Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

PasturesNew

School dinners, for me, were the best meals ever. Such variety, stuff I would never have got at home ... and, if you timed it right and were lucky you could hang around and get seconds

I guess my food repertoire and likes mirrors those 1960s/early 70s school dinner choices.

Stew/dumplings, cheese/onion flan, pie/chips, fish fingers/chips, mashed potato with lumps in it, plain boiled veg, lashings of gravy, minced meat on a pastry base, a green chicken curry with sultanas in it and rice, sausagemeat pie (topped with mash and another topped with pastry).

lostinrates

They fed us mainly toast at school.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

They fed us mainly toast at school.

Flown in specially - and fresh - every morning, directly from a selection of top Parisian artisan bakeries

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Flown in specially - and fresh - every morning, directly from a selection of top Parisian artisan bakeries

Oh, I wouldn't have complained then. No, commercial sliced. Choice was white , whole grain or brown, Wolegrain was on a good day. We did have pots of jam though and butter dishes or tubs of the m word.

Bearing in mind half the population of girls school is not eating at any one time after they hit teens they probably thought toast was most sensible.

Lunches were horrid meat and two overcooked veg mainly. We had a salad bar. Or a choice of toast.....:D

PasturesNew

I liked school steamed suet puds with custard too. And pineapple upside down pudding. And baked rice pudding. And skin on the custard. And pink custard. And blancmange. And ginger sponge/custard. Chocolate sponge/custard. Sponge topped with jam and dessicated coconut/custard. And semolina.

School dinners gave me much more variety of afters than we'd get at home. And, afters every day.

Edit: Spotted !!!!!!/custard, jam roly poly/custard. Steamed suet pudding with some sultanas and lemon curd/custard.

lostinrates

Do you like skins pn? I don't. Skins ruled out school puddings mainly...all those custards. I also dislike chocolate custard...at least the school beige sort.

We didn't have blamange. I would have liked that . I love set creams, pannecotta, Spanish cream, possets.....anything set, smooth, and milky or creamy I like. Baby food really.

vivatifosi

Spirit wrote: »

Our DD heard she has her MA today.

We are one happy pair of parents.

Yahoo! Fantastic news Spirit! Congratulations to DD.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Do you like skins pn? I don't. Skins ruled out school puddings mainly...all those custards. I also dislike chocolate custard...at least the school beige sort.

We didn't have blamange. I would have liked that . I love set creams, pannecotta, Spanish cream, possets.....anything set, smooth, and milky or creamy I like. Baby food really.

I LOVED school dinner skins. I used to specifically ask for the custard skin and the rice pudding skin.

Never had set creams, pannecota, Spanish cream or possets ..... they weren't at school, never seen them on a menu anywhere, never had them at home, never had them at all.

vivatifosi

I love milk puds. I love rice pudding, custard, blancmange, panna cotta, creme brulee... Anything. The only one I don't like is the one that looks like tiny spaghetti hoops (can't remember name). A tin of value rice pudding has just started calling from the kitchen. With a spoonful of jam of course.

neverdespairgirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

These days the Internet is awash with "writers" who write "poems" - but they don't rhyme. I've never understood poems that don't rhyme. What's the point if they don't rhyme.

I remember the poem you've mentioned.

It rhymes. Perfect

The poems I quoted the beginning of both rhyme! Kipling does rhyme (-:

Doozergirl wrote: »

Something that sounds like dobree is part of thank you in Polish. Between the lot of it, maybe we can pick it apart!

Many congrats to your DD, Spirit, and your excellent parenting skills!

Can you have dioralyte, NDG? That would be excellent hydration for the times you can keep it down. I remember giving it to DD when she was very small, perhaps it is okay during pregnancy?

Flat sprite is good, I've been drinking some of that.

"Hello" in Polish is said "Jing DOB_ray" but not spelt anything like that (-: