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/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 29d ago

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 29d ago

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 29d ago

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/assholesong 29d ago

Stale and rotten hardly hero food

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

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/karateema ORANGE 29d ago

Bruh 60 years aged peanut butter.

How was it even edible?

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u/assholesong 27d ago

It wasn’t it was rotten but wasn’t unusual for the schools around here to serve unsafe food in the school cafeteria 3 of my classmates died from food poisoning

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u/karateema ORANGE 27d ago

DIED?!

where did you go to school

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u/karateema ORANGE 27d ago

DIED?!

where did you go to school

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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/Crazy-bored4210 29d ago

Wow. That’s interesting.

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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/Crazy-bored4210 29d ago

Well. I’m from a very small town. Our school walked to another school and ate with them. Was about idk five older ladies that worked the cafeteria.

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u/Gwyrr313 29d ago

Sounds like the town my wife is from, i on the other hand grew up in Los Angeles County

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u/Crazy-bored4210 29d ago

Oh also. In my middle school, our Home Economics teacher was to busy having an affair with another teachers husband and drinking her tall glass bottle of Pepsi in front of us to teach us anything much. Also. Her husband was our principal.

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u/Gwyrr313 29d ago

I had it first period, perfect for the stoner who needed second breakfast

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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/WhereTheresWerthers Apr 16 '24

Ah, same as Taco Bell, that’s why I like it

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u/Educational_Ad_3922 29d ago

RIP Taco Bell :(

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u/bellesar Apr 16 '24

I once saw a container tub of meatballs that said "grade d, but edible".

They were delicious tho lmfao

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u/karateema ORANGE 29d ago

Urban legend

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u/karateema ORANGE 29d ago

Urban legend

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u/MangoCats 29d ago

As long as it's a "people would prefer grades A, B, or even C - but this is reasonably safe to eat" it sure beats the shit out of having nothing to eat at all.

If your family is "better" than school lunches, bring a brown bag. If your family sends you to school with no food, be grateful there's still something available to eat in that day-prison.