/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>15496697
>high school
Only the poor kids ate lunch in high school.

>>15496717
what did you do for lunch?

>>15496697
american school lunch is preparation for the slop corporations will be shoveling into their fat american mouths for the rest of their life.
It's a type of propaganda, if you feed the american shit garbage as a child, they will not only see it as normal in adulthood, but will also expect and even crave the shit.
It's amazing americucks are not only obese, but are obese off of literal trash.

>>15496717
Everyone who went to government school was poor

>>15496697
Didn't your parents ever pack you some lunch? Buying stuff from the school canteen was a treat, not an everyday thing.

>>15496731
I ate breakfast and then had something after school.

>>15496731
bring my own fucking lunch from home of excellently cooked leftovers from the previous days dinner.

>>15496697
My mom packed my lunch all the way until my senior year. Sucks to be you faggots having to eat that slop every day

>>15496697
That was an Obama zoom zoom phenomenon. While no institutionalized food is good, before that schools kids were at least given totinos level pizza, and the option to eat literally nothing but french fries and ketchup if they so choosed. But beyond that, it's fucking tax payer funded food. Do you expect that to be spent on ribeye and avocado for tens of millions every day? It was, is, and always will be cheap as fuck nutrition.

>>15496697
They didn't serve those based octagon shaped pizzas at your schools?

>>15496772
>it's obama's fault
>it's literally impossible to have nutritious school lunch
do americucks really

>>15496697
By high school you were definitely old enough to make or buy your own fucking lunch.

>>15496778
What the...

>>15496778
no, but we had a lunch line dedicated to caesars

>>15496787
Overly pretty bullshit.

>>15496788
>make or buy your own fucking lunch
Old enough doesn't always mean actually able to, tard ass.

>>15496717
Get a load of Mr. Too-Socially-Anxious-To-Eat-At-School

>>15496787
Why don't you post the tax rates of those countries faggot?

>Geez, I wonder why fucking France has prettier food than the US?

>>15496881
>highest gdp
>cant afford to give their kids a nutritious meal

>>15496893
It is nutritious. Deny it all you want. The USDA guidelines for food in public schools is 100% accurate. We just don't spend an extra 10% of our tax revenue to make it pretty like retarded europeans.

>>15496819
Should have gotten a job, lard ass.

>>15496697
By getting something from the snack bar or going out for lunch like a chad.

>>15496931
here is your usda approved lunch, now don't struggle in class for the next 5 hours

>>15496955
No, instead focus on your father watching 45% of his pay go to the state like the weak European you are. But hey, you got a sprinkle of paprika on your fish.

>>15496881
might as well feed the kids nutrition cubes. In fact why don't we just scoop out their brains and replace them with robots

>>15496881
i'm sowwy did i make you think biwwionaires should pay a few monies to pay for widdle peons? :((

>>15496974
>t. It's the states job to feed your children.

>>15496968
do americans really not understand tax rates in foreign countri- why am i even asking

>>15496968
i'm american and i despise you. you don't deserve access to your money because you only make idiotic decisions with it. your freedom is harmful to our country and our people. it was a mistake. we need to repeal your rights so that america can flourish.

>>15496984
it never was until they saw the black panthers feeding kids

>>15496995
>>t. I need dem gibs to feed me chillun. Gib me you dollars.

>>15496985
>>15496995
>>15496999
Go back to bunkerchan, commie fags

>>15497009
go sell your assets to give your boss some extra surplus labor immediately or else you're a commie

>>15496778
No we got the pizza boats

>>15496787
Holy fuck

Italy
Brazil
Spain
S.K.

Literally every country over the US food. this is obviously made to make u think that tho so fuck you cuck

>>15497021
How would selling assets provide surplus labor? At least TRY to make sense with your bait faggot.

>>15496731
Personally I embezzled my lunch money to buy vidya and gunpla.

>>15496893
That money isn't for the plebs anon

>>15497043
>receive surplus labor ("MONEY")
>spend on assets instead of bending over a barrel for your do-nothing superior
it's like you hate america
>>15497041
>x looks like y. x is obviously made to make you think y FUCK YOU KEK
2+2=5 faggot, go kill yourself retard

>>15497075
Ok karen.

If you HAD to eat the school lunch you were just scraping by anyway. Or you were a lazy faggot that didn't make thier own.

>they make you pay for this

>>15496697
government schools shouldn't even exist

>>15497093
mfs used to eat this and get into fights at 8 am

>>15496697
That shit looks like prison food.

>>15497117
prisoners have rights, and one of them is being fed

>>15496787
Stop posting this shit. It's nothing like this in those countries.

>>15496999
How long did that program last, and how large? Obvious publicity stunt.

Why don't American parents feed their own children?

>>15496697
Why can't kifs just make their own lunch the night before? This stuff seems very expensive.

