The big flaw in Labour’s ‘free school meals for all’ plan should be obvious – Cameron Wyllie
For many people of my generation, school lunches are a painful memory. When I was a primary school pupil, they were compulsory and, among the images stuck in my head of indescribable sausages, gluey gravy and something inaccurately called ‘custard’, is the daily sight of the ‘pigs’ bin’ in which the leftovers went, the leftovers very often being more or less the whole meal. As I got older, I took a packed lunch to school and was allowed out on a Friday, when I fled to Lanny’s fish-and-chip shop for a hamburger (battered) and chips, which cost, I believe I’m right in saying, 1/9d.
All this has, of course, changed. With the limited budgets afforded to them, school caterers produce varied, colourful and, most importantly, healthy food.
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