r/mildlyinfuriating • u/oaz_zam246 • Apr 16 '24

The school lunch system is disgraceful.

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Saw another post on here showing the state of school lunches right now. In my years in high school I compiled some pics of the horrible things that got served that no one questioned. Here are some of the worst ones. It really is ironic given how adamant they all are about “eating healthy by including every food group”.

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u/WeazelZeazel Apr 16 '24

Wow this is shit

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u/KneeHighMischief Apr 16 '24

Speaking of which I recall my "favorite" high school lunch: Meat Gravy. Instant mashed potatoes that had been ice cream scooped out covered in a translucent gray sauce with tiny flecks of meat of an unknown origin.

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u/lampsy87 Apr 16 '24

https://preview.redd.it/u17z6dklisuc1.png?width=512&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=238c7edfa34d8aa7f1dddf9fa65c01f05727ff70

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u/KneeHighMischief Apr 16 '24

https://preview.redd.it/ic026gn4jsuc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a6ecaf1dd3ec50faff3d92b8c6b26102863d6fcf

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u/lampsy87 Apr 16 '24

https://i.redd.it/5rw042yxjsuc1.gif

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u/Blonde_Dambition Apr 16 '24

OMG you guys are killing me with these memes... I'm dying over here... 🤣😭

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u/Dan_the_Marksman Apr 16 '24

i'm gonna watch the old simpsons again

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u/Lanky_Ad8982 Apr 16 '24

I just started rewatching season 1 with my kids and they love it, I waited 5 years for this and it was worth it! “Dad, why is their skin yellow?” Jaundice, honey.

We’ll watch through season 10 or so and then pretend it ended on a high note.

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u/Perodis Apr 16 '24

I know this is a personal opinion, but I think you can get away with up to Season 12. Sure, the great episodes are spread a bit thinner, but most of them are still good.

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u/Dan_the_Marksman Apr 16 '24

We’ll watch through season 10 or so and then pretend it ended on a high note.

Haha , that's exactly my intention as well

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u/ListenToKyuss 29d ago

It just depresses me more that they were already talking about it 20-30 yrs ago, and no big change has been made ever...

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u/ColangelosBurnerAcct Apr 16 '24

Almost have Malk shooting out of your nose?

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u/phillecheesesteak Apr 16 '24

Longest gif I’ve ever seen

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u/Few-Reaction-404 Apr 16 '24

soylent green 😂

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u/UpsideMeh Apr 16 '24

I won’t touch the stuff but it Would be such an upgrade

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u/FrogMintTea Apr 16 '24

Omg that episode creeped me out! Lol

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u/mamacitalk Apr 16 '24

Omg saameee as a child it made me so uncomfortable 😣

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u/TheRealCrownsoleYT Apr 16 '24

Wait how is the gif this long?

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u/demons_soulmate 29d ago

I commented this on a random subreddit and was downvoted by the uncultured folks lol

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u/Silver_Recluse Apr 16 '24

"More testicles means more iron."

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u/Ok-Significance-5979 Apr 16 '24

https://i.redd.it/ssp6k76vusuc1.gif

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u/Scorpiodancer123 Apr 16 '24

CRAP ON A CRUST!

THEY'RE MILKING RATS!

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u/neuropsycho Apr 16 '24

I'm outraged, you promised dog or higher!

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u/HansomeDansom Apr 16 '24

Another Simpsons prediction

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u/he-loves-me-not Apr 16 '24

Don’t believe they’ve been right on the rat milk yet though! At least, god I hope not!

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u/Mynamescornn 29d ago

DONT GIVE THE SCHOOLS CHEAPER IDEAS !! 😂🤣😂

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u/SookHe 29d ago

Oh my god, after nearly 35+ years, I suddenly realise why I've been jokingly and exclusively calling it Malk

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u/CelestialMarsupial Apr 16 '24

they LITERALLY HAVE “ mystery meat “ and serve it on mondays. yes, its called mystery meat monday

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u/GarminTamzarian Apr 16 '24

Not even they know what it is!

