Did you get a dinner ticket?

[Kikó]

Checking your working class credentials.

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[John Arne]

Hell yeah. Bloody loved my chips, sausage roll and beans.

[Kikó]

Did you eat a vegetable other than potato in the 5 years of high school?

I'm sure I didn't.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Do bears shit on the toilet?

[Giggles]

A what?

[Smjffy]

One of seven, single parent. I got the whole experience and hand me downs to boot.

[Kikó]

It's the thing Rashford is talking about - might be a UK thing but poorer kids would get a ticket worth some money so they could buy lunch every day in school.
Giggles

[Ian]

Yeah I don't know what it is but I assume it's for school dinners or something. So no.

Also only just occurred to me that even though I call that meal lunch in my head they have to be "school dinners."

[Lewis]

I didn't, but I was probably eligible for one in the last year of school when my parents split up.

We probably caught the Golden Age of school dinners during our years. Tony Blair had mandated that they had to be of a certain quality, but cunt Jamie Oliver wasn't on the case yet so you could still get burger and chips every day. Now they have Stasi-like operations to monitor what they're getting (all of which will be halal) and all sorts.

[Kikó]

Very true - every day for 5 years I'd have a combination of chips and curry/gravy/chicken burger/cheese burger/turkey burger (with mayo)/turkey drummers (extra cost) or on rare occasions rice and curry.

Followed by a pop drink. Ate within 8 minutes before running outside to play football for the remaining 52 minutes of lunch.

[Jimmy Floyd]

My parents used to talk about their school dinners like it was basically preferable to go hungry. They were great in my era circa 2000-2005. Turkey twizzlers being banned was the beginning of the end for British liberty. Princess Diana wouldn't have stood for it.

[Smjffy]

Followed by a pop drink. Ate within 8 minutes before running outside to play football for the remaining 52 minutes of lunch.

Drink from the vending machine then straight on to the tennis courts for the 30 v 30. On the lucky days you'd see the astroturf gates had been left open. Free for all. :cool:

Crazy to think it's over 20 years ago.

[John Arne]

Did you eat a vegetable other than potato in the 5 years of high school?

I'm sure I didn't.

Nah, I seem to remember the food was a mix of chips... potatoes... beans... gravy and sausages. Maybe half a pie if we were lucky.

[John Arne]

Drink from the vending machine then straight on to the tennis courts for the 30 v 30. On the lucky days you'd see the astroturf gates had been left open. Free for all. :cool:

Crazy to think it's over 20 years ago.

Snap. Tennis courts were the home of 3 concurrent games, every lunch, for 5 years :D

[Don]

I think I may have got thm but need to confirm with parents actually as I have conflicting memories and this is an important feather to add to my cap. BAME lad breaks through the system to drag himself out of poverty. Timothèe Chalamet should play me in the biopic.

[Spikey M]

We're probably all dripping in BSE. :drool:

[Giggles]

It's the thing Rashford is talking about - might be a UK thing but poorer kids would get a ticket worth some money so they could buy lunch every day in school.
Giggles

Ah yes, that new societal authority Marcus Rashford :D

There was probably something here alright. Though the handouts didn’t properly start until the Eastern European’s landed.

[randomlegend]

Rashford has done some seriously good work, IDK why you're :D ing him

[Giggles]

Rashford has done some seriously good work, IDK why you're :D ing him

He’s a professional sports player. He should stick to kicking a ball and doing finger painting.

[Smjffy]

He’s a professional sports player. He should stick to kicking a ball and doing finger painting.

You're wrong. These issues are exactly the sort of things people with platforms should be getting involved in.

[Kikó]

Rashford is using his position to try make a change based on his experience as a poor kid.

[Giggles]

Rashford is using his position to try make a change based on his experience as a poor kid.

He’s bound to be as thick as mince so zipped would be the best course of action.

[Kikó]

Alright mate.

[Disco]

Packed lunch all the way, only ever had school lunch after home rugby matches.

