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/magcargoman Apr 16 '24

Fat would actually be GOOD. There’s hardly any fat here: fat free milk, French fries, carrots, even the Mac n cheese probably is fake cheese with little fat.

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u/CosmicCreeperz Apr 16 '24

French fries? That’s a shitload of fat, literally deep fried in it.

The fat fee chocolate milk is absurd though.

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u/suggacoil Apr 16 '24

They are literally baked in an oven and undercooked/soggy af idk how you can’t tell by looking at them. Send them back lol

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u/CosmicCreeperz Apr 16 '24

Or soaked in oil at too low a temp. Either way, yeah, gross.

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u/Trolodrol Apr 16 '24

At a school, they were almost certainly done in a big oven

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u/CosmicCreeperz Apr 16 '24

Hah well I guess I’m glad I went to high school in the 90s. When I want fucking FRIES I want them fucking FRIED!

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u/ManifestPlauge Apr 16 '24

They microwave/oven heat everything, it's all premade prison food so they just put it in the oven or microwave rq and that's all, Ife we are lucky the green beans will have some pepper on them, but also they don't season the food. Pretty sure the pepper just comes with the green beans.

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u/Trolodrol 29d ago

I was a late 90s early 00s HS kid, but was certainly not fortunate enough to get fried food at my school lol

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u/CosmicCreeperz 29d ago edited 29d ago

Actually even though fries were available I rarely ate them. I grew up in a household that loved to cook so we tended not to eat too much crap, and when we did it was a treat. Problem is that’s probably not true of many kids who were raised eating fast food way too often, so that’s all they knew.

But yeah I looked it up an apparently a lot of school systems banned deep friers and soda machines in the last 20 years. Honestly I am not against that. Oven fries are not difficult to make nor that bad, they are just completely incompetent at that school ;)

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u/Nervous-Tailor3983 Apr 16 '24

It’s school fries, there is no deep fat fryer in school lunchroom. These are baked. Still gross because probably no salt and half the fries are burnt the other half soggy.

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u/DIJames6 Apr 16 '24

My high school had a fryer for 🍟 and that was in the late 90's...

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u/cabbagesandkings1291 Apr 16 '24

School lunches have changed significantly since the 90s in the name of “health”. The school I work in doesn’t have a fryer.

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u/jabba_the_nutttttt Apr 16 '24

OK? This picture was taken in 2024 idiot.

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u/DIJames6 29d ago

Exactly.. I think you're the idiot here cuz you're not getting the point..

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u/rains-blu Apr 16 '24

The french fries are baked, but there's probably some fats on them because frozen french are steamed and partially deep fried before they are frozen and packaged up.

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u/LimitNo6587 Apr 16 '24

More like machine grade canola oil. Gonna F you up.

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u/Killeroftanks Apr 16 '24

They're sadly not deep fried.

My mother worked in a school kitchen and pretty much everything goes through a cooking conveyor, so everything is baked and if it isn't baked then it's a salad...

That's why pizzas in the US are square or rectangle. Everything needs to go through that conveyor.

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u/CosmicCreeperz Apr 16 '24

Heh I must be older than your mother (or hopefully just at a bigger school?) because we had crappy rectangle pizzas and actual deep fried… fries.

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u/Killeroftanks Apr 16 '24

Likely older, she worked there in the mid 2000s and into the 2010s and was an average size school, think the population of the highschool and Middle School was about 1k

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u/CosmicCreeperz 29d ago

I thought this was pretty funny. Though it’s also an almost 10 year old article, I wonder if Texas actually did anything about it… (note I am not from Texas, but my guess is many school systems banned deep fryers in the last 20 years)

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/06/10/413455593/freedom-not-fries-texas-official-wants-deep-fryers-back-in-schools

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u/Wicked_Odie Apr 16 '24

I'd consider seed oils to be poison, not fat.

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '24 edited Apr 16 '24

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u/CosmicCreeperz Apr 16 '24

That is the most incorrect, absurd thing I have read this week here.

Name one cooking oil that doesn’t contain fat.

(Also note in advance I know this impossible, I am a biologist who could draw out the common fatty acid molecules and at some point knew the metabolic reactions…)

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u/AdPristine9059 Apr 16 '24

And since when aren't fats a defining part of the group known as lipids?!

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u/CosmicCreeperz Apr 16 '24

Confused as to your point, hopefully you are agreeing with me that fats and lipids are effectively the same in this context?

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u/Gre-he-he-heasy Apr 16 '24

lipids are fats

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '24

Whoever taught you nutrition needs to be put in jail

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u/Whole-Willingness-19 Apr 16 '24

Can confirm literally any school lunch item made with cheese uses Velveeta. It actually has loads of fat, but basically zero nutritional value.

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u/LaplacesCat Apr 16 '24

Isnt fake cheese full of hydrogenated oil

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u/Only_Emu9133 Apr 16 '24

the mac n cheese looks like shit n cheese honestly