This reminded me of when I used to volunteer with adults with learning difficulties. They would have packed lunches and one named James would always have items such as rolls, satsumas, pork pies, scotch eggs, yoghurts, mini chedders etc. Eventually something clicked in my head and I asked 'James, do you only eat round food?' He just grinned and nodded his head.
I went to school in London in the 50's and 60's and we never had any sort of packed lunches. We had school canteens which made proper 2 course 'school dinners.' They were state schools! We paid 5 shillings (25 pence) for the week's meals on Monday. Equivalent to 5 pence a meal. My favourite was roast pork crackling veg and roast potatoes and treacle tart and custard. We couldn't leave the table unless you had a cleanish plate.Those were the days when you ate what you were given. We were given only water which we drank from a blue beaker.
@@AdventuresAndNaps Most kids would stick a bunch of the crisps into the cheese and then put them into the sandwitch before eating it. Lettice cheese ham and ready salted cripst between bread is quite tasty when your hungry and 10 years old.
Haha so funny watching your reaction to the malt loaf. It's really nice with lots of butter on, but not dry like that straight from the packet. But how can you not love cheese and pickle sandwiches - classic. Nom, nom.
Soreen's were my carryout for work for many years and I 'd have them with butter. Margarine and some spreads kill the flavour And something missing I spotted in all the boxes which I always packed into mine was a few biscuits which if I had a hot drink to hand, I would dunk them. Mcvities digestive or Nice biccies would be my first choice. But that's a test for another day. Not sure what dunks are good for coffee? There's a wide choice if you buy an assorted biscuit pack rather than paying for the separate flavours
Who remembers the old advert? "Shhh! Doreen's having her Soreen." Amusingly I now work with somebody called Doreen. You have no idea how hard it is to resist recalling that advert when she appears!
The Butler has definitely treated you! In my lunchbox was a sandwich made with the cheapest white bread and either cheese or ham paste or egg, and a packet of Sainsburys own brand ready salted crisps and maybe a Penguin bar 🙂
Ham paste... lucky , we got bloody fish paste. You know the kind where you'd get the odd horrifying crunch of bone or scale or eyeball for all we knew, lol
BILLY BEAR MEAT!!! Poke the eyes out and eat them, then the mouth and put it on your face 🤣🤣 Then you can eat it after. I'm not kidding, my kids do this and I never taught them. And YES, you just eat the cheese.
That Soreen malt loaf tastes a lot better with butter on it. Did you eat all these at one sitting, or spread out over one or two days? If the former that is serious dedication to the cause...yours or ours, no sure yet 🤣🤣
the soreen loaf is usually sold in a larger format, sliced and served with a good spread of butter. popular with older people as it helps with constipation.
These are definitely pre Jamie Oliver packed lunches! Most of the items you got we would only get if we were going out on a school trip! Eating a diary lee triangle by itself is chefs kiss 👌🏻
That’s the biggest sandwich I’ve ever seen in my life for a school kids packed lunch 😄 I absolutely adore those cheese triangles ‘only from the laughing cow’ and no it wasn’t melted that is how they’re always are. Soft creamy cheese like brie or goats cheese, I could demolish packs of those easy! Dairylea Dunkers are also amazing! They do nacho one’s and a couple other different one’s if I’m not mistaken PS give me raisins, maltloaf and fruit any day over chocolate and crisps, you can see the North American in her, reacting to everything that’s healthy as disgusting, how very stereotypical 😂
Bean sandwiches, peanutbutter and lettuce sandwiches, and cheese and lettuce sandwiches and, cheese and onion sandwiches. Yeah, who'd be populars,eh? Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.
My Mom would never have given me a Billy Bear or Ham and cheese sandwich and I'm very happy about that. I got Peanut Butter Sandwiches, Peanutbutter Fluff sandwiches and Grape Jam sandwiches but thankfully no peanut butter & jelly/Jam sandwiches. Usually, no candy of any kind but Mom was a prodigious baker so there were always some baked goods be they Brownies, some sort of cookies, a slice of cake, fudge, or a whoopie pie yum. Maybe a banana, pear, or grapes All accompanied by some juice in my thermos. Thanks Mom! Great memory inducing video
My packed lunches used to be a tuna and cucumber sandwich, a mini roll (it's like a mix between a Swiss roll and a chocolate cake bar), a banana, a Dairylea Dunkers, and some crisps. Either prawn cocktail Walker's, or a portion of Pringles in a Pringles holder. Oh yeah and a bottle of (diluted) squash. So that would probably be my ultimate packed lunch today 😌
Watching Alanna narrating her food trials brings me more joy than it really should to my bland life. Also.. Thundercats rule. AND... we have malt loaf Wednesday at work where a few of us religiously consume a malt loaf at half 10 every wed morning...just because. Ha ha I knew you would hate it.
A good subject Alanna! But thank goodness I always had school dinners at school. In Tronno all those years ago, I went home for lunch in my 3 x schools I went to between 1974-75!
