It came up as the 60s on the search. We had one outside the post office in that decade and there was another I used the other side of town going to watch Bristol Rugby at the Memorial Ground with my 'schoolboy pass' also in the 60s.

Strawberry milk was the one I got most.

I just found a photo of the post office, milk machine on the left.




The cartons were very waxy. The spout opened easily enough but sometimes the wax cracked and needed spitting out.

I had Greek pork chop(s), yellow beans, mashed potatoes and gravy, and apple crisp. I had a few bites of the chop, a couple of forkfulls of beans, ate all the potatoes though the gravy was almost as thick, and I ate the dessert even though it was bad as well. Too bad, I thought the apple crisp would be good. A nurse came by and didn't scold me like the one at lunch. I said I should ask for the recipe.... and burn it under a full moon.
More 1% chocolate milk. I don't bother taking the lid off and tasting it now. I don't' like skim milk but use the breakfast 1% in my coffee and cereal, If this chocolate milk was 2% (or if I was starving), it would be a different matter.

A food porter just brought me a juice and a tiny Danone cherry yogurt for night-time snack; how nice!
Maybe the Greek pork chop recipe got in the cook's book because sometime in his youth he was terribly hurt by a Greek girl, and he can't shake off the anguish.

You need to get outta there.

Beef and bison stew, baking powder biscuit, and lemon cake.

Hard to bugger up a stew, I hope it was at least palatable. If you don't want the cake, send it to Nutek

They can bugger up a stew, but this one was pretty good! There wasn't a lot of it, but that's ok. The only thing that went back was my 120ml skim milk. If I ever want a cake, all I have to do is choose one from this store on the flashfood app for half price, my next door neighbour works in the bakery there and she will bring it home from work on the bus. She said one woman, 26 years old, does all the cakes there. There are often 10 or more to choose from.

Nice to have friends in high places! I could scoff that lemon cake in 2 seconds flat.

You will end up a bag o bones at this rate. No dumplings?

It's good to be the king.

Yes, your Majesty

I'd take the stew and the lemon cake and give you the biscuit. I abhor biscuits.

I like a hot biscuit with butter and honey. This one was really crumbly and hard to spread margarine on, but wasn't too bad. Ideally they should be fluffy right through, but mine aren't perfect either. 6.3 out of 10 (that's good for hospital food) and I appreciate their attempt.

Tandoori chicken pizza from Red Swan Pizza: