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Used to cost 5 bob. In sec school used to take turns buying fags and pies. Unless it was a dinner we liked. They used to make a butter scotch pie that was rather like a butterscotch flavoured egg custard. Wish i knew how to make it. Can still remember the taste to this day. mmmm makin my mouth water thinking about it.

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Used to get 5 park drive and a book of matches with my dinner money.  Teachers used to stand at the edge of the playground and you had to give them a fag in order to pass them to get to the sneaky smokey area.

You could buy packets of 5 fags or the shopkeeper would sell you one fag.. Yes even in school iniform.

These are the days of no warning on fags.. Advertisment encouraging you to smoke blah blah and at age 13/14 not knowing any better. Thats always been my excuse for smoking... Lasted 25 years.. Now been smoke free for about 7 years :)

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I used to love school dinners real meat and veg, choc pudding and pink custard, now it's all junk food no wonder lots of kids are overweight.

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Never had spotted dick since.. Haa pink custard that takes me back :)

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Used to like the salad. we had that once a week. Used to come with mashed potato, which I liked with salad cream on.

Also Manchester tart I think it was called. A banana and custard flan with jam at the bottom.

Once a week we used to get coffee instead of water, and occasionally milkshake.

Used to like prunes & custard too. Tinker tailor........

When I started school the dinners were 1 shilling a day (5p).

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Manchester Tarts - i used to love them, that brings back some memories.

We used to always have Ravioli on the Menu - it seems like it was on every day.

Other than that School Dinners where actually quite decent.
:)

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mmm butter pie  ;D

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cazzer, had all that wonderful stuff at my school too. I went to hollins.

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Cazzer we ad all that at our school in Preston. The coffeeand the bread and buter we got with the salad was to die for.
Sounds like you had it easy at your school harry bribing the teachers  :o  :o

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Hungarian Goulash!

Frogspawn (yuk!)

Fish on Fridays back then.

Apple Crumble - lovely

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Never had no goulash. Would have bin off to the pie shop if we did. YUK!!!!
Hate that sort of food. Its plain cooking for me all the way.
Prunes. Cant even look at one now without seening the lads trying to spit the stones back into the dish on the middle of the table.
Mick cant stand the things either.

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Semolina and frog spawn, pink blancmange, prunes, brussel sprouts, which the dinner lady used to watch us eat, to make sure we didn't throw them under the table. Still can't eat a sprout without retching. No wonder we spent our dinner money on fags. ;D

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Frog Spawn.. thats the stuff....  Wern't skewl dinners great :)

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Frog spawn mmmmmm
soggy semolina yuk.
Manchester tart. Still my favorite.
Toad in the hole. Sure they used propper toads. Disgusting.
Bread and butter pudding now were talking.
Toast.
Good idea and a brew to go with it.

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soggy fish fingers and chips, with really vinegery garden peas and banana milkshake that used to taste like washingup liquid

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Manchester Tart now that even had the girls that were on diets going back for seconds

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does anyone know the reciepe for that? and I don't mean high heals, fishnets and bright red lippy ;D

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Nice one little mo!

Just a basic pastry case with a layer of rasberry jam at the bottom. sliced bananas on top of that and ordinary custard with a few more banana slices in the middle. Then hundreds & thousands on the top.
Made it myself a few times and it tasted just like the school stuff, so don't think there's anything else to it.  :)

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Dont remember m.tart being made with 100s and1000s had coconut on top when i was a lass. yummy yummy. :P

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M'tart always topped with coconut and a red cherry on the top.

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Can't remember having it with coconut on. always 100s & 1000s at school. Although undoubtedly the original  recipe would probably have been with coconut.  :)

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Oooooh, got my mouth watering now, thanks for the recipe, always been a big fan of manchester tart, and it sounds so easy to do that even I might have a go at it.
Forgot to mention, have the culinary skills of a 4 year old  :-[

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Hate cooking. Only make something from scratch when I absolutely have to these days. Or if someone wants a special treat.
Besides, once over it may have been cheaper to do it, but not any more.

Who was it said "life's too short to stuff a mushroom"?
There's always something better I could be doing.  :)

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hey lettie remember making those pastry things with your gran, filled with raisens and topped with suger,,,,dead fly pie??? sorry forgotten what they are really called!

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Sounds like what we used to call Sad Cake!  ;D

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eccles cakes! thats it I just couldn't remember, a bit sleep deprived at present, memories gone!

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Sad cake short crust, with no sugar on top.
Perhaps we should start a recipe secton girls. Or Boys wont be sexist hubby does cooking in my house unless kids over for tea.

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used to make sad cake and dead fly pie with my gran, sad cake was lovely with a thick layer of butter on it. Still love dead fly pie (eccles cakes) now. Think I will visit Asda this morning and stock up. [smiley=idea.gif]

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Cannot remeber the coconut but i remember the cherry.Wife has made me download the recipe.Maybe we will be in for a treat at the weekend.Problem will be the Custard.We cannot get that over here.Only a vannilla flavoured thing that tastes nothing like it at all.
thanks for posting the recipe Cazzer

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She can always make her own fresh custard. Using milk,cream, sugar and a vannilla pod. Never made fresh custard so she would have to check a recipe.

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Thanks Anne got that one.Wife also added an egg white in to it too.Do not ask me why?It made the custard go firm almost straight away.Got home from work yesterday and that is what we had for our afters.Childhood memories came flooding back

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it was the smell of the food being cooked   that day   that  was best   before they started bringing it  in them big  tins from outside spoiled the whole thing after  that it was  just burgers and chips  :'( kids today dont know what there missing

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Oh, yes smell of the dinners fair made your mouth water.

