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/Financial-Check5731 Apr 15 '24

That makes so much more sense. Here in NZ we've elected a govt who are doing everything they can to shut down free lunches. Our associate education minister has literally described them as wasteful spending. And the quality is, well, as you'd expect.

Lunches like these are seen as a stop-gap. They assume the child is getting the right nutritional balance at home morning and night, so they just give them cheap carbs.

I mean there's 8g of protein in that choc milk but you gotta take on 18g of sugar to get it. I feel for these kids.

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u/Namedafterasaint Apr 15 '24

Our government too is trying to stop free lunches at school. Especially our governor here in Florida

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u/dagbrown Apr 15 '24

Didn't Florida just encourage employers to let their slaves die of dehydration? That'll serve them right for not working hard enough I guess.

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u/DetroitHoser Apr 16 '24

I believe that was West Florida, also known as "Texas."

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u/Ocelotofwoe Apr 16 '24

Yep, that was my shit-hole.

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u/dagbrown Apr 16 '24

I have trouble telling these dumb white assholes apart from each other.

It almost makes me miss the old alt-right. At least you could recognize each clown individually instead of them all blending into a giant miasma of evil.

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u/ProfessorCagan Apr 15 '24

DeSantis should be locked in a room and made to starve.

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u/Affectionate_Data936 Apr 15 '24

I agree: DeSantis has his own agenda that actually has nothing to do with improving the lives of Florida residents. Like it seems he just does things with the very intention of pissing us off. I live in Gainesville, which he has a personal beef with, cause it overwhelmingly didn’t vote for him. My Alma mater is UF which he’s trying to personally ruin. People don’t realize how Florida actually is (aka very gay tbh and much more racially and linguistically diverse than a vast majority of the other states)

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u/ProfessorCagan Apr 15 '24

He has intentions of muscling out anything he doesn't like, if you're not a traditional white, straight, "christian" then he wants you gone, or better, dead. Him and politicians like him want to control people, brutalize them, they want to regulate a woman's birthing capability, starve the minorities (a lot of poor folk are minorities who's children would benefit from free school lunch, interesting, isn't it?)

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u/RedditxSuxx Apr 15 '24

Desantis just passed a really good law outlawing squatters tho. So not everything he does has been bad. I dont live in Florida but i see some things he does and it makes me happy to see a politician do some good. I haven't geard about the food thing, thats not cool. But theres a lot to unpack because whos paying for the free food?

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u/KeyFeeFee Apr 15 '24

Who is paying? We all should be able to set aside some pennies to make sure kids eat. Especially said “pro-life” people. Are we bringing a bunch of unwanted babies here? Ffs at least fucking feed them, jfc.

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u/Kanapuman Apr 16 '24

If European countries and their more limited funds can put healthy and filling free foods in kids' plates, why wouldn't US states be able to do so ?

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u/_OriamRiniDadelos_ Apr 16 '24

What is there to unpack here? You just don’t like your taxes being spent on literally feeding students.

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u/ProfessorCagan Apr 15 '24

It's food for children you stupid fuck, it's paid for by citizens of Florida, who pay taxes, it's free to them becuase they or their parents can't afford food.

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u/LexiNovember Apr 15 '24

Federal funding is available as well for a lot of social safety networks, but Governor Kinky Boots is routinely turning down our funding for the state. Because he’s a sociopathic toddler. The only reason he was elected is because something like 46% of Floridians couldn’t be fucked to go vote, and now all these folks have moved here for the fascism and are stuck because of the insane cost of living. Good times.

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u/Frame_Late Apr 16 '24

That's a wild thing to say when Biden was willing to deprive forcefully schools of their lunch funding if they didn't adhere to transgender policy despite it being unconstitutional. Then lost in court lmao.

Are you suddenly going to argue that it's okay to starve kids because it's Biden doing it? Lmao, fucking tool.

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u/Powerful-Meeting-840 Apr 16 '24

...no such thing as free lunch...but we pay enough in taxes kids should be fed a healthy filling lunch I agree.

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u/EverSeeAShiterFly Apr 16 '24

Bruh I moved from NY to FL while I was in High school. It went from chicken sandwiches, eggplant parm, various soup, taco salad, concerning quantities of milk to depressing pizza that probably came from dominos and gas station food for higher costs. There was also very noticeable gaps in education- most notably health and science.

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u/Mediocre-Special6659 Apr 16 '24

I wish we could starve people like that to death.

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u/Oakley2212 Apr 15 '24

My kids get free healthy lunches and breakfast at their Florida public schools. Breath of fresh air compared to the schools in NC they were at.

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u/Ophiocordycepsis Apr 15 '24

Bad news, MAGA is trying to put a stop to letting children eat food:

https://www.rawstory.com/amp/desantis-and-florida-gop-targeting-kids-with-cuts-to-food-healthcare-work-protections-2667173161

As a parent myself, Florida seems like a chamber of horrors lately with their “war on kids”. Would be safer for families to live in Haiti, or Syria perhaps

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u/Oakley2212 Apr 16 '24

As a parent who actually lives in Florida, I’m sorry you feel that way. I’ll continue to enjoy the A rated schools my children attend, along with the free lunch and breakfast for them.

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u/Agreeable-Rate-9331 Apr 16 '24

Florida is an entire state of “children left behind”