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~ Thursday, September 18, 2003
LUNCH LINES A VitQ school dinners special: A recent BBC survey on school dinners found that people in the UK had the worst memories about these ten foods: 1 Tapioca 2 Cabbage 3 Overcooked vegetables 4 Lumpy mashed potato 5 Lumpy custard 6 Liver 7 Semolina 8 Gristly meat 9 Blancmange 10 Beetroot Now, I do have some nasty memories about school dinners (East Scotland, circa '71 to '83), especially the chemistry set taste of instant mash, but I have many fond memories of school dinner delights, so in fairness, here are ten good things: 1 Curry, with sultanas. As exotic and unlikely in the early 80s as a date with Yasmin Le Bon 2 Stewed sausages - skinless links thrown in to drown for hours in gelatinous onion gravy 3 Chocolate milk in little boxes 4 Odd 70s rissole type thing made from pork mince and rice - delicious; what was it called? Dutch something? 5 Biscuity base with thick chocolate fudge on top 6 Thinly sliced hot roast in mash-mopping gravy. Roast meat was always served 'a l'écossaise' at home ie roasted then left to go cold and served in thick dollops. Why, why, why? 7 Spam fritters - slabs of processed meat dipped in batter and deep fried. It shouldn't have worked, but the War was still in our blood 8 Glazy jam tart with non-lumpy custard 9 Biscuity, thick pizza with proper cheddar cheese and tomato 10 Scotch pies - the one-eyed, sawdust gentleman himself, in his little round pastry jacket Source: BBC / JBQ / RcL |