Well done for blind testing Alana. I was laughing before you even bit into the Soreen and the cheese and Branston sandwich? Well, I can't stand the stuff either xx
A grocery store here in NJ , has a deli "grab n go" you can get sandwiches, drinks , fruit , snacks n such. Sometimes when my daughter is home from college and has been out clubbing , she will eat my younger daughters Lunch... that always a fun morning at our house. This was fun to watch , thank you.
One of those lunchboxes would keep me going for a week. As a sometime teacher, I can only say that when I look at the sugar content of those boxes, I'm damned glad I don't have to teach you this afternoon!
At 11yrs old, at lunchtime, a refuse lorry parked near the playground and the crew headed to the pub. so I went to see what 'treasures' they had saved from the crusher. I found a box which had boxes of chocolate fingers neatly to one side at the back . They had got hot and melted so couldnt b sold. I 'nicked' a box and went back through the playground where everyone wanted to have one so I told them where the remainder were. 15mins later I had sat down and eaten mine, but the refuse lorry was now surrounded by 20-30 kids. The teachers finally realised and blew the whistle to round up the children. I couldnt stop laughing as the biggest No of kids in detention was 'organised'. Lesson...be first!
It wasn't because ninjas were too violent it's because a ninja was a thief and an assassin back in old japan and they didn't think this was appropriate to promote to kids as a good thing. I think they thought about too much as we just think ninja=ninjitsu rather than what the ancient ninjas used to be.
Although Dairylea Triangles are fine on their own, if you also have a packet of crisps at your disposal, it's quite a treat to use each crisp as a sort of spoon to scoop off tiny segments of Triangle and eat together. Like a giant Dairylea Dunker really. 👍😊
Soreen is delicious! I have it nearly every day, I just buy the big loaf, slice myself some off and put butter on it. Oooooh and cheese and Branston (or similar) pickle sandwich - how, just how can you not like that. So yummy.
Hi Alanna, Wow!! The school lunches seem to be packed like luxury first class these days. Teenage Mutant Ninga Turtles and the Simpsons were not even heard of back in my school days in Sydney. I used to just have some sandwiches in a paper bag. We used to be given free bottles of milk at school by the teachers every morning to drink on a daily basis. We were told it was "healthy", despite the milk being left in the hot sun for ages before we ever got it!!! There is nothing like a bottle of curdled milk to get you going for the day!!! Incidentally, I will have the small tomatoes and raisins, if you don't want them!!! LOL. Anyway, take care and all the very best from Rob in Melbourne Australia.
Thank you so much for helping! May God always bless you. The food are so good. Very tasty. Dilicious. I have never eaten those biscuits. But let me have just look . Have a great day ahead n take care of yourself.
Cheers to Mr Naps for his authenticity, right down to the lack of a spoon, and bonus points for your elegance in dealing with the lack of said spoon. And the warm cheese. So ro authentic.
Being a much older generation I never had a packed lunch. Few people did back then when school meals were free for everyone. Just after the war it was I think important most children got at least one nutritional hot meal a day and free school milk at morning break to help pupils to be healthier. I also remember getting a lot of health checks at school. Anyone remember Nitty Nora? Vision tests? Vaccinations? I remember seeing a few children with Rickets.
we never had the majority of that in our packed lunch. we had a Jam Sandwich, Chocolate covered Biscuit, Crisps, homemade flask of Robinsons Squash and a piece of fruit, if we was lucky. I honesty believe that no research was done to make this video. some of the food items wasn't even invented until the 80's.
We only used to get packed lunches on school trips, for the rest of the time we had school dinners (as in proper set-meal school dinners, this would have been in the 1970s/1980s). Anyway the best item was a twin pack of Mr Kiplings apple pies (a bit like mince pies, but with a Bramley apple filling), and as it was a twin pack you could always trade. We always got cold sausages and BabyBel cheese too. Sandwiches were usually filled with leftover Sunday roast meat and lettuce. Apples from grandmother's tree - the seeds always used to rattle when you shook them, mine were the only ones that did that. Cool!
The only time we had packed lunches in school was when going on a field trip and so a special occasion. We had proper hot dinners at school. Having said that, despite me getting free school dinners because of poverty, and normal working class kids mums having to pay for the same school dinners, there was always the weird rich middle class kids that had pathetic cold lunch boxes prepared by their non working mums. I guess it gave them something to do, but it was miserable compared to a proper hot dinner. Poor rich kids.
Wow! Toast a slice of Malt loaf?!? Can this be done lol? I’m going to have to try this. I love Soreen loaf. But never in all my years toasted it, going to have to try this 😂
Dan , I'm taking a knee to you. I'm 56 and I reckon I've eaten at least 3million Soreen malt loaves. 10 minutes ago I had it toasted for the first time. Your gold medal is in the post.
