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No - Nothing to do with the Rolling Stones.

I discovered a packet of soft dark brown sugar in the kitchen cabinet yesterday, and had a sudden urge to make some porridge.

More memories of Horsham in the early 60's came flooding back.

That lumpy stuff we were served at breakfast with a big dollop of that gorgeous sugar in the centre was a real 'comfort-food'

Well at least home-made porridge would be edible.....

We still get it!

It forms a third of my breakfast, although the portions they serve are horribly small (sigh).

In case you're wondering, the other two thirds consist of whatever the cooked option is, as well as two Weetabix.

Very enjoyable, and a nice way to start the day, especially in winter (the porridge with brown sugar).

Tis very rare for Grecians to make an appearance at breakfast - this morning I was one of five or six of 120! I have occasionally been the only one....

The state of our nation, I don't know...

Seniors could skip breakfast on Sundays, and that was it.

I always tried to make it, though. Needed the food..........

S'not a wonder people struggle periods 1 and 2 really..

I never missed a breakfast...

Tbh, breakfast should be compulsory...

...and the catering franchise should be given to a company who aren't totally incompetent, lousy, miserable, stingy sods....

...an actual catering company would be a start...

Hendrik wrote:...and the catering franchise should be given to a company who aren't totally incompetent, lousy, miserable, stingy sods....

...an actual catering company would be a start...

I tended to have cereal and toast - you can't really go wrong with that...

cereal, sure, it comes out of packets. i doubt even Fairfield could mess that one up. the toast was usually dire though. hardly rocket science to 'cook'.

...but the breaktime -self-made- toast was heavenly. still light and soft on the inside, golden brown and crusty on the outside. lashings of NPO butter and a covering of marmite........mmmmmm.......

Hendrik wrote:cereal, sure, it comes out of packets. i doubt even Fairfield could mess that one up. the toast was usually dire though. hardly rocket science to 'cook'.

...but the breaktime -self-made- toast was heavenly. still light and soft on the inside, golden brown and crusty on the outside. lashings of NPO butter and a covering of marmite........mmmmmm.......

Good old NPO butter... just smear it on the toast without a knife!

To be fair to fairfield (ho ho, what a pun), I've never been able to enjoy fried bread as much since leaving CH. There was something about waiting until the beans had soaked in enough to make it edible that I really did love. I'm serious!!!

I lived in Ghana from 1969 for 4 years. You could not buy granulated sugar only lump. The story was that during the war they had had a very bad consignment of granulated sugar from the Congo with lots of impurities, and the whole country had turned against it. I wonder whether they have relented now?

Lump sugar on porridge in the morning is a very strange concept!

Hendrik wrote:cereal, sure, it comes out of packets. i doubt even Fairfield could mess that one up. the toast was usually dire though. hardly rocket science to 'cook'.

...but the breaktime -self-made- toast was heavenly. still light and soft on the inside, golden brown and crusty on the outside. lashings of NPO butter and a covering of marmite........mmmmmm.......

Errrrrr.....!

My feeling for school cereal are not covered by the verb, 'to detest'. And yes, school bread is only edible once toasted and liberally doused in NPO butter. Beautiful.

Nothing wrong with school cereal in the latter years of the 20th century...

actually, having pondered a bit, even the cereal wasn't brilliant. the rice crispy generics were ok, as were the bran flakes.

breaktime: warm, sweet, milky tea in a blue plastic mug, 4 or 8 slices of marmite toast and a roll up just to round it off.

i miss those aspects of school