Yep, you gotta give her credit for risking her life like that.

She must want to get fat or have an excuse for already being fat.

Mr. F

proud brown bagger

pfft. these kids have lunch? we had to fight in a cage and cut up the remains of the loser for our lunch when I was a kid!

spoiled rotten snowflakes!

School food wasn't that bad.

Before highschool, school lunch was terrible, but in highschool, we had a food court. There was always the salad bar...until some jerk off literally jerked off into the ranch. Then the salad bar disappeared.

/gross story bro

ate school lunches all my life, had very few bad ones. *shrug*

pizza burgers

If you don't like the school's food, pack your own damn lunch.

/really, it's not that hard

fta:

But most shower her with praise for volunteernig to eat the only options many of her students have.

thats racist, son!

I'd imagine it all depends on who has the contract.

Does anyone else get a weird craving for a crappy Aramark hamburger on occasion?

...that's not lasagna.

The only thing I ever managed to eat at my school lunches was soft pretzels with cheese. Even those weren't all that good.

/more testicles means more iron

In this post, I tell everyone how my friend found a RAT LEG BONE in his burger in 7th grade.

AppleOptionEsc: School food wasn't that bad.

Before highschool, school lunch was terrible, but in highschool, we had a food court. There was always the salad bar...until some jerk off literally jerked off into the ranch. Then the salad bar disappeared.

/gross story bro

How did he have enough time to finish and not get noticed?

AppleOptionEsc: School food wasn't that bad.

Before highschool, school lunch was terrible, but in highschool, we had a food court. There was always the salad bar...until some jerk off literally jerked off into the ranch. Then the salad bar disappeared.

/gross story bro

exactly why I don't eat creamy white foodstuff like mayo, ranch dressing, tartar sauce, etc.

My high school had pretty good lunch, but elementary school was horrible.

qsblues: pfft. these kids have lunch? we had to fight in a cage and cut up the remains of the loser for our lunch when I was a kid!

spoiled rotten snowflakes!

You were living in the lap of luxury. We couldn't afford knives, had to rip the loser's flesh apart with our bare hands!

silentneep: How did he have enough time to finish and not get noticed?

Years of practice?

One of the only good things about the Catholic school I went to for freshman year of high school was the cafeteria food. It was probably more than double the cost of public school cafeteria food but it was always delicious. They even had breakfast available for teachers and people in study hall (including delicious cinnamon buns they would warm up in the microwave for you), and Chick-Fil-A sandwiches for lunch. Of course almost every other aspect of the school sucked, including education quality if you weren't an art geek, so I left after a year and had to go back to eating shiatty "cheese" pizza for lunch at the public school. That was the only thing served that was edible.

so what's the news? i work in a high school, the teachers eat the same food as the students (and pay more for the same portions...)

The food isn't even that bad, though the chicken drumstick shaped things that dont have bones freak me out.

silentneep: AppleOptionEsc: School food wasn't that bad.

Before highschool, school lunch was terrible, but in highschool, we had a food court. There was always the salad bar...until some jerk off literally jerked off into the ranch. Then the salad bar disappeared.

/gross story bro

How did he have enough time to finish and not get noticed?

It was probably one of the student aides.

Gussie Fink-Nottle: silentneep: How did he have enough time to finish and not get noticed?

Years of practice?

I suppose I walked right in to that one.

Chili, from Day 35 has the funniest, most succinct review of them all:

"In the picture it looks like poo. It was not poo!

Perhaps, but I've always been a bit queasy when it comes to what the food looks like. If it looks like poo, it'll probably taste like poo.

When I was in High School, I attended a school in a very poor district. This was the mid-80's. I know, I'm old.

The pictures of the food accompanying the article were a thousand times better looking that the slop we were served.

It was completely inedible, and I once found a toy surprise in my french fries... one deep fried cockroach.

Pizza day was the only saving grace, because we were served soggy, Elios type pizza squares.

schattenteufel: School lunches should be well-rounded, not the kids.

Haha, thanks for the laugh. I'm stealing that for future use.

I went to her blog, and there's a guest entry by a teacher from Japan - the food there looked almost restaurant quality. Further back, there was a guest blogger from NYC and the food looked like...well, food.

Why is it so hard to make cafeteria food? Clearly, if a school in Japan or NYC can do it, why not other schools?

schattenteufel: Also, teaching children more about nutrition how to eat healthy should be a mandatory part of health class, even more so than it is.

Like sex-ed, nutrition is something that should also be gone over at home, by the parents.

(yeah, my kid's gonna be DOUBLY in trouble then)

silentneep: AppleOptionEsc: School food wasn't that bad.

Before highschool, school lunch was terrible, but in highschool, we had a food court. There was always the salad bar...until some jerk off literally jerked off into the ranch. Then the salad bar disappeared.

/gross story bro

How did he have enough time to finish and not get noticed?

He was in high school. High school boys are not precisely famous for their staying power.

The trade-off is they're ready to go again pretty quickly.