>>15496819
>Unable to make even a simple sandwich lunch while in highschool
>Calls others tard

>>15497057
The US jas the highest median gdp dude. Not the average, the median so the majority of Americans make more than the majority of Europeans. Median purchasing power is also higher. Americans are simply wealthier than yuropoors yet you guys keep bitching about how little money you have. Sounds like retarded finance management to me.

>>15497138
Prisoners have the right not to be killed for flesh scraps, and still that is too good for the rancid niggers.

>>15496931

Holy shit do I pity Americans who still cannot accept the state of their piss poor country.

>>15497383
It's free or like 75 cents for poor kids.

>>15496778
>octagon

>>15497374
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Breakfast_for_Children

>>15496931
Also USDA:
>Pizza is a vegetable

>>15496984
What other use are they?

Also, I know you never went to college but children are literally a commodity to the state and investing in their future is the only way to continue the hegemony of the state. If children grow up seeing the state as antagonistic then they'll overthrow it:

I went to a nice catholic high school that had cooked lunches of varying quality but always had a panini station that was actually really good even by restaurant standards

>>15497447
Okay, you got me, USDA in democratic administrations.

>>15496697
I always liked the lunch in school

>>15496999
funfact, it was actually started after WW2 when too many people couldn't get on the draft due to poor nutrition.

>>15496697
I brought my own lunch. It wasn't anything fancy, mostly soup or stew in a thermos that was easy to make

>>15496787
I do not doubt European food is better then the US, and wouldn't be surprised if South Korea's was due to what I've seen in Japanese documentaries, but I will never believe that the fucking Ukraine or Brazil has better food, especially depending where you live in those areas.

Why don't American schools use the food-court-style cafeteria system? Big-corp operators?

>>15496717
By junior year we were driving down the street to pick up Taco Bell or snacks from 7-11. It was a closed campus but nobody really cared. Every once in a while the hall monitors would patrol the student parking lot to scare off the weaker brood, but we were chads and just drove by them and they didn’t say shit.

I got busted 1 time but it was only because I parked in the auto shop parking lot which was behind the teacher’s lot and one day a Vice principle whose son hated me (and therefore she hated me too) decided to flex and give me a Saturday school. No regrets.

>>15497656
We do, at least my middle and high school did. There were lines for pizza, sub sandwiches, mexican food and the grill for burgers and the daily special.

>>15497718
We didn’t have separate lines per se, when we went to the cafeteria we would have a few items to choose from and we’d wait a few seconds for them to bring it out. At my middle school we had little food carts across campus that would sell snacks like pizza and chips.

>>15496778
In elementary school we had square pizzas with pepperoni cubes. They would bake them in huge trays and cut them into rectangles. By middle school they were serving conventional shaped pizzas.

>>15497656
we sorta had this in my high school. there were five lines: "hot meals" which was like the standard dish of the day; "cold meals" which was preprepared stuff like sandwiches and salads; snacks which was pretty much only cookies, chips, and ice cream sandwiches; a fresh sandwich line where you would order a sandwich with whatever you wanted (always the busiest); and the fifth one was a wing bar type of thing that was only open for i think my junior year before they shuttered it again.

>>15497138
Is the yellow stuff butter? What's the top right corner? More meat sauce for the pasta?

>>15497745
That's what most elementary schools had, yeah. Sometimes I'm tempted as hell to order a case because I loved that pizza.
https://www.foodservicedirect.com/schwans-tonys-smart-pizza-whole-grain-cheese-pepperoni-pizza-4-48-ounce-96-per-case-191481.html

>>15497656
>All the kids are Asian
>Food is all Asian cuisine variants
>The signs are in English
What country is this?

>>15497762
>a fresh sandwich line where you would order a sandwich with whatever you wanted (always the busiest)
Same for the sub sandwich line in middle and high school here. Always got the roast beef.

>>15497780
It's singapore obviously. They all speak, read and write english there as the national language.

>>15497714
>hall monitors
The fuck are these?

>>15496787
it literally is Michelle Obama's fault though

>>15497937
I forget what we actually called them but I didn’t want to spend 30 minutes thinking about it so I went with hall monitors. They’re the people who bust students ditching class and break up fights. When I got detention I was escorted by one to the principle’s office. When we were caught walking out the back to smoke cigarettes they escorted us around the campus (and let us go when the period bell rang and we could disappear into the crowd).

I went to a kind of ghetto high school.

Looking back on it they didn’t have any real power, were basically just there to scare kids into behaving. They couldn’t question us leaving because it’s entirely possible we were 18 and legally allowed to leave, or we just didn’t have classes after lunch. All you had to do was befriend one of them and you could basically get away with whatever you wanted.

>>15497776
I didn’t care for it, but at the time it was pizza so why not. Thanks for the link, I may order a case for just the nostalgia.

>>15497788
>obviously
Is it that obvious? Singapore is like 80% Chinese and like half the population if foreign born. I'm surprised Mandarin isn't the official language.

