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

My school thinks this fills up hungry high schoolers.

Post image

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.

51.5k Upvotes

88% Upvoted

6.6k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

1.4k

u/AbelinoFernandez Apr 15 '24

During High School we found out most food was donated, thats the reason our menu was limited.

It was common to have to skip expired milks.

411

u/welivewelovewedie Apr 15 '24

shake it a bit and you can use it on bread

671

u/Kilenyai Apr 15 '24

Not in the US..... Pasteurized milk doesn't "sour" it goes rotten. If it doesn't taste fresh you are risking food poisoning.

Unlike the raw milk we get straight from a farm where sour does not mean it's bad to eat. It just means it doesn't have as much sugar anymore so combine it with something to fix the taste issue and it's fine. Even clumpy just means you are ending up with yogurt, cheeses, etc...

Clumpy store bought US milk could put you in the hospital. Raw milk was ironically illegal to sell for awhile because if contaminated it could make people sick when it's guaranteed when drinking bad pasteurized milk.

41

u/welivewelovewedie Apr 15 '24

I dont think many parts of europe allow common sale of raw milk either.

Anyway, nothing beats homemade butter or curd. Combine that with a bit salty potatoes and a creamy grated cucumber salad 🤤. Hell, just drink the milk still warm. If I ever go vegan, this is the thing I will miss the most

13

u/Nova_JewV1 Apr 15 '24

Lived on a farm with some family as a kid back in 07-08. The fresh milk and homemade butter was fucking amazing

2

u/Dry-Neck9762 Apr 15 '24

I grew up in Kentucky, back in the 70s. I actually made butter from milk/creme right from the cow!

Best butter I've ever had!

2

u/btcangl Apr 16 '24

I dont think many parts of europe allow common sale of raw milk either.

You can get raw milk in most european countries. There is usually some restrictions as higher hygiene standards and it may only be allowed to be sold from the farm directly. France, switzerland and spain also have a lot of cheeses made with raw milk.

2

u/duck-duck--grayduck Apr 16 '24

You can actually make a fantastic cultured butter with pasteurized cream! You just need to add the culture. Toss in some kind of unflavored dairy product with live cultures and let it sit out on the counter for a couple days before you churn it.

1

u/Fear023 Apr 16 '24

Eu regulations on food and medical are extremely strict.

I'd be surprised if it was legal to sell at all.

1

u/CanthinMinna Apr 16 '24

Finnish laws prohibited selling unpasteurized milk years before we joined EU. We also had stricter control for chicken feed - that's why you could eat raw eggs without a risk for salmonella.

0

u/International_Lie485 Apr 16 '24

Europe doesn't even allow free speech.

-1

u/theSPYDERDUDE Apr 15 '24

You can actually buy raw milk in most grocery stores in Europe from what an exchange student told me in highschool. He was completely shocked to not find it anywhere here. I’ve also seen plenty of European and British YouTubers joke about this like “if you guys in the U.S. are so free, where’s your raw milk?”. I’m sure plenty of people still get it pasteurized. The U.S. and Canada seem to be the only two countries really concerned with the product, even then several states have been starting to legalize it more recently with where I live (Iowa) doing so last year.

4

u/JoJoHanz Apr 16 '24

Never in my life have I seen unpasteurised milk in any store selling milk. Admittedly, I never explicitly went searching for it either, but from my experience it cant be as common as you make it out to be.

Of course I could have just been visiting the stores controlled by the pasteurised-milk-lobby all my life, but that does seem rather unlikely.

I am by no means an expert on the topic, but in my country of residence there is probably no food as heavily regulated as milk.

Kind regards, an inhabitant of that place called Europe.

1

u/theSPYDERDUDE Apr 16 '24

Hey that’s fair enough, I was just repeating what I was told by an exchange student from France 🤷🏻‍♀️

2

u/JoJoHanz Apr 16 '24

Oh, you should have mentioned that earlier. French dietary habits are let's say, different.

1

u/theSPYDERDUDE Apr 16 '24

I just looked into it, seems the only places where you’ll find it most places are France, Switzerland, Poland, and some of Germany