Well…..I tried it. I went and bought the malt loaf and toasted a slice. I can not believe I’ve never done this before , it’s delicious 😂 . But a warning for all those who are going to try this, this bad boy pops out of the toaster hotter than the surface of the sun! So be warned 😂
Your first (Turtles) box instantly brought back memories from nearly 40 years ago! There were no cartoon characters on the lunch box for me.... My father used to work for Conoco, and he got me a lunch box for primary school that had their logo on it. Within it would be cheese sandwiches (Cheshire, as that was our county, though sometimes it was Cheddar or processed cheese slices or Dairylea triangle, though I also had those unadulterated and unadorned, very much as you just did), a bag of crisps, a carton of apple juice, a chocolate bar (usually a Club) and an apple, cored halved and sprinkled with lemon juice to stop it going brown. Sometimes the sandwiches would be tuna; I don't recall ever having ham but it's possible that occasionally there would be what remained of Sunday's roast chicken. The brand of crisp varied immensely: it could have been Walkers or Smiths or Sainsbury's own brand. I went through a phase of insisting on Smith's Salt-n-Shake, for the fun of opening the blue salt sachet and seasoning the bag myself. Nowadays I would favour salad over crisps and if the sandwich is cheese, it must have chutney too!
PS "Juice" = direct from the fruit if you're lucky, or fruit concentrate watered down to produce an essentially pure juice - 95-100% fruit. "Juice drink" = mostly sugar and water with a tiny splash of fruit flavouring, which may be from fruit itself or from fruit juice. 1-5% fruit, if that....
Hi! As a 48 yr. old Canadian I was flashing back to my childhood too! Thank you. I too was never a lover of raisins but those snacking cheese products along with the junk food were my favourite! Here we had the cheese strings that you could make last forever and the little pie piece of creamy cheese we call cow cheese and i love love love. Also you mentioned the Dunkaroos but i love savoury and our version of your cheese and dip was like a flat rectangle cracker with a cheesewhiz spread. I did like them but mmmmm the british version of a herb bread stick would be heavenly to me.
My lunch box would typically be either corned beef or a meat paste of some sort sandwich, with a bag of crisps (preferably salt & vinegar), a penguin/rocky bar and maybe a satsuma or a small cake with either a can of fizzy drink or a juice carton. Generally would add some of the crisps into the sandwich to give it more texture and flavour.
PB&J, Nutri Grain bar, Nestea, Jos Louis, banana, fruit cup/apple sauce, Cheesestrings. I'm sure I couldn't take that type of lunch to school these days. Great idea for a video. The lunch boxes are super cute. Well done the the Butler too for making all those lunches.
Hiya. Prawn Cocktail Crisps are ok, Alanna, it's Prawn Crackers you have to watch out for. They contain anywhere between 18 and 38 per cent actual prawn meat. Stay safe. All the best to you.
I never had packed lunches, the school dinners were great. But on occasion, if fancying a change, friends and I would walk to the local shops. There was a bakery, and a chippy a bit further on. We'd pair up, get an unsliced loaf, ask the lady to cut it in half, then eat the bread inside hollowing it out. This while walking to the chippy were we'd get a portion of chips, stuff them in the hollowed out loaf, and so making a huge chip butty.... Mmmm chip butties 🙂
Turtles lunchbox must be an import, we weren't allowed to have Ninjas here in the UK. Which weirdly made kids more obsessed with ninja-ing than if they'd just not tried to censor it.
I think that had got to be the poshest collection of lunches i have ever seen!! We never had anything like that you got cheese and ketchup sarny and maybe packet of toms ( 5 for 20p) off the town market stall. Chocolate bars!! FRUIT!!!! No chance!
Soreen is the best malt loaf out there but it needs lashings of butter - then its fab. Also, yes, you can eat Dairylea on its own but if it don't blow your hair back then ask your partner to substitute it for the butter in the next sandwich he makes for you - its really nice 🙂 Another really enjoyable watch Alanna xx
This has made me so nostalgic! With the pepperami I used to suck on the sleeve it came in when I was done cos it tasted so good😅 and I literally just had a caramel Rocky, they're so good!
They aren't much like I remember school lunches. Mine used to be two slices of rather stale bread with some hard dry cheese and OK sauce in between. Alanna you have been brought up with the American versions of everything, so nothing tastes right to you except chocolate!!!
Alanna drops the meat and picks it up. Five second rule applies. These were very 'packed' packed lunches, Mr Naps did a great job and I assume they were meant to cover breaktimes as well as lunch. I never got a choccy bar either. I was also caught after chucking part of my lunch away. I had a spot but forgot one day and dumped it near home, later Mum walked by and saw it. Oops.
Gotta say, that does seem to be an AWFUL lot of food for a single kids lunchbox... a lot more than I got! Was Mr Naps about six feet tall when he was twelve? Whatever, another very funny video, thanks Alanna.
That Billy bear ham is the devils food! I remember throwing it back up in the playground when I was 4! Never again! And you forgot to read the terrible joke on the back of the penguin bar wrapper!
Ofc you would eat Dairylea on its own, it's so tasty! Billy Bear ham is iconic British ham. I call the sandwich a roll. The Tesco Fruit Squash is a supermarket brand knock off of Robinson's Fruit Shoots which are juice drinks for kids. We would call that chocolate pot a mousse. We have NA string cheese in the UK too, it's called Cheestrings. The version you got is Dairylea's take on Cheestrings
Hi Smee! Cheese and ham sandwich. Baby Bell cheese wheel. Choco dip. some carrot and cucumber in a pot. small box of raisans. Maybe pickled onion monster munch (and no-one will convince me there are other flavours available). Packed lunch of champions.