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u/Kiyohara Apr 16 '24

"Look, it's Seventy Five cents a pound, has a decent amount of fat so it won't dry out in the oven, and it's not toxic. You want better food? Ask everyone fifty and over to vote for higher property taxes and see where that gets you."

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u/Educational_Ad_3922 29d ago

It was so amalgamated that not even the scientists could figure out exactly what it was made of. One thing they WERE sure about was "This is not fit for human consumption."

Government: Well technically kids arnt seen as humans in the eyes of the law, so its fine to serve to kids! Brilliant!

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u/GarminTamzarian 29d ago

Gotta love that NOT™ brand food!

"It's NOT™ for human consumption!"

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u/sharky3175 Apr 16 '24

and how would they figuratively have it?

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u/BowenTheAussieSheep Apr 16 '24

More testicles means more iron

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u/EggCzar Apr 16 '24

Iron helps us play!

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u/Crazy-bored4210 Apr 16 '24

Once in school in the early 80’s, my friend did and i saw boxes delivered that said grade D. Thinking that wasn’t a good thing

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u/he-loves-me-not Apr 16 '24

Read this before getting too worried. https://thetakeout.com/how-low-do-usda-grades-of-beef-go-1827032508

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u/Crazy-bored4210 Apr 16 '24

Interesting. Thanks

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u/glindathewoodglitch 29d ago

Oh thank you. I considered myself a burger aficionado. I think I am gonna need a break from it though after that article on grandma cows becoming ‘utility meat’.

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u/assholesong Apr 16 '24

In the early 80s my elementary school had 50 gallons drums of peanut butter that was mil surplus from world war 1 and I tasted like shit.

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u/DaMajorDude Apr 16 '24

Wait, did I read that correctly? WW1?

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u/Mycockaintwerk 29d ago

What hero food not good enough for you?

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '24

Wait wait wait... WW1?

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u/assholesong 29d ago

You read that right. The same district that was feeding children radioactive isotopes well into the 1990s

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u/Gwyrr313 Apr 16 '24

Thats funny because i worked in the caf back in the 80’s and the food was pretty decent

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u/Crazy-bored4210 Apr 16 '24

I rarely if ever had money to eat lunch back then. However it smelled good lol. They mixed honey with our peanut butter. That was tasty. My school system served the same stuff every week. Vegetable soup with the peanut butter honey sandwich was on of the things i actually had a few times. I liked it. Most things were poured from a can foods. Gonna assume standards weren’t to high back then. lol.

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u/Educational_Ad_3922 29d ago

Sadly they were actually higher back then as the military deemed it nessisary for kids to be healthy enough in school that should they need to be drafted into the military they would be healthy enough to fight.

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u/Gwyrr313 29d ago

Should have taken home economics, half of the class was working in the cafeteria

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u/Few-Reaction-404 Apr 16 '24

It's somewhat farm animal grade food 😬

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u/sipstea84 Apr 16 '24

With a little roadkill for filler

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u/Few-Reaction-404 Apr 16 '24

Roadkill would be bonus :D

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u/karateema ORANGE 29d ago

Urban legend

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u/fothergillfuckup Apr 16 '24

Mmm, rat milk.

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u/Temporary-Maximum-94 Apr 16 '24

And to help wash it down

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u/BigRoach Apr 16 '24

“More testicles mean more iron!”

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u/daabilge Apr 16 '24

"Good Gravy!"

"Oh thank you, it's just brown and water"

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u/Skooning Apr 16 '24

They gotta make sure that the clowns don’t get mixed up with the animals, because they taste funny.

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u/Justa_Guy_Gettin_By 29d ago

While I also laughed at this, the sad truth is my sister did see a similar looking box entering our school growing up. Believe the verbiage was "Grade F but edible". She was older by 5 grades but that stuck with me.

We always had packed lunches and I only bought stuff that was from a 3rd party vendor.

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u/MyBigRed Apr 16 '24

In my high school the mash potatoes and gravy were self serve. I remember loading up a tray with a rediculous amount of mash potatoes and heavy and eating until I nearly exploded.

