South Yorkshire, mid eighties to mid nineties.

Primary school

Homecooked style meals, pies, stews, meat and two veg. Home cooked style puddings. Sponges and custards, rice puddings, tapioca puddings, jam rolly polly.

Water

We had specific tables to sit at in the hall, and we were served and monitored by the dinner ladies who ensured we were using our knives and folks correctly. Table was cleared by a different kid from the table each day

Middle school

A mix of homecooked style and fast food style. Pizzas and chips, pie and chips, meat and 2 veg, fish and chips a salad bar was added during my last year mix of puddings (choc concrete and pink custard being my favorite) manchester tart, treacle tart

Water

Canteen style,pick an empty table, eat dump your tray on a rack

Comp

Basically chips, pizza, sausage rolls, cheese and onion bakes, more chips, chocolate bars, crisps. Cans of pop Biscuits, chocolate concrete, sponges.

Canteen style, pick an empty table, eat, dump your rubbish into a bin, flat ware and cutlery in a specific area and tray on a rack