[Jimmy Floyd]

He's genuine and doing good but I can't wait until every footballer's PR people cringily start telling them to get involved with such things, and Sir Henry Winter and Gary Lineker have to do tweets with 5 clap emojis for every single one.

[randomlegend]

He’s bound to be as thick as mince so zipped would be the best course of action.

He doesn't come across particularly thick, but even if he is, should thick people not try to do positive things?

[Disco]

Not sure why football player is a job that bars you from having an opinion on other subjects.

[mugbull]

Trying to reason with Giggles is pointless, I'm surprised anyone even still tries. Much better just to remind him that he's a loser every time he says something

[Smjffy]

He’s bound to be as thick as mince so zipped would be the best course of action.

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/coronavirus-marcus-rashford-manchester-united-charity-work-feeding-children-schools-closed-a9434406.html

[Manc]

Isn't JLINGZ floundering? Marcus needs to get his priorities in order.

[Raoul Duke]

I had school meals. Pretty sure they were free as we were poor as fuck, although I had some lunch money at secondary school. The burgers and sausage rolls our canteen used to serve up were banging. 40p for a can of Coke from the vending machine too :drool:

[Jimmy Floyd]

I always used to despise packed lunch kids. Not really sure why. It just seemed like a fussy, faddy cop out.

[Giggles]

Not sure why football player is a job that bars you from having an opinion on other subjects.

Because he’s using his popularity in kicking a ball to influence a whole new generation of entitlement.

[thommo]

How is a child getting food entitlement?

[Spikey M]

I'm not sure 'please don't let poor kids starve' counts as entitlement.

[Kikó]

FUCKING SELFISH KIDS WITH THEIR REQUIREMENT TO EAT.

x

[Pepe]

There were no cafeterias in Mexico, so your mom would pack a sandwich and some cheetos for you. During middle school there was a woman that would sell quesadillas though, so that was great.

[Giggles]

How is a child getting food entitlement?

That’s not how these things would end up working though. Once something is free then everyone works the system.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I did not.

My Dad always gave me lunch money.

[Spikey M]

That’s not how these things would end up working though. Once something is free then everyone works the system.

Free school lunches are not a new thing.

[Andy]

Packed lunch every day for me. The only school dinner I can ever remember was the christmas dinner everyone had on the last day before Christmas break. From what I can remember it was top tier.

At secondary school I had a bit of money so occasionally nabbed some extra food but not often.

[randomlegend]

Because he’s using his popularity in kicking a ball to influence a whole new generation of entitlement.

Lol you absolute cunt.

For some children, free school meals are literally the only proper food they get. It makes an enormous difference to the wellbeing of some of the most vulnerable children. I hope you're trolling to be honest because I cannot get my head around the attitude required to call 5 year olds 'entitled' for needing to eat.

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[Don]

They had a woman on the news yesterday saying how financially difficult and stressful it was to ensure her kids were fed. Just a shame her BMI was triple figures. There must be a clip of it somewhere, absolute gold.

[Kikó]

Jesse Lingard has come out against Brexit.

[Baz]

Sports Personality of the Year NAILED ON.

hahaha 7/4 joint fav with Tyson Fury atm

[Shindig]

Let's be honest, there's not been much sport this year. And I sure did get my tickets as a kid. The skiprat behavioural kid always tried to get in on the free meal as well. He's in prison now for drop-kicking his kid.

[Mellberg]

Surprisingly not. Probably for the best as those bad boy lamb burgers made for some very fat poor kids.

[Mike]

Paid for mine, high school dinners were amazing, chips gravy, a barm and a can of pop.

School dinners now, in primary anyway, are genuinely disgusting. If you have kids and can give them packed lunch, do it. They’re just awful.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I loved school dinner desserts.

Purely because I never got those items at home.

Bakewell tart with pink custard :drool:

[Lewis]

Surprisingly not. Probably for the best as those bad boy lamb burgers made for some very fat poor kids.

Three free meals a day across two months is almost a full school year.