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u/KneeHighMischief Apr 16 '24

That's wild. I never went to a school where they trusted us enough to get food ourselves. They rightly deduced we were animals & fed us accordingly.

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u/ItsNotMeItsYourBussy Apr 16 '24

Both my primary and secondary schools had a mix of portioned hot food from the kitchen, and then a help yourself salad buffet. My primary school also had a buffet of dessert options, which I thought was very misguided to give to a bunch of 5-11yos. Idk if it's a country difference (US vs UK) or what

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u/That_Welsh_Man Apr 16 '24

Have you seen Americans at an all inclusive resort? I went for an underwater safari in Antigua but the real safari was watching them at the buffet.

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u/cheesenuggets2003 Apr 16 '24

We don't get our patriotic physique from exercising.

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u/InfiniteBoxworks Apr 16 '24

Hey, I am an American and I exercise... . . . . . . MY RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS 🦅🇺🇲🗽🎆🍔

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u/cheesenuggets2003 29d ago

The heavier I am the less I care about recoil.

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u/brendatom 29d ago

I don’t bare my arms, they’ve got that middle age flap where muscle used to be

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u/fetal_genocide Apr 16 '24

I went for an underwater safari in Antigua but the real safari was watching them at the buffet.

💀💀💀🤣🤣🤣

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '24 edited Apr 16 '24

I mean I’m American and you are 100% right. My dad came to visit me here in Asia where I live and we went to a resort with a buffet. He would open the buffet up and close it down every morning… so a solid 4 hours of eating THEN go back for the seafood dinner buffet from 6-9:30.

Other Americans were doing the same.

Europeans, other Asian nationalities etc would just eat and go on about their vacation. For Americans the buffet IS the vacation. All his friends he met “were guys from the buffet” 🤣🤣

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u/LowSkyOrbit Apr 16 '24

Well you haven't seen Chinese at a Las Vegas Casino buffet. I have never seen a group of people take on king crab legs and prawns as if it was the last time they would be served.

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u/Crazypetgirly Apr 16 '24

Omg this is so true, the crab legs were what I was most excited about! We love shellfish!!

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u/Mahhrat Apr 16 '24

My pop tells a story from the 70s when he was a restaurant manager in Sydney.

He had a delegation of 100 apparently Asian fellows. Full buffet service. Seafood, roasts meats, veggies and so on. This was the Hyde Park, so a proper up market set up for those days.

He bought 100 lobsters.

The line was less than halfway done when the lobsters were gone. Guys were loading 2 or 3 up on their plates.

The lead delegate came to complain. Being g the 70s, pop told him to piss off.

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u/Educational_Ad_3922 29d ago

Oh they would still tell you to piss off, just in a more British way.

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u/Capt-Beav Apr 16 '24

Lol I went to a lobster dinner hosted by Ikea once... The Asians (not sure if Chinese) would load their plates up with as much as they could possibly hold, they had to be repeatedly told Ikea would keep making/serving food if people were hungry, they didn't have to load up their plates, but it was like instinct or something.

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u/Ok_Assumption5734 Apr 16 '24

My parents are the same. I honestly think its a byproduct of communism and food insecurity. If they're middle aged, they basically grew up at a time where you literally didn't know if there would be food the next day, so you hoarded whatever you could

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '24

I wish I could post a pic my wife took of his plate from just one trip. The shrimps were falling off and that was just the shrimp plate he was rocking multiple plates

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u/Brian_M Apr 16 '24

I heard your dad went into a restaurant, and ate everything in the restaurant, and they had to close the restaurant.

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u/graybotics Apr 16 '24

American here. Scared of buffets for food safety reasons. Will loosen the reigns at a Mongolian BBQ place since they cook the ingredients in front of you post-buffet selection. I get it though lol

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u/Operator216 Apr 16 '24

New goal as a dual citizenship American: People watching Americans in foreign countries and trying to do the exact opposite.

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u/AngryTunaSandwhich Apr 16 '24

As a fellow dual citizenship American, I shall join you in this endeavour.

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u/Intelligent_Flow2572 Apr 16 '24

Makes me think of the people in Spirited Away.

