We didn't have it.
Packed lunches rool.
As I have said already today.
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I always had a packed lunch too. But we were forced (certainly in nursery, not sure about proper school) to have a glass (?) of milk every day at break time, I think it must have been. We each had a little card with our name on, which we had to swap for the milk, so that they knew who'd had one. I almost always managed to slip my card back in the tray without anyone noticing.
(I genuinely do remember being very upset and stressed by the daily chore of it though.)
I liked my milk.
I didn't like packed lunches though cos you could smell the school dinner being cooked and all I had was crappy cold sandwiches. The grass is always greener!
The smell of the school dinners always made me feel sick! God only knows what they put in the stuff.
I remember having to have some kind of lunchbox-esque school dinner once, when a bad person stoled my lunchbox. 
It was basically an orange Calypso drink (old school!), and a sandwich. The sandwich filling being just a lump of really weird tasting, particularly hard cheese. And nothing else.
*shudders at the thought of it even now*
Quote: Aaron @ February 18, 2008, 12:26 AMThe smell of the school dinners always made me feel sick! God only knows what they put in the stuff.
I remember having to have some kind of lunchbox-esque school dinner once, when a bad person stoled my lunchbox.
*shudders at the thought of it even now*
But it was good in secondary cos you could choose what you wanted 
'Chips, please'
'Anything else?'
'More chips, please...'
If only. The bastards got rid of the chips just in the summer before I joined! Some rubbish about new health and safety regulations meaning they'd need to replace some equipment which they couldn't afford. Rubbish! To make matters worse, they brought it back a few years later, but only sixth-formers could buy them - and only available on Friday lunchtimes! >_<
Luckily, by the time I got into sixth form a year or two later, a McDonald's had opened literally about two minutes' walk away, and there was a chippy not far down the road too!
So were you a victim of the Jamie Oliver mass hysteria?
Our school gates opened right on the edge of the town centre so they locked em up at dinner time (northern for lunchtime) to stop everyone piling out to the chippy etc.
That was not for our health though, that was cos they were selling less chips!
Quote: Mannikin Bird @ February 17, 2008, 10:10 PMI know time travel is the current vogue but Nationalisation...what else from the 70's can we expect?
Arthurian knights, all sporting Scargillian hair creations, yes, I think pubic thatcherian hairstyles will become huge.
Quote: ian_w @ February 18, 2008, 12:46 AMSo were you a victim of the Jamie Oliver mass hysteria?
God no, the gingery twat. I don't think anyone had heard of him back when they scrapped the chips. I think his big school dinner revolution came in the summer after I left. All totally ridiculous IMO, but anyway.
Aaron, I assumed you were older than you obviously are. Why the love of Thatcher in one so young. She was worst PM ever!
Worst PM ever? I think you're overlooking Brown and Blair.
Quote: Aaron @ February 18, 2008, 11:08 AMWorst PM ever? I think you're overlooking Brown and Blair.
Now I don't particularly like Brown or Blair, and I understand why some hate them but in truth they've done little good or bad in reality. Okay there's the war in iraq, but lets not forget Thatchers role in that also.
Its just the British way to despise the current political leaders. However Thatcher was the only leader who did actually change Britain in a more than superficial way, and not in a good way imho.
Well, she told Argentina to f**k off, she got the rebate from Europe, and overhauled financial services. But then there was the Single European Act and the Maastricht Treaty (albeit not ratified until 1992), so no one is without fault.
I'd certainly agree that B&B have done little good, but their love of targets and ill-thought-out initiatives pandering to the popular public issues of the day have ruined this country, IMO. I have teachers and NHS workers in my immediate-ish family, and the obsession with these kinds of top-down stipulations are making their jobs harder. If you just let teachers teach, without interference from politicians who haven't been into a classroom since they were 18, we'd be quite a bit better off.
It should be renamed...Northern Wreck
I had honestly never heard of them before all of this wankery started. I'm told that they do have branches in London, but still haven't seen any myself!