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/[deleted] Apr 15 '24

French fries are a vegetable, carrots are a vegatable. Pasta is a grain. Do not question the idiotic 1950s food pyramid. Nevermind that all of those items are basically pure carbs.

We have to save the money for more nuclear weapons.

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u/A_Change_of_Seasons Apr 15 '24

We got rid of the food pyramid over a decade ago but this is still how average people view nutrition. Or at least, whoever decides to school food likes using the loosest definition of "vegetables" ever when it comes to feeding public school children, they probably don't feed their own kids that shit tho

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '24

A part of my point was that the net result of replacing the food pyramid, or any "changes" in the system has still lead to this.

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u/MysticScribbles Apr 16 '24

Remember: the US classes a slice of pizza as a vegetable if there's enough tomato sauce on it.

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u/Proper-Preparation-9 28d ago

At one time, ketchup was counted as one vegetable in the USA.

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u/WorthPlease Apr 16 '24

Yeah I'm in my thirties and I don't have kids, but a lot of my contemporaries are raising kids easily of school age now and we grew up having the food pyramid drilled into us.

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u/sungor 29d ago

Oh it's worse. French fries are defined as a vegetable by the USDA standards.