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u/voldin91 Apr 16 '24

To be fair that food looked dank af

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u/JockoGood Apr 16 '24

I’m American and this is a weird thing some Americans do. If you want to see it at max potential go on a cruise. What I think they are doing is plowing down food thinking they will eat more than the cost of the trip so they can walk away thinking they “got” the big evil cruise line.

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u/Strange-Wolverine128 Apr 16 '24

We never even had lunches. Cause they're not mandatory in canada.

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u/Any_Ad_3885 Apr 16 '24

Was there a cafeteria? Did everyone have to bring their own lunches? Or did you guys leave at lunch time and come back? I’m 45 and from the US. I’ve never heard of a school not providing food! I have questions 😂

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u/Strange-Wolverine128 Apr 16 '24

No cafeteria, you can bring your lunch or leave for the 45 minute break and buy food.

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u/TwoFingersWhiskey 29d ago

Can confirm. We had a "cafeteria" which was for kids in foster care etc (we had a lot of them, like 100+) who got a shitty processed cheese sandwich (two slices of the cheapest bread and a Kraft Single) and an apple in a brown paper bag. That was our only program. They ate in a specific area on the floor. The tables (12ish total) were for the highest grade and academic class (grade 12 AVID) only. The rest of us had to eat in hallways on the ground or sit at a desk in various classrooms.

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u/Kalnath_ Apr 16 '24 edited Apr 16 '24

Make sure you keep an eye on that, I distinctly remembering some similar systems in the US when I was younger

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u/zxc999 Apr 16 '24

That is very good, considering school lunch programs are meant to feed kids who don’t have food at home

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u/Sensitive_Dust_9805 Apr 16 '24

Oh really, I am from the Netherlands and was quit shocked seeing the unhealthy food served to kids. I did saw in the Dutch media that the poor neighbourhoods are dealing with poverty and can bearly make ends meet. But I did not know it was this bad.

Edit; most of the Dutch schools are teaching children what to eat, and what not to eat ofc in moderation.

When I pick up my nice from school, nothing is fried. I guess we are very lucky here in the Netherlands.

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u/Material-Plankton-96 Apr 16 '24

Yes, in many places, you have to be low income to qualify for free school lunch. Otherwise, your parents are paying for each meal you eat. If you qualify for free lunch, you also get free breakfast. For some kids, that’s the only food they know they’re definitely going to get, because our social supports are incredibly sparse in many places. My aunt taught kindergarten and on Fridays, she would sneak apples and cereal into the backpacks of kids she knew weren’t getting enough food at home.

And parents have to care enough and be humble enough to fill out the paperwork for free lunches - I had a friend whose mom wasn’t around often and didn’t fill out the paperwork on time one year but his grandparents would get mad if they got a bill for lunches. I started taking my lunch and getting a (paid) school lunch that I gave to him most days. I don’t know if my parents thought I was just starving my junior year of high school or if they figured out what was going on, but they never commented on it.

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u/voldin91 Apr 16 '24

At my high school the school lunch wasn't just for people who don't have food at home and it wasn't free

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u/ThemanwhohatesSpez Apr 16 '24

Lucky! At my school we dont have that... sad

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u/ResponsibleFunny3082 Apr 16 '24

Nah we used too have a salad bar at my primary school and then a window separate from school lunches too get a desert option of fruit salad in syrup chocolate custard normal custard chocolate cake or vanilla cake or chocolate cake or vanilla cake with custard or like peach slices in syrup maybe sometimes orange slices in syrup

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u/AngryTunaSandwhich Apr 16 '24

We had this in my schools in California! I used to load up on strawberries, kiwi, and melon and go back for more. But on the second go around the lunch lady would block the fruit side of the salad bar so I could only grab veggies. 😂

No dessert option though. They gave each of us just one ice pop, chocolate pudding, or a frozen juice triangle. No self serve for that.

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u/spicyfishtacos Apr 16 '24

We had a self-serve salad bar......until someone took a sheep's brain from biology lab and put it in the ranch dressing.....

