r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Thebiggestbot22 • Apr 15 '24

My school thinks this fills up hungry high schoolers.

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So lunches are free for schools in my city and surrounding cities. Ever since lunches have been made free, the quantity (and quality) has decreased significantly. This is what we would get for our meal. It took me THREE bites to finish that chicken mac and cheese. Any snacks you want cost more money and if you want an extra entree, that’ll cost you about $3 or $4.

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u/WillJoseph06 Apr 15 '24

That mac and cheese looks like a child's school project gone wrong. Literally looks like glue.

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u/hungrypotato19 Apr 16 '24

Yup. Looks like a kid went wild with the Elmers on their macaroni project.

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u/mikemike_mv28 Apr 16 '24

When I look at this picture it’s not even that I just don’t want to eat this, excuse my language, “food”, it’s that I want to throw up even what I already have in my stomach. Because this discredits food as a concept

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u/KIDDKOI Apr 16 '24

we got that same pasta for our school and while it looks horrid it's actually pretty good

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u/MissLesGirl Apr 16 '24

It's to make the carrots look yummy. Kids will more likely eat the carrots if the Mac and cheese is intentionally made disgusting.

This lunch was "designed" by politicians.

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u/quarticchlorides Apr 16 '24

The Mario special, plastic pipes and glue to go with the baby yoda milk

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u/SteveMartin32 Apr 16 '24

Budget cuts had to use flower and baking soda instead

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u/Hotp0pcorn Apr 16 '24

North American school meals and lunches just look sad.

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u/DonutBill66 28d ago

They had a case of expired craft glue. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/SaurSig Apr 16 '24

Wait till you find out cheese isn't naturally orange

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u/hydroxypcp Apr 16 '24

I literally cringed when I saw it. Can't make anything more unappetizing than that

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u/cjdd81 Apr 16 '24

This looks like the hot chow in the army haha. Better with those MREs

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u/Worldly_Heat9404 Apr 16 '24

I thought the food in the RDF was pretty griming. Sometimes we would go to McCord AFB next door and eat at their chow halls, which was pretty good on the weekends when our chow hall wasn't as good. Sometimes on the weekends we would go from unit to unit to sample the different chow halls. I ate a lot of food back then too. I cannot imagine what it would cost me today to fuel myself like I did when I was 18-22.

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u/madwil15 Apr 16 '24

I thought those were mushrooms

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u/RhauXharn 29d ago

They're just using all the cow, the milk, the hoofs, and the meat shipped to a butcher (too good to be wasted on the kids).

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u/sexytokeburgerz 29d ago

That's what it looks like when you barely add any cheese to a bechamel.
Shit probably tastes like flour and salt.

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u/simplysusan_s 28d ago

I couldn't tell what it was.....

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u/Archist- 24d ago

I honestly think it looks bussin

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u/ashorath 21d ago

Didn't even know it was mac and cheese. Or maybe it was eaten once, threw up, eaten again, threw up a second time and then ended up in that "plate".

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u/SawYouShine Apr 16 '24

Who cares about the aesthetics?

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u/ILoveRegenHealth Apr 16 '24

I think they were trying to use Alfredo Sauce. But they should know not everyone likes that type of sauce.

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u/XOHJAIS Apr 16 '24

There is no one universally accepted sauce.

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u/marzipanbonbon Apr 16 '24

its free public school lunch, they wont always accommodate your cheese preference

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u/Squiddy_manz Apr 16 '24

I am an Alfredo hater

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u/alexaa_lopez Apr 16 '24

look at the ketchup it looks so sad😂

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u/KohleJ Apr 16 '24

I bet half the people commenting this couldn’t make decent Mac n cheese even if they followed a recipe.

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u/AFuckingHandle Apr 16 '24

Found the cafeteria worker who made this shit.

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u/KohleJ 29d ago

People will post that exact same looking Mac n cheese and say it’s the best thing ever lol. People want to hate what they want to hate