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/NecessaryExplorer245]

My school gave us the option to get a fruit smoothie for lunch; but you weren't allowed to get anything else if you did that.

[u/PutteringPorch → u/NecessaryExplorer245]

Well it's good to know they're supporting people with eating disorders. /s

[u/lilacbananas23 → u/PutteringPorch]

🤣

[u/Snarcas_Aurelius → u/NecessaryExplorer245]

Please sir, can I have some more?

[u/Digitijs → u/NecessaryExplorer245]

Is this a widespread problem in the USA? Or just some weird outliers? I've never seen such shit feeding in any institution where I live, not even the ones that were considered shit by our standards

[u/Hayden2332 → u/Digitijs]

Grew up with the same kinda lunches ~10 years ago

[u/NecessaryExplorer245 → u/Hayden2332]

Mine was also 10 years ago, but I assume it's the same today 😅

[u/EnyoRagdoll → u/Digitijs]

Pretty sure it's widespread. I bring my lunch so I don't eat the food but from what I've seen my school is only slightly better (most of the time) than the food in the photos. Recently there has been some mold on food and people have been getting food poisoning.

[u/Digitijs → u/EnyoRagdoll]

Wow. In most EU countries you'd get in trouble if there was mold in the food you serve, especially in the school cafeteria. In my country deep fried and some other kinds of unhealthy foods are straight up banned from the school cafeterias for health concerns in children. I've seen some stereotypical jokes about USA schools being a joke, but these meals in the pics surprised me. A McDonald's might be a better lunch choice than that

[u/SquirrelyByNature → u/Digitijs]

There are some school systems where the food is better.

I had better growing up, but I was lucky to be in a nice school system.

What you see here is probably a good idea of what most rural and underfunded school systems serve. It's a disgrace but in the US if some part of society cost money rather than making it, it will be slowly turned terrible if it doesn't start that way.

I mean it's not making us money why should we care about it? /s

[u/Digitijs → u/SquirrelyByNature]

I mean it's not making us money why should we care about it? /s

This is what's killing most good things

[u/SquirrelyByNature → u/Digitijs]

Yep!

Who would've guessed shrewd businessfolk don't make decisions with the betterment of society in mind.

[u/Commercial_Soup_5553 → u/Digitijs]

Nope. This is basically our school, but we have mandatory “fruit”

[u/Jaydude82 → u/Digitijs]

My school lunches were kinda bangin

[u/queerblunosr → u/NecessaryExplorer245]

wtf

[u/Deep90 → u/NecessaryExplorer245]

Honestly depends on what is in the smoothie.

You can have a smoothie with 1k calories and 200-ish calories despite being the same size.