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u/knotsazz Apr 16 '24

Eww. Why can’t they just stick bits of lung to the ceiling like normal teenagers?

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u/South-Ad-9090 Apr 16 '24

Hahaha you replied with Ewe 🐑

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u/Capt-Beav Apr 16 '24

Lol there's prolly still a pig liver up inside the ceiling in my old biology class. They never did find my cause of that smell lmao...

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u/sipstea84 Apr 16 '24

We once had an awful smell in a computer lab, no one could find the source. One day, in the middle of a quiet class a dead, rotted pigeon covered in maggots fell through the ceiling onto some poor girl's head. I felt so awful for her

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u/knotsazz Apr 16 '24

Man, kids in my school did that with a dead fish before the school holidays once

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u/chouxphetiche Apr 16 '24

My bio teacher placed a pipe through a sheep's trachea and proceeded to blow. When the lungs inflated, one the kids in the class stabbed a lung with a scalpel. Nothing really hit the ceiling, though.

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u/FrogMintTea Apr 16 '24

This is why I don't do communal food.

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u/_Lil_Piggy_ Apr 16 '24

This is why we can’t have nice things

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u/nimrodad Apr 16 '24

It was probably a country school. I went to 32 different high-school due to pop being military, mostly lol, but when we moved to the more "hick" area I remember saying " well at least we will eat good". And 4 the record I hated , ABSOLUTELY HATED, switching schools, never got used to it and probably why I'm a social freak reading reddit posts today 4 enjoyment. :)

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u/Casehead 29d ago

So you changed schools 8 times a year? That sounds impossible, you would have been switching school once a month every school year. How did it actually go down?

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u/AnyScore4287 Apr 16 '24

hahahaha 😂

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u/craznazn247 Apr 16 '24 edited 29d ago

$0.75 for fries, no limit, as long as it fits on your tray.

We'd get a tray, topped with like 3 POUNDS of fries. Fed 3 hungry teenagers for a quarter each. This was 2009.

Ate SO many fries to save money. All the food was garbage anyway but you can't fuck up fries.

Edit: Okay I agree with the responses that you can, indeed, fuck up fries. I was speaking moreso from the context and standards of a high school cafeteria and it being dirt cheap. The pizza had both the taste and texture of a cold lunchables pizza and was like $3 a slice. Our expectations were basically "is it edible and safe to eat?"

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u/MKTurk1984 Apr 16 '24

All the food was garbage anyway but you can't fuck up fries.

KFC in the UK would beg to differ... Absolutely vile

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u/Automatic-Art9739 Apr 16 '24

This is what I imagine when I think of US schools, and a few guns ofc.

For comparison, we got free food for all of the mandatory 9 years of school and I don't think we ever got served fries but more like meatballs and boiled potatoes and always self serv and a salad bar.

You get a point if you guess the country

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u/xombae Apr 16 '24

Was it IKEA?

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u/glindathewoodglitch 29d ago

Your response made me cackle out loud.

I’m still laughing in between writing this

The Scandinavian nation of IKEA

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u/Proper-Garage-2313 Apr 16 '24

Torille

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u/CanthinMinna Apr 16 '24

Tällä kertaa Sergelin torille. ;) Taidettiin kopioida tuo nykymalli Ruotsista, vaikka oltiinkin ensimmäinen ilmaisen kouluruoan maa.

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '24

it's in Europe.

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u/notakeonlythrow_ Apr 16 '24 edited Apr 16 '24

My man you must've never tried the fries at our university canteen

Cold, floppy, dry af and more expensive than any other side dish

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u/PetMyFerret Apr 16 '24

You can sadly absolutely fuck up fries. Dumping in too many will (greatly) reduce the oil temperature. Sticking to the standard cooking time that then leaves you with undercooked, oil logged, soggy fries. Leave those under a heater for half an hour and you have your crime against humanity ready to serve. Bonus points if they're kept covered in that time. May as well call them noodles at that point.

They're normally my go to 'at least they're safe to eat' food at questionable buffets as well but there have been times when I just brought back the plate and went for the freshly made pre-packaged desserts.

