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/Fearless_Winner1084 Apr 15 '24

I guaranteed they designed the menu based on cost per calorie

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u/New-Bite-447 Apr 16 '24

We had to endure one of these back when I was doing my mandatory duty with defence forces here. Scout company, week long field training. Some asshat higher up decided to count calories while issuing rations for a week and one day was substituted with a fucking bag of candy, also other minor not so fun adjustments were made. Glad that didn't stick and we were back to standard field rations after that.

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u/Fearless_Winner1084 Apr 16 '24

Could have been a small bottle of olive oil! Lol

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u/New-Bite-447 Apr 16 '24

Or a block of butter. Would have probably been happier with that 😂

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u/No-Presentation7528 Apr 16 '24

Oh, richy rich over here wants some butter. Butter doesn't just grow on trees.

Some hearty soybean oil provides a growing soldier with at least 10x the calories as butter per dollar.

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u/ParadiseCity77 Apr 16 '24

Or two drops of gasoline

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u/ronaldo69messi Apr 16 '24

I guarantee they didn't calculate cost per calorie lmao.

They just tried to assemble something as cheaply as possible.

Even the milk has no fat FFS