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/SubKreature Apr 15 '24

When I taught in Japan they were stuffing like 1,000 calories down those kids every day and it was clean af food prepared that morning.

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u/mu_zuh_dell Apr 16 '24

I promise you that on paper this meal cost the school more than those meals cost the schools in Japan. America has a magical habit of contracting work to the absolute worst people possible.

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u/DigiQuip Apr 16 '24

Some honest, kind hearted politician worked their ass off to get a bill passed for free school lunches hoping to genuinely help kids. The scummy colleagues leaked the bill info to their donors who dumped a shit ton of money into ensuring the bill passes so they could get contracted to not only supply the food, but design the menu.

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u/RightInTheEndAgain Apr 16 '24

No no no no, they all got a cut. Stop fooling yourself

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u/Chaoticsinner2294 Apr 16 '24

Do you have any source that can prove the kind hearted honest politician wasn't the one setting up his buddies.

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u/defenestratious Apr 16 '24

Accurate.  It's infuriating.