>>15496763
>bring my own fucking lunch from home of excellently cooked leftovers from the previous days dinner

>>15497952
Yeah we always had shit food, but michelle came in and somehow gave us even less enjoyable shit food

>>15496984
it kinda is lol

>>15497965
because the founder of singapore saw that focusing on mandarin is a stupid thing and knew that english was gonna become the main language of the world and thus chose to make it that.

>>15496787
>greece
>italy
>spain
Those countries are poor as fuck, despite what their tourist boards might have you believe. They definitely don't eat like that.

>>15496968
>45%
Those are rookie numbers. Dutch taxes are communism tier

Also we don't even get school lunches, you have to bring your own

>>15496787
here's russian school lunch

These were my high school lunches. Two slices and a can of pop for $5 even after taxes.

now add mixed veggie, mash and white gravy, and that was put lunch every monday growing up. must suck to be a kid now

Pic related is what your average school meal looks like in eastern yurop (and parents still have to pay for it every month, unless they are really poor).
I remember once they gave us some sort of sausage, cooked while half of it was still a plastic wrapper, and the other half literally turned green.
Even American prison food looks way more appealing.

>>15498305
You need to go get lunch back from bear, show bear who is boss by riding his daughter then he never take lunch again.

>>15498390
Looks tasty, fag.

>>15498305
You just don't see the vodka. Soviet Union was the same, minus the vodka and you had to wait 3hrs in line to get it.

I dont get it but somehow american school lunches are still worse than british school lunches post jamie oliver reforms
Like i get his whole thing about making shit healthier but thats just not gonna work when you have schools on low budgets already that can barely afford to get local homegrown food.
Anyways tl;dr reject school dinners return to lunchbox

I went to school in bumfuck Iowa population of 1100 people. There was about 130 of us in Jr high and high school. Had 2 lunch lines, one was regular school lunch and the other was ala carte which was just bags of chips and sandwiches. Graduated 3 years ago and I don't miss it

>>15496732
This. Sad but true.

>>15496984
>it's the states job to educate your children

>>15496717
This. We would get a cookie and a mountain dew or something unless it was bosco stick day because bosco day was the shit.

>>15497656
I went through 8 years of schooling where this photo was taken (Singapore) without ever buying lunch from these canteens lel, I’d have eggs for breakfast and that’d tide me over till school ended at around 2PM. If there was after-school clubs or extra class sessions I’d just go to McDonald’s or something. I do remember the places being pretty cheap - something like 1.50 - 3 USD per entree.

I moved to cucknada for High School and they all they had for lunch was pizza everyday.

>>15499283
>I moved to cucknada for High School and they all they had for lunch was pizza everyday.
Hongcouver, BC?

>>15499295
Not him, but over here we're expected to bring our own lunches. I think there's maybe two schools in the whole province that do school lunches.

>>15499283
10* years I’m retarded. I still don’t have lunch, maybe a salad at most

>>15499295
Nah, Ontario, but most of my countrymen do end up in Vancouver SAR. Come to think of it there was a burger day once a week. But the food was primarily pizza-based. Most people just crossed the street and went to the pizza take-out/gyro place.

>>15499295
They did the same in alberta

>>15499302
NB here, we had cash cafeterias in middle and high schools but generally brought our own food, yeah.

>>15496778
Well I guess we know who failed at basic elementary school geometry.

Anyway, I always did wonder why those pizzas were shaped like hexagons but not the other ones that were rectangles.

I might have been the only one here that actually had more or less decent food in high school.
Middle school was absolute slop though. Loaded nachos, meatloaf, beef stroganoff and pizza fridays that kind of thing. High school was more like salads, sandwiches/wraps, prepacked sushi if you were rich. We also had a separate restaurant in our high school staffed by students. Or we could go off site to any one of the many food joints.

>>15496787
imagine being such a goy you believe these pictures are realistic

>>15496787
>Brazil
I fucking wish we had those meals, in my school you either had stale bread or you went hungry through the rest of the class

>>15496697
you guys got reusable trays? ours were styrofoam

>>15497389
>assuming everyone had the means or the time to make a sandwich
Alright

>>15496763
So instead of eating lunch in high school you ate lunch in high school? Interesting.

>>15496731
blew my girlfriend

>>15497774
>butter
Looks like some kind of cheap dessert, lemon bar maybe

>>15496697
I never understood this whole shitty school lunch thing. Like if the foods bad, why not just bring your own food from home?

>complaining about free food
bring your own gourmet meals from home then you entitled little princess

>>15496787
>do americucks really

You seem to forget America worships corporations and the bottom line. If there is no HUGE financial profit to be made they are loath to take it on and if awarded a contract they company would skimp as much as possible to secure profit over service.

