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Post by Moose on Mar 10, 2018 21:48:43 GMT
Every day when I was in infant school, my mum packed me a lunch with a sardine and tomato paste sandwich wrapped in tinfoil. I rarely ate more than a mouthful - sometimes not even that - and I sometimes used to joke in after life that I got the same one every day for three years or so. Anyway, I bought some again yesterday - well Col did. Brings back memories ..
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Post by JoeP on Mar 10, 2018 22:12:47 GMT
Meow! Meow!
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Post by tangent on Mar 11, 2018 0:04:53 GMT
Why did you not tell your Mum?
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Post by Elis on Mar 11, 2018 8:02:00 GMT
I hated the sandwiches for school. They were boring. If we fidn't finish them at school, we had to finish them for dinner.
But yes, why didn't you tell her?
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Post by Mari on Mar 11, 2018 9:47:13 GMT
Ugh, that sounds revolting. We had peanut butter sandwiches, which was fine by me. I still have peanut butter sandwiches for lunch. The only thing I hated was the schoolmug with milk. It smelled horrible, the mug would always leak and warm milk is just ugh.
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Post by tangent on Mar 11, 2018 10:23:00 GMT
I didn't take sandwiches to school. The school provided a cooked lunch, which most people ate, even the teachers. Cheese pie was awful, though. Very few children took sandwiches.
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Post by Mari on Mar 11, 2018 11:41:45 GMT
School dinners were never really a thing here. Everyone would go home for lunch break, but the sandwich was for the minibreak at 10.30. It was either a sandwich or an apple. Lunch was generally a sandwich and occasionally pancakes (when we went to my grandparents mostly).
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Post by Elis on Mar 11, 2018 13:54:28 GMT
School dinners weren't a big thing here, either. I'm not sure they existed outside boarding schools. But we were usually done by noon or 1 pm and then went home for the main meal of the day. As my school days became longer,I hated coming home around 3 or 4 pm and having to heat up dinner in the microwave. I prefer having a cooked meal in the evening. These days, lots of schools do school dinners. Some even require the kids to eat them even though they are expensive and often not very good. I'd rather give my child a big cold lunch of sandwiches, fruit etc. and they'd get to have a cooked meal in the evening.
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Post by Moose on Mar 11, 2018 20:50:08 GMT
I DID tell her. Frequently
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Post by Elis on Mar 13, 2018 16:25:24 GMT
I DID tell her. Frequently She never listened?
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Post by Mari on Mar 13, 2018 17:30:12 GMT
My mother never listened to my complaints about the milk either.
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Post by tangent on Mar 13, 2018 17:38:49 GMT
We packed a sandwich box for Richard that included a carrot and a tomato with his sandwiches instead of a chocolate bar that most of his friends had. He enjoyed them quite a lot until his friends started calling him 'rabbit face'. Pat switched to chocolate shortly after that.
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Post by JoeP on Mar 13, 2018 19:42:40 GMT
Did you witness the friends calling him rabbit face? Or was this a cunning ploy on his part?
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Post by tangent on Mar 13, 2018 19:54:52 GMT
Hah, no! but I think Pat could tell he was genuine.
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Post by Moose on Mar 13, 2018 21:13:07 GMT
I think my mum figured she'd enough to cope with with four kids under seven without a daughter who refused to eat pretty much anything anyway
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Post by whollygoats on Mar 13, 2018 22:22:54 GMT
Heh... I love the school lunch stories. I lived close enough to the school that I could run home for lunch. My mother would make fried boloney sandwiches, a fried egg sammich, or maybe homemade potato soup. If mom wasn't home, I could always make a peanut butter and honey, or jam, sammich. Or, I could always open a can of soup (tomato being preferred) and heat it up. The only time I ate the school lunch was when they announced (it was annouced a week ahead, and each morning on the radio) that they would be serving 'weiner wraps'. These were hot dogs wrapped in a dough jacket and baked. They came with little paper cups of mustard. They were the bomb! Once I hit high school, I started buying the crappy institutional food their cafeterias perpetrated upon their unwitting captive audiences. Daily. PS - Your sammich sounds vile. I detest sardines. I would have noted that I did not eat them, so they were just sending the garbage to school with me.
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Post by Moose on Mar 13, 2018 22:45:47 GMT
Most types of fish paste taste pretty similar to be honest. I'd not have gauged that they were sardines had it not said so on the label.
Fried baloney .. is that like fried spam? I love that.
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Post by whollygoats on Mar 13, 2018 22:53:17 GMT
Most types of fish paste taste pretty similar to be honest. I'd not have gauged that they were sardines had it not said so on the label. Still. Ewwwww... It was offal. It's pretty much the same stuff, just ground more finely and packed a bit more tightly than Spam. (Oo ooo...side benefit. Those are standard 'sides': crisps (chips, to us) and pickle slices, probably 'bread'n'butter chips', which are sweet pickled cucumber chips.)
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Post by Moose on Mar 13, 2018 23:05:49 GMT
Looks the same as spam to me I'd happily eat that
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Post by whollygoats on Mar 13, 2018 23:20:53 GMT
I had Spam as a kid, too. It was fine. A bit saltier and spicier than baloney.
The meat in hot dogs (aka franks, frankfurters, wieners, tubesteaks) is the same as they use to make baloney.
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Post by Moose on Mar 14, 2018 20:23:05 GMT
I like some hot dogs .. others are vile. The tinned ones tend to be bad .. usually mechanically recovered chicken. Fresh ones are nice generally.
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Post by whollygoats on Mar 14, 2018 23:00:18 GMT
I like some hot dogs .. others are vile. The tinned ones tend to be bad .. usually mechanically recovered chicken. Fresh ones are nice generally. It's the same here. Generally, the 'all-beef' kosher frankfurters, like by Hebrew National, are the creme de la creme of hot dogs, but I have had many a perfectly passable 100% chicken wiener passing as a corndog. Generally, most commercial brands run heavy on salt, nitrates and nitrites. Handmades from the local delis are top rate, though. It's pretty much a crapshoot.
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Post by Moose on Mar 15, 2018 22:40:10 GMT
I don't think I've ever had a beef dog ... generally the best ones here are pork. The higher the pork content, the better than are .. well naturally.
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