School Milk Scheme 1982

[truthseeker]

Come to think of it my Ma had strange names for lots of things.

As did mine - to this day I call the remote control 'the button machine'.

 

[ClubMan]

My friend's father used to call any meal that was not meat and two veg "spaghetti bolognese" - it was his generic, catch all term for any "foreign" food.

 

[Gordanus]

But to go back to the original post, when were these Milk and Sambo schemes introduced? and Where? and Why? Anyone know?

 

[truthseeker]

But to go back to the original post, when were these Milk and Sambo schemes introduced? and Where? and Why? Anyone know?

Well the milk scheme was in 1982, i dunno about the sambos - my other half has often complained long and loud about his mam giving him manky sambos for school, i thought it was strange i remembered the same sambo fillings - til we realised itd been the free sambos he was remembering!!
so it must at least have been around the same time as the milk for sambos - if not before.

 

[TheBlock]

I remember, warm milk and horrible brown bread and corned beef sandwiches that nobody ever ate on a wednesday and a Friday - I wouldn't have drank milk if you'd paid me when I was in school anyway. I do however remember a couple of the poorer kids in the class hanging around after school on a Friday waiting until everybody left so that they could take home the milk and sandwiches

I was one of the many kids in our school that took the spare milk home....was in glass 1/3 pint bottles at the time. It was our reward for cleaning up the class rooms. Mother was delighted as there was 8 of us and every penny counted in the 70's.

I remember going to play some ball after school one summers day with about 8 of these 1/3 pint bottles in my schoolbag. Bag was used as a goal post and needless to say the stench out of it when the milk was split all over the place was cruel.