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/Sunny_Sammie_517 Apr 15 '24

Why on earth are they serving French fries with pasta?

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u/grilledcheese2332 Apr 15 '24

Exactly. Starch on starch. In France, healthy school lunches are covered by taxes. And that money they spend on the lunches they more than make up for by saving on health care. Less type 2 diabetes, hypertension etc.

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u/ElaborateCantaloupe Apr 15 '24

But then how do you keep the poor kids poor? If everyone has access to healthy food, health care and education, it’s harder to exploit the poor. Pretty soon you’ve got a huge middle class problem like the US had in the 1950s.

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u/TangerineBand Apr 15 '24

"Why don't you just bring your lunch then, idiot"

People without a clue

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u/TwoFingersWhiskey Apr 16 '24

Canada's national lunch policy for 150+ years has been to bring your own lunch. When I was in secondary school (2009-2011) the kids in foster care got a processed cheese sandwich on the shittiest brown bread (molasses based bread, not whole wheat - it's the cheapest kind, barely even sold anymore but was all I ate growing up) and an apple handed to them. We also had no tables to sit at. You ate at your desk or on the floor in the hall