The freaking cheese sticks 🤢 I remember I would just eat the edges and even then. And the one time I did eat the cheese part I choked on it and had to pull the string cheese out of my throat. No good memories with that stuff.
The problem is not necessarily that fruits and veggies themselves are disgusting, it’s the fact that those preserved pear cups and plain salad, uncooked broccoli, and cheap canned veggies are tasteless and unpleasant. There’s ways to make fruits and veggies taste good.
Completely agreed. If there had been a focus on improving the quality of all food, students would likely take fruits and vegetables of their own volition. Instead they’re forced to take unappetizing fruits and vegetables alongside their unappetizing meal. This really only exacerbates the issues of students eating unhealthy because the unhealthy options are the only ones that taste good.
@@josephbinette7743100%. It’s like there was a board meeting to choose the most unappetizing healthy options possible. I don’t know anyone who enjoys raw unrefrigerated baby carrots
I’m actually a “lunchlady” at an elementary school and I’m glad to say that we don’t have that problem there. I even eat the lunches. Everything is fresh, looks appetizing, and there’s a good variety. I feel for the kids that had to be served those kinds of meals 😰
I currently work at an elementary school and I get very jealous over the food they're given because when I was in elementary school we were given probably fake eggs and the soggiest foods known to man. Those tiny pie dish pizzas they have nowadays beckon me....
I'mma take it this has to do with cafeterias that Sodexo operates. Most of their history in schools is filled with lunchladies working under them heating (with microwaves) and rationing out what their employer sends over. The only righteous thing they did was back in 2011 when the company sued SEIU for RICO violations and the legally routine discovery uncovered the union's action manual for the protest the plaintiff deemed 'illicit'. If you don't know them, Sodexo S.A. is a French company that operates cafeterias, usually around hospitals, schools and prisons.
So this is actually a huge issue. Basically schools legally must offer food but schools don't have to ability to manage that themselves so they get contracts with private companies and those companies are only interested in profit and typically the school can't do anything because they are locked in multi year contracts.
Actually, the federal government doesn’t require schools to provide lunch. The school system is left to the states to decide. However, if the schools follow federal guidelines for education, then they get extra federal funding. The federal government is blackmailing schools into spending money on lunches that are probably more detrimental than they are helpful. The truth is parents need to take responsibility and provide lunches for their own children. If you can’t afford to make lunch for your kids, you shouldn’t have kids.
School lunch being bad has been a problem for at least 50 years. My mom used to think we were just being bratty complaining about them. She grew up in England and they would be served cuts off a whole roast, or turkey, stuff like that. Since rationing was occurring, school lunch helped parents eke out the meager rations. The lunches were great and she couldn't understand our complaints. Until, that is, her Woman's Club had a meeting at school in the 70's and was served lunch, and it happened to be on hotdog day. The buns were either so stale they were hard or so overheated they were mush. The hotdog was a piece of rubber. After experiencing that meal, she said she was sorry for not listening to our complaints. Fortunately, she didn't have to face the worst thing - the canned spinach. I think it was army surplus left over from the Korean War, and it looked and smelled like it had been dredged out of a swamp then warmed up. We would cover it over with our napkin so we didn't have to look at it and could eat the other food. You had no choice in it being put on your tray or not. Thank God for those trays having separate compartments. I never saw a single child eat any.
The girl spending $100 on junk food was probably getting it because it was actually edible. She also mentions the line moves faster. When I was in high school waiting in the main lunch line took over half your lunch time, so some would just go through the more “snack” lines just so they’d have time to eat. I don’t completely blame her.
I'm honestly furious about this. The US may just be one of the most, if not THE most wasteful nation in the world when it comes to food. Anyone who's ever worked fast food, especially closing shift, can tell you just how many tons of nuggets and fries are thrown out every week so to hear about schools having a food shortage is just infuriating. I'm 35 and when I was in school, sure, the food wasn't the best but at least it was... well, FOOD!
