>tfw your chicken wrap looks like my diaper most days
post some horrible food experiences ITT, pics, stories, whatever
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>tfw your chicken wrap looks like my diaper most days
>tfw your chicken wrap looks like my diaper most days
post some horrible food experiences ITT, pics, stories, whatever
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my tortilla chips had a cookie in the bag
that's almost a win but that raises too many questions
>Michel Obama
>in the UK
he reads BBC and his mind immediately jumps to Obama
says a lot about him if you ask me
what brand tortilla chips, what kind of cookie?
trader joe's, it was a chocolate chip cookie. I posed with it to take pictures but I don't remember if I ate it
You thank Michel Obama for fixing school lunches
my school food was so gross that I'd eat nothing for almost 5 years. then I'd run three to twelve miles. I don't eat shit. I will not take it.
and, yes, it is partially because of obama admin. US school food has become so disgusting, it's unacceptable. they feed kids what i expect prisoners eat. it's ghoulish and malicious. it is the main issue with the US school system.
^eat no lunch for five years
You're so autistic you saw gross food and sprinted away like Forrest Gump?
dumb Black person post lmao
Don't reply to me with your asinine statements.
>it is partially because of obama admin
So in the last eight years nobody could do anything to improve things? States, counties, districts can't do anything?
I thought the US was a first world country, surely you should be able to give school children a decent meal.
many, many public schools and school districts in the USA have excellent lunches. nothing fancy of course, but not the shit you see reported on and complained about because only the sad and bad cases get news. it's a distortion of reality when you try to generalize from a periscope view.
and it's roughly $2 per lunch which in 2024 is pretty remarkable.
Thanks anon. So what is the deciding factor? Schools or districts giving a frick and providing a decent option? Others just using the lowest bidder?
I think it comes down to funding to be honest and I don't think it's consistent. For example, poor districts with low tax revenue in supportive states are okay because the state will subsidize essentials like food, utilities, learning materials. The same poor district in less supportive states won't get as much as they need. There are thousands of counties in 50 US states and tens of thousands of individual towns that might have their own school district. Some towns subsidize the shit out of sports fields and football teams but won't have a music department or decent food. Sometimes it's the opposite. Local governments and school boards can operate irresponsibly and fund what they like, especially in states that don't have closely supervise such things.
Also I think it comes down to staffing and the ability to actually prepare food properly but I still think this comes back to funding. I'm no expert but I've always followed my small hometown's local politics and school board decisions and it's apparent how close things are to going off the rails if the state didn't subsidize essentials. My town has many times over the decades of my life laid off swaths of teachers and programs to save money; art, band, skiing, various non-essential electives; but has always provided the football team with equipment, jerseys, custom letter jackets for all 50 of them annually, etc. Thank god the state kept the cafeteria up to par the whole time.
School lunches are heavily subsidized by the US Department of Agriculture. Even those paying "full price" for their school lunch are getting a subsidy. Then there's free lunch and reduced cost, which is $0.45, the same price as it has been since the 1980s. When you hear some leftist whining about "lunch debt", that's a case of the kid having deadbeat parents who can afford the $0.45 or $2ish per day but would rather spend that money on themselves. It's very easy to qualify for reduced or free lunch but axe grinders are going to axe grind.
As far as quality goes, schools that receive USDA funding are required to abide by USDA guidelines. The guidelines don't say what foods must be served or where that food should be purchased but rather it sets minimum and maximums for macro and micro nutrients. Leftists went in a tizzy when the USDA allowed ketchup to be counted as a serving of vegetables even though that's exactly what it is (along with sweeteners and colorings). Ketchup on its own can't satisfy the USDA school lunch veg requirements, it just adds one serving towards the minimum.
Where things go off the rails are when schools try to save money by finding the cheapest crap at satisfies the USDA requirements. In areas where labor is expensive, this often means pre-packaged foods being used instead of being prepared fresh on site. Wealthy districts will add their own subsidies on top of the USDA subsidies so everyone gets a good quality lunch. Rural areas tend to be good because of easy availability of low cost skilled kitchen labor. It's some of the middle class areas where the problems arise.
The problem with Michelle Obama's program was that it changed the USDA requirements that had long been in place. The entire supply chain had been optimized for those requirements. To meet the new requirements without paying more, many schools did things like reducing serving sizes or making weird food combinations that weren't palatable.
>allowed ketchup to be counted as a serving of vegetables
Americans are moronic.
