/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>5490510
Looks about right if my memory serves me correct.

Honestly, I prefer jail food to the shit they give us in elementary school.

Why do Americans get fed by their school anyway?

I can't believe they force kids to eat bananas nowadays.

>>5490530
We can't go 6 hours without eating or we'll die

School food is as bad as fast food, really. I remember all of my school meals being almost entirely carbs + milk. Almost no protein or fats or good carbs. "Vegetables" were usually corn or potatoes, if we got any fruit it was sugary applesauce, fruit cup, fruit juice, maybe a banana. Main dish was typically pizza, hamburger, spaghetti, etc.

The lunchroom also carried all manner of gas station food and there were snack/soda machines everywhere.

>>5490510
Do Americans really do this?

>>5490615
Depends on the school district. Schools in Texas have surprisingly good lunch programs.

>>5490614
What kind of ghetto-ass school did you go to? I ate frequent lunches at four different schools (2 of them ghetto, 1 average, 1 rich) and all of them had some sort of protein.

>>5490846
#rags2riches

OP's pic looks worse than what my school lunches were but mine weren't amazing either

>>5490861
It's the opposite, actually. The rich one was my elementary school. Middle school was ghetto, high school as average, elementary school I tutored at was ghetto.

>>5490615
yes, my school meals looked better than that. But not by much.

high school they have a better selection.

In Chinese school for lunches we got served pizza, spaghetti, shitty soups, hot dogs, curry noodles, chicken wings, laksa, roti, stir fry, rice etc.

>>5490510
Part of a recent visit with in-laws included joining my nephew for lunch at his elementary school. It was shockingly terrible. What was astounding was how tooth rattlingly sweet everything was. The menu was: chicken nuggers in very sweet orange sauce, rice, mushy unseasoned boiled frozen veg medley (the best thing there), milk, raw broccoli with "dipping sauce", which turned out to be some heavily sweetened take on ranch dressing and apples, which the kids were made to take, but almost all of them ended up in the garbage. The alternate for the broccoli was canned fruit in heavy syrup.

Of course most of the kids (including my nephew) were fat.

I thought rule one of feeding kids was don't let them have too much sugar. Obviously whoever set the standards for school lunches never got that menu.

It was really appalling.

>>5490510

What the fuck is that chunky shit supposed to be?

because it looks exactly like the chicken cat food that I used to buy my cat.

The question is, why are schools still allowed to serve kids milk and even pretend it's good for them? That's why acne is so fucking prevalent in teens in the West

>>5490883
Sounds like the same cheap bullshit our schools serve.
I'd kinda understand them serving such terrible food IF you weren't paying for it, but we are.
At least they're being healthy by serving a vegetable; pizza.

>>5490994

It built up as a habit from the farming culture and now it's stuck.

>>5490994
It has nothing to do with the greasy foods, the HFC everywhere, or the snack foods that those teenagers shovel into their mouths.

>>5490994
>milk causes acne

>>5491039
Are you retarded? There have been been studies that show food affects acne for years now. Simple carbs/sugar and dairy are the worst offenders. Do you really think drinking cow hormones won't fuck with you?

I'm still fucking baffled and mad that so many people deny a diet-acne correlation.

What's with all the hate on Jamie Oliveoil? He does have a point, and school lunches are pretty terrible.

>>5491039
Stacey Donovan? That's a blast from the past. Just like drinking fucking milk.

>>5490530
>>5490548

Almost every country does this.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/what-school-lunches-look-like-in-20-countries-arou

>>5491048
>Bread causes acne
>Potato causes acne
>Cheese causes acne.

You were just saying acne is less prevalent in Europe than the US.

>>5491055

He cried because people are stupid so now people make fun of him while shoveling fries into their children's mouths.

>>5491055
I don't think there's any argument that school lunches in the US are pretty damn unhealthy. The issue becomes more 'how do we fix this while remaining within our budget without hitting the education and facilities themselves'

>>5491048
No one is denying a diet-acne correlation. The issue is that someone is saying that milk has causes acne more so than soda, deep fried foods/fast food in general, and generally unhealthy lifestyles.

>>5491066
>>5491048


http://cheese.wikia.com/wiki/Cheese

While we are, in fact, the world's top producers, we are not even on the list for the world's top consumers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk

Nor is the USA on the top 10 list here, either.

>>5491084

Australia is in the top 10 consumers, so how is it that I've only ever known 2 people my whole life who drink straight milk out of a glass?

is it all the milky tea? I bet it's the milky tea

I brown-bagged it up until highschool, so aside from pizza day I never ate the school lunch. In highschool I started buying lunch said I had a job. We had a ballin'-ass sandwich station my freshman year that was only a step down from Subway (which is good for school-standards) and we had amazing tater tots. Sophmore year they had removed the sandwich station for no reason but the food was still good; chicken patties, decent burgers, tater tots or fries, usually something like a knock-off Del-Monte fruit cup or something.

Then there was a grease fire or something and everything went downhill. Chicken patties and pizza were still passable, but everything else went to shit. Honestly, I love school chicken patties man, those shits were great.

>>5491095
You sure showed those statistics. Man I've never met an illiterate before, so how do you explain that one, math?

>>5491108

outliers

>>5491108

Given that I live in the smallest state and it produces 760 million litres of milk per year from local farms, which is third largest amount in the country, I think it's strange.

But I'm obviously illiterate, so I'll keep my ignorant opinions to myself from now on.

>>5491048
correlation has never proven causation, also "cow hormones" don't fuck with people, we simply do not have receptors that will bind with them, unless they've been bioengineered like porcine sourced insulin.

>>5491179
>muh IGF1

>>5491184
Its simple biology, if the proteins or hormones (which are proteins) are ingested they are not active, they are broken into amino acids and thats that.

>>5491189
>xenoestrogens or protein toxins cannot have an impact on the human body

yfw one food corporation regulates the school cafeteria food for the entire world and it's contracted most often due to cheap service fees.

>>5491210
If you want to get into this topic that's fine, but you're no longer arguing the implications of dairy consumption.

>>5491189
I'm tired about all this phisiology ignorance!

Hormones are not a single class of substances. Growth hormone is made of aminoacids and will be destroyed in the stomach, estrogen is based on cholesterol and isn't destroyed in digestion.

This is why you can take strogen pills but not growth hormone pills.

I'm tired of all these ignorant fools thinking they know about health and nutrition!

>Hurrr durrr hormones
>white rice and fruit is unhealthy as candy
>by reading a vegan website I know more about nutrition than thousands of people who studied for years to get a degree.

>>5491048
Oh, and don't think you are right just because I bashed the other guy, you two have no proper knowledge and just repeat shit without understanding. Shut up you two and your petty internet fight!

did someone say school lunch thread?

I was brought up back in the 80's and school lunches were sometimes crap true (ugh turkey and mash with those super fake mashed potatoes... bleh) but sometimes they were just amazing!! (beef and cheese chalupa, tacos, or nacho day <drools>) and don't get me started on some of the side dishes.

Back in the day the cookies they had (the two big ones that came in the plastic packaging) were tier above all tiers, and pic related is the best peanut butter 'sandwich' i've ever had. just something about the graham cracker 'bread' the super sweet jelly and the just sweet enough pb that made me want to eat hundreds of them.

