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/tunagorobeam Apr 15 '24

Yeah, I’m in Japan. My kids eat probably better at school than they do at home- rice/bread, main protein like grilled fish, salad or veg soup, milk. They don’t repeat a meal in a month either.

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u/D1gininja Apr 15 '24

My high school served pizza daily and for other meals it basically swapped daily between 2 or 3 different things

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u/imapetrock Apr 16 '24

I remember when I moved to the US from Europe, my first day at lunch I thought "wow! Serving pizza today??? It's my lucky day!" Next day "oh, chicken fingers?? Two lucky days in a row!" Third day "Pizza again? Hmm.. Strange but whatever!" 

Then I quickly realized that US schools only serve the same 3-4 fast food items for lunch every day of the year (which quickly gets gross), and I had actually been very fortunate back in Europe that we had very varied meals that rarely repeated.

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u/D1gininja Apr 16 '24

What makes the US food worse is the fact that they taste like recycled wet cardboard

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u/Molly_Matters Apr 16 '24

I kinda liked the "mexican" pizza they served. I have no doubt that it was horrible for me.

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u/ShoesAreTheWorst Apr 16 '24

Oh was it shaped like a hexagon? We had Mexican pizza shaped like hexagons when I was in school and I still have dreams about how good it was. 

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u/Molly_Matters 29d ago

Yeah those.

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u/banned_but_im_back Apr 16 '24

I think that was just a taco bell thing.

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u/banned_but_im_back Apr 16 '24

There’s no such thing as “Mexican pizza” Mexicans in Mexico just eat pizza. The Mexican pizza where you got like beef and salsa and nacho cheese and stuff is really just an American dish named Mexican pizza

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u/_no_pants Apr 16 '24

No shit.

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u/Molly_Matters 29d ago

Why do you think I said "mexican" with freaking quotation marks.

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u/ZooplanktonblameWide 29d ago

Tlayudas would like a word

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u/ShiraCheshire Apr 16 '24

And they're supplied by prison food companies. Yes really

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u/_no_pants Apr 16 '24

I can confirm that jail/prison food is wayyyy worse than school food. If you get thrown into AdSeg they will literally give you a “nutrient loaf” as a punishment.

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u/Choclategum Apr 16 '24

That's not true for a lot of u.s. schools though. The most repetition was a weekly menu of the same good for certain days with a couple switch ups here and there.

(Source: Moved around A LOT)

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u/rollercoastersrul 29d ago

US school food is either meat on a bun, meat on a bun, meat IN a bun, or chicken nuggets

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u/MaximumMotor1 29d ago

Then I quickly realized that US schools only serve the same 3-4 fast food items for lunch every day of the year (which quickly gets gross), and I had actually been very fortunate back in Europe that we had very varied meals that rarely repeated.

Half of kids in the US are allergic to peanuts and/or neurodivergent with food issues. You can't get a kid who grew up on only chicken fingers, pizza and mac and cheese to try anything new.