Did you get a "play piece"

No food or toys were allowed into our school...anything brought ( 2ozs sweets for three pence) on way to school had to be diligently hidden from teachers. All found was confiscated and not returned til end of week!! I cannot for life of me imagine what teachers do these days with sweets, biscuits, toys, bottles of water?!? , mobiles ...all taken into school for the little precious ones in case they dare have to face 10 mins being denied sustenance. A little stoicism wouldn’t go amiss with a lot of kids. My kids and indeed now my grandkids do not take anything to school except their lunch boxes ,and no sweets allowed by parents ,or me if I’m doing the pack-up. They take no money either and no water bottles. The school provides water at lunch time if the child hasnt brought a drink with them,... the youngest’s school still has a working water fountain in the playground ...and the kids love using it!

Oh MooMoo you win on the yuk stakes"
vinegar as well ?

Jangran my sister and I still love a frys cream chocolate sandwich.
I keep a pack in the fridge. ?

When I was about ten we came back from abroad and I was sent to the local convent to 'cram' for the 11plus exam. The food at lunch was unspeakable and we were not allowed to bring food to school...however the nuns used to sell Cadburys chocolate fingers during break times - as I recall three for 6d. I often smile when I think about that particular little act of 'Godliness' now

Cherrytree59 I also had the butter and sugar for a sore throat but my mum added vinegar.

Blondiescot. I think I was odd, I had sugar and butter sandwiches on white bread and liked a brown sauce sandwich . My friends parents owned a grocery shop she would bring some sweets for our friends but I used to ask her to bring me 2 oxo cubes which I would eat at break.
After school I would have raw potato dipped in sugar. Believe it or not I still have my own teeth.

Play pieces were the order of the day in West Lothian when I was a child. Jeely pieces, a piece on jam were what I remember.
Jeely is a fruit jelly, usually apple or apple and bramble and I recall the bag being suspended on the legs of an upturned chair and the juice dripping through overnight. Woe betide you if you dared touch that bag!
When my son wouldn't eat breakfast before leaving for school ( in the 80s) I gave him digestive biscuits spread with butter and a cup of milk to eat on his way.
I used to, still do, jam on tea biscuits with the jam squeezing through the holes! A posh treat was Royal Scot biscuits, sandwiched with jam and icing spread on top!

I don't think we were allowed to take food to school in my primary school days. At my grammar school we had a tuck shop selling Mars bars etc and a horrid fizzy drink called Fling. If anyone bought a bar of anything, they were duty bound to give all the mates with them a little bite of it. No wonder we were thinner then!

My miner dad's 'pit piece' often had fillings of sliced up Mars Bar or Fry's Chocolate Bar.

Play piece was a buttered roll usually in a white paper bag. Then graduated to crisps. Own family were inky only allowed to take nuts, raisins, crisps or fruit. And, there was never any bottles of water!

Oh but paddyann hearing "piece" again in relation to sandwiches, has reminded me of my favourite snack as a child.

A piece with nippy sauce (HP brown sauce )

I might just have to relive that today.

Thank you for the world so sweet
Thank you for the food we eat
Thank you for the birds that song
Thank you God for everything
How on earth can I remember that from age 5 yet I can’t remember what I had for tea yesterday ?!!
The poorer kids at school had a play piece of bread and the
better off kids had a biscuit. Happy memories indeed

Yes. My play piece was usually two Jaffa cakes

(Also Scottish)

wildswan16 love the “shivery bite”!

When I started school in the 1950s DM used to wrap two biscuits in a paper bag for me to have at playtime.

I had a play piece (from 1961) Edinburgh. DGS gets a snack for break (East Lothian) and packed lunch. He could get a free school meal at lunch time as all P1 children can but insists on the same lunch every day (jeely piece, cheese, crisps and fruit, with water). He gets milk before playtime which DD pays for each term.

without any problems at all watermeadow we were all running about like dervishes so we were starving by playtime and remmber its colder here so you need extra calories...lol

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My mother had a ginger biscuit for her play piece way back in the 1930s when she started school. She began to eat it by scraping the edge on her teeth. A teacher admonished her with "That's no way to eat a biscuit!" so Mum never finished it because she didn't know any other way!

She win't have called it a play piece; she was in Yorkshire.

Never heard the term ‘piece’ but then I am east not north but we didn’t use it here I don’t remember taking anything to school we had our milk with a straw and that was it I think They did used to sell home made toffee ( made by the Cookery class ) in break time every now and then

When my children started school most of the others had a snack for playtime.I didn’t allow this because mine wouldn’t eat lunch if they ate between meals.
One day my child stole someone’s bag of crisps. Oh, the embarrassment!
I’m surprised all you Scottish kids ate sandwiches at playtime. How did you manage lunch only an hour and a half later?

SirChenJin, my brother’s girlfriend who talked about the ‘jeely piece’ wasn’t from Glasgow. She came from Crail on the east Fife coast.

Blondiscot Talking of the Boak,
we had butter rolled in sugar for a soar throat!

I think my parents and grandparents were so
'deprived' of butter and sugar during the war,
that when rationing ended they became rather heavy handed with both.
And all things sweet for that matter.

No wonder when the NHS came into being, they all had their teeth whipped out and had new stove dentures put in.
(my Dad's little joke)

We definitely had a playpiece at primary school - used to love my Marmite piece! However, I remember there was one boy who used to have a piece on sugar - white bread with butter, liberally sprinkled with sugar - to this day, the thought of him crunching into that sugar gives me the boak (there's another good Scottish word for you!)

Gonegirl your spelling is better than mine!

I think that must be the first time I have had the need to to write rather than eat a Jeely piece