monday, Pizza Tuesday and fish and chip Friday!

Shakermaker

11,317 posts

99 months

Friday 2nd December 2016
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I used to enjoy it back in the early 90s at primary school, with a dollop of jam. Always preferred the puddings to the main course at school.

Secondary school, we had a much better selection of school lunches though I didn't always have them as more often than not mum would send me off with a packed lunch

J4CKO

41,287 posts

199 months

Friday 2nd December 2016
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Chocolate Custard, remember the rumours spreading like wildfire that it was going to be served that day, sometimes even bright pink custard.

Everything else tended to be a blob of lumpy mash, a 3 inch square of pastry with some brown stuff inbetween and beans, and then a 3 inch square of pudding, usually with a slice of Pineapple, then there were the Prunes, horrible thought but they werent that bad really.

Sometimes, there was chips, even more exciting than the Chocolate custard, the smell of frying sending us into a frenzy.

Then there was salad, which basically meant a load of kids having salad cream on white bread for lunch, there were rumours that Martin Bullivant ate some salad once but he was weird and went away to a special school, him voluntarily eating salad was, at my primary school was genuinely cited as part of the weird stuff he did that got him carted away, that and getting his dick out in lessons, but we thought the salad thing was way weirder.

The battered metal jugs for water.

The old ladies that served it, one was called Mrs Tittensor which we thought was hilarious, sounded like a big breasted dinosaur.

Going back for seconds, acceptable for all for chips or Chocolate Custard, but on a normal day it was only the poor kids and the fat kids that went back for seconds.

Remember taking my lunch money every Monday in a Tobacco tin.


Oh to be a kid again !




Morningside

24,110 posts

228 months

Friday 2nd December 2016
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Chocolate crunch with chocolate custard. Yum!


shakotan

10,679 posts

195 months

Friday 2nd December 2016
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J4CKO said:
Chocolate Custard, remember the rumours spreading like wildfire that it was going to be served that day, sometimes even bright pink custard.
Same here, pink custard with one of those green jelly diamonds in the centre.

Our rice pudding was always served cold!

DaveH23

3,230 posts

169 months

Friday 2nd December 2016
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glenrobbo said:
How long before someone calls "Custard!" on this? wink
Not just any custard...... Pink custard.


generationx

6,645 posts

104 months

Friday 2nd December 2016
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During the 70s all my junior school food was like this and, being a ravenous unfussy eater I used to eat it all with second helpings.

That´s why I became powerfully built.

Piersman2

6,596 posts

198 months

Friday 2nd December 2016
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elanfan said:
I'm with you. Particularly the skin!
Yep, I used to time my queing to align with a new tray just so I could ask for the skin to be scooped off and into my bowl, the custard skin was at least an inch thick! laugh

Those were the days though, custard, from a tin tray. Yum. smile

FlyingMeeces

9,932 posts

210 months

Friday 2nd December 2016
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Once every so often we'd get a milkshake and a mahoosive shortbread biscuit.
One of our cooks was amazing at pineapple cake, too - wasn't anything fancy like upside-down cake, just a sponge with loads of pineapple chunks in it, but it was completely delicious.

Best school dinners puds ever.

I go on and off rice pud, but you lot are welcome to the skins either way…

Shakermaker

11,317 posts

99 months

Friday 2nd December 2016
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Does anyone else remember the ice cream they used to serve which came out of a box? And it would then be sliced and served to you straight out of the box.

shakotan

10,679 posts

195 months

Friday 2nd December 2016
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DaveH23 said:
glenrobbo said:
How long before someone calls "Custard!" on this? wink
Not just any custard...... Pink custard.

Worst photoshop ever!

Morningside

24,110 posts

228 months

Friday 2nd December 2016
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I thought that pink custard was normally blancmange?

shakotan

10,679 posts

195 months

Friday 2nd December 2016
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Morningside said:
I thought that pink custard was normally blancmange?
Yup, just served hot and slightly thinned, rather than cold and set.