[mo]

I had school dinners at primary and initially at secondary, but all my mates had packed lunches so I switched, like a sheep. Never had FSM. Our school canteen does a pretty decent chicken wrap on a Wednesday but the rest of it is pretty shit.

[Foe]

Nah, but I remember every day for about a year in secondary school I’d have a cheese string and about 5 packs of crisps for lunch.

Athlete :cool:

[Shindig]

I don't think I've ever had Curry, Rice and Chips as a meal outside of primary school.

[John]

In my third year of secondary the dinner hall was rebranded 'The Fuel Zone' and we were all issued with payment cards that had to be topped up at a little machine, adding an annoying extra step to paying for your lunch.

[Luca]

In my third year of secondary the dinner hall was rebranded 'The Fuel Zone' and we were all issued with payment cards that had to be topped up at a little machine, adding an annoying extra step to paying for your lunch.

That sounds like something Jimmy would blame Blair for. He’d probably be right, in fairness.

[Disco]

Until about age 8 there was a Tuck Shop at our school, and yes that was actually the name on the sign and what we called it.

[Mike]

My mum helped do the tuck shop at primary school sports day. Used to give her 10p and get about a tenners worth of sweets. It was pretty great. :lol:

I may have exaggerated the amounts slightly.

Edit: also sweets at sports day! None of that now, though we do get an ice cream van that can only sell after 3:30

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

We were allowed into town from year 10 for lunch which was pretty great.

[Disco]

Ours was odd now I come to think of it, it wasn't a normal shop, it was this stern old woman behind a counter who would get what you wanted from the shelves behind her. We were appropriately terrified of her but did also want that Mars Bar and/or Wham Chew.

[Giggles]

My Irish teacher ran ours and he fucking hated me so would generally just ignore me when I wanted something.

[Alex]

Very true - every day for 5 years I'd have a combination of chips and curry/gravy/chicken burger/cheese burger/turkey burger (with mayo)/turkey drummers (extra cost) or on rare occasions rice and curry.

Followed by a pop drink. Ate within 8 minutes before running outside to play football for the remaining 52 minutes of lunch.

This is the actual key to not raising a generation of fat kids, isn't it? It never served me wrong. I ate shite all the time as a kid and I was (still am :flex:) thin as a rake. Any self respecting, school aged boy who isn't yet old enough to have discovered drinking should be doing three hours a day cardio minimum, just through playing football. You can eat whatever the fuck you want off the back of that.

[phonics]

Nah, I was a packed lunch kid. The school I went to had it's canteen ripped up by that big hurricane in 87 so it just became normal. even up to the time I moved to Geneva and kids were given 50 quid a day allowances by their Arms Selling parents.

[randomlegend]

In my third year of secondary the dinner hall was rebranded 'The Fuel Zone' and we were all issued with payment cards that had to be topped up at a little machine, adding an annoying extra step to paying for your lunch.

They renamed the canteen at my high school after I'd left (my younger brother was still there). They let the kid's choose the name, and then when they voted for House of Munch, they named it something else instead.

[randomlegend]

Until about age 8 there was a Tuck Shop at our school, and yes that was actually the name on the sign and what we called it.

We had a tuck shop at high school. It was like a little shed which opened one side to serve from. It was great.

[Jimmy Floyd]

This is the actual key to not raising a generation of fat kids, isn't it? It never served me wrong. I ate shite all the time as a kid and I was (still am :flex:) thin as a rake. Any self respecting, school aged boy who isn't yet old enough to have discovered drinking should be doing three hours a day cardio minimum, just through playing football. You can eat whatever the fuck you want off the back of that.

100%. One of the biggest problems in politics is that everyone involved in it spent their youth being an indoorsy nerd of one sort or another, so they don't understand. Look at that excuse for a cunt who is culture secretary at the moment. Every school should have mandated 2-4 outdoor areas for informal sport/play/running around, and sport should be way more prominent on the curriculum.