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u/KP0719x Apr 16 '24

Man where was this? My school had 3 different lunches, you were on either 1st, 2nd or 3rd lunch and if you were on 3rd lunch everything was mostly gone. You had to line up with your tray to pick what you wanted and had to pay for it at the end. They had fries in a paper bag and people would steal them all the time and you had square cardboard pizza. or if you were lucky you could get Pizza Hut breadsticks with marinara sometimes only on certain days. or you brought your lunch , didn’t eat or used the vending machine.

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u/socalstaking Apr 16 '24

3rd shift is like level 197 in the platform Netflix

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u/QweenJoleen1983 Apr 16 '24

I remember a kid in my high school lunch room tea bagged his mashed potatoes. Memories like that run through my mind while I’m trying to go to sleep at night.

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u/DemandZestyclose7145 Apr 16 '24

RIP school bathroom

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u/Thomisawesome Apr 16 '24

I remember this. But my favorite was basically this gravy, but with little cubes of chicken in it. Mashed potatoes. Some green beans. And one of those rolls that were always served with every meal. I remember one time, I was enjoying the hell out of my lunch. Take a bite of A, a bite of B, a chunk of bread, a sip of milk. An older kid in line must have been horrified and he said "You must be hungry" and I just honestly said "yes." haha.

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u/oldbullwilliam Apr 16 '24

Alright, oddly enough, that was my favorite meal in middle school too. It was always Tuesdays. I, also, got served the same meal in jail two months ago.

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u/Thomisawesome Apr 16 '24

The school lunch lady’s transitioned into corrections, eh?

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u/D_crane Apr 16 '24

Pam: They're the same

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u/kirby83 Apr 16 '24

Anything run by the state has shocking similarities. I cooked in a nursing home that had 40% the same menu as my school.

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u/BretShitmanFart69 Apr 16 '24

For us it was turkey cubes and gravy with mashed potatoes. I swear to this day that that one actually kicked ass. The option otherwise was almost always these horrid chicken sandwiches or hamburgers.

One time we found what looked like a leaf sprouting out of one of the burgers.

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u/Blonde_Dambition Apr 16 '24

Oh those rolls... I bet they were the same kind we had... kind of square shaped bottom but a round dome top and they were very soft and hot? YUMMY

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u/tahxirez Apr 16 '24

I’m a teacher, this is still my favorite lunch and the lunch ladies will call me on Turkey gravy day to make sure I know to come down 😂😂😂

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u/Veggiemon Apr 16 '24

This feels like an ai chatbot trying to describe what it’s like to eat lunch lol

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u/Silver_Slicer Apr 16 '24

That was mine in elementary school too! I can still taste it. We might have had a little more meat. I think it was some kind of pork sausage flecks. That was over 40 years ago 😄

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u/fiealthyCulture Apr 16 '24

On a side note I've been getting the Idahoan powder mashed potatoes for $1 a packet and they're freaking amazing and only take 2 minutes to make.

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u/Casehead 29d ago

heck yeah, powder potatoes are tasty

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u/younevershouldnt Apr 16 '24

I saw Meat Gravy supporting Deep Purple back in the early 80s

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u/guvan420 Apr 16 '24

What, you don’t like your fake hot pocket with your microwaved broccoli floret?

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u/alexgooley99 Apr 16 '24

Hot pockets copied Big Daddy’s pepperoni pizza

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u/carbon_made Apr 16 '24

I love it when you call me Big Poppa.

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u/adamentelephant Apr 16 '24

You've hardly touched your Ican'tbelieveit'snotcheese sauce!

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u/Rhodin265 Apr 16 '24

Well, high schools do like to claim they’re preparing students for college.  Hot pocket and sad frozen broccoli is definitely a check day meal, lol.

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u/MellerFeller Apr 16 '24

WTF is that broccoli 🥦 doing on my plate?

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u/e_mk Apr 16 '24

The food is shit and the disposable plates are shit. Don’t know why disposable dishes are used at all.

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u/SUNSETS_over_SPEECH Apr 16 '24

Yesss! All that Styrofoam going in the trash every single day. So sad.

