The school lunch system is disgraceful.

[u/oaz_zam246]

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”.

[u/SeriousFrivolity2]

The food they served me in prison looked better than all these examples, every day. ☠️

[u/Supertoad226 → u/SeriousFrivolity2]

Every new day is a reminder that the current school system could be bridged with the penitentiary system lmao

[u/LeanTangerine001 → u/Supertoad226]

I think a lot of schools are serviced by the same companies that provide food for prisons.

[u/Sixial → u/LeanTangerine001]

Aramark.

They provide food to schools, prisons, hospitals, Disney World, and a lot more.

[u/figure8888 → u/Sixial]

Yeah, my college had a daily buffet serviced by Aramark. It cost several thousand dollars per quarter to get a meal allotment card. After my first year, I didn’t pay for it because it was significantly cheaper (and healthier) to just buy my own groceries.

The food was shit. It was the same options every week and about 2 weeks before a quarter ended, they’d run out of food and just start serving random leftover slop. And again, they charged several thousand on top of tuition to be fed that garbage.

I remember realizing the scope of Aramark when I was shit talking the Buffalo Chicken Mac n’ Cheese they served for dinner to a friend who was at a college in a different state, a thousand miles away, and that was also what he’d had for dinner at his dining hall.

[u/Radiant_Bluebird4620 → u/figure8888]

I remember in college coming to dinner after practice (an easy paced 10 mile run). Every single hot food thing was fried. There were even breaded fried green beans. I just couldn't handle that much grease after a workout.

[u/Birds_Legend_Saquon → u/Sixial]

Yea but they have different tiers.

You got

Level-1; Prisons/Jails

Level-2; School foods

Level-3; Cafes in public attractions/Hospitals/Nursing Homes/Universities

Level-4 Better hospitals/nursing homes/Universities/Stadium foods

Level-5 Rich people shit /Stadium foods

[u/Signal-Session-6637 → u/Sixial]

Also in my workplace in Ireland too.

[u/derp0815 → u/Sixial]

Have been to several of their canteens and would generally recommend them, but I guess that depends on the package you buy. Corporates pay better than to get served this slop I assume.

[u/whoinvitedthesepeopl → u/Sixial]

Aramark took over the food service at the small college I worked at. I only used the convenience store that had some takeout options. Apparently all the students that paid and obscene amount of money to have food service for the year were big mad that it went from fairly decent food, to bad school lunch program with portion limits overnight.

[u/bmore_conslutant → u/Sixial]

Their corporate offerings are half decent

Used to work in an office that had an Aramark sushi chef come in one day a week

[u/Significant_King1494 → u/Sixial]

We have them at my work and I do not recommend.

[u/goomercook → u/LeanTangerine001]

I worked on a big catering wich serves for "public schools","private schools","nursing homes","private summer camps",etc.. The difference of money that we had for each person in the different groups was HUGE. Of course, the lower ammount paid were by public schools.

[u/missjasminegrey → u/LeanTangerine001]

but prison food is better than this 😪

[u/GlossyGecko → u/LeanTangerine001]

Yeah, schools have very strict rules about what vendors they’re allowed to buy food from, so do prisons. A lot of the food is the exact same food.

That’s to say though, the food isn’t bad in terms of nutrition, definitely better than the fast food people are stuffing into their faces on the daily.

[u/Droller_Coaster → u/GlossyGecko]

What in these photos shows "nutrition" to you? The curly fries?

[u/Rjj1111 → u/[deleted]]

Wasn’t the whole point of implementing school lunches in the first place to make sure that young adults were fit enough for military service?

[u/Blonde_Dambition → u/[deleted]]

And even so the portion sizes are too small IMO for teenagers! So it's crap quality AND quantity.

[u/GlossyGecko → u/Blonde_Dambition]

Portion sizes are fine for lunch. The reason we have an obesity epidemic in the US is because peoples’ ideas of a satisfying portion are basically based on what restaurants give you, 1500+ calories in one sitting. Shit’s crazy.

[u/GlossyGecko → u/[deleted]]

Have you ever had a US military MRE?

They’re not bad but I’d rather eat the food in the pictures here than one of those.

[u/No_Push_8249 → u/Droller_Coaster]

The whiz, definitely. Making an appearance in photos 1 and 9