Did you get a "play piece"

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

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.

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!

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

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!

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!

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.

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

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

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

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

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!

I’m English, but can remember going out with a Scottish lad in my early 20’s who had to explain to me what a ‘jammy piece’ was.

We were always given a piece, quite often a jeely piece, which was eaten at morning break, washed down with our free school milk. I never liked drinking milk but it was more palatable with a sweet piece.

When we went swimming at the local baths we were given a "chitterry bite" which was usually a roll and butter, sometimes a jeely piece, to eat as soon as you got out of the water

I live in England, but going to school in the 50's we took a snack to eat with our morning milk, mine was usually a piece of cheese spread. We had little table runners to put our snack on. Paisley patterned material if I remember right.

No food or drink at my school only a water fountain in the play ground so at best that was useless because it froze in winter and now I think how unhygienic the damn thing was.

Primary school the dreaded enforcement of having to drink milk which I was intolerant to at the time and being sick didn't stop you having to drink it because ' it did me good'.

I had an Apple every day, I hate Apples, always have. DGs has cheese and biscuits, French soft Cheese.

I was quite put out when one of the 'posher' girls at my next school ridiculed me for calling a cheese sandwich a piece of cheese. Quite funny how things can still hurt 60 years on.

I can remember being quite jealous of children lucky enough to be given cold toast to eat at break time because we were poor and I had to suffice with the free milk given daily. I was never over weight though. It didn't have a name that I can recall, but my mouth used to water for some cold toast.

It’s amazing to think how much I used to eat as a schoolgirl in he 1950s. I had a cooked breakfast, often with porridge as well as bacon and egg. I had the aforementioned marmite sandwich and apple at morning break, then a two course school lunch. I went home to a snack before a full cooked meal in the early evening. Milk and biscuits, bread and butter or cake at bedtime.

All the time I was thin as a rail!

Moo moo, sugar and butter sandwiches! That so reminds me of what my mums favoured snack was - a weetabix spread with butter and then a spoon full of sugar on when she was a schoolgirl.

I like you ate oxo cubes, and also drank any left over mint sauce that was left after a lamb dinner at my nans. Nana said it would 'dry my blood' drinking mint sauce! It never stopped me though, and I still grow mint to make my own home made mint sauce, and I still finish it off. Delicious !

I don't remember taking a snack to school for playtime in the junior school. It was just the free bottle of milk when I started at grammar school we could buy Chelsea buns 3d and Bath buns 4d to have with our milk. I thought that was the height of luxury . The buns were made by the baker down the road whose daughter had been in my class at the Junior school. Years later she made contact with me on Friends Reunited. We had lived very different lives and she had become a vicar.

My favourite play piece was marmalade sandwiches. I'd never heard of Paddington Bear, btw.
When we moved to Fife, I was briefly baffled by talk of a 'lief piece'.

Paddyann, mine was a rowie (buttery). In the winter, I sometimes put it in the class radiator so that it would be warm at playtime, until one day, the teacher noticed that the writing on the baker's paper bags had been transferring itself onto the radiator 'slats' due to the heat and grease.

We all had water fountains in the playground, and although, going by today's standards, they probably were unhygienic, in all seven years at primary school, I never had a bout of sickness and diahorrea, and I don't think there was ever a round of everyone being off with it over a period of a week or two like there is now. We didn't wash our hands before the playtime snacks and lunch either.