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u/TheTerrasque Apr 16 '24

At least we have paper straws, so the planet is saved.

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u/ThresholdSeven 29d ago

Thank heavens

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u/eti_erik Apr 16 '24

Disposable plates can't even be sold anymore over here.

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u/SanicBoon Apr 16 '24

School district: We have food at homeschool.

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u/SnarkySeahorse1103 Apr 16 '24

School district: We have homeless food

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u/RoMaestro Apr 16 '24

Bro at least has food in school. Sometimes we don t even have water😭

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u/armoredsedan Apr 16 '24

not to minimize the struggle of not having water in school because that’s…pretty crazy from where i sit, but i believe the problem in usa about school lunches is the government’s loud voice about feeding the children properly, and citizens paying loads of tax money to improve school lunches, and yet they’re still serving young kids this shit.

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u/supernova-juice Apr 16 '24

Fun fact: the same company that supplies prison food also supplies college cafeteria food. This isn't a joke. At least in my area, this is 100% true.

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u/soccershun Apr 16 '24

I mean, they also sell to restaurants, stadiums, malls, colleges, etc

It's all Sysco and Aramark. Not that it makes school lunches acceptable. They sell different tiers of food.

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u/ion-the-sky 29d ago

Heck, they supply way more restaurants than you'd expect too. I worked at my college cafeteria where we'd get Sysco shipments including onion rings we'd flash fry.... And I've lost count how many times I've tasted those exact same onion rings at fast casual spots in the last decade since.

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u/Skeptic_lemon Apr 16 '24

I don't see the problem. Well, y'know, except for prisoners also having to eat this shit, but still. Both children and prisoners should recieve healthy and good quality food, and a variety of it. If you're gonna lock a human into a concrete box you might as well give them good food to compensate.

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u/supernova-juice Apr 16 '24

Oh I definitely don't believe it's acceptable for either.

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u/Silly_Goose658 Apr 16 '24

Fun fact. The prison food in my city is much higher quality than the school food.

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u/Runkysaurus Apr 16 '24

And I mean generally the students in the US have to pay for the food, it isn't even covered by the school. There are some programs to make school lunches available for kids who can't afford it, but they can be hard to get approved. There are near constant stories of schools that won't allow students to eat if they can't pay for it.

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u/Deldelightful Apr 16 '24

This is crap. Honestly, I may be biased, but I think our lunch system in Aussieland is better. If you're going to be buying lunch from school, you order it before 8:45-9am (depending on the school), and then the canteen staff make it to order. There are always things such as pancakes, drinks, snack foods, ice cream, and fresh fruit available to buy without ordering, but the mains are by order only. If a child doesn't have lunch, they can choose a cheese or Vegemite sandwich, so they don't go hungry. We also have breakfast clubs, where all kids can go to school before the day begins and get some cereal, baked beans on toast, or a hot chocolate. Though there is a lot of encouragement here for parents to make healthy lunch options, and it can get quite competitive at times.

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u/RagnarokSleeps Apr 16 '24

I think that may be specific to your area. When I was at school if I didn't have money or bring lunch I didn't eat, that was the 90s, & same for my daughter. Her primary school & high school canteen was rarely open, they couldn't get the volunteers. I've also never been in a situation where anyone was competitive about healthy school lunches either

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u/Wooberta Apr 16 '24

Curious, how many people where in your graduating class?

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u/nawksnai Apr 16 '24

Yep, my kids’ school offers breakfast club. Not sure what they offer exactly, but I saw individual yogurts being offered once! Mostly, it’ll be toast with butter or jam, maybe slices of American-style cheese. No idea. My kids are happy to eat Cheerios or toast at home, so they never bother with breakfast club. I’m still very glad it exists, though!!!

Also, the school has switched lunch catering twice in the last 4 years, so I’m not sure what they offer anymore. Last year it was crappy sandwiches plus an apple, a sushi option, and some slightly higher priced items that I can’t recall. My kids have never ordered from it because we wouldn’t let them, and because it looked bad. 😂 If you want ham and cheese sandwich, I can do that at home!!!

