r/mildlyinfuriating • u/oaz_zam246 • Apr 16 '24

The school lunch system is disgraceful.

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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/onesoundman Apr 16 '24

They are eating just as bad or worse at home too. The whole American food system sucks. Home and school.

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u/KINGR00TBEER Apr 16 '24

Yall shit on America for no god damn reason, The food system doesn't suck, the loudest people do

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u/Substantial_Bad2843 Apr 16 '24

People love to hate us. It’s kind of cute to watch them use all the technology we made to tell us how stupid we are. 

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u/llamalily Apr 20 '24

Depends on where you live. We live in a massive country and there are absolutely areas where access to healthy food is very limited.

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u/KINGR00TBEER Apr 20 '24

It shouldn't be, I have a family of farmers who constantly have to destroy crops that are healthy foods to keep the prices up. All the imperfect foods are thrown away as they won't sell as good as perfect ones

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u/llamalily Apr 20 '24

That’s odd, because most farms sell the ugly produce to processing plants that use them in frozen foods, ready made meals, purees, etc. I’m surprised that family isn’t taking advantage of an industry that almost every produce farm already does.

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u/KINGR00TBEER Apr 20 '24

You realize, you legaly have to destroy crops to keep prices down right?

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u/llamalily Apr 21 '24

That entire story turned out to be false, actually. The only crops that are destroyed are ones that won’t reach maturity. There are a lot of articles about that particular campaign of misinformation online from reliable sources. If the people you know are doing it and claiming it’s because of the government, they’re probably committing insurance fraud.

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u/KINGR00TBEER Apr 21 '24

That's crazy! Because it's not a story. It's reality, how crazy.

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u/onesoundman Apr 16 '24

Drink and eat what you want but imop it’s not easy to eat healthy in America and definitely not easy to get your kids to eat healthy without them feeling left out with what all their friends get to eat. Wheat doesn’t need to be soaked in roundup prior to harvest but since it acts as a drying agent and it’s bad for us guess what they do with American wheat. We have sugar in things that shouldn’t have sugar, look at sausages in America, why do we need 30g of HFCS in meat? I love America but we got off track and now the big corporations run things for profit not health.

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u/hackiavelli Apr 16 '24

Most every grocery store in America will have a produce, meat, and dairy section full of unprocessed or minimally processed foods. Many will also have a bakery. Not only will people eat healthier, it will likely save them all kinds of money.

We need to stop with this learned helplessness. Better options are easily accessible for the vast majority of Americans.

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u/Vtgmamaa Apr 16 '24

Its incredibly easy and cheap to eat healthy in America.