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Prepare to feel nauseous at this School Dinners exhibition

Visitors are offered tiny samples of boiled greens, a cube of ‘cheese flan’ and, for pudding, a square of chocolate stodge smothered in chocolate custard

Ysenda Maxtone Graham
The sample plate from the 1940s contains chunks of dark brown liver polluting the inside of a jacket potato 
EXPLORE THE ISSUE 03 May 2025
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    Food Museum, Stowmarket, until 25 February 2027

Ysenda Maxtone Graham has narrated this article for you to listen to.

If your stomach turns when you walk past a Japanese restaurant with moulded plastic replicas of sushi on display, prepare to feel even more nauseous in the School Dinners exhibition at the Food Museum in Stowmarket, Suffolk.

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