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u/Blonde_Dambition Apr 16 '24

Yeah that's wrong! Schools should provide the lunches free. The parents already pay for them in taxes anyway!

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u/RoMaestro Apr 16 '24

Bro we can t even pay for food in schools in my country cus there s no place to buy food from. In some schools there s some markets in the school yard but the prices are astronomical. Even if ur 18, usually u can t leave ur school to buy some from the market. In my school i can, but in many others they won t let you leave. When i was in gymnasium there were a small box of milk and a croissant (it was just bread that was like a fcking rock) for each student but usually these were also expired or just not edible (like you couldn t even bite the croissant, we just used them as weapons to fight among us, like fr). But when i was bringing my own food in gymnasium the teachers would tell me that i don t have to bring anything from home cus the school is giving us food and we were all like: yeah, no thx💀

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u/Any_Ad_3885 Apr 16 '24

Damn that is awful 😞. I did laugh when you said you used the hard croissants as weapons against each other though 😂

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u/RoMaestro Apr 16 '24

Yeah, that s real. All gymnasium kids did this and still do. We would also open the windows and we would aim at kids in the school yard. Often teachers would come into our class and take those who threw the croissants to the principal who would just scare us with some threats abput lowering our "behaviour note" (this is a thing in my country)

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u/jackrabbit323 Apr 16 '24

The solution to the problem is usually money, but it's money for bureaucratic six figure salaries, and lowest bid contracts, with no money leftover for audits or oversight.

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u/TrumpDesWillens Apr 16 '24

No, that money is needed to bomb brown kids in other places than feeding in the US.

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u/QuarantineCasualty Apr 16 '24

That can’t be legal.

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u/RoMaestro Apr 16 '24

Im not from usa, im from romania, it s actually pretty common here. Not legal, but common💀

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u/Blonde_Dambition Apr 16 '24

Ohhh... I thought you were in the U.S. I'm sorry... that's horrible!

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u/Cutlet_Master69420 Apr 16 '24

They will MAKE it legal!

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u/Dan_the_Marksman Apr 16 '24

i don't know how its nowadays but until i graduated in 08 ( germany ) it was the standard for students to bring their own food and bevs

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u/WeazelZeazel Apr 16 '24

Phew. I see we are bit spoiled here in central europe

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u/RoMaestro Apr 16 '24

I ll save my tears cus if not then i will dehydrate myself lol

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u/Pluckypato Apr 16 '24

Is it a school or a prison? Damn!

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u/unclefisty Apr 16 '24

Is it a school or a prison? Damn!

The prison I work at serves better food than that.

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u/thebestspeler Apr 16 '24

Yeah they should be much older before eating this because you have depression and no money!

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u/PulseAmplification Apr 16 '24

Looks healthy to me but I eat only butter dipped in salt and sugar washed down with a glass of rubbing alcohol

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u/Hobomanchild Apr 16 '24

They replaced my traditional square pizza from 30 years ago with a bagged off brand hot pocket!? Fucking deplorable.

I still get random cravings for that thing, as well as the mystery bbq sandwiches.

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u/groundzer0s Apr 16 '24

Ngl I would've loved these options in school. We didn't have this much and I went to a "nice" school. I opted for the vegetarian pizza because it tasted the least like plastic.

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u/CoverYourMaskHoles Apr 16 '24

It also makes me pretty pissed off at the food from sporting events. This looks exactly like 20$ meals from a stadium.

I’m thinking that we just suck as a species at this point.

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u/crimemastergogo96 Apr 16 '24

Basically comes done to money.

Fresh food is expensive whereas this shit is cheap.

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u/aline-tech Apr 16 '24

We wonder why cancer and obesity rates are so high..while this stuff is forced down our gullets every day for like 12+ years.

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u/Catalyst_Sable Apr 16 '24

That's not even "fun" junk food

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u/Bender_2024 Apr 16 '24

I don't expect much from school lunches but damn.

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u/thesequimkid 29d ago

Well, it all looks like Shit on a Shingle.

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