is veal really served in schools in Scotland?
I've never eaten it.
shareI left school in Scotland in 1980, the year this was made, and I'd never heard of Veal on the menu....
shareI suspect it's only so that Andy can deliver his line about how veal is prepared and scare the girls off (not that they were showing a great deal of interest anyway!)
"Ravioli please"
Oh no, I can confirm that in the eighties at least in my old school in rural Scotland - Bellarmine - veal was indeed served. In fact we were taught aspects of animal husbandry including slaughtering and butchery, so we got to kill the calf and eat it. Ah yes, happy days.
shareYou don't do much of that in Cumbernauld. Six years of secondary school dinners and I never once saw veal. It was usually Scotch pie, chips and either beans or boiled-to-buggery cabbage. It was a vehicle for Andy to gross out the girls with what he thought was a legitimate chat-up line. Then again telling them what goes into a Scotch pie would have the same effect, but with extra vomiting.
shareIn the mid 1980s I worked in a hotel that was big enough to have a dedicated staff kitchen, which was school/institution standard. As I recall the menu consisted of one item per day. This item was often veal cutlets. They were similar to Bernard Matthews turkey burgers and utterly vile.
This hotel would never have fed its staff on anything that wasn't cheap enough for school dinners so it's plausible that veal cutlets were available in Gregory's school.
Lots of rice pudding too, well so i'm told lol
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