>>5491290

although in LA our lunches looked like pic related a lot.

>>5491275
You crack me up, the only hormone previously mentioned was growth hormone. If you would chose to list all hormones you care to argue about in your first post then you could have avoided your self induced headache.

>tfw balanced and healthy lunch every day in school that varies every day
Feels good living in a first world country. Seriously though not feeding your kids with balanced nutritious good food at school just shows how backwards and shitty U S of fucking A still is.
No offense really i feel sad that even many "shitty" poor countries takes better care of their youth.
Fix that shit and maybe you can get to the first world club.

>>5490510
>burger children
>RIP my sides, 1988-2014

>>5491308
You're drunk, Toivo

>>5491308

to be honest that lunch looks pretty shit, and in a real school would be all over the floor/in the trash with 90% wasted.

gr8 b8 m8

here's another picture of a decent school lunch

>>5491298
I'm not the guy you are discussing wih. He is stupid too. I just got tired of all shit people say.

>hormones (which are proteins)

>>5491316
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peptide_hormone

They are proteins though...

>>5491315
>in a real school would be all over the floor/in the trash with 90% wasted.

Need to invest in better education them.

>>5491321
>Need to invest in better education them.
Why are you so racist? Schooling mustn't be too difficult for dem colored folks.

>>5491314
I'm not Toivo im John-Coriander and i just fug'd ur mum
>>5491315
Sad thing with you and well with most western kids even in there yorop is that if given the choice between pizza/burger etc and healthier alternative like >>5491321 or >>5491308 majority would pick the unhealthy one almost every fucking day because kids are dumb as fuck.

>>5491119

I know, right? anytime I see someone making an argument based on "averages" within a population, I automatically know I am dealing with an idiot who has access to Wikipedia on their phone. where the fuck are my medians? how about the 95% confidence interval? plebs

>>5490510

But that's some god-tier broth and chocolate milk.

I was always glad to get it most of the time.

>>5491319
Some hormones are peptides, some hormones are derived from cholesterol, some from monoamines. Not "hormones are proteins"

People tend to generalize that hormones are a single class of substance and reach the conclusion that what is valid for one hormone is valid to all

>>5491342
Can't assume that I don't realize there are peptide hormones, steroidal hormones and non-steroidal hormones. Regardless, each hormone has a protein mosaic that functions as its structure/binding affinity.

>>5490530
What third world country so you live in where your school doesn't feed you

>>5490994
Because people like you who are pissed about it sit on your fat ass and do nothing.

Seriously you people are apparently so appalled and you do nothing to change it even though most of you are adults.

ITT people that are so appalled at school lunches and yet do nothing

>>5491366

I've enjoyed them.

Especially their Chocolate Milk.

>>5491368
I liked the pizzas. I'm just saying if people are going to be so outraged by it and then do nothing then they should shut the fuck up and stop asking why it exists.

>>5490994

It doesn't cause acne. It can make it worse for some people who already have it due to the potential for increased oil production, but no that's not the reason that so many people have acne.

>>5490524

>I've been to prison
>I am in elementary school

>>5490548

we joke about this, but I do wish we could change this relatively recent cultural shift toward food abundance in first world countries. eating constantly. I mean, if you're a lumberjack or you work outdoors digging ditches or doing construction (not sitting in an air conditioned dump truck but actually physical labor), then yeah, by all means you need extra caloric intake... but >90% of people don't need to eat every 4 waking hours. It disgusts me when I go to see my mom and dad and they have these snack foods on their in table so they can snack of food 24/7 while watching television.

Or if I go over for dinner and we just finish eating, an hour later they'll be saying shit like "man, I'm hungry again!"

I eat one meal a day, generally in the late afternoon. Occasionally I'll have a piece of fruit or maybe a glass of milk or almonds or something in the morning. I'm good with that. My stomach is used to it.

We need to teach that food, while a necessity, is not something you should be doing just because. At least make the school lunches light and relatively small. Some veggies, a piece of fruit, maybe a small amount of complex carbs and water. Anything more than that is redundant and should be cut.

>>5491445
>At least make the school lunches light and relatively small.

Sometimes school lunches are the only meal a poor kid knows they will get in the day, and you just want to cut that clean out.

>>5491451

I know, next I'll advocate auditing food stamps or welfare for abuse.

But, yeah, heaven forbid you try to take away these kid's diet consisting of 1000 grams of sugar laden pink slime.

>>5491321
I really wish my school had that. I would have actually eaten lunch if we got stuff like that

>>5490510
Thank god I always packed my own lunch.

>>5491445
nutritional needs for a grown adult =/= nutritional needs for a growing child

nigga you stupid

>>5491445

adolescents can have much higher caloric needs than adults

that's a lot of the reason why people get fat in college, even though people like to blame it strictly on alcohol

>>5491445
wow nutrition guru thx i'll only eat one huge meal a day now 4 max healthy

>>5490524
you ever been to jail boy?

The food is bland, it tastes like nothing, but the texture is all there. When I spent a night in jail, they fed me some plain grits with little nightcrawlers squirming around in it, some sort of potato thing, and white bread, shit was so bad, then I ate wendy's after I got out and it was so beautiful.

>>5491468
many public schools dont allow that anymore

are they really still giving kids chocolate milk with lunch? awful.

my school lunches weren't healthy. there was a main meat dish which was half carbs, a veg or two which was always mashed potatoes, french fries, or canned corn or green beans, a fruit dish which was a little chopped fruit in a tray of jello, they'd give us a roll or slice of bread even though the man portion was mostly carbs, and we had an assortment of milk and sweetened milks to choose from. oh there was also dessert cakes for 50 cents extra, also 100% carbs and sugar. you could add gravy or shitty nacho cheese to anything for free if they had it (they usually did). I don't know how they could feed that to us, this was the main cafeteria line too. There was another line where you could buy separate items like cheeseburers, fried chicken, frozen burritos, fries, doritos, moon pies, anything bad you could dream up.

Last thing, it was considered very uncool to bring your own lunch to school. Nobody brought healthy lunches the only people that packed a brown bag were smelly spergs who wouldn't eat anything but bologna sandwiches with ketchup and cheetos that their mom made.

>>5490510
I brought a home-made lunch to school everyday or walked home for lunch. You could buy stuff in the cafe, but it was all shit tier and your choice, not forced upon you.

>>5491576
That's a joke right? I refuse to believe this.

>>5491671
You can't be properly indoctrinated on home brought lunches.

>>5491567

they fed me a banquet dinner and honey buns.

>>5490548

are you kidding? do you not understand the concept of food as fuel? going 6 hours without food isn't ideal at all, save for sleep. it's just going to slow you down.

>>5490614

you didn't have a salad bar?

>>5490534
It's part of the gay agenda.

>>5490530
Because we've allowed our children to become so pussified that they'll go home and kill themselves if someone calls them fat, or anything doesn't go their way.

>>5491349
The protein you are talking about is in the cells, they are called receptors. You produce them.

>>5491315
>frozen croquettes
>ketchup

>>5490510
I can't even tell what that mush on the bottom left is, looks like cat puke or something.

Why the FUCK do Korean and Japanese schools serve milk? Has America's dick fucked them so hard they can't think straight?

