... very thinly sliced cold roast beef, over-cooked soggy vegetables (peas from a can) and get quickly to one of the fabulous English desserts -
trifle, treacle, anything floating in cream

peas from a can - no way! Yuk puke disgusting. Only old people eat canned peas.

Well robjame
if that's the kind of thing you like, you'll be hard put to find it nowadays.
It sounds like school dinner in the 1950s.
I suppose that you can still get tinned peas, but goodness knows who buys them.
I think that Angel Delight can still be found.
You can have that for your pudding.

MissPrism - do you ever have me pegged - four years of an Engish boarding school during the fifties and I can still say grace in Latin. (You weren't my fourth form Latin teacher were you? I wasn't the one who wrote "Semper ubi sub ubi" on the board)

No, as you may remember, I was a private governess.
Ah. those school dinners of the 1950s, dead baby alias jam roly-poly, tapioca with prunes, cabbage boiled into submission, beef with shiny bits.
I saw some photographs of me and my friends when I went to a school reunion and we were all extremely slim.
We decided that we owed our sylphlike figures to compulsory games and those school dinners.

tapioca - fish eyes and glue
stewed plums - monkey balls
bangers - well you get the idea
... ahhh those were some meals to remember

The BBC did a survey to find the most hated school dinner items
They were
The Top 20 hate list
1. Tapioca
2. Cabbage
3. Overcooked veg
4. Lumpy mash
5. Lumpy custard
6. Liver
7. Semolina
8. Fatty or grisly meat
9. Blancmange
10. Beetroot
11. Spam fritters
12. Gravy
13. Macaroni
14. Butterbeans
15. Mince
16. Fish
17. Peas
18. Stew
19. Carrots
20. Sprouts

Actually, at my school, spam fritters were among the more edible items.
I quite like liver with bacon nowadays, but school liver was revolting.

No, the pink custard (with skin on) was definitely the worst.

No, risoles or grisoles as we called them were the worst.

Crikey Ben your run down of food had me drooling !!
Mrs Muck frequently prepares such things too but our timings here in Wales are slightly different.

Breakfast about 07:00
Elevens's about 10:00 :-)
Dinner or lunch (we call them by both)about 13:30
Tea about 18:00
Supper - impossible always too full from tea.

Not sure if this is all Wales but certainly is the case in mucky manor.

Oh that Lamb....mmmm

;-)

Muck

When is this meal taking place? If it's any time in the next week, your Brussels sprouts should, by tradition, be on already...