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Old August 25th, 2013, 08:25 PM   #22
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Rice pudding. I'm scarred for life by memories of school rice pudding. I went to a primary school (5-9) which had no kitchens. The food was delivered from another school in long aluminium trays, and was always too cold before it ever got to us. The rice pudding was congealed, and looked disturbingly like someone's body fluids as seen in various movies on VEF, or like wall-paper paste. We were issued with a blob of cheap red strawberry jam to accompany this, and the custom among the children was to stir it in, making the result seem even more like medical waste.

The school had some bizarre throwover from WW2 going on. If you did not eat every last little bit of the food on your plate (and you weren't allowed to say you didn't like cabbage, carrots or whatever) then you could not leave the dining hall and play in the fresh air. I spent many dismal lunch hours staring mutinously at an inedible plate of rice pudding until the bell rang for afternoon classes. But if the alternative had been a bullet in the head, I'd have taken the bullet; that's how much I loathed school rice pudding. It's been 40 years, and I've never touched rice pudding. I never shall.
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