>>15499984
's head off
sorry, accidentally clicked post

>>15496984

Seeing as the state is financed by YOUR taxes - yes , yes there should be some responsibility to redistribute it back into society for maximal benefit for society.

>>15497138

>even European prisoners are served better than American highschoolers

>>15497138
oh look another fake instagram tier photo instead of the actual thing

>>15497656
>the line at the rice stall is the longest

>>15497776
Anyone had those so called French pizzas?
Looked like this: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DTWH-D-U0AAkEt0.jpg

In Canada when I was in highschool around 2009-2012, the cafeteria food was actually fucking good but you had to pay if you wanted it otherwise you bring your own food. Is cafeteria food in America mandatory?

>>15500152
>Actual thing
>A fucking PS2 controller in the frame

>>15500174
>Is cafeteria food in America mandatory?
Not at all.

>>15500186
yeah it is lol don't know what to tell you faggot

>>15500222
Mind telling me where you got it? Why there's a PS2 controller in frame? Why it looks like an anon schmuck sitting at his desk with his poorly cooked meal?

>>15498390
God I wish American cafeterias would serve soup.

>>15496697
in my country we didn't even have any lunch or anything to eat at our school, you were on you own.
you should be fucking GLAD they even bothered to feed a bunch of little fat burger pussies like you.

>>15498322
Pop. Western PA fag noted.

>>15496893
Look, a European who doesn't realize that American school lunches are just subsidy food for impoverished people with a rich melanin content. All the higher IQ civilized actual humans living here had their parents pack them a bagged lunch.

>>15500160
Rice is based desu

>>15497774
the pat of butter is by the spork. the other thing looks 'cheezy'.

>>15496697
>we

my school only had ~30 students grade 6-12. no cafeteria but we did have a "milk order". i'd steal at least five every day and they'd just keep buying more when it ran out, they didn't even count the shit

>>15496778
>octagon
american education everyone

>>15500152
dumbass

kids at my school ate chikfila every day

>>15496968
Imagine larping on 4chin about having a dad wealthy enough to get taxed at 45 percent.

>>15501773
More like chikfil-antigay.

>>15496995
Your kind will hang from light poles soon.

>>15501649
>my school only had ~30 students grade 6-12
Did you grow up in a tribal village? My graduating class alone was nearly 400 students.

>>15496763
>leftovers
American swine..

>>15496732
t.King George

>>15503017
I live in a tourist town of like 1200 maybe 2000 in the jurisdiction and that's like a 20 mile radius and even their high school 9-12 has 80 so probably lol

>>15496731
They let us eat lunch off campus in high school, because if the kids drove to school, you bet your ass they're driving away from school to eat. Might as well allow it instead of dealing with hundreds of nasty parent phone calls asking why their kid got in trouble for wanting to eat edible food for lunch.

>>15503178
we weren't allowed to leave campus because a group of idiots got drunk and crashed their car

>>15503213
Drunk driving fatalities were an annual event at my high school. Just put some banners up, have a memorial and move on.

>had typical garbage school lunch growing up
>told my parents I hated it, rarely ate much, would regularly throw away
>ask if they can make me lunch
>no we're too busy with work you must keep getting school lunch
>grow up emaciated and undersized

>>15503284
So you refused to eat the food that was freely available, AND you were too lazy to make your own lunch. That was 100% your fault.

>>15503293
yes i was too lazy when i was in elementary and middle school up to around 13. i guess that had a big hand in me being a picky eater, how disgusting school lunch was

>>15503017
400? Are you from a tribal village? Mine had 1200.

>>15496697
That's because you went to a poor person school. We had borgars and fries everyday at my school and they were banging

>>15496731
Save my money and buy videogames

>>15503365
Yeah, we had a small town of 8k and students bussed in from rural areas totalling ~15k. Roughly 1300 students in the whole high school.

>>15503213
Did you live in Vegas? Same thing happened to me. Probably for the best, since my best friend got us into two accidents speeding down the street for lunch.

>>15503123
what the hell is wrong with not wasting food you faggot crybaby

>>15496787
Reminder that series of photographs was actually produced by a restaurant chain trying to push its consulting services. Those pictures have nothing to do with actual school lunches in the countries listed; most notably Greece, which doesn't actually provide school lunches.

Nobody would eat any of it other than the burrito.

>>15503576
Really? I've tried one of those burritos and they are god-awful. Pear and carrots look fine.

>>15503583
Its a taste you'd have to grow up with, I suppose.
The milk 100% made you shit though. The carrots were always stale and rock hard.

>>15503123
>not wasting food is bad
delete yourself

You tards blaming poor quality american school lunches on corporations have no clue what you're talking about. The schools have all been defunded to the point where they can't afford to staff and manage kitchens, so all the food has to be outsourced from food production companies. The current reimbursement rate for a school lunch is only about $3.25. What exactly are you cheapass american fucks expecting a food production company to be able to prepare, cook, and ship in to your schools for $3.25? It's not some faceless corporation that is to blame; it's the goddamn cheap and complacent american citizens.

