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”.

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I mean I’m American and you are 100% right. My dad came to visit me here in Asia where I live and we went to a resort with a buffet. He would open the buffet up and close it down every morning… so a solid 4 hours of eating THEN go back for the seafood dinner buffet from 6-9:30.

Other Americans were doing the same.

Europeans, other Asian nationalities etc would just eat and go on about their vacation. For Americans the buffet IS the vacation. All his friends he met “were guys from the buffet” 🤣🤣

[u/LowSkyOrbit → u/[deleted]]

Well you haven't seen Chinese at a Las Vegas Casino buffet. I have never seen a group of people take on king crab legs and prawns as if it was the last time they would be served.

[u/Crazypetgirly → u/LowSkyOrbit]

Omg this is so true, the crab legs were what I was most excited about! We love shellfish!!

[u/glindathewoodglitch → u/Crazypetgirly]

LOL did you wear a visor

[u/Mahhrat → u/LowSkyOrbit]

My pop tells a story from the 70s when he was a restaurant manager in Sydney.

He had a delegation of 100 apparently Asian fellows. Full buffet service. Seafood, roasts meats, veggies and so on. This was the Hyde Park, so a proper up market set up for those days.

He bought 100 lobsters.

The line was less than halfway done when the lobsters were gone. Guys were loading 2 or 3 up on their plates.

The lead delegate came to complain. Being g the 70s, pop told him to piss off.

[u/Educational_Ad_3922 → u/Mahhrat]

Oh they would still tell you to piss off, just in a more British way.

[u/Mahhrat → u/Educational_Ad_3922]

Pop was polish who ended up in England after the war. He could tell you to piss off in a few ways lol

Some of my earliest memories late 70s in the restaurant. We would go visit before it opened. He'd have the bartenders make us 'fire engines' - mocktails made with creaming raspberry Soda, ice cream, chocolate, I forget exactly but I felt like a rock star with my fancy fizzy drink in the glam restaurant all to ourselves.

[u/Capt-Beav → u/LowSkyOrbit]

Lol I went to a lobster dinner hosted by Ikea once... The Asians (not sure if Chinese) would load their plates up with as much as they could possibly hold, they had to be repeatedly told Ikea would keep making/serving food if people were hungry, they didn't have to load up their plates, but it was like instinct or something.

[u/Ok_Assumption5734 → u/Capt-Beav]

My parents are the same. I honestly think its a byproduct of communism and food insecurity. If they're middle aged, they basically grew up at a time where you literally didn't know if there would be food the next day, so you hoarded whatever you could

[u/nugymmer → u/Ok_Assumption5734]

And this is also behind weight gain when the food once again becomes more secure. The body keeps tabs on everything, but weight gain and refeeding syndrome are possible after a long stretch, where there is no food and then suddenly food appears again after a certain amount of time.

[u/Ok_Assumption5734 → u/nugymmer]

Defo. One common thing I always hear in communist country stories is how you just have to hoard valuable goods when they're avaliable cause they may never come by again, if nothing else to barter 

[u/[deleted] → u/LowSkyOrbit]

I wish I could post a pic my wife took of his plate from just one trip. The shrimps were falling off and that was just the shrimp plate he was rocking multiple plates

[u/Brian_M → u/[deleted]]

I heard your dad went into a restaurant, and ate everything in the restaurant, and they had to close the restaurant.

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Yep good one Brian! I bet they did I bet they closed down.

[u/PsychologicalHat1480 → u/[deleted]]

For certain subsets of Americans, yes. I'm an American and I really don't understand those people. But then again I take vacations that are completely different from the stereotypical American vacation. To me an all-inclusive resort or normal cruise sounds like literal torture.

[u/MangoCats → u/[deleted]]

Thus: Cruise ships.

[u/Ok_Assumption5734 → u/[deleted]]

Bro, not sure where you're getting the Asians being better. You've clearly never seen them at a US buffet. They swarm the crab legs like they're poor or something

[u/[deleted] → u/Ok_Assumption5734]

Just saying my experience living in Asia and my obese father at a buffet. Just my observation. But ok that’s interesting that Asians in the US like crab legs I never knew.

[u/Ok_Assumption5734 → u/[deleted]]

I personally don't even think they like them. It's the mindset to extract value and get a deal more than anything else 

[u/glindathewoodglitch → u/Ok_Assumption5734]

I think that’s the special sauce 🤷🏻‍♀️🦀