Custard with skin on. At primary school, we sat on tables of 6 and nobody could leave until all plates clean. I still remember gagging over the custard while my impatient friends glared. Dreadful way to treat kids but them were the days apparently.
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Rice pudding and dollop of jam. Tapioca and dollop of jam. Both horrors of school dinners. Custard with skin. Coffee made with hot milk that has a 'skin' on top - horrors of visiting parents friends and trying to remove it with spoon leaving bits floating!
I remember school dinners with jugs of brown substance. At times it was hard to tell the gravy from the chocolate sauce (both were watery and yuck).
Of course, people mixed them up at times if both were on the table.
And yes, we had to clean our plates. Maybe it was character-forming. Or something.
Custard is about my only memory of food at primary school (London late 70s). The skin was bad, yes. But what about the 'flavours'? Peppermint (snot green), pink (no idea what 'flavour') and light brown. Repulsive. That, and milk at ambient temperature (yuk in summer) until you-know-who.
Semolina and Tapioca puddings like frog spawn with a dollop of jam in the middle.
Spotted Dick - just wtf!?
Sprouts that had been boiled for a month.
Sliced tongue.
Sliced haslet.
Kidneys.
SPAM.
Tinned peaches with Carnation cream.
🤮
All of the above, plus PRUNES ever since Gillian Silver who was two classes above me and whose name I have not forgotten for 50 years spat all her half-eaten ones onto my plate seconds before the dinner lady came past and told me I had to finish it all up before I could leave the table ...
My daughter (also 30s) had almost no food hangups (apart from mustard and carrots) as a child. I considered myself very lucky.
Then she acquired various boyfriends who were rather picky, and suddenly adopted some of theirs.
I still can't abide gristle in meats, tripe, custard skin (thanks for reminding me). Others include andouille, tongue, aubergine, very fatty meats generally, black pudding.
There's much of my childhood food that I retain a dislike for, if it was made now as then. There's a world of difference between my mum's rice pudding 🤮 and a delicious Normand riz au lait 😋
I think you two must be the same school dinner era as me. I also hated liver and rice pudding. Usually sick after pancake day as can’t eat batter/fatty things
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Of course, people mixed them up at times if both were on the table.
And yes, we had to clean our plates. Maybe it was character-forming. Or something.
Spotted Dick - just wtf!?
Sprouts that had been boiled for a month.
Sliced tongue.
Sliced haslet.
Kidneys.
SPAM.
Tinned peaches with Carnation cream.
🤮
Then she acquired various boyfriends who were rather picky, and suddenly adopted some of theirs.