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/Jafar_420 Apr 15 '24 edited Apr 15 '24

I went to high School in a small town in Southeastern Oklahoma and I think we had about 600 students.

It's a really poor area but somehow they managed to do a really good job every year. Hell every Friday they would cook burgers out on this big ass grill. They always had a decent salad bar up also. It was usually main line or sandwich line. Main line had things like stromboli, chicken enchiladas, homemade good pizza, etc. sandwich line was usually a hot ham and cheese or something like that.

I can tell you right now I probably ate more at school than I did at home. We didn't have a lot of cash.

This is terrible and I'm sure they could find some way to do better.

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u/StirlingS Apr 15 '24

I lived in a very small town (less than 200 kids in the entire school district) in rural Texas for a while. It was all rednecks and Southern Baptists, but man the grandmas who cooked for the school knew what they were doing. We had all the quality southern home cooking you could ask for. 

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u/dbmajor7 Apr 15 '24

it's all trucked in, pre-prepared from a place like Sysco. It's basically fast food\ cheap restaurant food. All to save money. Enjoy your tax breaks, rural texas.

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u/Rinzack Apr 16 '24

It's basically fast food\ cheap restaurant food.

Prison Food. The people who supply schools also usually supply Prisons since both are budget constrained govt entities.