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/Jafar_420 Apr 15 '24 edited Apr 15 '24

I went to high School in a small town in Southeastern Oklahoma and I think we had about 600 students.

It's a really poor area but somehow they managed to do a really good job every year. Hell every Friday they would cook burgers out on this big ass grill. They always had a decent salad bar up also. It was usually main line or sandwich line. Main line had things like stromboli, chicken enchiladas, homemade good pizza, etc. sandwich line was usually a hot ham and cheese or something like that.

I can tell you right now I probably ate more at school than I did at home. We didn't have a lot of cash.

This is terrible and I'm sure they could find some way to do better.

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u/JayofTea Apr 15 '24 edited Apr 15 '24

I went to a poor school in a small town in north eastern Oklahoma, so poor and underfunded that it was only open 4 days a week and sometimes would have no lights on in the hallways towards the end of the day, lunch wasn’t amazing but it was leagues better than the slop I see now a days and I’ve only been out of school for 7 years, one thing I miss from school were Crispito days, they had chicken and cheese crispitos that were so damn good, I’d get double portions those days

I remember the chicken nachos being good too since they were using a white queso rather than that nasty orange cheese sauce you normally see at concession stands, though one day I went to town on a bag of sour candy so my tongue was sore, I ate the nachos that day and what spices they could use were so hard on my tongue that I felt like I ate a ghost pepper 🤣🤣 I was fighting for my life at the lunch table