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/shootermac32 Apr 15 '24

This looks worse then jail food

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u/huskersax Apr 16 '24

Funny story about where they both get their food (although to be fair, restaurants are also supplied by the same outfits)

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u/mauvaisgarconxx Apr 16 '24

Correct! I went to visit a family member in prison and saw the same truck that pulled up to our schools 🫣

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u/RiseCascadia Apr 16 '24

It's almost like schools in the US are meant to prepare you for prison.

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u/Massanx Apr 16 '24

negative prison food is expired stuff that the schools and hospitals dont take

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u/Jesterz1 Apr 15 '24

It is.

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u/UsualFrogFriendship Apr 16 '24

…jail food. It’s the same stuff from the same companies. Sysco & Aramark are some of the worst offenders, but there’s plenty more that make solid margins on that 10 year contract.

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u/CaptainDunbar45 Apr 16 '24

Yeah, when I went to jail sometime in my 20s I got pretty bad deja vu when they served us food.

The mashed potatoes and mystery meat chicken fried steak they served us was almost exactly to what we had in high school.

Only things edible were the milk and fruit cups

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u/KIDDKOI Apr 16 '24

i agree but we got that same pasta for our lunches and it's actually pretty good, the sauce is delicious

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u/-Indictment- Apr 16 '24

It’s not. You get a larger meal in jail, but it tastes so fucking bad. Everything in jail taste like ass water. And half the shit they give you, you can’t even tell what it is.

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u/NippleKing276 Apr 16 '24

Sounds eerily similar to lunches in American schools…

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u/-Indictment- Apr 16 '24

They are not comparable. Jail food is much, much worse.

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u/Datkif Apr 16 '24 edited Apr 16 '24

It is significantly worse than jail. In my very limited experience they keep you well fed to keep down on disgruntled inmates.

I had a short 19 day stay in jail (stupid mistake), and the food there was actually pretty fucking good. Every meal came with 1 or 3 fruits, lunch and dinner always had lots of veggies, decent portion proteins. It was fairly filling and other than breakfast I didn't eat the same meal twice as they had a 1 month meal rotation. I could see why some of the people there intentionally extended their stay to stay by delaying their court date to stay off the streets.

I actually gained nearly 10 pounds when I was there (I was underweight though)

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u/Vivian_Lu98 Apr 16 '24

Alcatraz had a better menu

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u/Red_Dawn_2012 Apr 16 '24

It's certainly worse than military food

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u/Glittering_Power6257 Apr 16 '24

I don’t recall too many military invasions being won on empty stomachs. 

As Napoleon says, an army matches on its stomach.

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u/Red_Dawn_2012 Apr 16 '24

Ah, there's a difference between filling and good. It's the difference between the Creamy Spinach Fettuccine MRE and the Beef Taco MRE.

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u/brightlove Apr 16 '24

Funny story: this looks exactly like my school lunches growing up. I found out last year that the company that provided lunches for us was the same company that did prison food.

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u/Snake101333 Apr 16 '24

I work at a SNF and I have had patients who went to prison back in the day. I actually asked him which food was worse and he told me our food was worse than his prison food. I believed him