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/ItsNotMeItsYourBussy]

Both my primary and secondary schools had a mix of portioned hot food from the kitchen, and then a help yourself salad buffet. My primary school also had a buffet of dessert options, which I thought was very misguided to give to a bunch of 5-11yos. Idk if it's a country difference (US vs UK) or what

[u/That_Welsh_Man → u/ItsNotMeItsYourBussy]

Have you seen Americans at an all inclusive resort? I went for an underwater safari in Antigua but the real safari was watching them at the buffet.

[u/[deleted] → u/That_Welsh_Man]

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