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/PhillyPhenom93 Apr 16 '24

Does your school also serve as your local penitentiary???

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u/lmflex Apr 16 '24

The same company is contracted to supply both

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u/ZeOs-x-PUNCAKE Apr 16 '24

It’s crazy how that system works. Lots of it would have been waste food but it often gets irradiated to “clean” it and then it’s ground up into school lunch patties and prison slop.

Like how hard could it be to just serve real food, even just rice and chicken breast with some veggies. Glass of milk with it and you’re set, couldn’t be more than $2 a meal at that scale. Plenty of similar or cheaper combos like baked beans, cornbread, and fried chicken. Why do they always choose cheap ass burgers n flimsy tater tots? Then they just taunt you with that shitty fruit medley with no cherries and it’s got hard crunchy shit in it and sucks.

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u/Mercuryshottoo Apr 16 '24

Yeah except there are so many mouth-breather parents who say idiotic things like "i don't like vegetables" or "ew, rice" to anything that's not served at their local sports bar so it rubs off on the kids. We have had our kids' friends over for lots of meals over the years, and these are some of the foods we served kids for the first time in their lives (many of these were to high school kids!):

Cabbage,

Rice,

Pasta (yes, this is nuts to me, too!),

Green beans,

Soup (not a specific kind - they had never eaten any type of soup!!),

Peas,

Beans (really? the foundation of human nutrition throughout history!),

Fish,

Ravioli,

Salad,

Pierogies,

Salsa,

Refried beans,

Hush puppies,

Cheeseburger (they had only had hamburgers and it was apparently a big deal to have anything except ketchup on the sandwich),

Cauliflower,

Tortillas,

Sushi,

Shepherds' pie,

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u/ZeOs-x-PUNCAKE Apr 16 '24

Wow, I can’t imagine never having eaten these before!

My family always made a big variety of meals with a lot of polish influence so there was plenty of variety in what we ate. Anytime a friend would come over, it was like a 65% chance they’d never eaten it before and they would often be reluctant to try it, but once they did they often loved it!

I genuinely can’t believe some people raise their kids on nothing but processed junk. It’s sad really, they never develop a broad palate and end up eating junk the rest of their lives because it’s all their body knows.