I can't get over how retarded milk in the schools of an overwhelmingly lactose intolerant country.

Packet lunch master school dinner.

>>5491830
Lactose intolerance is variable from person to person even in asia and a small amount will generally not have much effect on most people.

>>5491830
Lactose intolerance means that you don't produce enough enzimes to break lactose. If you get too much lactose it will reach intact to your intestines and there it will act as a osmotic agent making the shit softer and as food for bacteria producing gas.

If you have severe lactose intolerance and drink a lot of milk you will get a nice diarrhea but if it is just a little you will be okay.

Now if you have severe allergy them things can be worse.

Lactose intolerant or not Japanese people love milk. They don't consume much on everyday basis but they love milk, cream, cheese, yogurt, etc.

>>5491835

>>5491095
>so how is it that I've only ever known 2 people my whole life who drink straight milk out of a glass?
Yea, please do explain that level of social retardation. I'm curious about your cave dwelling lifestyle that you know no one your entire life that at any meal, at any age, at every education level, can't drink milk? This should be amazing!

>>5491321
>Need to invest in better education them.
Milk with a japanese bento box. Nice for a mostly lactose intolerant genetic pool! It must be some nutritionist knows that it's healthy for those that can drink it!

>>5491860
>>5491835
>>5491321

Seriously, to all you guys gushing about how amazing Japanese/Korean school lunches look/probably taste, you guy are morons. I lived in Japan for 8 months recently and I was going insane. Everything was insanely bland and tasteless. Everything tasted the same, no matter where in the country you went, aside from regional delicacies. I ate at all different friend's houses and their fish. miso soup, any condiments practically tasted the same. If I had to eat this shit for most of my elementary school years I would probably have hung myself.

Korea is slightly better, but their variation goes from salty to spicy, not much in between.

>>5491445
>I eat one meal a day, generally in the late afternoon. Occasionally I'll have a piece of fruit or maybe a glass of milk or almonds or something in the morning. I'm good with that. My stomach is used to it.
Geez. I think you just have an issue with food. Why are you on /ck again? Are you anorexic? Picky eater? Something is off with you.

There is no medical profession whatsoever that will back up your ideas about eating, not the 4hr or the once daily. You are simply practicing self-sacrifice. I suggest a mood disorder.

>>5490510
Okay Europe. I want you to look at this.

You see that rectangle? That's pizza. No, really.

We looked forward to Pizza Day. It might come about once every 2 weeks or so. We were excited for it. We got to eat with our hands. it was something that tasted alright to our shitty palates.

It's borderline criminal.

>>5491881
Doesnt lactose intolerance usually start up at late teens or something? I spent good 18or or so of my years drinking shitloads of milk without any worries and then suddenly LIQUID DIARHEA. I still drink it thanks to lactosefree milk being quite common and not tasting sugary shit it used to 10 or so years ago.

Milk is very good in nutrients and overall health so why not let them drink it until/if they develop intolerance to it and then they either switch to water or get the one that doesnt have lactose in it?

>>5491881
All/most babies are born with the enzyme to digest lactose, and run out by the time they grow into adults. That's why a lot of people develop lactose intolerance symptons late.

http://www.livestrong.com/article/360411-adult-onset-lactose-intolerance/

>>5491671
Because if you pack your own lunch, little Timmy Nut-allergy might die, or Sara Lowincome might become depressed

>>5491897
The most depressing thing to me on that plate is the side of corn.

>>5491885
Yea, that's how japanese food really is...it's bland as shit. This is why I like to eat Thai food when dining out.

>>5491897
>not going to a school that had pizza every day
haha fuckin poorfags

>>5491897
Pretzel and mustard? Damn, that's nice. Must be a chicago lunch? Pretty cool.

My own school lunch experience was fantastic, actually. Growing up in Miami, my elementary lunches were staffed by old Miami natives, true Southern black women cooks, and they pretty much cooked like Emeril or Paula Deen. Lots of butter or bacon in the vegetables, collards, black eyed peas, butter beans, whatever was fresh. Kids ate the green beans or fried okra first. We'd get BBQ ribs, pulled pork, sausage with red beans. Big casseroles of chili mac, jambalaya, or mac n cheese with a solid inch of cheese on top, all golden and browned. Homemade soft parker house rolls, sweet hawaiian (bahamian) bread rolls, homemade texas toast, or cornbread, sometimes with jalapeno. Yea, we had high fat food, I'm sure, but it wasn't sugary throughout, or just the sweet veggies of corn/carrots, and plates were clean. Kids loved school lunch. They still played with the orange juice popsicle, or the milk and peas, of course. But no one laughed at the food.

>>5491885
I have lived there and i could stay all my life with Japanese food.

The flavors are delicate and I have met people that asked me what is the difference between different kinds of rice (my favorite is jasmine by the way) and I replied that they have different flavors and textures. To that person they all taste the same so I wouldn't blame you for thinking everything have the same taste. I guess different people have different palate. Probably like some people are color blind, others are just colorblind for certain colors. Some people can't differentiate flavors very well and need high contrast like mustard and ketchup.

>>5491930
We had a dedicated line with five kinds of pizza.

>>5491908
I used to have diarrhea with milk, someway I managed to make my digestive tract to get used to it.

In my (Canadian) high school, the food was pretty great and varied but it all cost money. They had cold stuff like wraps, sandwiches, salads, pasta salads etc. as well as hot food like pizza, poutine, burgers/chicken sandwiches, and every day they'd make one special meal combo. A full meal was normally $1.50-$3.50. Food made by the culinary arts classes was also sold at pretty reasonable prices (and was often healthier/a larger portion of food), but it sold out quickly.

There was a two-year "Dark Ages" where the school converted everything to healthy options, replacing french fries with these disgusting bright-yellow baked and/or microwaved potato segments and stuff like that, but everyone stopped buying the food and they went back to the old menu by the time I was in senior year.

In elementary and middle school, there was no cafeteria at all and no food was served to students, everyone was expected to bring a bag lunch.

>>5490530
because some school districts are not allowing kids to bring home lunches anymore because they aren't healthy.

http://www.medicaldaily.com/school-bans-homemade-lunches-angering-parents-critical-federal-nutritional-standards-263026

>>5491930
>>5491937
Yep. Pizza and burgers were served every day and the only good reason for the main station was chicken nugget day.

>>5491335
>muh simulations
>muh t-tests
>muh chi-square tests of independence

>>5491930

this, also

>not going to a school that ordered in and served pizza hut, papa john's, domino's, and every once in a while a local chain\

>>5491965
Holy Trinity fag?

>>5491315
>a real school

yeh in America. in a real school in a real country, children show respect and can make healthy eating choices

>>5491315
no vegetables/fruit

FUCK I HATE HOW YOU CLAIM TO BE THE GREATEST NATION ON EARTH BUT YOU CAN BE SO FUCKING STUPID EVERYDAY

>>5491321
good
>>5491315
bad
>>5491308
good
>>5491294
ok
>>5490510
kill me

One time we had an ethnic food week for lunch.

I remember one time we had some weak ass spaghetti that was served with white rice and it was called Honduran spaghetti.

Another time was Vietnamese which was pretty much a hoagie sandwich with shredded carrots.

