Who remembers these this school meal

I was at primary school in the 1970's and like others have said, rice pudding springs to mind, and also semolina, both of which had inch thick bullet proof skin, really awful jam, and very lumpy custard. Peas and Carrots always had those broad beans in it which no one liked. Sausages also always had really thick greasy skin on them. I remember vividly as the dinner lady made me eat the cold skins after I'd left them on the side of the plate!

School desserts seem to have changed very little in my lifetime. School cake, arctic roll and rice pudding all still happening - well in Cumbria they are, anyway!

Primary school dinners were great as they were cooked on site and were fresh, secondary school dinners were horrible, the worst was "salad" which was mostly chopped cabbage and carrots with tinned pilchards in tomato sauce spread on top, if we were really unlucky we'd have manchester tart for pudding which was a pastry case with a slick of jam, cold pink custard on top and sprinkled with desecrated coconut, vile muck!

Trifle made with tinned fruit and lumpy custard. It tasted a lot better than it sounds, at least as far as I remember. I used to go back for seconds.

Arctic roll, Australian crunch, and various types of custard. I was vegetarian (my friend  fault as she switch to vegetarian and I'd copied her); 

Someday I had a packed lunch with a sandwich or pie, fruit and a carton of juice or water. 

First school used to walk to the middle school for lunch. Unfortunately now it's housing/retirement homes for age restrictions. 

The new school was built and they have school meals delivered. Bet that's much improved now.

Chocolate cake was best with the neon green mint custard in my opinion!

Rice pudding produced from ANYONE other than my grandma, was a wholly unsatisfactory experience of that dish.  She got the "skin" and sweetness JUST right.  I miss my Gran.......yet she died about 40 years ago!!

Nowt as odd as folk!

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.

I also remember rice pudding with jam in the middle and flap jacks were my absolute favourite 

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!)

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 !

At secondary school we had chocolate sponge pudding with chocolate sauce/custard sometimes - that was nice. I also liked prunes and custard. For mains my favourites were roast dinner or goulash.

The only things I didn't like much were curried eggs (just boiled eggs in a curry sauce) and roast parsnips. But I think that was because I hadn't had parsnips before and I thought they were chunky chips, so the taste was unexpected - as I now I love roast parsnips.