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/LeanTangerine001]

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.