Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

[Ramp-Rat]

In regards to the consumption of spam, being of the generation that was forced to eat school dinners that were prepared to a WWII recipe book. Along with the other meals that resembled something seen in an Ealing Comedy, we were served spam fritters with mashed potatoes and tinned tomatoes. The other dish that came with tinned tomatoes and mash was steamed cod, note potatoes only came as boiled, mashed and roasted, chips were never seen, and yes we did get curried beef with sultanas and diced apple, on a bed of mashed potato with a side of boiled cabbage. Oh the joys of school meals in the sixties. 😎

 

[Finbarr the Fair]

@Ramp-Rat

Thanks (not) for bringing back such memories.

 

[RandomChance]

I have dim recollection of school puddings - in particular, sponge (that later found use as foam packing) topped with jam and coconut (more desiccated than a pharoah’s REDACTED) swimming in custard. Good times….

 

[Orry]

I have dim recollection of school puddings - in particular, sponge (that later found use as foam packing) topped with jam and coconut (more desiccated than a pharoah’s REDACTED) swimming in custard. Good times….

Custard with a skin that would double up as armour on a Victor........

 

[Triune Kingdom]

What does discussion about food have to do with this thread?

 

[Orry]

What does discussion about food have to do with this thread?

Its a Tradition when Alan is away

Are you opposing Tradition????????

/s

 

[MattII]

Its a Tradition when Alan is away

Are you opposing Tradition????????

/s

It's older than this thread.

 

[Triune Kingdom]

Its a Tradition when Alan is away

Are you opposing Tradition????????

/s

Would it not be better for all, that if there is a desire to discuss food, that an appropriate thread be opened elsewhere on this forum? Instead of clogging up the thread with posts that have nothing to add to thread?

 

[fester]

Would it not be better for all, that if there is a desire to discuss food, that an appropriate thread be opened elsewhere on this forum? Instead of clogging up the thread with posts that have nothing to add to thread?

You are right but won't succeed.

 

[Finbarr the Fair]

You are right but won't succeed.

It’s a displacement activity to alleviate boredom.

 

[Ramp-Rat]

@Ramp-Rat

Thanks (not) for bringing back such memories.

I am being a very good boy, I haven’t done a two thousand word post on the delights of school dinners in the sixties and early seventies.

RR.

 

[Look More Closely Later]

Hmm. There's a piece in 'The Stage-Management of Battle' chapter of Nigel Hamilton's biography of Montgomery about how Monty's personal teetotal health regime caused awkwardness when he took over 5 Corps, until 'Jumbo' Simpson asked permission to set up pre-dinner drinks in an ante-room to the mess, which Monty was fine with.

 

[Jellico]

In regards to the consumption of spam, being of the generation that was forced to eat school dinners that were prepared to a WWII recipe book. Along with the other meals that resembled something seen in an Ealing Comedy, we were served spam fritters with mashed potatoes and tinned tomatoes. The other dish that came with tinned tomatoes and mash was steamed cod, note potatoes only came as boiled, mashed and roasted, chips were never seen, and yes we did get curried beef with sultanas and diced apple, on a bed of mashed potato with a side of boiled cabbage. Oh the joys of school meals in the sixties. 😎

Sounds like my grand parents.
I don't know of you watched Back in Time for Dinner but I enjoyed watching the foody Melbourne Italian family first squirm then acknowledge devilled kidneys aren't that bad after all.

 

[The Wooksta!]

How about some lovely delicious Spam instead ? View attachment 841597View attachment 841598

"I don't like Spam!"

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Is that the Tyne and Wear version or Berkshire

Tyne & Wear.

There is a chippy in Dunston, Gateshead, that serves a "Folded Pizza Pie", which consists of a margarita with kebab meat, folded over, battered and then deep fried. When I heard about it, I could feel my arteries hardening.

 

[Astrodragon]

Why the hell would you deep fry a pizza? Thats sounds kinda awful.

Scotland

 

[vizzer]

Scotland

Where if it can't be deep fried it's obviously not food 😋

 

[Astrodragon]

I am being a very good boy, I haven’t done a two thousand word post on the delights of school dinners in the sixties and early seventies.

RR.

Reported for evil dinner reports

 

[MattII]

I'm not sure when this 'food as a distraction' thing started, but I first encountered in The Whale Has Wings.

 

[wietze]

I'm not sure when this 'food as a distraction' thing started, but I first encountered in The Whale Has Wings.

it was so bad that it pretty much was part of the thread lol

 

[yulzari1]

I am being a very good boy, I haven’t done a two thousand word post on the delights of school dinners in the sixties and early seventies.

RR.

Coming from a childhood in Singapore and with a French mother I rather enjoyed English school dinners of the sixties and seventies. Exotic foreign cooking. Best of all was Gipsy Tart, but I will leave it there.