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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 25926, member: 25&quot;]The haggis is a 1940&#039;s school dinner in a dead sheep&#039;s stomach. So traumatic did I find the abysmal 1940s/50s school dinners they have distorted my eating patterns for the rest of my life.</p><p><br /></p><p>Turnips, swedes and mangelwurzels are horse fodder, not for humans, and I considered my 6 or 7 year old&#039;s person&#039;s refusal to eat them as a rational response to a nasty taste, even though at the time the standard punishment for not eating your dinner was to sit and look at it for the rest of the afternoon.</p><p>The standard encouragement was &#039;Sailors died to bring you that food&#039; and &#039;There&#039;s children in Africa who&#039;d love that&#039;, and an innocent remark that turnips come from East Anglia, and that the Africans were welcome to my dinner would receive regular punishment from people who could not distinguish a statement of fact from &#039;insolence&#039;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just a thought. You could serve a very large pizza on the tray. With an oval base, it would look as if you had a special pizza tray. All your neighbours would want one.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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