Checking your working class credentials.
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It's Lunch.
Checking your working class credentials.
Hell yeah. Bloody loved my chips, sausage roll and beans.
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.Originally Posted by Kikó
Do bears shit on the toilet?
A what?
One of seven, single parent. I got the whole experience and hand me downs to boot.
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
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."
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.
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.
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.
Crazy to think it's over 20 years ago.
Snap. Tennis courts were the home of 3 concurrent games, every lunch, for 5 yearsDrink 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.
Crazy to think it's over 20 years ago.
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) 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.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
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.
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.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
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.
Yep, we all did. The stink of BO and Lynx still didn't rival the smell of coffee coming from the staff room.
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.
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. Timothče Chalamet should play me in the biopic.
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We're probably all dripping in BSE.
Ah yes, that new societal authority Marcus Rashford
There was probably something here alright. Though the handouts didn’t properly start until the Eastern European’s landed.
Rashford has done some seriously good work, IDK why you're
He’s a professional sports player. He should stick to kicking a ball and doing finger painting.Rashford has done some seriously good work, IDK why you're
You're wrong. These issues are exactly the sort of things people with platforms should be getting involved in.
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.
He doesn't come across particularly thick, but even if he is, should thick people not try to do positive things?
https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...-a9434406.html
Alright mate.
Packed lunch all the way, only ever had school lunch after home rugby matches.
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.
Not sure why football player is a job that bars you from having an opinion on other subjects.
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
Isn't JLINGZ floundering? Marcus needs to get his priorities in order.
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
I always used to despise packed lunch kids. Not really sure why. It just seemed like a fussy, faddy cop out.
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.
How is a child getting food entitlement?
I'm not sure 'please don't let poor kids starve' counts as entitlement.
FUCKING SELFISH KIDS WITH THEIR REQUIREMENT TO EAT.
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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 champińon?
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.
I did not.
My Dad always gave me lunch money.
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.
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.
Jesse Lingard has come out against Brexit.
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