Any of you guys have weak ass days like that?

>>5490510

Amerifat here, that does look like some of our school lunches from back when I was in high school (2006-2010).

Typical lunch:
> Overcooked shredded turkey floating in lukewarm canned gravy in a paper cup /or/ "pizza" consisting of two slices of pepperoni and burnt cheese on an overcooked bleached white flour hoagie /or/ deep fried random bits of unidentifiable chewy meat (chicken gizzards?)
> Stale bleached white-flour roll with no butter
> Canned fruit in syrup
> Soggy green beans with no salt
> Fat-free chocolate milk

All of which was probably sitting on a counter or under a heat lamp for at least two hours. I just skipped breakfast/lunch all year, which I continue to do out of habit.

>>5490614
You should have gone to school in the 60s.
School lunches were excellent.

Get off my lawn

>>5492162
Ketchup and Pizza are vegetables. Bush and Obama said so!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/post/move-over-ketchup-pizza-is-a-vegetable/2011/11/16/gIQAk1okRN_blog.html

>>5492174
>Low calorie = good

Kill yourself.

Just about. What I ate looked a little better than that, but I was born in '88. No idea about kids now Our schools are way poorer now, so I wouldn't be surprised.

>>5492320
which of the two I said were good are low calorie? The good meals are balanced, nutritious and appealing. your american garbage is garbage just like your whole garbage country and your garbage people

>>5491048
>Do you really think drinking cow hormones won't fuck with you?
If it comes from your stomach, it won't affect you.

>>5491308
>Fix that shit and maybe you can get to the first world club.
you realize the first world is defined by the US and our allies, right?

>>5490965
>which the kids were made to take, but almost all of them ended up in the garbage.

I heard that 30% (or more) of school food ends up in the trash uneaten.

>>5490994
>allowed to serve kids milk

Piss off lactose intolerant third-worlder, milk is good.

>>5490510
yeah pretty much. here's what i ate in elementary, middle, and high school (since it was all part of the same district)

Chicken sandwich day was my favorite!

>NOTE: The food in jail was better then the food at school.

>>5492389
In an archaic use of the term, yes.

>>5492441

And this is a "chalupa".... according to LAUSD. All the other kids loved it, but that was my least favorite one. It tasted like dead cats.

>>5492447
Woah, hold up. Is that milk...in a bag?

>>5492447

back in elementary school, they used to have these Calzones, too. That shit was genuinely delicious. It was like a slightly meatier pepperoni hot pocket, and instaed of diced peperoni actually had slices.

unfortunately they discontinued it around middle school... and in highschool we had a permanent Domino's window where you order dominos pizza by the slice. ($3)

>>5492451
we can't afford to give these stupid kids sharp-edged milk cartons. They'll poke somebody's eye out!

by the way, this is a chalupa
> (pic related)
compare to
>>5492447

oh yeah, burger and tator day! This was my 2nd fravorite because it actually sort of looked like food. Unfortunately, it tasted like AIDS infected meatloaf. I know that's not possible, but I could swear i could taste the immunodefficiency in the mystery meat.

> notice brown bun
> shit colored patty
> tots were good.

>>5492467
I want to know how much the marketing guy got paid to call that can of peaches "Peach Launch...." because that's something deserving of a medal.

get it... its like Lunch.... but Launch... it could even be an unfinished pun towards LAUsd.... who knows. Only the marketing guy knows.

>>5492413
why hasnt anyone shooped a banana onto that picture yet?

>>5492441
>disposable tray
>disposable cutlery
>plastic bags
>cartons and packets

FUCK

I dont think a thread in /ck/ has ever made me so mad

>>5492441
>The food in jail was better then the food at school.

Buddy's cousin was in and out of jail and prison his whole life (mostly B&E and drug dealing) and he said the food
in county jails was the absolute worst; over cooked, under cooked, actual rotten food, etc. as nobody in county
jail is there for long and thus nobody gives a shit.

But he said food in prison was great, as the chefs were lifers or in for decades and took pride in their jobs, as
cooking was the only thing they had to look forward to day after day after day.

>>5492467
i loved ham sandwich day, id put my fritos in the sandwich. mmmm those were the days.

>>5492511
Also the people in jail are more dangerous than the kids. So I don't think they would want to give them another reason to be angry.

>>5492451
Bagged milk is really common in Canada and some Nothern states (I live in Wisconsin and like half the people here use it instead of jugs/cartons)
I've never had it in a small portion like that, though, I'm used to pic related.

>>5492511
i've only been to county. But my statement makes sense to me. Out of the 5 meals i got in a week at school, i could only eat 2 - the sandwich and the burger. The rest i would always throw away. It was just inedible.

in jail, i ate everything. hard boiled eggs. Peanut butter jelly sandwiches, and bologna sandwiches with mayo. That mayo was pretty good.. i liked that mayo. I was looking forward to that mayo.

And I do know that prison food is good cause in county some excons were talking about it. They said prison breakfast has pancakes, waffles, sausage, bacon.. and like you said the cooks are serious about their craft.

>>5492518
> Also the people in jail are more dangerous than the kids.
you havin' a laugh mate? Children are way worse then inmates. Way worse.

>>5492495
don't be a fucking retard. GOD. FUCKING IDIOT!

GAWWD.

What do you want, a smaller landfil, or a bunch of fucking children to die because they got cross contamination or whatever?

The individual packaging is for health and safety. Think of the children, not the fucking planet. Kids only live for 18 years... then they become douchebags. The world has been alive 5 billion years, and has always been a douchebag.

pick your fuckin sides right.

>>5492519
We don't have bagged milk at all here in western Canada.

>>5491358
I live in Canada, and my elementary school never sold any food.

>>5492519
>Bagged milk

What prevents the bag of milk from sliding out of the container when you pour it?

>>5492533
> sold food

Well, these lunches are provided free for low income people and immigrants.

Id never pay for that shit, are you crazy? It costs $1.50 for that torture benzo

>>5492540
They have to put it in a plastic container

>>5492540
As long as you don't turn it upside down the drag force should be enough to keep it in place.

>>5492441
Jesus Christ, that broccoli covered in cheese

>>5492544

Yeah, I can see that but what keeps the bag of milk from sliding out of the plastic container when you tip it to pour?

Does anyone remember barchetta?

>>5492554
> Yeah, I can see that but what keeps the bag of milk from sliding out of the plastic container when you tip it to pour?

wut? you take the bag, you rip the tab. Now you have an open bag of milk.

you take your cup. You pour the milk.

Why the fuck would you keep the milk bag on the tray while you're pouring... thats .. retarded.

>>5492554
Magnets.

>>5492556

Fuck yeah, Rush fuck'n rocks, man!

>>5492554
I think this video explains all you need to know about milk in bags.
http://youtu.be/VTPgd4HUk4w

>>5492560
how do they work?

>>5492562
:(

>>5492530
or you could hire competent workers who know how to wash dishes

>>5491048
>diet related
>everything gives you acne!

Milk doesn't give you acne you fucking retard. Where did you hear that stupid bullshit?
Here's what causes acne-having bacteria in your fucking face.
Does drinking milk magically make you grow more bacteria on your face?
>it makes you have more oil cause uh, theres fat and hormones and um stuff in it!
You are fucking stupid. Working up a sweat makes you produce more oil and dirt on your face, wanna say that working out produces acne too? Wash your fucking face and sleep on clean sheets. Holy shit.