My high school had open lunch (you could go out), had a McDonald down the street, and the terrible looking cafeteria food cost more than a value meal at the micky d's. I don't think I ate at the cafeteria even once. There was also a Chipotle and a shopping mall with a full food court about half a mile away.

What was great was they stated that students weren't getting enough nutrients in their diets, so if you bought a main meal item (like hamburgers, pizza, lasagna, etc), you had to buy a healthy side as well. Meant that buying lunch at school cost at least five dollars minimum. Or for the same price you got five hamburgers from the dollar menu (plus tax).

/Two slices of pizza, a side salad and one of those little containers of milk came out to over ten dollars.

Also, in my school, I'm sure many teachers packed lunches, but a lot of them ate in the cafeteria. They laid claim to their own tables, but they went through the same line, got the same food, and paid the same as us kids.

Is this really so unusual?

We have, I mean our kids have the right to excellent food! A right being denied them. There ought to be more laws and one of them needs to be about providing tasty food to our children because what kind of country would we be if we didn't legislate every g*ddam* thing including the taste of lunch food.

flyingmonkeysreign: My high school had open lunch (you could go out), had a McDonald down the street,

When my school went to a closed campus, it put a Dairy Queen out of business. True story.

Vash's Apprentice: qsblues: pfft. these kids have lunch? we had to fight in a cage and cut up the remains of the loser for our lunch when I was a kid!

spoiled rotten snowflakes!

You were living in the lap of luxury. We couldn't afford knives, had to rip the loser's flesh apart with our bare hands!

We HAD to have knives. If you came to school without a knife, the teachers sent you home to get one, or fight another kid for theirs. Stabby class was right after Carjacking, and right before Guns Ammo recess. at least school was right across the street from the liquor store ... my how times have changed.

Wow, that looks terrifying. Even in the fairly poor school district in north Louisiana I attended from grades 2-10, we had food that looked better than this. Sure, the pizza was the standard floppy industrial squares, stuff tended to be overcooked, etc, but we had real veggies, stuff like pineapple upside down cake and various fruit cobblers and crumbles for dessert, nothing like those prefab fruit cups. And even in junior high we had a salad bar. If a town of 3500 with no money could manage that in the 70s and 80s, why is the stuff shown in her blog going on today?

satellite kitchens like this will almost always have crappier food since almost nothing is prepared fresh. This stuff was all made from frozen premade garbage.
Granted the kitchen i work in isn't gourmet but we sure the hell don't make food that bad, oddly enough some of the USDA recipes are pretty good.

holy god, I thought the food at my school was bad. at least we didn't have frozen dinners. We had real lunch ladies, and they often made soup fresh, and from middle school on we had a salad bar (it wasn't great, but it was there). The gov't mandated food was generally the worst- I always felt bad for my friends on reduced lunches, because you HAD to get the "lunch" for the day, instead of going through the a-la-cart line.

honestly, the worst part IMO of most modern day lunches is the lack of alternatives on drinks. You had 2% milk or full fat milk, or chocolate milk. No skim. I took to buying water bottles, which cost a fortune (remember, school, so you can't walk around with water), and the lemonade and iced tea were basically sugar in a bottle.

schattenteufel: I rarely got a chance to eat lunch at school. If I packed my lunc, it would be stolen out of my locker or nabbed by a fellow student as I sat down to eat it. If I bought a school lunch, it would be grabbed off my tray by a fellow student before I sat down to eat it. I would have to smuggle in granola bars, etc eat them in private, to avoid blacking out from low blood sugar.

/sad story bro

sorry bout that, but a brotha's gotta eat!
where did you keep the granola bars? I thought I always cleaned you out!
YOU WERE HOLDING OUT ON ME! I'LL SEE YOU AFTER SCHOOL!

Katie98_KT: honestly, the worst part IMO of most modern day lunches is the lack of alternatives on drinks. You had 2% milk or full fat milk, or chocolate milk. No skim.

The kids have water...they have White-out. They can make their own skim milk...

AppleOptionEsc: School food wasn't that bad.

Before highschool, school lunch was terrible, but in highschool, we had a food court. There was always the salad bar...until some jerk off literally jerked off into the ranch. Then the salad bar disappeared.

/gross story bro

every single school in the country had a rumor passing around about some kind jerking off into a condiment dispenser, or about a condom found in the salad dressing. never happened.

doesn't all the Ecstasy, cigarrettes, and meth they take kill their appetites anyway?

I've been following Mrs Q for a while now, and she's eating some of the saddest institutional food I've ever seen... At least our lunch ladies opened cans or took frozen patties out of a bag and put them in the oven. Then they put the patties on to buns! She's in a grade school, too, and they expect those poor kids to use their spork to pry those melted cheese covered patties out of the tray just to form a cheeseburger. All of that plastic wrap drives me mad!

And to top it off, the kids don't even get recess! In a grade school!

AppleOptionEsc: School food wasn't that bad.

Before highschool, school lunch was terrible, but in highschool, we had a food court. There was always the salad bar...until some jerk off literally jerked off into the ranch. Then the salad bar disappeared.

/gross story bro