>>15496697
Luckily my old man was a butcher at a german deli shop and my mother a baker at a french cafe. So my packed lunches in school were always gourmet sandwhiches I got to make from the extras they brought from work. I even made extras to sell, alongside day old pastries. Spoiled taste buds but it got me into a culinary career early.

>>15503576
Bag milk's weird but otherwise this looks fine. Looks a lot better than those british school lunch packs I've seen photos of.

>>15500164
I didn't but I do remember oval "deep dish" pizza sometimes. There were also these really good pizza pockets that were nice and soft because they were individually wrapped.

Hands down the best lunch item was the turkey gravy and mashed potatoes with a roll to sop it all up. Ours came in a paper boat.

>>15496697
Kids whose plates look like that almost always skipped the salad bar or veggies they offered. Sure, it was still institutional-grade green beans or mashed potatoes, but it was filling and had basic nutrition. Maybe I grew up in an affluent area, but I live in a poor fucking state so idk.

>>15503645
sloppa

>>15503379
this

>>15497656
We had Chik-fil-a, like literally every major pizza chain on alternating days, and like 3 different entree choices. Usually "foreign" like Mexican/Chinese/, something like chicken tenders or Salisbury steak at one station, and then the last one would be coldcuts. There was always a salad bar, and all 3 "stations" that were just cafeteria food had veggies with the entree. Honestly school lunches ranged from bearable to actually pretty good.

>>15498497
Jamie Oliver tried that shit in America too. Did a whole special on his attempts to bring it to some West Virginia town. Turns out that the school comptroller he tried to paint as a villain who didn't care about children's health was actually a nutritionist who had spent years setting up a farm-to-table program with local growers to provide fresh vegetables and meat to the school district while supporting farmers in the state while Jamie's plan involved trucking in organic produce from out of state at unsustainable cost and whose meals didn't actually meet the minimum nutritional requirements for children.

For my last two years of school I went to a continuation school called Robertson high school. The food that they received was left over food from the schools in the district because it was that low budget. It was fucked.

>>15503576
God I loved those burritos.

I’d eat those burritos for like $1.25 then buy a pop up popsicle for $0.50

>>15497138
>Prisoners have rights, and one of them is being fed.

Not in the county jail I spent a year in.
Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner M-F was baloney & american cheese with mayonnaise on white bread, a bruised up apple and coffee (am), water (lunch), non-fat milk (pm).
On the weekend, breakfast was oatmeal, toast and an orange, lunch was turkey, mayo on wheat bread, raw carrot and celery slice, small tomato & water, dinner was fried spam, corn, wheat roll and lipton tea.
Lost all my fat and looked like I had been in a concentration camp.

>>15505363
I mean that seems like food dense in carbs and fat, you sure it wasn't the muscle?

They took this from you.

Here's how the food is in Finland. Most common foods seemed to be soups, casseroles, sauce + potato/rice/pasta and limited quantity of discreet meat products i.e patties or fish fingers. A fuckton of salad always too.

people continue eating this until the end of uni so they usually grow to be pretty happy with it. It's pretty bland taste wise, and macro nutrition is often carb heavy/low protein low fat. Sauces are notoriously calorie sparse, coming at often around 90 kcal/100 grams.

>>15505460
17 dollars a week per high school student? I mean, its doable, but not that cool for low income families. In a family of two thats nearly 150 dollars a month spent.

>>15505460
>>15505483
Worse yet, that's 150 dollars in 1974. That's nearly $800 in today's money.

>>15496717
>only the poor kids ate lunch in high school
So did the kids who weren't poor just not eat then?

>>15505470
this is pretty much how a midday meal ought to be

>>15505483
>>15505545
Are you guys retarded or am I? It says 60 cents a day. $3 a week.

>>15505483
where are you getting that number? says 60 cents a meal, five days a week that's 3 dollars. Inflation calculator places that around that range but then
>>15505545
is being a ringknob.
By the time I was in middleschool hot lunch cost around 2.50-3+ a day. I don't know that you could pack a comparable lunch for THAT much cheaper.

>>15505483
$0.60 per meal * 5 days per week = $3.00

How did you get $17?

>>15505601
Perhaps the zoomies are confused by the trailing cent sign? They may never have seen one on their phone.

>>15496717
lmao fucking what
only poor kids didn't eat lunch or brought lunch from home, everybody else was eating pizza.
and not like that shitty flatbread pizza, it was just regular ass pizza. not great pizza, but still actual pizza at least.
>las vegas area, early 2000s

>>15505627
if they were too poor to afford to bring a lunch, the school would provide lunches for them. that's how you get this.

>>15505601
>>15505626
>>15505616
No, >>15505545 is confused because >>15505483 already adjusted for inflation. It's actually not that different than current school meal prices in my district which is $3 for lunch.