>>5491885
In my opinion Japanese food itself is delicious, it has a great balances of different flavors but the flavor if it isn't typically too harsh or extreme. Something else to keep in mind is if you were raised in the USA you're probably used to a huge amount of variety. In my city we have Mexican, Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai, Italian, Indian, and many other types of foods. In Japan people have a certain way of cooking they've all grown up on and learned. The way they make their food is a part of their culture. Since you're probably used to such a variety I could understand you getting bored after 8 months, but I'd imagine if you were born Japanese and lived in Japan your whole life you'd probably enjoy the food more.

>>5492447
more.... cheese... in salad... than... CHALUPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

NOPE, THAT'S IT. THREAD OVER. I'M DONE.

>>5492467
Actually, while AIDS infected meatloaf is entirely impossible, HIV meatloaf is plausable

Around there the meal is served to kids to each table, in 3 steps. you don't get a "self service" until you reach the age of 15 or something, and even then you still get a typical 3 course menu, with a small loaf of bread and water. It's expensive for sure but at least we can still call that a meal.
That said when people get total freedom in the uni years they do eat pure shit all day every day on purpose. Like, one of my friend survived mostly of the same cereal brand + milk + orange juice. Pizza twice a day was also common. I think that's the contrarian backlash of not wanting to aknowledge education being good at time.

>>5492573
We have one brand that does bagged milk.

The bag has a flat bottom so it will stand up by itself and there is a handle made by a bubble.

I fucking hate them because this brand makes the best iced coffee but I cant drink it unless I have a glass. Everyone knows 98% of iced coffee is drunk in a car.

They do a pretty bitching mango smoothie too.

>>5491567
jail food=/= prison food
Jail food is barely edible.

>>5491063
>citing buzzfeed
>a clickgen site

jesus fuck

>>5490510
Yup, we have a fucked system. I thanks the old gods and new every day I brought my own damn lunch to school.

>school lunches

How do these work? Who pays for this unappetizing and/or unhealthy slop and the wages of the workers required to prepare it?
The parents? The gubmint? private philanthropists?
I'm guessing most kids probably don't even eat it anyway so what's the point?

>>5493749
where the fuck do you live?

>>5492559
no one is saying anything about keeping it on the tray from the school lunch pic, weve moved on to the larger sized bags.

>>5493224
no its not

>>5492518
>Also the people in jail are more dangerous than the kids.
Maybe in your country. Here in the states our kids will shiv you over an internet meme.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/06/slender-man-wisconsin-stabbing-horrifying-details.html

>>5493802
AIDS is acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, as in having a destroyed immune system. HIV is the virus that causes aids. So a cafeteria worker could have cut themself with a knife and got blood on the meat or something. Wouldn't work in Britain though since they aren't allowed to have knives.

I stopped eating lunch all together in my last two years of high school, I just sat there at a half empty table reading collected editions of The Walking Dead, Transmetropolitan, or some cape comics.

>>5491445
>but >90% of people don't need to eat every 4 waking hours

if i don't eat something every 3-4 hours, i start sweating and get the shakes and chills. it feels like something is clawing my arms apart.

>>5493880

i used to skip lunch in hs. then one day ate a huge breakfast and med. lunch, and was amazed at how much energy i had at football practice.

>>5490832

>Texas
>9th most obese state
>good lunch programs
>I fucking bet

>>5493858
except it would die before it was consumed dumbass, do you even virus

>>5494064
>how obese a state is depends entirely on the school lunches

>>5493880
>skipping lunch in highschool
same. I'm not exactly sure why I did, though.

>>5490510
What even is that? I swear my cat's food is higher quality than that.

>Giving burgers to children as lunch
Fuck me.

You know, when I was in high school I went on an exchange to Japan and I swear, the food they had at their cafeteria (more like restaurant) was better and cheaper than what you would get in an American-Japanese restaurant. When I came back I never ate from my schools cafeteria again, choosing to make my own lunches. Why does America seriously serve this crap?

has anyone seen the tv program where jamie oliver tries to make school lunches more healthy, and everyone basically just spits on him

>>5494173
Its cheap. I mean we have to bus those niggers in from the inner city. Muh forced integration.

>>5493853
Isolated cases don't serve as measure. That kid was clearly batshit insane

>>5493376
That stuffs nice but its hell expensive in Australia (though thats prolly where you are

>>5493853
>killing for a fucking meme
kids nowadays are fucked.

>>5494180
his argument was shit
>this food is cheap blended parts of a chicken but tastes good
>this food was not blended together parts of a chicken, it tastes good too

he's a dumbass for thinking kids care

>>5491210
Prions have a very low chance of infection if consumed, otherwise all the britbongs and many europeans would be gibbering sponge-brains by now.

>>5491567
That was a fraternity bro. You got hazed.

>>5491885
The reason for the blandness is because you were used to super over spiced/salted foods that are meant to hook you and make you crave them.

It takes a long time for your body to get out of that mode.

>>5490510
I like school canteens in australia (pic related)
Typically students bring their own lunches, but if you forget/didnt have time/special occasion/parents are lazy pieces of shit, then you go to the tuck shop. I was allowed to order my lunch once a week (but my mum made such good lunches I wasn't fussed anyway)

Typically you place a lunch order (in the morning - write your order on a paper bag and put the cash inside), and it will be delivered to your classroom 2 minutes before lunch starts, so all the kids can eat together.

They have daily specials too (e.g. monday lasagne, tuesday sushi, wednesday chicken burger, thursday vietnamese spring rolls, friday pizza),
or you can get a meat pie, sandwich, salad, fruit, etc. Juice, no soft drinks (lol can you believe it burgerclaps?!)
they also have sweets/icecreams/chips, hot chocolate in the winter but there is a big focus on healthy food. And it's all reasonably priced.

Sometimes the ladies that run the tuck shop are fuckable, but more often they are fat and saggy, hence the term "tuck shop arms" (you know when they wave to you and the fat below the tricep wobbles to and fro)

ahh good times

>>5492530
I'm guessing you're trolling, but most college/university dining services use actual dishware, used by hundreds of students every day, and then usually cleaned by a mix of work-study students and local unskilled hourlies. I worked in the dishroom at my school for a semester, and I can tell you that it's a job where you could easily employ high schoolers or maybe even middle schoolers and do a hell of a lot of waste reduction.

>>5493853
Causes of random violence:
>guns
>video games
>le internet memes
>misogyny

not:
>mentally unstable fuckers

I know you're joking, but logic like this makes me angry.

Am I the only one who liked school lunches?

Chocolate milk, canned fruit, burger/taco/pizza, and a cookie was a pretty okay meal.

>>5495394
we always had good lunches at my schools but our lunch ladies actually cooked instead of havnig a bunch of frozen and premade shit to reheat

>>5491366
I dont have kids why should I care

If parents dont give a shit about what their kids eat it's not my problem

>>5495394
high school lunch was culinary students food so it was amazing

middle school was terrible health wise, fries and local frozen burritos/microwaved papa johns

>>5495355
>mentally unstable fuckers
Neglected children. This country has a huge problem with this.

