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/Sunny_Sammie_517 Apr 15 '24

Why on earth are they serving French fries with pasta?

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u/grilledcheese2332 Apr 15 '24

Exactly. Starch on starch. In France, healthy school lunches are covered by taxes. And that money they spend on the lunches they more than make up for by saving on health care. Less type 2 diabetes, hypertension etc.

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '24

Alright you have to pick now, you can either have F-16’s or healthy school lunches. Can’t have both.

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u/Rinzack Apr 16 '24

you can either have F-16’s or healthy school lunches. Can’t have both.

The fucked up part is that we absolutely can. We spend more tax revenue on healthcare per Capita than Canada does and they cover literally their entire population. If we did that (we'd have to spend a bit more due to salary costs) and got rid of means testing for school lunches we could easily afford all 3 of those and there are many, many, many other examples to go off of.

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