We also had plastic thermos flasks that could take hot food for winter. My favourite was probably canned ravioli. if it was the box lunch, two rounds (four slices) of bread with meat or maybe peanut butter, a bag of crisps, typically Golden Wonder or Smiths (Walkers weren't nationally available back then). A cheap soda in a small bottle like a Panda Pop, and a Club biscuit.
Those are very generous packed lunches. I would have put the crisps in the sandwich..and who eats the crisps last? Surely it should be sandwich when crisps at the same time, then fruit, then chocolate although personally I used to bin the fruit 😁
Fruit loaf Yuuuukkkkk Everything else is great.....Junior and Grammar Schools in the 70`s always provided a free hot meal.... So I never had to do "Lunch Boxes".... :-)) xx
Coming from a poor family in West Norwood near Brixton, road kill was an important part of our diet, providing the protein us eleven kids needed, with low costs. My dad used to cook the dogs, cats and badgers on a bonfire outside a lock up garage. We had pigeon a couple of times - very nice. Fox was supposed to be good, cooked slowly, but we never caught one, although we did try. To this day, if we see road kill, we gather it up and it's soup for the freezer!
My packed lunches consisted of 10 Rothmans. 2 packets of space dust & Cheese and onion crisps. And Jelly snakes. I prefered making my own lunches. What 11 year old wouldn't? Peace out.
Alanna, I'll see your Dunkaroos and raise you a Handi-Snacks, especially the ones with the red plastic stick for spreading the cheese! (Look it up if you don't remember... very Canadian I think.)
This reminded me of when I used to volunteer with adults with learning difficulties. They would have packed lunches and one named James would always have items such as rolls, satsumas, pork pies, scotch eggs, yoghurts, mini chedders etc. Eventually something clicked in my head and I asked 'James, do you only eat round food?' He just grinned and nodded his head.
I went to school in London in the 50's and 60's and we never had any sort of packed lunches. We had school canteens which made proper 2 course 'school dinners.' They were state schools! We paid 5 shillings (25 pence) for the week's meals on Monday. Equivalent to 5 pence a meal. My favourite was roast pork crackling veg and roast potatoes and treacle tart and custard. We couldn't leave the table unless you had a cleanish plate.Those were the days when you ate what you were given. We were given only water which we drank from a blue beaker.
Eating a dairylee on it's own is very much a kid's thing, i loved it lol.
Def ate it on it's own - the only thing is catching a bit of silver foil as you bite...
Great on their own, but you can also scoop up Dairylea with your crisps.
I woulda spread it on the sandwich - Billy-ham, Dairylea, salad sandwich.... great!
I'm a 50-year-ol kid and can confirm it's a kid's thing. Although sometimes I spread it on celery because that nullifies the calories
@@ianwalker6546 I was about to laugh at that until I remembered that Celery is calorie negative.
Soreen Malt Loaf. From growing up in the '70's to the present day, STILL one of my FAVOURITE food stuffs! 🤣
Agreed, yer can't beat it, laden with butter.
Beef paste sandwich, apple, ready salted crisps, and a flask of lemon squash...
Cheers to Mr. Naps for packing the school lunches for our entertainment. He sounds like a keeper!
I'm very lucky! Thanks so much for watching! ☺️
@@AdventuresAndNaps 🙂
@@AdventuresAndNaps It's about time he appeared as a 'star guest' !
@@dabe1971 Nah respect the fact that he wants to stay behind the camera.
Hated being filmed on Richard and Judy even if it was in passing.
@@AdventuresAndNaps Most kids would stick a bunch of the crisps into the cheese and then put them into the sandwitch before eating it. Lettice cheese ham and ready salted cripst between bread is quite tasty when your hungry and 10 years old.
Okay now it’s time for Canadian packed lunches 🍎🥪🥨🍪🧃
Haha so funny watching your reaction to the malt loaf. It's really nice with lots of butter on, but not dry like that straight from the packet. But how can you not love cheese and pickle sandwiches - classic. Nom, nom.
I ate a whole malt loaf dry after some poor lifestyle choices recently. Beautiful stuff.
Soreen's were my carryout for work for many years and I 'd have them with butter. Margarine and some spreads kill the flavour
And something missing I spotted in all the boxes which I always packed into mine was a few biscuits which if I had a hot drink to hand, I would dunk them. Mcvities digestive or Nice biccies would be my first choice. But that's a test for another day. Not sure what dunks are good for coffee? There's a wide choice if you buy an assorted biscuit pack rather than paying for the separate flavours
love malt loaf with butter on it.
Malt loaf with loads of butter and a hot cuppa. Heaven 😁
Who remembers the old advert? "Shhh! Doreen's having her Soreen." Amusingly I now work with somebody called Doreen. You have no idea how hard it is to resist recalling that advert when she appears!
as soon as you opened the sandwich and said "what is that??" I KNEW it was Billy Bear
Albeit I went to school a looong time ago I can’t honesty remember anyone having a packed lunch. It was either a school meal or you went home to eat!