Uncrustables masterrace

>>5495308
Ah how I loath polar crush. My school always watered it down to the point where it tasted like nothing. Do they even make it anymore?

>>5495526
i don't get the point of these
pb&js are lunches even crack addict moms could make

>>5495526
What is with Americans and pbnj? It seems like such a staple food even though its just a bad tasting sandwitch

>>5495568
But they taste delicious.

I still eat them sometimes. With good bread and PB, and going easy on the J, it's not unhealthy at all.

>>5495568
You should start a thread about it.

>>5490510

What is the gooey stuff in below the banana?

In Poland school food was pretty great (expect fucking "fish" meat patty - idk how to say it in english). Normally we get food like fish + potatoes + some carrot, or a pork chop with potatoes, pancakes with cheese, chicken cooked with vegetables with rice. Pretty decent meals. I've never eaten a burger in any school. They just don't serve shitty food here. Also the stuff was like your family, everyone calling them "aunt". Good times :)

School lunch in the rural South was an absolute joke and looking back on it, it doesn't shock me how many people are obese as fuck now. Hamburger was a cold lifeless smashed patty, no cheese. Pizza was the typical rectangle cardboard shit. Oh god the "chicken fajitas" that looked like they just came out of a toilet of diarrhea. The only thing they did right was these spicy fries in middle school that they only did for those 3 years and decided it was a bad idea because kids were getting into fights over stealing them.

I brown-bagged it sporadically in grade school, but that was because my parents didn't have money to pay for school lunch, yet, the district said my dad made "too much money" for me to get it for free. I think what my mom made for me was slightly healthier than the school shit, but probably not.

>>5495878

Fish Cakes are delicious.

>>5495912

No, Fish Cake is a nightmare. I forgot one more extremly shitty thing. Fucking fried livers. NEVER AGAIN.

>>5491048
My first day on /ck/. Is this a local thing that milk = acne or are you just retarded?

>>5490548
In Italy we just have a little break from 10:57 to 11:05 in high school. It's common that we keep on being listening until 14:05, therefore we do not have any cafeteria.

>>5495308
I remember that stuff. Back in primary school they made the best salad sandwiches. Except for that one time on st patricks day they got the bright idea to dye the bread green...

As far as I remember, lunch during elementary school was really varied: you always had pasta(with tomato sauce, with pesto, with tomatoes and mozzarella), rice(without anything or with tomato) or Lasagne.
For the main course, well, it was always a surprise: carrots, spinaches, broccoli, raditz, Roman salad, even grilled aubergines(which were trashed by all the kids that day, including me[WTF is a grilled aubergine, come on]), with every kind of meat or fish.
Usually, a seasonal fruit for dessert, but when Christmas occured of school finished, we could have or a chocolate pudding, or little pandori, or some traditional Tuscan cookies, the so-called "cenci".

Obviously, for lactose-intolerants, religiously-forbidden kids and so on, menus were a little different.

I went to a decent middle/high school and the cafeteria food there would probably shock your average European, but I liked it a good bit.

Soy burgers, industrial pizza, fried chicken, fake nacho cheese, I think I went all my years without eating anything that resembled a salad.

The thing of that was, I was a low-class loser with no culinary tradition at home (hell, I cooked the dinner). When you are used to eating shit food, you don't notice that there's something wrong with it. That's why it's just business as usual. Actually trying to change it by removing the pizza, burgers, etc. would get fought against by children and parents, because whatever shit they replace it with would be awful. You can't make a meal that is healthy *and* cheap *and* looks appetizing to those kind of people who grow up hating vegetables and getting completely attuned to pizza and burgers as dietary staples.

>>5495960
I remember that we had some nice vegetable soups when I was a kid; nobody used to throw it in the garbage, as we didn't have any burgers, nuggets, fries(we rarely had fish sticks, they were delicious, for they weren't fried, but cooked in the oven) and any kind of sugary/fatty food.

>>5491484
>>5491892
>>5493904
>all these people thinking that going more than 12 hours without food will kill them

Living in a constant food coma by shoving food into your mouth every hour can't be good for you. We're getting so used to food that it's not even funny. I've asked numerous people when the last time was that they felt hungry (truly hungry, not "oh, I haven't had a snack in an hour, I need my energy :)" ) and they couldn't respond.

>There is no medical profession whatsoever that will back up your ideas about eating, not the 4hr or the once daily.

Except intermittent fasting (as opposed to flat-out fasting for a week or so) has shown to have significant benefits to health. If that doesn't harm you, one meal per day definitely shouldn't.

>>5495308
>you will never have a sweet-chilli tender roll

damn what it'd do to go back and eat the shit out of the old canteen

>play water
>sweet chilli tenders
>milo ice cream
>$1 paddlepops

CHECK OUT OUT RUSSIAN SCHOOL LUNCH
JUST LOOK AT THIS FUCKY MESS
THIS IS THE PERFECT FOOD FOR KID TO GROW INTO A REAL MAN

>>5491897
Ok, in this tray we can see a Pretzel with a something on top, boxed milk, corn, something that should be pizza, a spoon, a fork and...jelly?

>>5491918
All foods in America are just variations of corn, even though nobody knows it. Just look at that tray. That pizza? Made out of cornmeal. The cheese is just processed corn. The chocolate milk? That's like 90% corn juice with food colouring. The pretzel is made out of the discarded parts of the kernels, and that fruit you see are probably jellied corn. That cutlery is probably made out of corn as well

>>5495993
Not *just* corn, but corn, soybeans, wheat, tomatoes, and milk. I mean, try to find a school lunch in America that isn't 90% just those things.
Pasta? Wheat noodles, tomatoes and corn syrup in the sauce.
Pizza? Milk in the cheese, wheat in the crust, tomatoes and corn syrup in the sauce.
Burgers? Soy meat patty, milk in the cheese, wheat in the bun.
And, and we drink milk, of course. The only parts that don't fit this are the salad and the fruit sides, and they are small and irregular and the latter is probably in a cornsyrup-filled sauce.

>>5495966

We should really stop eating because it's routine.

lunch is the meal that your body can miss, as long as they eat breakfast and dinner. Not serving kids lunch is only going to hurt kids that aren't also being fed at home, in which case they need help that the school can't give them.

None of the schools I went to had served lunches, we had a store where you could buy food, but it was filled with fast food shit and candy, not a fruit or vegetable (unless you count warm wilted lettuce) in sight. most kids bought lunches from home. or we snuck out to the court and bought it from there. The old lady at the bakery would yell at us to go straight back to school.

>>5496040
> Not serving kids lunch is only going to hurt kids that aren't also being fed at home, in which case they need help that the school can't give them.
People believe that school can help these kids though, because school is supposed to be the means by which the state/society shapes and molds the future generations, there is a responsibility to them that goes beyond just providing education opportunity (so goes this logic).
The give these kids a free lunch, and it's another form of social welfare. Besides making sure that they're actually eating, it's supposed to give kids likely to be truant a reason to show up to school and maybe learn something. Carrots and stick.

>>5493880
I skipped lunch too, but that's because I was broke.

