Quote: McLaren_Field "What ???!!!
You never had chips at school - and who could forget battered spam, or battered fish that stunk like it was dead a long time before the school got hold of it.
I'm a couple of years older than you my dear so I'm sure you must have had the same...
(Retires inside the coal bunker)'"
At my first primary school the only time we ever had chips was with chips on a Friday. I don't remember anything else other than the fish and chips being fried. Mostly it was "yet another variation of mince with brick hard carrot chunks and badly mixed powedered mash" or pasta with a sauce.
At the school local to us the cook's "profit margin" is so tight the head often battles with her because despite being given the numbers in the morning by the time the last 1 or 2 children arrive for lunch there is nothing left.
The fact that the council give an award to the school cook who makes the most profit kinda says it all really.