Oh my! LOL.... I laughed so much when the slice of "Billy Bear" slid off the sandwich onto the table 🤣
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My girls loved a Billybear and Branston Pickle sandwich for school pack up
The Butler has definitely treated you! In my lunchbox was a sandwich made with the cheapest white bread and either cheese or ham paste or egg, and a packet of Sainsburys own brand ready salted crisps and maybe a Penguin bar 🙂
rip 🙏🏻
Never had a chocolate, no drink but water, definitely no crisps usually just a roll and a piece of fruit.
Same tesco value crisps lol in the white with blue sriped pack.
Ham paste... lucky , we got bloody fish paste. You know the kind where you'd get the odd horrifying crunch of bone or scale or eyeball for all we knew, lol
I got four cheese sandwiches in my lunch and ribena every day.
Am I the only one who'd happily eat an entire large malt loaf straight out of the packet?
With butter and you're on
Can't believe you don't enjoy a cheese and pickle sandwich ~ that's heart breaking ! 😂 It was the highlight of my school lunch box 😁
Maybe if there was something else in there, otherwise too much pickle! 😂
BILLY BEAR MEAT!!! Poke the eyes out and eat them, then the mouth and put it on your face 🤣🤣
Then you can eat it after. I'm not kidding, my kids do this and I never taught them.
And YES, you just eat the cheese.
That Soreen malt loaf tastes a lot better with butter on it. Did you eat all these at one sitting, or spread out over one or two days? If the former that is serious dedication to the cause...yours or ours, no sure yet 🤣🤣
you need to read the joke on the back of the penguin wrapper!
the soreen loaf is usually sold in a larger format, sliced and served with a good spread of butter. popular with older people as it helps with constipation.
I have the soreen mini loaf for work
Also great for active days like a long cycle or a rowing regatta. Soreen and bananas ftw.
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It would only have been the bigger format around in the 1970's by rights anyway.
All the stuff you didn't like is good trading material.😂😂😂
These are definitely pre Jamie Oliver packed lunches! Most of the items you got we would only get if we were going out on a school trip! Eating a diary lee triangle by itself is chefs kiss 👌🏻
That’s the biggest sandwich I’ve ever seen in my life for a school kids packed lunch 😄 I absolutely adore those cheese triangles ‘only from the laughing cow’ and no it wasn’t melted that is how they’re always are. Soft creamy cheese like brie or goats cheese, I could demolish packs of those easy! Dairylea Dunkers are also amazing! They do nacho one’s and a couple other different one’s if I’m not mistaken
PS give me raisins, maltloaf and fruit any day over chocolate and crisps, you can see the North American in her, reacting to everything that’s healthy as disgusting, how very stereotypical 😂
I prefer laughing cow too and still have it on toast several times a week! 🐄 And malt loaf and butter! Nom nom! 😋
Bean sandwiches, peanutbutter and lettuce sandwiches, and cheese and lettuce sandwiches and, cheese and onion sandwiches. Yeah, who'd be populars,eh? Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.
My Mom would never have given me a Billy Bear or Ham and cheese sandwich and I'm very happy about that. I got Peanut Butter Sandwiches, Peanutbutter Fluff sandwiches and Grape Jam sandwiches but thankfully no peanut butter & jelly/Jam sandwiches. Usually, no candy of any kind but Mom was a prodigious baker so there were always some baked goods be they Brownies, some sort of cookies, a slice of cake, fudge, or a whoopie pie yum. Maybe a banana, pear, or grapes All accompanied by some juice in my thermos. Thanks Mom! Great memory inducing video
My packed lunches used to be a tuna and cucumber sandwich, a mini roll (it's like a mix between a Swiss roll and a chocolate cake bar), a banana, a Dairylea Dunkers, and some crisps. Either prawn cocktail Walker's, or a portion of Pringles in a Pringles holder. Oh yeah and a bottle of (diluted) squash.
So that would probably be my ultimate packed lunch today 😌
Watching Alanna narrating her food trials brings me more joy than it really should to my bland life. Also.. Thundercats rule. AND... we have malt loaf Wednesday at work where a few of us religiously consume a malt loaf at half 10 every wed morning...just because. Ha ha I knew you would hate it.
😂 I'm never touching a malt load again!!!
A good subject Alanna!
But thank goodness I always had school dinners at school. In Tronno all those years ago, I went home for lunch in my 3 x schools I went to between 1974-75!
How could you not read the joke on the penguin wrapper!?!?
Well done for blind testing Alana. I was laughing before you even bit into the Soreen and the cheese and Branston sandwich? Well, I can't stand the stuff either xx
A grocery store here in NJ , has a deli "grab n go" you can get sandwiches, drinks , fruit , snacks n such. Sometimes when my daughter is home from college and has been out clubbing , she will eat my younger daughters Lunch... that always a fun morning at our house. This was fun to watch , thank you.
I lived close enough to school to be able to go home for lunch. Also some of the things you mention are way after my time
WTF... I had that exact same Simpsons lunch box when I was 4... back in '91. That's a trip...
In primary school I always had: sandwich, crisps, chocolate bar and water. Dairylea lunchables were a rare treat :)
Adding some crisps to the sandwich.
