Picking and choosing food. We got A/B, mash/chips and dessert/no dessert. There may have been experiments in pasta, but like the great chicken kiev debacle, rarely repeated. The East Midlands in the mid-80s wasn't quite ready for pasta and pizza. Or herbs and spices. And being whiter than whiter, there was none of that kosher or halal nonsense. Is this pie halal, miss? No, it's meat. Best not to ask what kind of meat, DNA profiling wasn't yet readily available, and even now, it's rarely made available to dinner ladies (I suppose it's all outsourced catering companies, or Pizza Hut or Ginsters, and fearsome, meaty armed dinner ladies are a quaint symptom of the past).
As a junior, I used to go home for lunch (to my grandparents) but that was mostly to watch Pipkins.