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What we ate in the 70's

Justin Morley's humorous memories of the School Menu mid 1970's - A la DC "IDO Cafe"

 

Starter
None
 
Main course choices
 
Dinner or Lunch
Cold limp fish fingers x2-3, plum tomato laver hot x1-2, warm lumpy potatoes.

or

Beef "a la old cow", gravy brown, thick and suspect, vegetables: string beans (lots of string from recycled rugby boots), mushy peas glowing/radioactive green or cold cabbage.

or

Mince with different sauces cold, rice lumpy/sticky, carrots tinned with other very unknown tinned vegetables.

Pudding
Cake with unknown topping and warm lumpy custard, or leftovers from yesterday's tea mixed with jam or coconut/wood shavings.

Drinks (from the bar)
Water, tin/plastic jug flavour, very stewed tea from giant tea bag (unknown brand - could be from floor dust and wood shavings from carpentry classes)

Breakfast
Warm/cold porridge with salt, cold toast no butter, ultra/mega greasy sausage x1, egg x1 not sure from which bird (Sundays only) cereal with ultra creamy milk.

High tea
Boiling cup of cocoa, broken digestives Or sponge cake with jam on top or pineapple ring or jelly

 

The current Catering Manager, Mike Turner provides a very different fare these days, where the enjoyment of the food by pupils has his highest priority.

To visit the current Catering page and look at sample menus click here

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