"My parents did not love me enough to put chocolate bars into my packed lunch." Lol.
One of those lunchboxes would keep me going for a week. As a sometime teacher, I can only say that when I look at the sugar content of those boxes, I'm damned glad I don't have to teach you this afternoon!
As domestic duties go, I think we know who will be doing the kids pack lunches in the future! He's done a good job
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At 11yrs old, at lunchtime, a refuse lorry parked near the playground and the crew headed to the pub. so I went to see what 'treasures' they had saved from the crusher. I found a box which had boxes of chocolate fingers neatly to one side at the back . They had got hot and melted so couldnt b sold. I 'nicked' a box and went back through the playground where everyone wanted to have one so I told them where the remainder were. 15mins later I had sat down and eaten mine, but the refuse lorry was now surrounded by 20-30 kids. The teachers finally realised and blew the whistle to round up the children. I couldnt stop laughing as the biggest No of kids in detention was 'organised'. Lesson...be first!
In the Thundercats box, down here in the South East we would call it a Ham and Cheese Salad Roll
Fun fact, back when TMNT was huge in the 80's, in the UK the show was called "Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles".
Because the UK censors thought "ninja" was too violent 😂 I've heard!
Ninjas with swords, katanas, nunchuks and a staff: too violent. Heros with swords, katanas, nunchuks and a staff: perfectly acceptable! 😂
It wasn't because ninjas were too violent it's because a ninja was a thief and an assassin back in old japan and they didn't think this was appropriate to promote to kids as a good thing.
I think they thought about too much as we just think ninja=ninjitsu rather than what the ancient ninjas used to be.
Although Dairylea Triangles are fine on their own, if you also have a packet of crisps at your disposal, it's quite a treat to use each crisp as a sort of spoon to scoop off tiny segments of Triangle and eat together. Like a giant Dairylea Dunker really. 👍😊
Incredible! 🙏🏻
I always remember school trips. There was always someone on the bus who had egg sandwiches. Stunk the bus out!
Soreen is delicious! I have it nearly every day, I just buy the big loaf, slice myself some off and put butter on it. Oooooh and cheese and Branston (or similar) pickle sandwich - how, just how can you not like that. So yummy.
"These straws suck so bad..." - I see what you did there!
the packed dinners were pretty on point. the thundercats lunchbox unlocked some ancient memories for me lol.
😂 Thanks for watching!
Shera 😍
Such a cute video! The yellow ranger was also my favorite growing up.
Hi Alanna, Wow!! The school lunches seem to be packed like luxury first class these days. Teenage Mutant Ninga Turtles and the Simpsons were not even heard of back in my school days in Sydney. I used to just have some sandwiches in a paper bag. We used to be given free bottles of milk at school by the teachers every morning to drink on a daily basis. We were told it was "healthy", despite the milk being left in the hot sun for ages before we ever got it!!! There is nothing like a bottle of curdled milk to get you going for the day!!! Incidentally, I will have the small tomatoes and raisins, if you don't want them!!! LOL. Anyway, take care and all the very best from Rob in Melbourne Australia.
Thank you so much for helping! May God always bless you. The food are so good. Very tasty. Dilicious.
I have never eaten those biscuits. But let me have just look .
Have a great day ahead n take care of yourself.
Cheers to Mr Naps for his authenticity, right down to the lack of a spoon, and bonus points for your elegance in dealing with the lack of said spoon. And the warm cheese. So ro authentic.
Being a much older generation I never had a packed lunch. Few people did back then when school meals were free for everyone. Just after the war it was I think important most children got at least one nutritional hot meal a day and free school milk at morning break to help pupils to be healthier. I also remember getting a lot of health checks at school. Anyone remember Nitty Nora? Vision tests? Vaccinations? I remember seeing a few children with Rickets.
What a fun video!! I'm so glad your partner made all these for you to try. They are amazing. And they mostly looked VERY tasty!
we never had the majority of that in our packed lunch. we had a Jam Sandwich, Chocolate covered Biscuit, Crisps, homemade flask of Robinsons Squash and a piece of fruit, if we was lucky. I honesty believe that no research was done to make this video. some of the food items wasn't even invented until the 80's.
We only used to get packed lunches on school trips, for the rest of the time we had school dinners (as in proper set-meal school dinners, this would have been in the 1970s/1980s). Anyway the best item was a twin pack of Mr Kiplings apple pies (a bit like mince pies, but with a Bramley apple filling), and as it was a twin pack you could always trade. We always got cold sausages and BabyBel cheese too. Sandwiches were usually filled with leftover Sunday roast meat and lettuce. Apples from grandmother's tree - the seeds always used to rattle when you shook them, mine were the only ones that did that. Cool!
70s/80 child here too. Those lovely apple pies. Not laden with sugar like the modern version.
The only time we had packed lunches in school was when going on a field trip and so a special occasion. We had proper hot dinners at school.
Having said that, despite me getting free school dinners because of poverty, and normal working class kids mums having to pay for the same school dinners, there was always the weird rich middle class kids that had pathetic cold lunch boxes prepared by their non working mums. I guess it gave them something to do, but it was miserable compared to a proper hot dinner. Poor rich kids.