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i had free diners because  we was so poor  only   hot meal i used to get spose thats why i   love jam butties  thats all i lived on  :'(

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Hey happyone, me to. Not keen on jam any more exept in dodgers or cake.
dont like jam butts with butter on. Just plain bread and jam. werent allowed both on our bread.
wasnt allowed buttered bread with soup either.

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i got jam now a big jar of it  ;D

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Half of that's mine!!  ;D

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[quote author=happyone link=board=nostalgia;num=1062204737;start=0#31 date=09/20/03 at 09:30:43]it was the smell of the food being cooked that day that was best before they started bringing it in them big tins from outside spoiled the whole thing after that it was just burgers and chips :'( kids today dont know what there missing[/quote]
Now on that subject about kids not knowing what they are missing nowadays i will certainly agree with everybody

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You got Jam happyone. :D I still got no dodgers. :(

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i  have eaten  half the  jar cazzer  so  sorry your bit was at the top  so only my bit at the bottom left now ;D

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;) will sort u out with a  jammy dodger or two  anne  ;)

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Ah, now thats more like it happyone. I will be your friend and cum to tea now.
But Cazzer wont be so easy won over when she finds out bout the jam.

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wow mik agreeing with somthing    :o

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mmm. Is it something that happens once in a blue moon or is he turning over a new leaf?  ??? ???

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Come on Happyone and Anne.Was i really that bad!!!!!

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not saying nothing mik  :-X ::)

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:D :D  Nah, you're not a bad old stick really Mik, but reading about all this food is making my mouth water again, so I think it's time for another jam butty. [smiley=eat.gif]

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>:( >:( >:( KEEP OFF MY JAM

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jammy dodger's have always been a fav of mine but can't get them here so havn't had them for years :'( anyone want to send me some ???

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I'll send you some chuck, had a jammy dodger today at University. I'd gone to enrol for my new course starting in January. Enrolment usually takes ages so they'd laid on a pot of tea and some biccies. There was a lonely jammy dodger on the plate which begged me to eat it, so I did :-*

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dont let anne know u  been eating jam dodgers :D

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:-[  It was only one, and it was lonely and typical University supply a bit stale, probably been there since last term. [smiley=puke.gif]

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mmmm. Me thinks Liddle Lettie will tell us owt.
Ya didn't give Lettie Mi Dodgers did ya happyone.? If ya did ya better go  [smiley=coffeecup.gif]

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:-[  Honestly happyone never gave me the dodger :-[

 but going shopping tomorrow, so will buy  loads and invite everybody round for tea and dodgers [smiley=silly.gif]

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;D will there be jam there to ?

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;)  Raspberry or Blackcurrant but don't have any strawberry, if you can bring strawberry or apricot we might let you keep the ponytail ;)

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Think thats a good [smiley=idea.gif] Lettie.
Dont like tea.
I could bring coffee, if happyone bringing jam. ;D ;D

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;D i got straw now  got some  from mick ;)

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[quote author=lettie link=board=nostalgia;num=1062204737;start=0#46 date=09/21/03 at 20:32:15] :D :D Nah, you're not a bad old stick really Mik, but reading about all this food is making my mouth water again, so I think it's time for another jam butty. [smiley=eat.gif][/quote]
Send me one to prlease.Express post.Will sort the costs out wi ya honest.Oh by the way i only like crusts.Gasping  :P

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;D   I made a crusty one this morning to send to you Mik, but had a hunger pang on the way to the post office and ate it :(

Sorry [smiley=foryou.gif]

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Lettie my world has just collapsed around me.Better still what you could do is take a photo and i can slaver all over my monitor.Just like Homer Simpson LOL!

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I loved chicken supreme and manchester tart ...... they did do a good tart at rumbletums on whalley road  its topped with coconut but haven't been in for a while ,,,,, think ill go and investigate to see if they have still sell em !!!!

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just thought id let you all know that i had a Manchester Tart yesterday.

it was heaven - reminded me of those School's Dinners.

i got it from the Eating House Cafe (opposite Town Hall) if anyone fancies one.

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All i can remember from school dinners is ravioli   [smiley=puke.gif]  makes me sick thinking of it!  My brother tlove the stuff?!  :o

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USED TO GO TO PICKERINGS PIE SHOP on manchester road harry do you remember it
used to get a pie and 5 park drive or a seperate  fag from the shop on the corner of selbourn street bottom of lark hill  ;D

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Nah, sorry best pies came from the little pie shop on St gregorys Road.
Best Chippy on Larkhill.

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Dizzy D, I think you mean maccaroni cheese

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hi, all, i was a dinner lady , then cook , manchester tart ,must have coconut on top ,with a cherry  ;Donly way to eat it  [ [smiley=daisy.gif]]   mez

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fly pie was  always known as currant  cake in our house ,served with ( best  butter on ) :D

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I loved school dinners but now I cannot understand why there were fist fights over slices of buttered bread that were occaisionally handed out. It seemed to be important to get as many slices as you could.
I hated Friday's coz it was always Fish. Can't stand the stuff, even the thought of it makes me want to throw up. Wasn't too keen on prunes either.
What about school milk in those little bottles with the foil top and the little aluminium disk that was used to press the foil in.

When I I left Accrington to do my degree. I could not believe my luck to find that the dining room in the Halls of Residence used all the same recipies that I remembered from school - Sheer bliss!