>>15496697
don't get me fucking started

Between being poor and the food being crap I just never ate. At least I wasn't fat.

>>15496717
>>15496731
>not locking yourself in the bathroom stall and eat the toilet paper
it was free after all

>>15503609
GOD I fucking LOVE neoliberalism GOD DAMN FUCK SHIT FUCK

>>15503677
DESU it always seems like the best way to go is just funding schools well enough that they can have their own kitchen and hire a chef to cook food. That's what they do in France and I've heard their lunches are super good there. Neolibs and nazi cucks will deny it but we could have such good food.

I remember our high school had a fucking chick-fil-a inside. Fucking rich faggot school district.

>>15505470
nice

>>15503609
>expecting a food production company to be able to prepare, cook, and ship in to your schools for $3.25?

"Expecting $15 and hour cafeteria workers to actually cook from real ingredients, instead of just opening a bag? Dats racist!"

>>15505745
I didn't know that existed. I heard of private restaurants inside unis but chick-fil-a in a high school? Goddamn.

>>15505744
France only spends roughly $2 more per student on food. It's a step up, but they're still serving chicken nuggets.

>>15505562
>he doesn't know

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/87238/what-school-lunch-looked-each-decade-past-century

>>15505744
>the best way to go is just funding schools well enough

< The largest of the five school- and center-based programs, the National School Lunch Program (NSLP), fed about 30 million children each school day in 2014 and cost $12.7 billion. The federal government spent another $3.7 billion in 2014 to feed about 14 million children through the School Breakfast Program (SBP).

And that's just the Feds. There's also the state, county and local funding, plus whatever the corporations and their secret masters decide to chip in.

I hate how almost all the chocolate milk you find nowadays is fat free. Pretty sure it's worse for you than the version with fat, since it's basically sugar water.

>>15505818
I think it would cost more to cook in-house and hire chefs in schools for good wages, even though I think it's worth it. IDK tho not an economist or anything.

>>15497656
From what I remember, my high school had a small version of this. There were 2 main lines for the "hot meals" which was whatever the cafeteria had prepared for the day - things like processed chicken tenders and choice of 2 sides, spaghetti with toast (that was literally white bread with butter), or motherfucking Bosco sticks.

Then there was a "convenience" line that had soft pretzels, premade sandwiches and chips, candy bars, and nachos and cheese. Then we had a hallway of vending machines.

For awhile, we also had a make your own salad and taco bar. Then they realized kids were loading up the boxes and paying the bear minimum since the school was stupid and didn't have scales to charge per pound. So the school quickly changed to premade salads and swapped the tacos to soups.

Of course, you could always bring your own lunch which I did from time to time. If you were a senior, you could have your parents sign a form that allowed you to get lunch off campus. There was a great dinner across the street, a chinese place, Little Ceasars, and a grocery store next door so it expanded options.

I also took nutrition/cooking classes my junior and senior years which was either before or right after lunch. So I'd eat whatever we cooked in class.

>>15505867
You don't need some faggy Chef Jamie screwing up the cafeteria with food the kids hate. Just a school nutritionist to plan and order, and a brace of lunchroom ladies and Home EC/ Work Experience students to stir and serve.

https://www.bonappetit.com/entertaining-style/trends-news/slideshow/history-of-school-lunch

>>15505880
"Mmmm... Bosco Sticks."

Looks damned decent. Just needs a sauce or something for the chicken. This is the lunch that landed an American man on the moon.

>>15505820
I've literally never seen fat-free chocolate milk. The cartons I bought last week are 2%.

If school lunch was the IKEA cafeteria we would all be good to go.

>>15496778
>Octagon
Kek american education on display

>>15498322
are you obese?

>>15505756
where the fuck are you where they're getting paid that much?

>>15506057
6'1" and 195. Could certainly be fitter but I wouldn't consider myself obese.

>>15506090
It's going to be at least the state minimum plus goverment wrok benefits. So, $15 per hour in the Blue States or more.

And this is for opening bags of Child Chow and putting celery sticks on a tray.

>>15496787
They're literally all
>empty carbs
>processed meat
>frozen vegetables
>some shitty fruit
Some just look like they came from whole foods instead of costco

my high school cafeteria was run by aramark. was decent. they also made wraps and sandwiches but i never got any of that.

Bros, my high school used to have a Pizza Hut or something in the building but Obama took it away before I got there. Fucking bullshit.

>>15497498
ukraine one is pretty much like that, just more sloppa, but it's usually decent
t. lived in ukraine

>Take lunch money
>Buy half a gram of weed with it
>Get stoned at lunch
Highschool was great

>>15496697
What the fuck is that mush on the left? It kind of looks like a pile of tuna Sashimi.

>>15496697
School food was delicious

>>15507869
Do burgers really?

