What was the smell of school dinners ?

[HillBill]

Yes they did used to have a pig bin, not everything ended in the pig bin though, if they happened to cook a bit too much pudding, some of it got taken home, perks of the job.

Ours had pig bins too. It got stopped with Swine flu or foot and mouth or some such....

Edit... Google... Foot and mouth... 2001

 

[Keith_Beef]

Ours had pig bins too. It got stopped with Swine flu or foot and mouth or some such....

Edit... Google... Foot and mouth... 2001

I thought that it had probably been so the time of BSE that feeding mammals to mammals that would then be slaughtered for human consumption had been forbidden.

Quick search reveals:
In the UK, the original feed ban was introduced in 1988 to prevent ruminant protein being fed to ruminants. In addition, it has been illegal to feed ruminants with all forms of mammalian protein (with specific exceptions) since November 1994 and to feed any farmed livestock, including fish and horses, with mammalian meat and bone meal (mammalian MBM) since 04 April 1996.

BSE feed controls

The aim of our BSE-related feed control policy in the UK is clear – to ensure the continued successful decline and eventual eradication of BSE. Effective controls on livestock feed are the key to achieving this.

www.daera-ni.gov.uk

So if all food waste went into the same bin, there would have been beef and pork in there, so it couldn't be used to feed cattle after 1994 (and possibly 1988) or to feed pigs after 1996.

 

[HillBill]

I thought that it had probably been so the time of BSE that feeding mammals to mammals that would then be slaughtered for human consumption had been forbidden.

BSE feed controls

The aim of our BSE-related feed control policy in the UK is clear – to ensure the continued successful decline and eventual eradication of BSE. Effective controls on livestock feed are the key to achieving this.

www.daera-ni.gov.uk

So if all food waste went into the same bin, there would have been beef and pork in there, so it couldn't be used to feed cattle after 1994 (and possibly 1988) or to feed pigs after 1996.

It was still happening in 1990 at my Junior School when i left for Secondary. Don't recall it being a thing at secondary school in all fairness. Could be more than one reason for that though. Lots of Muslims there, both students and teachers. Batley is essentially a Muslim run town now. (governmental side of things, Councillors, etc)

 

[ONE]

Boiled vegetables. Not cabbage specifically, even when there was cabbage. The only time it changed was on a day with chips. This was 1970s/80s Northern Ireland, the food was meat & two veg.

 

[Toddy]

I think that's it. Boiled vegetables. They certainly didn't fry very often really. Boiled veg, lots of soups and stews, boiled rice and sago, lots of potatoes, and big trays of stuff from the ovens.

 

[HillBill]

I think that's it. Boiled vegetables. They certainly didn't fry very often really. Boiled veg, lots of soups and stews, boiled rice and sago, lots of potatoes, and big trays of stuff from the ovens.

Sago? What be this?

 

[Toddy]

You know semolina ? well imagine those tiny wee balls a bit bigger, a bit more frogspawn like....

Sago and Tapioca Pudding

This post complements the episode of The British Food History Podcast called ‘The School Meals Service with Heather Ellis’: Speaking with Heather Ellis on the podcast about the School M…

britishfoodhistory.com

 

[Pattree]

Sago? What be this?

It’s a milk pudding like semolina but the grains are little translucent rubber balls. It’s made from a palm tree but I’ve no idea how.

I’d include a picture but they all make it look like something special. In school it was sloshed into your bowl with a ladle and a spoonful of mixed fruit jam dropped into the middle.

I know that I ate it but cannot remember what it tasted like.
Cremola (rice) and Semolina (flour) were better especially if you lucked out and got a bit of the baked skin.

 

[HillBill]

You know semolina ? well imagine those tiny wee balls a bit bigger, a bit more frogspawn like....

Sago and Tapioca Pudding

This post complements the episode of The British Food History Podcast called ‘The School Meals Service with Heather Ellis’: Speaking with Heather Ellis on the podcast about the School M…

britishfoodhistory.com

Ah. I know what Tapioca is. Is Sago just a Scottish name for it, or is it different?

 

[Toddy]

No, it's a different pudding, though much like rice pudding too.

Sago is starch from a palm tree, while semolina is from wheat and tapioca is from cassava root.

 

[HillBill]

No, it's a different pudding, though much like rice pudding too.

Sago is starch from a palm tree, while semolina is from wheat and tapioca is from cassava root.

Can't say i've had pleasure then... Never even heard of if. Closest thing my brain comes to is Tsavo, ie, the lions of. lol.

 

[ONE]

No, it's a different pudding, though much like rice pudding too.

Sago is starch from a palm tree, while semolina is from wheat and tapioca is from cassava root.

Oh yes, we had rice, tapioca, sago & semolina in school (and at granny's)

 

[Toddy]

It was a good way to get calcium into children, and easily digested calories.

 

[ONE]

One thing that I remember about my prep school dinners, that had no influence on me at the time whatsoever because I didn't have the wit to wonder, was that the menu often included "roast meat". The variety was never stated.

 

[slaine_23]

No, it's a different pudding, though much like rice pudding too.

Sago is starch from a palm tree, while semolina is from wheat and tapioca is from cassava root.

All with the commonality of tasting of ming.

 

[ONE]

All with the commonality of tasting of ming.

Lord no! All lovely puds. Especially with a big dollop of home made jam in the middle.

 

[slaine_23]

Lord no! All lovely puds. Especially with a big dollop of home made jam in the middle.

Sorry, no,boke.

 

[Toddy]

I just mind them tasting of sweet milk. If they'd baked them though there was the chance of getting a bit of the roasted skin.

 

[TLM]

tasting of ming.

Can I have a translation please, even AIs were fighting over the meaning.

 

[John Fenna]

- Ming - =Yeeeuch