Manchester tart and thick custard, old school cake, square meat and potato pie, tapioca pudding, sprinkle cake, jam roly poly… they certainly had us reminiscing! Ann Burnell posted: “Best school dinner. Square of minced meat pie. Mash roasts cabbage carrots/swede. Followed by the ultimate - chocolate sponge and chocolate custard. yum. Yum.” And David Jupp remembered tapioca pudding. He said: “AKA frog spawn!” Think we can all relate to that.
We’ve dug into the archives to find some of the best photos which depict school dinner times – the menus, the food, the metal water jugs and the dinner ladies on hand to make sure we cleared our plates. The photos go right back to the 1980’s through to the 00s and are all from Blackpool and Fylde schools.
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1. School dinners
Waterloo School catering unit manager Eileen Crossan with pupils David Iles and Micha McGawley in 2005 Photo: Bill Johnson
3. School dinners
Larkholme High School in 1977- ham and egg roll with salad and salad cream and a bread roll or braised steak and onions with roasts and cabbage. Sweets were chocolate sponge and mint custard or donuts with jam and... coffee Photo: National World
6. School dinners
Former Gazette reporter Andy Sykes ate school meals for a week at Waterloo Primary School in 2005 Andy tucks in with Micha McGawley and David Iles Photo: Rob Lock