>>15496981
>He thinks billionaires pay taxes

>that kid that mixed mayo,ketchup,potatoes, etc. together into a disgusting slurry in his plate
fuck those faggots made it impossible to eat anywhere near them.

>>15508545
My friend used to every day strip his sandwich of the lunch meat, eat it, then proceed to stuff every other bit of the sandwich into his empty chocolate milk container before throwing it into a trash can from where he sat

>>15497656
>how halal

>>15496697
Yikes, thank god I went to private school.

>>15503576
thos milk bags look like they would be godly in a food fight situation

>>15499970
>Assuming your crackwhore mother couldnt at least put a fucking bologne sandwich in a paper bag.
Feels bad anon. Sorry your parents sucked

I went to private school, they had multiple chefs and actually served us decent food like chicken arrabiata, mushroom alfredo, baked chicken, garlic broccoli, etc.

>>15503576
You ain't never had a friend like me

>>15503609
>Title I spending in us is $750 BILLION
Money isn't the problem anon. Its the Ed.D's that siphon tax money for "muh kids" and then spend it on bullshit so they can make money as education consultants.
t. teacher

>>15508834
E gets it

>>15503645
Looks like what I feed my cat.

Went to public high school in Texas, the food was honestly pretty good. Had brisket and potato salad on Wednesdays if I remember correctly.

Ended up going to a posh private boarding school in New England eventually, and the dining hall food there was incredible. Pic related, today’s menus from the school website.

>>15496697
My school had a deli that served actually decent food that wasn't horrible for you. So I ate that. $2 more than the school lunch, but infinitely better tasting.

>>15508834
There’s a lot of wasteful spending in general. Surprisingly, teachers in the US are paid pretty well even when compared to teachers in other developed countries.

>>15503645
Shit I remember that stuff. It wasn't too bad actually. The mashed potatoes were dehydrated but overall the gravy was good.

>>15496763
So you brought lunch, but didn't eat it? You just looked at it?

>>15496787
I asked my brazilian and finnish friends about this and they called it bullshit
Yeah I know >anecdotal evidence but cmon

>>15509420
It fostered a love of slop over instant mashed potatoes I still hold to this day.

>>15503645
This looks identical to canned cat food.

Literally my last two years of High School lunch consisted on me eating vending machine snacks/cup o noodles for lunch since the lunch lines were ridiculously long. Absolutely hilarious since I would have a lifting/"personal fitness" class right after and I was trying to lift while being fueled by some fucking fig newtons.

>>15509956
Well yeah it's just meat in gravy. Pate looks like cheaper cat food but it's also delicious.

>>15496787
That USA image would be accurate if you removed the cookie and peas, and added milk.

>>15503645
I need to make this. This hit the spot so well.

>>15498235
>>Greece
You are right - we eat better than that.

A lot of kids would just buy snacks from vending machines.
They instituted nutritional requirements for the snacks in my state, but they were a joke because basically as long as something healthy was offered in combination with the unhealthy shit it was OK. So they had to start selling carrot sticks along side Twix and funyn rings and shit.

>>15496697
I went to jail for a day for violating a restraining order from a girl whomst I made rape threats against and it's sad how much the food reminded me of school food. When I got out I missed decent food so much I had 4 hamburgers, half a pizza and 4 cups of rice. I puked 7 times that night.

>>15500266
lmao prisoners get games sometimes, even anders brevik has a ps2

Based eurochad here. Highschool kids either bring their own lunch to school or walk to a nearby store to get something. Schools are for education, not nutrition.

>>15510362
They tried to stop selling unhealthy snacks like poptarts and sodas from the vending machines where I'm from, but they changed back when not only did they lose a hilarious amount of money, the kids started selling food and products to each other and someone ended up with food poisoning.

>>15510378
I've heard it's literally the same food from the same factories lol

>>15496697
1. That's not a bad meal.
2. It's a school, not a restaurant.
3. If you don't like it, your parents can always pack a lunch (and if they couldn't, you could have always packed your own lunch).
The only problem is that schools in America charge for lunch, and really abuse the children of parents who can't (or won't) pay for said lunches.
>>15496787
Those aren't real school lunches. They were prepared by professional chefs, and in no way represent the countries they claim to represent in terms of quality. Hell, you can tell this because they all use the exact same tray, which makes zero sense that every country on this planet would use the exact same tray (pro-tip: they don't, Korea uses metal trays for school lunches for instance). It's ultimately dumb because what schools serve vary from school to school and even government administration to government administration. Yes, the Obama administration put in guidelines that turned school lunches into a nightmare in an attempt to "fight obesity" (which failed).
>>15497093
Again, that's really not a bad lunch.

>>15496881
>>15497041
>>15497498
>>15497952
>>15499848
>>15506288
You fell for a stupid lie and should feel ashamed.

