I have found very soft but large bread rolls by the half dozen in the bigger LeClerc here.
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Now you’re talking. Still eating them to this day.
I’ve tried a few times and really struggle to get the right texture.
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Me too…
one favourite dessert was made in long narrow tins, lined with suet pastry, 3 whole lemons placed therein and the whole thing closed with a long suet lid.
Each table got a tin to share out. the lemons were still whole but so soft and their juice had soaked into the suet pastry and it was “melt in the mouth delight”.
Not everyone wanted a piece of an actual lemon, that was a favourite amongst the minority at table so no squabbling 
Don’t forget teacake (West Yorkshire)
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Spam fritters. Used to be a favourite tea on fridays when mum was busy. Lots of ketchup and tinned/frozen peas with them. Probably could not stomach them now.
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Utterly disgusting. Coated in batter. Yuk.
On the flip side, my prep school (which in some respects, though not all, resembled a Victorian workhouse) gave us fried bread spread with Marmite one day a week for breakfast.
I really enjoyed that, oddly enough! 
In light of the thread direction, I’ve tweaked the name. 
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Cheers!
Now I can reminisce about “chocolate crunch” a delicious dessert which we enjoyed just once every School Year. A cross between biscuit and sponge, it was cooked in large square tins, one tin per table and let battle commence
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Were those the puddings that appears to have been cooked, wrapped in some sort of material? That’s what we called them at my prep school, at any rate!
Nah, the meat was grey and wasn’t served with gravy, I think it must have been some sort of mashed and pressed fish. I can’t remember having spam at school.
We called that chocolate concrete and it came with the pinkest blamonge you ever saw. I disliked both and eventually stopped canteen dinners and took my own lunch which we were allowed to eat in the classroom as there were quite a few who did not like the canteen stuff which caused me never to eat pig liver again since, I was so bad all afternoon they had to send me home.
Ah.. yours was concrete .. '
not the same at all.
Chocolate Crunch had the texture of a chocolate sponge-cum-biscuit (traybake) made with really dark chocolate, hence the nickname and it was wonderful, cut into large squares and handed round. 
I can’t remember a school dessert that I actually liked. There seemed to be an awful lot of rice puddings, or semolina or tapioca. 
yuk… hated all that lot but, when push comes to shove we mostly downed what we were given or went hungry. 
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School meals.
In my years at school from the age of 5 to 17 I have no recollection of school meals, even of drinking the daily 1/3rd pint of milk - although I was a milk monitor. I do however remember taking the malt spoonful’s from ‘matron’, loverly grub! If you were lucky, and I was, you’d get the empty tin to scrape out the remains.
I have a very good visual memory and can float around inside and out all the schools I went to, but dining hall images won’t come to mind. I’ve tried hard to remember, but sitting at a table with school mates eating school meals just won’t materialize. Dammit!
School meal phobia?
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When I was eight years old and in an all girls boarding school, we were obliged to clean our plates. Our solution was to pass unwanted items to those who wanted under the table. One Sunday I ate 14 roast potatoes.
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At my girls’ prepbschool I fed a pocketful of tripe in white sauce to the school cat. Win win. (He turned up after I’d put it in my pocket intending to dispose of it).
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That sounds really messy 
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Talking of school, who remembers the nit nurse about every six months or so in primary? None of us ever caught them, nor my two at playgroup/first year UK primary school but upon arrival in their french primary school, they had them within a few weeks. I got rid by going down the beach after school every day and all of us going swimming under the water which cleared these pests completely via the cold salt sea.