Why? It's thinned tomato paste with shitty sweetener added. Why wouldn't tomato paste count as a serving of veg when a tomato counts? Do you have a problem with mashed potatoes being counted as servings of veg but are ok with a whole potato being counted?
>grr fricking americans americans americans
>ketchup isn't a vegetable product because muh sugar grrr
And why is that an issue? You're also drinking water from the same systems that supply prisons.
Appreciate the summary anon. And yes, if you can't afford $0.45 per day for your child then you probably shouldn't have kids.
The "ketchup counts as a vegetable serving" thing is still odd. I could understand proper tomato sauce for pasta but OK - guess it is a matter of available budget or kids not eating their meal if it looks too healthy.
my struggling single mother gave me 3 dollars a day for lunch back in the late 90s
thats around 500 dollars a year
i'd never eat lunch at school and just save the money to buy video games
thanks mom
Funding, mostly. In the US, each school district is funded by local property taxes and operates mostly independently (this is why you should ignore the morons who tell you the entire US does XYZ because that's how their school did it). So in rich areas that collect a lot of property tax the schools are well funded and can afford good food, and in poor areas the school can't afford much other than literal prison slop (sold by the same companies that supply prisons).
Ever heard of zoning? It's to prevent everyone from going to the school that gets all it's taxes from the richest people.
read the word partially and try again. for extra curricular activities, use google. not sure what you mean by "last eight years."
>read the word partially and try again. for extra curricular activities, use google. not sure what you mean by "last eight years."
The malnutrition seems to have affected your brain if you can't comprehend simple questions.
So, what did the Obama administration partially do to make school food disgusting?
Any why wasn't it improved since he left office (OK, it was only 7.5 years ago)?
You're asking questions that are inconvenient to my politics.
my school was literally catered to by the same food company that did the prisons in my area
they probably also do your stadiums and chain restaurants
the worst part is not only that american schools serve the nastiest looking prisoner food conceived, but they also have the audacity to make you pay for the slop. in high school i once got served a moldy hamburger, and when i complained, i was told that the cafeteria staff worked really hard to serve lunch, which apparently justified being charged for and expected to eat moldy food. after that i just stopped eating lunch altogether.
Shit I graduated in 2009, my school was legit, had a lady always grilling burgers, dogs, chicken sandwiches, got pizza delivered from the local shop every day, pick up Stix on Wednesday, salad bar, still had soda in the vending machines, those spicy chicken tyson sandwiches before they changed them, on break we had breakfast burritos, fruit, bagels n cream cheese, pretzels with nacho cheese. I miss those days I'd eat good for less than 5 bucks.
>they feed kids what i expect prisoners eat
Well school is prison for kids, so what else should they serve?
Yeah, frickin obama, causing school lunches in England to change their school lunches 12 years after they were both out of the whitehouse. Do you organic bots even read what you're replying to?
>my diaper
Eh?
If you don't like it, bring your own lunch. Or is that now considered racist?
Honestly somehow it would be to some people. I never saw any of the black folks bring a lunch ever, then the Mexicans had like a full on taco rice bean lunch.
In my country parents feed their own children instead of relying on the State to do it.
meh it's cheaper to give them $2.25 than to spend the money plus the time making meals.
Cheaper but not better.
>time
What? Throwing a sandwich, bag of crisps, and bottle of water in a lunchbox takes zero time and you're a dogshit parent if you disagree.
sorry you live in the 3rd world anon.
idk, where i went to school at was the breasts.
>salad line where you can make your own salad. fully stocked.
>fast food line, was very good tier burgers, glizzys, chickie nuggies, and fries.
>pasta line, very good institutional quality lasagne or spaghetti
>pizza line, square institutional pizza from the 90s. you know the kind.
drinks were kinda mid tho. either milk, chocolate or white, or juice. pop and coffee weren't allowed in the building if you were a student lmao.
also i graduated in 2000 lmao.
school is just a moronic daycare until you're 18 where you learn about slavery, the holocaust, LGBTQP+, and Black person culture. school is where the students are smarter than the fat women teaching them, where you pay money for them to feed you bits of pig slop and expect you to function on it
>buy decent whitefish
>pan-fry it to perfection
>get ready to dig in
>look at fork
>bunch of dead worms hanging off
Didn't eat seafood for a month after that
>land of the free
>has government-subsidised school lunches
Never had that shit here.
>be me
>post on a Mongolian Horse Rodeo forum occasionally
>peruse the board dedicated to Food/Cooking
>some absolute homosexual decided to make a thread about this and kill another one
>mfw