>>15496968
German schooles very rarely got a cafetaria and they are never paid for by the state.
you pay the 45% for a healthcare, neetbucks & ... roads I guess? which you need a 2k€ driver license, a 2k€ car, a mandatory by law insurance for 400€ a year till you can even get a benefit from your burned tax money.

>>15498235
we eat well but they don't offer the kind of lunch in the picture, they actually don't offer free lunch at all in greece.

this is what we had in Romania, milk and a piece of bread, and you only got this until 8th grade, after that nothing
stop complaining faggots
btw milk was spoiled sometimes

>>15510504
>the only way you can possibly benefit from roads is by you personally driving on them

>>15497398
The average American also spends more than he can afford for healthcare and amenities. That's retarded finance management you lardass.

>>15510543
>I live in a terrible shit hole that actively kills its children
>>15510441
you're delusional if you think this is an acceptable standard for food

>>15496717
This is so oddly true. The popular and cool kids would never eat lunch, they'd just chill. Very rarely some fries or a chicken burger from the caf.

>>15510543
In Romania, milk comes in pyramids.

>>15496731
hid in the bathroom stall until next class

>thechickenpotpie

>>15510974
>JUNIOR CREAMIES

>>15496985
i know right, my dad pays 60% in tax. does he think we are all from super low income houses?

>meanwhile in Canada we don't have any school lunches
lol

>>15496787
>france
>an entire fucking wedge of brie
What

>>15496981
If the government seized the wealth of every billionaire in the United States the government would barely have enough money to run all Federal programs for 9 months (and at the cost of an economic crisis the likes of which haven't been seen since Germany post WW1).

>>15510441
Obviously they're not real school lunches unless you thought someone flew all over the world grabbing school lunches so they could assemble a photo collage. The actual unreality is that they're not indicative of lunches fed to students in those nations at all. That photo series was actually part of an ad campaign by a restaurant chain, Sweetgreen, to pitch their nutritional consulting service to schools.

>>15500152
based retard just posted his own home meal

>>15508362
this is a great webm kek

>>15511707
is that a lot?

>>15496787
It is beautiful to see how mad this post got everyone
I'll be sure to post it again

>>15496732
Corporation slop is made to be addictively delicious.
School food slop is just made by the lowest bidder to be barely passable as edible food.

>>15503576
>>15496955
Why are the carrots like that?

>>15514699
Look up "baby carrot" based clueless anon.

>>15503645
The main dish looks like a blended flan
The bread looks sad
Wtf is 1% milk? Why are vitamins pointed out on it?
Us grapes cant eat because they use some specific chemical
Celery

>>15514707
Theyre peeled? Why? Was there too much nutrition in them?

>>15496731
my dad made me a sandwich every day and put an arizona green tea juicebox in it, maybe an apple too.
I love my dad.

>>15496697
those nuggets look bomb tf u talkin abt

At my school (Maine) they would do turkey, cranberry sauce, gravy, and roasted potatoes for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Some days they would have fried chicken with some other sides, and then on typical days it was usually a burger or a hot dog, mac and cheese, chicken nuggets, tater tots, pizza or some other form of typical American cuisine. There was always juice and chocolate milk, and you could also pick some chips or another snack if you wanted.
For the picky kids you could always have a chicken burger, and because of peanut allergies it was always sunflower seed butter, not peanut butter sandwiches, and there were not peanuts in anything. I went to a very poor school and we were still fed relatively well.
Either way my mom or dad packed my lunch everyday anyway so it didn't matter what was for lunch, I always had a panini or salad or some other type of sandwich and an apple, water or something else to drink.
Most kids brought their own lunches.

>>15514801
Explain image.

>>15514881
It's a character from a Japanese English textbook. She is supposed to be an English teacher.

>>15496697
Mom my packed my meals until my second sister went off to college. At that point I packed them, but as long as it was reasonable I just had to put the ingredients on the grocery list.

>>15514888
This is the least american looking woman ive ever seen

>>15496731
after freshman year I had a car so i could go eat at the gas station diner with the boomers down the street, which i did on fridays
after sophomore year i only had a half day of classes every day so i just drove home and ate there

>>15514897
She has blonde hair and green eyes, she's supposed to be the quintessential American foreigner, i.e. the ones the Japanese like.

>>15514908
Thats the view of americans? The stereo type here is black or blond hair and brown eyes

>>15496697
I didn't go to high school. I went straight to college.

Literal school food in sweden
Nothing fancy, nothing expensive, buffet style usually with three options (one vegetarian) and a mandatory sallad bar

>>15515720
>Americans cannot compete

>>15497041

Maybe is because America is a stinky dangerous shithole, while Spain, Italy, or SK are not.

>>15505460
Houston

>>15497117
American school is just the tutorial level for prison.

>>15498322
This but with shittier pizza, an okay hash brown, and a water bottle

>>15507842
...apple or pear slices

>>15508362
gross
>>15508553
your friend was extremely wasteful

>>15513610
Yes