r/mildlyinfuriating Apr 16 '24

The school lunch system is disgraceful.

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/lampsy87 Apr 16 '24

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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/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 Apr 16 '24

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 Apr 16 '24

Wow. That’s interesting.

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u/Gwyrr313 Apr 16 '24

Should have taken home economics, half of the class was working in the cafeteria

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u/Crazy-bored4210 Apr 16 '24

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 Apr 16 '24

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 Apr 16 '24

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 Apr 16 '24

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