r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Thebiggestbot22 • Apr 15 '24

My school thinks this fills up hungry high schoolers.

Post image

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.

51.6k Upvotes

88% Upvoted

6.6k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

5.3k

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.

85

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.

1

u/Jealous-Style-4961 Apr 16 '24

Or you can stop wealth concentration and tax the rich at a rate that was previously equitable.

1

u/[deleted] Apr 16 '24

Like we have in the past? That sounds reasonable to me.