General Chat

The fave at my school was cornflake tart. When the new intake of first years came in we would vet them for likes and dislikes. Kids who liked roasties and cornflake tart went to the bottom of the table selections while kids that liked cabbage and semolina went up the list. This was because the sixth formers at the head of each table served from the dishes allocated to each table so we could get other people's servings of the stuff we liked.

Elizabeth, please please please can you get the recipe for Gypsy tart.

Anything with pink custard, I loved it! I worked in a school a few years ago and enjoyed tasting it again, the ladies in the kitchen used to make it especially for me and used to tease me no end. Frances

ah yes Spotted dick, bread and butter pudding, chocolate pudding loved them all because they filled you up so quick. yummy. Hated blanchmange and would eat tapiocca and semolina and rice pudding anytime, I was always lucky to get seconds of these as so many didnt like them. Memories, never see stuff like that these days. Pat x

Loved tapioca and semolina and best of all treacle sponge and custard. Quite partial to chocolate sponge and chocolate custard. I work in a school so sometimes get treacle or chocolate sponge if I stay for lunch. Really hate home/school made rice pudding though! Viv

Rosalyn We called it fly pie.Lovely with custard Margaret

Flies cemetery and custard-in other words fruit slice. Rosalyn

pink iced buns with stawberry milkshake we had that as a special treat

My favourite was chocoate pudding with chocolate sauce. I worked on school meals for 12 years and it was still my favourite. David, our Manchester tart had bananas in the custard, didn't yours? Maggy

Yes please elizabeth,,

Chocolate chip pudding with chocolate sauce was the best. Hated gypsy tart, that horrible pink custard, and pineapple "snow". When rice pudding with a teaspoon of grated chocolate was on the menu, half the school used to take the teaspoon of grated chocolate and say no to the rice pudding. Angela

Thanks for that David it sounds yummy. Sue

Chocolate concrete was chocolate flavoured shortbread,,,sometimes served with chocolate custard,,,yummy

Your school never had lumpy custard then Sandra!.. Where's Martyn this weekend?..

spotted dick and custard, chocolate sponge and chocolate custard, treacle tart , Semolina those were the days lol sandra

What is Manchester Tart?

My favourites were bread and butter pudding and butterscotch tart with custard. Mmmm fancy some right now!

Treacle sponge but not that lumpy custard, manchester or Gainsborough tart, cherry shortbread, but definitely not that tapioca pudding!..

I would eat anything but wartime school meal custard was made with soya flour - and was Yukky!!! Even I hated that. Loved the tapioca and rice puddings though.

hi terri choclate concrete was a square choclate sponge that had thick crunchy suger glaze on the top,might have also been known as choclate crakle cake. Debs