There is literally no excuse for any kid not to like SOME type of exercise. It's not like it's the 50s and teachers are going to bully them if they aren't army fit.

[phonics]

100%. One of the biggest problems in politics is that everyone involved in it spent their youth being an indoorsy nerd of one sort or another, so they don't understand. Look at that excuse for a cunt who is culture secretary at the moment. Every school should have mandated 2-4 outdoor areas for informal sport/play/running around, and sport should be way more prominent on the curriculum.

There is literally no excuse for any kid not to like SOME type of exercise. It's not like it's the 50s and teachers are going to bully them if they aren't army fit.

As someone who had their local park sold off as a kid, it was wild to arrive in Switzerland and see every school has a football cage, a basketball court and a skate ramp.

[Kikó]

This is the actual key to not raising a generation of fat kids, isn't it? It never served me wrong. I ate shite all the time as a kid and I was (still am :flex:) thin as a rake. Any self respecting, school aged boy who isn't yet old enough to have discovered drinking should be doing three hours a day cardio minimum, just through playing football. You can eat whatever the fuck you want off the back of that.

And sometimes that 8 minutes was about 2 as you could eat the burger on the move to join in the first game of Wembley doubles/singles. We must have all absolutely stunk going into the next lesson.

One time a lad went straight from PE into Geography without showering (?) and had mud all over his face. This was obviously all on Tony's watch.

PS- Primary school dinners were great. Cornflake cake (not rice krispie cake) was the one - think it's pretty much northern. https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/easy-cornflake-tart
And the custard.

[mo]

And sometimes that 8 minutes was about 2 as you could eat the burger on the move to join in the first game of Wembley doubles/singles. We must have all absolutely stunk going into the next lesson.


Yep, we all did. The stink of BO and Lynx still didn't rival the smell of coffee coming from the staff room.

[Luca]

I was an independent school (what you in the UK might bizarrely call a ‘public school’) wanker, so it was packed lunches for me. We didn’t even have a cafeteria; just some shit vending machines and a ‘food truck’ that would come M-F (and not the modern interpretation of the term, either; it was some old, fat man selling shit, pre-packaged food of unknown, questionable origin).

That being said, school lunches in Canada are a mess. There is no comprehensive national strategy; it’s left up to the provinces, who have largely dropped the ball. So much so that the programs that help underprivileged students pay for school meals (if they are at all available at school) are mostly ran and funded through charitable organizations, and are completely separate from the school system. We’re (somehow) ranked worse than America.

[Spoonsky]

There were no cafeterias in Mexico, so your mom would pack a sandwich and some cheetos for you. During middle school there was a woman that would sell quesadillas though, so that was great.

You got a cheeto or champiñon?

[Pepe]

What?

[Disco]

A friend once brought some weirdly spicy red sweets back from Mexico, they were great but I've never known what they were.

[Lewis]

You got a cheeto or champiñon?


What?

That's every interaction he ever has with a non-white person.

[Raoul Duke]

A friend once brought some weirdly spicy red sweets back from Mexico, they were great but I've never known what they were.

Hot Tamales?

[phonics]

My favourite Mexican snack was when they put hot sauce on my popcorn at the wrestling.

[Pepe]

The way the popcorn gets soaked. :drool:

[Luca]

You got a cheeto or champiñon?


What?

Do you mean a chapulín?

[Luca]

Speaking of Mexican snacks, the mango with Tajin that you get at various shady subway stops in Brooklyn is a fucking revelation. :drool:

Also speaking of Mexican snacks, Pepe's looking pretty good with his long hair.

[Pepe]

Mango with tajin is legit. Jicama with tajin and lemon is still the GOAT though.

[Luca]

The fucking AUDACITY of bringing that up when you know that the pandemic has shortened global supply chains. Where am I going to find jicama now?

[Luca]

Never mind. Instacart saves the day.

[Pepe]

I haven't eaten jicama in years. :(

[Giggles]

I like crisps.

[Luca]

Crisps are delicious.

[Pepe]

These are the best:

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