Who remembers these this school meal

BBQ flavoured hula hoops.  Uncomfortably thick-sliced ham, infused with so much water (and God-knows-what chemicals) + smear of English mustard +Vitalite......on bleached, weird-ass bread slices that were uncomfortably thin.......+ Kwik-Save choc-o-simulated snack bar.

Oh.....and lets not forget the Kia Ora squash, in the type of plastic bottle that allowed ALL the plastics to leach into the drink....for good measure.

For those who are not aware, I was not privately educated !

Oh, you must have had a packed lunch. I always had school dinners, then the evening meal was called tea and consisted of jam or cheese sandwiches (on white bread with margarine) and home made sponge cake or some biscuits, with a cup of milky tea. Occasionally there would be a treat tea of beans on toast and stewed apples or rhubarb with custard. Ham, crisps and fizzy drinks were for Christmas or other special occasions. I also drank squash, but preferred lemon to orange.

After careful comparison, I believe that I was more poorer than yeow? (In a northern accent, which is strange when I grew up on a council estate in Hampshire!)

Oh, you must have had a packed lunch. I always had school dinners, then the evening meal was called tea and consisted of jam or cheese sandwiches (on white bread with margarine) and home made sponge cake or some biscuits, with a cup of milky tea. Occasionally there would be a treat tea of beans on toast and stewed apples or rhubarb with custard. Ham, crisps and fizzy drinks were for Christmas or other special occasions. I also drank squash, but preferred lemon to orange.

After careful comparison, I believe that I was more poorer than yeow? (In a northern accent, which is strange when I grew up on a council estate in Hampshire!)

We had "tea" too, but it was normally meat+two veg in our 'ouse.  Whilst I am not a Hampshire boy, I have subsequently come to understand that "my" county and that county had a lot in common, in those days.