I dont think I took a packed lunch to school once, this video reminded me of memories I don't even have
If you get a soreen loaf rather than a mini. Slice it, toast it, and butter it. It’s soooo much better 😅
Wow! Toast a slice of Malt loaf?!? Can this be done lol? I’m going to have to try this. I love Soreen loaf. But never in all my years toasted it, going to have to try this 😂
@@suesue1486 I honestly hope this has changed your life 😂 it’s basically like a toasted tea cake tbh
Dan , I'm taking a knee to you. I'm 56 and I reckon I've eaten at least 3million Soreen malt loaves. 10 minutes ago I had it toasted for the first time. Your gold medal is in the post.
Well…..I tried it. I went and bought the malt loaf and toasted a slice. I can not believe I’ve never done this before , it’s delicious 😂 . But a warning for all those who are going to try this, this bad boy pops out of the toaster hotter than the surface of the sun! So be warned 😂
@@Doug791 I’m 27 and I’ve been doing this for longer than I can even remember 😂 it makes a great breakfast but not everyday… it’s a LOT of fibre 😂
Your first (Turtles) box instantly brought back memories from nearly 40 years ago! There were no cartoon characters on the lunch box for me.... My father used to work for Conoco, and he got me a lunch box for primary school that had their logo on it.
Within it would be cheese sandwiches (Cheshire, as that was our county, though sometimes it was Cheddar or processed cheese slices or Dairylea triangle, though I also had those unadulterated and unadorned, very much as you just did), a bag of crisps, a carton of apple juice, a chocolate bar (usually a Club) and an apple, cored halved and sprinkled with lemon juice to stop it going brown. Sometimes the sandwiches would be tuna; I don't recall ever having ham but it's possible that occasionally there would be what remained of Sunday's roast chicken. The brand of crisp varied immensely: it could have been Walkers or Smiths or Sainsbury's own brand. I went through a phase of insisting on Smith's Salt-n-Shake, for the fun of opening the blue salt sachet and seasoning the bag myself.
Nowadays I would favour salad over crisps and if the sandwich is cheese, it must have chutney too!
PS "Juice" = direct from the fruit if you're lucky, or fruit concentrate watered down to produce an essentially pure juice - 95-100% fruit.
"Juice drink" = mostly sugar and water with a tiny splash of fruit flavouring, which may be from fruit itself or from fruit juice. 1-5% fruit, if that....
A lot of fun. Don't remember having many 'packed' lunches at school as both primary & secondary schools had a reasonably good canteen.
Hi! As a 48 yr. old Canadian I was flashing back to my childhood too! Thank you. I too was never a lover of raisins but those snacking cheese products along with the junk food were my favourite! Here we had the cheese strings that you could make last forever and the little pie piece of creamy cheese we call cow cheese and i love love love. Also you mentioned the Dunkaroos but i love savoury and our version of your cheese and dip was like a flat rectangle cracker with a cheesewhiz spread. I did like them but mmmmm the british version of a herb bread stick would be heavenly to me.
When I went on a school trip my mom would always pack me some chicken drumsticks which always made me happy. 😀
Can you can you please ask your lovely partner where he brought those lovely lunch boxes from because I'm so jealous 😻
Malt loaf is amazing, I love it.
My lunch box would typically be either corned beef or a meat paste of some sort sandwich, with a bag of crisps (preferably salt & vinegar), a penguin/rocky bar and maybe a satsuma or a small cake with either a can of fizzy drink or a juice carton. Generally would add some of the crisps into the sandwich to give it more texture and flavour.
Ah yeah a Mr Kipling cake/bun was the only thing missing here
Great video! Hope it does well for you!
Thanks Aaron!
PB&J, Nutri Grain bar, Nestea, Jos Louis, banana, fruit cup/apple sauce, Cheesestrings. I'm sure I couldn't take that type of lunch to school these days. Great idea for a video. The lunch boxes are super cute. Well done the the Butler too for making all those lunches.
Hiya. Prawn Cocktail Crisps are ok, Alanna, it's Prawn Crackers you have to watch out for. They contain anywhere between 18 and 38 per cent actual prawn meat. Stay safe. All the best to you.
I never had packed lunches, the school dinners were great. But on occasion, if fancying a change, friends and I would walk to the local shops. There was a bakery, and a chippy a bit further on. We'd pair up, get an unsliced loaf, ask the lady to cut it in half, then eat the bread inside hollowing it out. This while walking to the chippy were we'd get a portion of chips, stuff them in the hollowed out loaf, and so making a huge chip butty.... Mmmm chip butties 🙂
The pudding you described as 'moussy' is chocolate mousse!
Billy Bear, lol. Love that stuff. Your partner is a man of culture.
The Simpsons lunch box contents was pretty much my school lunch everyday, for my whole school life lol
Turtles lunchbox must be an import, we weren't allowed to have Ninjas here in the UK. Which weirdly made kids more obsessed with ninja-ing than if they'd just not tried to censor it.
I think that had got to be the poshest collection of lunches i have ever seen!! We never had anything like that you got cheese and ketchup sarny and maybe packet of toms ( 5 for 20p) off the town market stall. Chocolate bars!! FRUIT!!!! No chance!