>>5496040
>lunch is the meal that your body can miss, as long as they eat breakfast and dinner
are you retarded? no amount of breakfast can give you enough calories to wait for the fucking dinner, especially as a kid.

>>5494351
Implying they are not

>>5491335
>>5491997

>>5491321
That's either salmon or tuna in a very tasty sauce.
>tfw you will never be a little Japanese boy

>>5491308
Looks healthy but bland as fuck. Some unidenfiable chicken-in-sauce, potatoes, carrots, and...shredded cabbage? Plus something that looks like a camo-pattern granola bar.
>>5491315
I ate this in high school, minus that huge dollop of ketchup, and with plain milk instead of chocolate. It tastes good and I'm not ashamed to say it.
>>5491321
It looks fine I guess. Japanese food can taste good but it can also be terribly bland, and industral-produced lunch probably would lean towards the latter.

If you don't like the lunch the school serves your kids, then pack your kids lunch.
> M-muh handouts, b-but I can't actually put time or effort into raising my kids, I just want to throw money at somebody and have them do everything for me.

USA does not have some flawless education system where you can just expect the state to raise your child.

>>5494074
viruses aren't technically alive, and so can't die

>>5496486
youre dumb

I went to a private school in Hong Kong, at the start of every month, my parents would get a letter telling them what would be on the menu each day. You either opt in and write a check how many school days there were and get delicious food cooked on campus every day from ingredients trucked into the school an hour or so before school started. It was mostly stir fried veges, rice and other Asian dishes.

Most of the ingredients like meat and vegetables were fresh, except for sauces or canned goods. I think the only time we ever got burgers and the like was when the school's head cook had to take a day off because his son was getting married.

Oh, we got home made soup on Tuesdays and Thursdays and orange juice from this juice bar across from our school that had a commercial juice bar that had this fuck off huge orange juicer on Wednesdays and Fridays.

I think the price per meal rounded to something like 2.50USD.

>>5495976
>Potatoes, rice, and corn
RUSSIA STRONK

> mfw drink tons of milk and never had acne

Sup bitches

>>5497289

Only 179 grams? You might as well buy a swansons hungry man or hungry man xxl

>>5496628

those arent potatoes, retard. Those are the most delicious things in the world. Kotleti. (mini grilled meatloafs with onion garlic and spices made of ground beef or chicken!)

>>5490510
alot of these, especially the one with just burgers and tots, are because they went through the line a chose to only get a burger and tots, its not like that was all they had that day, usually multiple options but always some form of veggies are available(though they do consider corn a vegetable)

AFA the people that are saying people get fed by the school etc, the way it works in America is the offer school lunches, you have to pay for these, they also offer free or reduced lunches if you cant afford full priced, you also have the option to bring your own stuff from home, IME if a kid is sitting there not eating they will ask why and if they dont have money for a plate they go get them one anyway free of charge.

>>5497372
> alot of these, especially the one with just burgers and tots, are because they went through the line a chose to only get a burger and tots, its not like that was all they had that day, usually multiple options but always some form of veggies are available(though they do consider corn a vegetable)

you must have gone to a private school. It's either the burger and tots... or its THIS.. EVERY SINGLE DAY. ITS ALWAYS THIS. (couldnt even find a pic).

its basically just a small salad entirely complosed of iceberg.

(at least in my school district). They are only NOW getting sued and making changes to their lunches, adding veggies, n shit.

When i went to school - you either eat the disgusting burger, or you starve. Or you buy cheetos, but i didnt get a fucking allowance.

>>5497377
nope went to public school but all schools are supposed to be serving balanced meals they cant just serve burgers and tots and nothing else.

my schools were actually great they cook mostly from scratch instead of that premade, boxed., or frozen shit a lot of schools used, but thats probably b/c i grew up in the country but ive talked to people ive worked with about theirs and while most said a lot of ppl didnt eat veggies they were available (albeit shitty)

>>5490510
lol i like how school taught me to avoid sauces and such. well better not say anything or else they will make whatever that soupy sauce junk bland as fuck to prove me wrong

anyone have a link to that british girl who photographs her lunches?

>>5490510
wow to people would complain about te sugar making them fat but not the salt giving heart attacks or id say damn it would be healthier just to serve a plain dried out piece of chicken shredded lettuce and chips with a side of chopped banana salad. oh wait i forgot supposed to promote more jobs and zero work. chopping bananas would be work

>>5497392
i think you're missing the point... the burgers and tots are the GOOD part.... they're not serving just that, but shit, we were lucky to have that.... the alternative was a nasty ass salad with nasty ass dressing.

you seem to be implying that those burgers and tots are bad for you or something... considering how active kids are, ive never seen anyone get fat from those school lunches. The kids that were already fat - ate like 3 lunches every day.

stop this nonsense where bread, meet, and potatoes are bad for you.. and empty salad water lettuce meal is good. Where is the nutrition? you think your shit tier veggies have more nutrition then tator tots? Guarantee you otherwise.

>>5491482
The freshman 15 also comes due to a change in diet as well as the added stress. Not to mention that most colleges don't generally require physical education each semester like you would normally get in school.

>>5497409
ive never said that and didnt mean to imply it if i did, i eat bread, meat, starches/grains, and veggies everyday

there was just a lot of ppl ITT talking about it like its all american cafeterias serve and never provide veggies which isnt true, its just what people choose to get

>>5497372
their is always the schoolyard lunch break superiority plan were you do not go to the cafeteria but instead lay claim to the chill spots and get an extra 15 minutes of chilling fit into lunch break. its like yeah chan poo probably aint got an ipod cuz he goes and is active and do not rely on internet to help harvest the crops

>>5497408
There has never been a link between salt and heart attacks.

Most people secrete more than twice the fda suggested intake of sodium in sweat. With additional sodium lost through urine.

Sodium effect on blood pressure, in moderation, is only truly noticed in people who have one of 18 rare disorders. Total population counts with these disorders account for only about .02% of the population. for larger intakes, there is a short term increase in blood pressure, but intake has to exceed 20 times the fda's recommended level before there is a long term increase.

Even if sodium intake were to be cut down to 0. blood pressure would only fall 5mmHg. With the average sufferer of high blood pressure being 45mmHg over normal range.

Side effects of sodium restriction include nausea lethargy, and death

>>5497427
wut

>>5497415
and an increase in alcohol consumption

>>5495308
The chicken and mayo salad sandwich that the tuck shop made me in primary school was soo god damn good.

>>5492540
whoa whoa whoa bags milk i can understand but square milk jugs ya'll niggers be crazy

>>5495308
Good memories of eating frozen orange slices on summer days.

>>5493904
American logic

>>5491897
Oh god I miss those flat pizzas. Those things were the fucking bomb diggity doo da

>in some countries, people don't just bring food from home
At the school I work at, and practically every school in the country, everyone brings their own bloody food. In our school we even have a couple of microwaves to reheat leftovers or whatever. It's usually a pretty good deal. Only a few kids get lunch at school through the canteen.

Always confused me as a kid why my cartoons had kids going to a cafeteria and getting some mystery slop because we have no equivalent.

>>5498313
here in the states districts are starting to ban lunches from home. Because they are "unhealthy". Was a few reports of teachers just throwing away the bagged lunches and forcing them to buy a trey.

