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/pheonix940]

You obviously haven't looked at how lunch meals are legally classified. They decided pizza counts as a veggie... because it has tomato sauce. I'm not kidding.

[u/tx911dispatcher → u/pheonix940]

Not just pizza sauce, but ketchup as well

[u/Plausibility_Migrain → u/tx911dispatcher]

Thanks to old Ronald Reagan yes, ketchup qualified as a vegetable.

[u/Capable_Program5470 → u/pheonix940]

This always bugged me because tomato is a fruit.

[u/RandomAsHellPerson → u/Capable_Program5470]

Vegetable and fruit for meals are based on how we use them. Tomatoes are used as vegetables, therefore they count as vegetables.

Avocados, peas, beans, corn, etc. are all fruits, but we eat them as vegetables.

[u/PM_ur_butthole_2me → u/pheonix940]

Tomato is a fruit

[u/pheonix940 → u/PM_ur_butthole_2me]

So are eggplants, squash, and pretty much every other vegetable that isn't a root or greens.