A school Christmas dinner has gone viral after people compared it to one of the eating the challenges from I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here.
A picture of the meal showed a dry piece of turkey, accompanied by a pig in blanket on a bap, with a square of stuffing and a mince pie.
Parents have complained about what was served at Steyning Grammar School and Sixth Form College, in West Sussex, and they have now been told that the cost of the meal will be refunded.
Some parents with children at the school shared photographs of the lunch on a local public Facebook group.
Ciaran Walsh, a sound designer from Steyning whose two daughters attend the school, tweeted a picture of the meal taken by his eldest daughter.
His tweet to Bohunt Education Trust, which runs the school, said: “Thanks for the Christmas lunch served to our kids at Steyning Grammar yesterday, really filled them with festive cheer!”
He said his daughter only ate the mince pie, adding: “The impression I got was that most of this stuff went in the bin. For most of the kids, there was this sense of disbelief that that’s what they got."
A school spokeswoman said the food was not up to the high standards expected of their caterers due to unforeseen supply chain issues and Covid-related staffing shortages.
A statement added: “We have now investigated this isolated matter fully and have apologised to all students and parents affected, together with providing a full refund.”
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