>>5498331
ugh thanks for the reminder

>>5491056
Id let her drink my fuck milk.

>>5491055
He "fixed" something that wasn't broken.

School lunches in the UK are now expensive salad options and they dont sell soda. They used to sell things like cheese toasties and sandiwiches which were cheap.

>mfw I had a McDonalds in my high school cafeteria

>>5490510
You're being fucked with. It's bad, but it's not that bad.

>>5498393
I was in debate in high school from 99-2003. Once a year this really high class school held a tournament we went too. It looked like a palace driving up to it, almost completely glass outside. Huge lobby walking into it, carpet everywhere, fancy fucking place.

Anyway at these things most times the teams set up in the cafeteria. My god I shit you not it was fucking amazing. absolutely huge with real tables and wooden chairs. One hole wall was just glass looking into a forest with a lake.

Their lunch service was CATERED by some company in the city. On top of that they had a built in taco bell / kfc / mcdonalds (might of been burger king, can't remember)

It was at that moment I realized the poverty gap. All these kids were from rich familes who lived in huge houses that paid a lot of taxes that went back into this school. I bet every single one of those fuckers went to an ivy league college when they graduated too. They must of got one hell of an education at a school that nice

>>5498409
same happened to me. look up Kennesaw Mountain High School

coming from a rural high school it blew me the fuck away

>>5490832
Ha! what fantasy Texas do you live in?

In 'Straya, we just had lunch-orders, which were handwritten instructions from your parents and a bag of coins that got sent to the milk-bar down the road. At lunch-time, they'd drive a ute into the school and give you your lunch.

Most parents ordered lunch for their kids as a treat on Friday. Instead of the usual sandwich and fruit, we'd get a sausage roll and maybe a drink.

If any kids didn't have lunch (for whatever reason) they'd be given dry biscuits and peanut butter by the principal.

>>5492456
Holy shit that looks like the best thing ever

Let's be honest people, how many of you guys stole extra snacks from the cafeteria like jungle juices, ice creams, extra jellos, or extra chicken patties?

>>5491063
>http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/what-school-lunches-look-like-in-20-countries-arou

>France
is that a pinecone
i just
what
this can't be real

>>5497289
> regular were whatever
> pizzas were god tier
> tacos were disgusting
> nachos were tolerable
> hot dogs were weird
> burgers were fine

apparently by the time i became an adult and went to a less prison-like environment for my education, lunchables outright made sandwiches and wraps.

>>5498655
> pinecone
> not an artichoke

>>5498658
why is it such a horrible brown colour
and is that a bowl of mussels in the top left?

>>5498658
a wut?

>>5498331

That's fucked up, you're basically telling parents that you don't think they are capable of feeding their own kids, which some aren't, sure. Do they at least let kids with special diet needs bring their own, like celiac kids or kids with allergies?

>>5498687

a big vegie bud that you can eat.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artichoke

>>5492525
Well, I guess the solution is to bus prisoners out and have them prepare school lunches.

>>5498655
i dunno but id be pretty embarrassed to start hacking into a boiled artichoke, even if i enjoyed it

>>5498331
this is what they do in Japan all through middle school, and they're the healthiest nation on earth.

>>5498731
someone further up posted an article about it. In there it said with a doctors note they could bring lunch

I am glad I graduated before this common core bullshit and home lunches being banned. My mom made my lunch everyday up until the 11th grade. I was only in highschool for 3 hours and then went to a vocational school for 3 hours after (had the option of it or highschool, I chose it.) I would get free food from the culinary class or I would bring my own stuff from home still. When I got really poor I would take cups of ramen and just use the hot water tap for the coffee machines in the cafeteria.

>mfw ameriburgers feed their children with burgers, pizzas, fries and fried chicken
top lel mangs
loving every lel

>>5498331
fuck that shit. they would have had to fight me for that shit

>>5490980
From what I recall - granted, this was some 20+ years ago - that would be "Turkey w/Gravy" and I'm surprised it isn't being served on top of a perfect-ice-cream-scoop of "mashed potato." Was some of the most vile shit ever.

>>5498776
and we still have managed to invent every important thing in the world while the rest of the world spends their time bitching about america

My school had this healthy food program that basically boiled down to
>Everything that can be whole wheat is whole wheat
>no salt, ever
>no sugar, ever

Everything tasted like crap and I'm pretty sure I almost developed a salt deficiency at one point, but look at other food programs (in burgerland especially) makes me think I was lucky
I drove to subway daily as soon as i got my license though.

>>5495308
>the fat below the tricep
Here in the UK we call those "bingo wings."

>>5491567
Prison food is usually pretty decent. If the food's shit, inmates are way more likely to riot.

tfw i really like rice and bread

gonna die its ogre pls pray 4 me

>>5495941
What a horrible post

>>5498754
I think it is common to bring bento from home. Some students even make their own food.

>>5496132

They are called "shotas", actually.

>>5499007
you're wrong. In middle school everyone must eat the school-provided lunch.

in elementary school, it may vary but mostly everyone must eat school-provided lunch.

only in high school is bento allowed.

>>5495878
I remember that the lunch in school in Poland was less than a dollar or if you were a poorfag you'd get it for free.
Lots of fresh veggies and meat. No burgers, pizza or fries though.
Oh, and we could always choose milk or kompot (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kompot))

>>5499017
i always thought nagisa was the devil
like when he chases milhouse with that firework, wtf?

>>5499047
Oh, you are right. I was thinking about high school.

>Today, as of 2004, 99% of elementary school students and 82% of junior high school students eat kyūshoku (school lunch) in Japan. The food is grown locally, is almost never frozen, and, barring dietary restrictions, is the same for every student. Children in most districts cannot bring their own meals to school until they reach high school, nor do schools have vending machines; instead, children are taught to eat what they are served.

Seems like a good way to introduce kids to a decent diet and make them try different food. Here it is pretty common for people to claim to hate food that they never tried.

"Don't be picky! This is what people eat for lunch here!" (As long as the school makes quality food)
>but muh freedom

>>5498806
Whats worse is when they try to pass off shittier food as healthy.

Went from Sheperds pie with a bunch of veg to some shitty pasta with sausage pieces and tomato sauce.

>>5499069

Free/Simpsons crossover, when?!

>>5490530
because its "the law" thanks to Michelle Obama's new healthy eating act.

My old school had awesome lunch, fresh salads, grinders, pizza better than Dominos

But a lot of schools can't afford good lunch programs and get OP's abomination

would be sweet to sucker some responsible culinary arts students into advanced cooking classes taught inside a elementary school kitchen

>kenya

>>5495976
I love that in other countries they actually give kids silverware and cups and plates. Sometimes I hate being an american.

>>5498655
yeah, that lunch was the weirdest thing there
>fries
>artichoke
>mussels

>>5493904
You sound fat.

Unless you go to a huge, well-funded university, it doesn't get much better in college. I went to 3 universities before graduating.

At the huge SEC school, there was a cafeteria on campus that catered to the football team and was rated 4 starts by a well-known food review group (I can't remember who).

At the two smaller schools, the cafeteria was run by Aramark - the same guys who are in charge of prison cafeterias. And the food at both sucked and reminded me of high school food.

>that food placement

>>5499489
what the fuck is a artichoke or mussels