I used to get raisins in a little box with the woman on it 😄
I don't know why but I always find myself chuckling at your videos. Keep up the excellent work / fun.
Glad you like them!
Soreen is the best malt loaf out there but it needs lashings of butter - then its fab. Also, yes, you can eat Dairylea on its own but if it don't blow your hair back then ask your partner to substitute it for the butter in the next sandwich he makes for you - its really nice 🙂 Another really enjoyable watch Alanna xx
This has made me so nostalgic! With the pepperami I used to suck on the sleeve it came in when I was done cos it tasted so good😅 and I literally just had a caramel Rocky, they're so good!
Packed lunch bread and butter no filling salt / vinegar or cheese/ onion crisps. Bang crisp sandwich.
Should have put the crisps in the sandwich , much more satisfying !!!
I want that TMNT Lunch Box!!! Were is the thermos?
That first box was when I had pack lunches in Primary School! ...Nostalgia, so many memories! 90's kid also
They aren't much like I remember school lunches. Mine used to be two slices of rather stale bread with some hard dry cheese and OK sauce in between. Alanna you have been brought up with the American versions of everything, so nothing tastes right to you except chocolate!!!
Alanna drops the meat and picks it up. Five second rule applies. These were very 'packed' packed lunches, Mr Naps did a great job and I assume they were meant to cover breaktimes as well as lunch. I never got a choccy bar either.
I was also caught after chucking part of my lunch away. I had a spot but forgot one day and dumped it near home, later Mum walked by and saw it. Oops.
My ideal packed lunch?
A fresh baguette, 5 or 6 good cheeses, some pate and a little red wine. Bon!
Gotta say, that does seem to be an AWFUL lot of food for a single kids lunchbox... a lot more than I got! Was Mr Naps about six feet tall when he was twelve? Whatever, another very funny video, thanks Alanna.
That Billy bear ham is the devils food! I remember throwing it back up in the playground when I was 4! Never again! And you forgot to read the terrible joke on the back of the penguin bar wrapper!
Ofc you would eat Dairylea on its own, it's so tasty! Billy Bear ham is iconic British ham. I call the sandwich a roll. The Tesco Fruit Squash is a supermarket brand knock off of Robinson's Fruit Shoots which are juice drinks for kids. We would call that chocolate pot a mousse. We have NA string cheese in the UK too, it's called Cheestrings. The version you got is Dairylea's take on Cheestrings
Hi Smee!
Cheese and ham sandwich. Baby Bell cheese wheel. Choco dip. some carrot and cucumber in a pot. small box of raisans. Maybe pickled onion monster munch (and no-one will convince me there are other flavours available). Packed lunch of champions.
We also had plastic thermos flasks that could take hot food for winter. My favourite was probably canned ravioli. if it was the box lunch, two rounds (four slices) of bread with meat or maybe peanut butter, a bag of crisps, typically Golden Wonder or Smiths (Walkers weren't nationally available back then). A cheap soda in a small bottle like a Panda Pop, and a Club biscuit.
Those are very generous packed lunches. I would have put the crisps in the sandwich..and who eats the crisps last? Surely it should be sandwich when crisps at the same time, then fruit, then chocolate although personally I used to bin the fruit 😁
Really enjoyed the video Alanna! Well done to the butler. I used to love a tuna mayo sandwich, prawn cocktail crisps and a twix :-)
Wow, you got some some posh sandwiches when you were young.
Fruit loaf Yuuuukkkkk Everything else is great.....Junior and Grammar Schools in the 70`s always provided a free hot meal.... So I never had to do "Lunch Boxes".... :-)) xx
Did the educational fact on those Cadburys Animals at 8:23 honestly just use the "Banana for scale" meme 🤣
Sweaty chesse, and occasionally sliced tomato in the mix, sweaty soggy warm sandwich .. Marvellous. Mother still tells me she loves me,
Coming from a poor family in West Norwood near Brixton, road kill was an important part of our diet, providing the protein us eleven kids needed, with low costs.
My dad used to cook the dogs, cats and badgers on a bonfire outside a lock up garage.
We had pigeon a couple of times - very nice.
Fox was supposed to be good, cooked slowly, but we never caught one, although we did try.
To this day, if we see road kill, we gather it up and it's soup for the freezer!
We would call that bun a roll. 😁
My packed lunches consisted of 10 Rothmans. 2 packets of space dust & Cheese and onion crisps. And Jelly snakes. I prefered making my own lunches. What 11 year old wouldn't? Peace out.
Dairylea cheese triangles, you're supposed to make a little hole in one corner then squeeze it out in a wiggly snake effect. Kids love doing that.
First time I've seen someone get drunk on junk food, totally worth the watch
Billy Bear?Hartleys jelly pots? That is exotic fare.
Crisps, banana, corned beef or cheese and tomato sandwich, Ribena carton, penguin. Done.
Alanna, I'll see your Dunkaroos and raise you a Handi-Snacks, especially the ones with the red plastic stick for spreading the cheese! (Look it up if you don't remember... very Canadian I think.)