I must admit I was (and still am to an extent, although much less so) a
very faddy eater. It's not that I dislike the taste of most foods, but
certain textures and any hot food that has cooled too much make me
heave. In my primary school days, the meals were poor quality and cooked
off-site, so often fatty, chewy meat and half cold, with congealed
gravy. Being forced to eat it made my life hell, made approaching dinner
times something to dread and put me off most foods for the next 20
years. The number of dinnertimes I spent stuck at the table while
everyone else was out playing, crying my eyes out as some sadistic
dinnerlady insisted I eat it all are uncountable. If I'd been allowed to
leave what I intensely disliked (even if it meant no pudding), my
primary school life would have been a whole lot better and I'd have
eaten a much wider selection of food in the following decades.

SteveW


When I was at school I liked the school grub, in fact it was simple and
good, far better than the ****e that call school dinners these days in
some schools. Simple meat and fish and a lot of vegetables, OK sometimes
not cooked to the best they might have been but good and nutritious all
the same.

We had our share of faddy feeders but I came from a poor working class
family background and remember times when there wasn't that much on the
plate at home for various reasons.

You did then appreciate what was on the plate at school;!...
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Tony Sayer