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Oooh Yummy - I used to eat everyone's Sago :-D

...and the chocolate bricks.....

Tapioca! I haven't had that since I was about 12. We called it Frogs' Eggs.

I'm not a big fan of desserts, but I love rice pudding with sultanas in it........ and (believe it or not)... prunes & custard. :-D

We only have dessert when we have people over for a meal....... and in summer it's usually fruit & cheese :-)....... and chocolate dipped strawberries :-D

Now you're talking my language :-D

We used to have neon pink blancmange with really thick skin at Primary...I loved that ,sooooo yummy :-D

I can get Rice Tapioca, Sago, Semolina from the local health food shop.

I think, like Ann C, suffered a bit from the rationing era - tinned potatoes that were never cooked through and had a tough 'skin', canned/powered egg 'dishes', the inevitable cabbage (soggy/over-cooked) and sprouts (acidic and hard in the middle). Meat ? I don't remember any meat to be honest, possibly some form of reconstituted sausage maybe, but not sure.... :-(

Wend. ????????

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Thanks Frederick - I love a quickie afters :-D

Hi Wend, Tapioca, Sago, Semolina, Creamed Rice and various other milk puddings sold in tins in our local Morrisons, make a quickie afters with a dollop of jam.


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For some reason Semolina is usually in The ethnic aisles along with coconut milk & corn meal :-S

I thought you could still get it, Wend, but fine polenta is sort of the same thing.
I found school semolina was a bit like wallpaper paste! But it was better than their tapioca :-P

That's it Lynda - I had a feeling I was wrong! I still can't find semolina though. Where do you buy it?

Now, I used to love semolina at school with a blob of jam in the middle. Used to stir it around until it turned pink!

Tapioca - I would starve before eating that - we had it at least once a week in school - I usually took an envelope in my pocket and poured it in that and then deposited it down the loo

the other meals I can recall were fish pie - which you could smell when you arrived at school that morning, and cheese and potato pie which wasn't too bad

it was still food rationing time so spose it was the best they could come up with

I think you might mean semolina, Wend - that's what I've read in recipes, and you can get that easily.

Lynda

*Shivers* at the memory of frogs' spawn at school, served with tinned prunes - yuk!

Spotted Dick and custard - yum, yum :-D

Why is sago no longer available? According to a recipe I have for roast pots, it's good for sprinkling over and making them crispy.

JustGinnie...Ours was the other way round Pink sponge & chocolate custard :-D

Loved Tapioca , semolina & anything with a Skin ;-)

I found school dinners awful, particularly in the infant and junior school I went to. They used to try to force you to eat everything, which put me off some things for life! :-P

With being diabetic milk puds are a no go for me. Milk can up one's sugars. In fact a hot milky drink is one of the ways to get out of a hypo. Used to like Semolina with some jam but that on banned list as well due high sugar content. Tis a hard life

I hated school dinners and I never ate anything apart from a piece of concrete which we had probably once a week. I used to put a bit of gravy on my plate to give the impression that I had finished my meal. The stench of cooking meat still makes me feel yukky. We used to have a colourful dessert which we called Brylcreem.
I could never work out how food could be presented with such a foul smell, in particular the cabbage. I know chips and pizza might not be healthy but I would have given the world to have had something like that all those years ago. -jl