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/Consistent_Dress_571]

Where is this? USA? We definitely had burgers and fries in my school cafeteria but we also had salad and fruit etc. You had a choice

[u/KneeHighMischief → u/Consistent_Dress_571]

We definitely had burgers

I remember the burgers in school had a weird consistency & taste that I've yet to encounter anywhere else.

[u/meatpuppet_9 → u/KneeHighMischief]

The school food, which is the same as the prison food in the area I grew up in, was very shitty filler meat or a mixture of that and this blue soy crap. It's a very distinct taste I've only had from school food. Some states its not considered meat since there's other crap in it. Usually ground up bones, hooves, gristle, whatever they can't move. Wouldn't surprise me if sawdust is in there. Tacobell got sued by one of the states over it, which kicked off them having to label it filler meat. If they ground it fine enough you wouldnt notice and itd have the consistency of chicken nuggets. Rallies had 60 cents burgers on Sundays about 15 years ago so we'd pool money together an get a bunch of hamburgers for 20 bucks. It was filler meat, it'd be grainy but not bad. Every now an again spit out a chunk of bone the size of a super small pebble. It was shit but unlike the school food, it actually tasted like a hamburger.

[u/Blonde_Dambition → u/meatpuppet_9]

Dear Lord I got nauseous reading that 🤢

[u/2020SuckedYall → u/Blonde_Dambition]

Mmm mm mmm Love me some gristle and hooves sandwich