@@Shepherdale.Official Kinda hard to escape this capitalist nightmare when you have no money and most other countries look at us like we're some sort of plague...
It's not bad to be upset about food waste, but you have to look at it from a health point of view. Food can only sit out for so long before it becomes too stale to eat (unless you're literally starving, of course). I mean, would you buy a burger that's been sitting on a warming pad for an hour? The reason companies don't give out old food is because by the time it reaches a destination to be distributed, there's no way to guarantee how fresh it is. You end up risking poisoning people with spoiled food. Even refrigerated leftovers have the chance of getting bacteria. Then there's the logistics of what to reheat and how to reheat it. Ever tried to reheat a Whopper when the veggies are stuck to the bun and cheese? It does suck to just throw food away, but the potential to poison people is why it's thrown out. Don't be discouraged, though, food waste is an issue, but not all food waste is just "wasted", it really does have a legit reason behind it. Things shown in this video, however? No, that needs to stop.
@@cujoedamanThe food doesn't even have to be spoiled. Someone could eat donated food and then sue because they were allergic or they got sick from something else. For companies, it's just not worth the risk.
Where I live, Pepperidge Farm used to allow small farms to take any bread they were going to throw out (most of which was no where near expiration) to feed to their cattle. At some point they put a stop to that. I don't know why and I hate knowing just how much food that could feed humans or livestock gets wasted.
When I moved to a new school during middle school, I was told by the other kids to never eat the fruit. The reason why was that the lunch ladies would pick up the fruit that hadn’t been eaten from the garbage cans and serve it the next day. One day, I saw a lunch lady do just that as I was taking my tray away.
Tbh, they were probably getting it for themselves. Say oranges or bananas have protection. You may say it's nasty and I won't argue but it is hard to look at all that food going to waste. Especially when you know what hunger taste like.
It has always baffled me how the entirety of the United States has had terrible school lunches for decades. In Finland, students eat like royalty compared to the States. We've had good, nutritional, free school lunches since 1943.
It's not the entire country, there's a huge variance between districts. While most public school lunches are far from gourmet, they're usually absolutely fine. We hear about the nasty ones like in this video *because* they're nasty and out of the ordinary, without hearing about the countless others that serve lunch every day with no issues. Which makes the problem even worse, in my opinion. The hundreds and thousands of districts who do it right make it even more damning to the ones who fail. By showing that it's possible with the right people, care, and planning, it just shines a light on how the failed schools failed out of incompetence rather than some passive helpless situation
There are multiple accounts of stories kids being forced to sit and eat some of the most vile stuff in Finnish schools. I can personally remember several foods from the 90's that were obnoxious that I would never feed to a child. Some of the regular problems with school food in my schools were e.g. moldy boiled potatoes, undercooked chicken etc.
I went to a private Catholic school as a kid, and the food was garbage then. This was back in the 1990s! This is definitely a nationwide thing. The "Mystery meat school lunch" trope is real.
Mystery meat is crazy. I know my high school fed us that like maybe twice a month (Granted we always had a dedicated pizza and hamburger/chicken sandwich line daily), but if you wanted the variety there were two other lines for that. The mystery meat always came with a scoop of rice and gravy, and the best damn yeast rolls you'll ever have. Needless to say people paid extra money for extra yeast rolls because they werent touching the meat lol
@nostalgicumbry3279 Yup! Seems about right! We had the ice cream scoop of rice, too. What was up with that?? Our mystery meat was usually on a Kaiser roll or some sort of bread. One time, most of my class got food poisoning from one of the BBQ sandwiches. I think I brought a lunch from home that day. I went to a public high school where the food was a little better taste-wise, but we also had a juice bar and a snack bar, which was mostly junk food 😅
Even in high-school in the mid to late 2000s it was bad. It looks like it's gotten way worse sense I've been out of school. Feel sorry for these poor kids
10 years ago, I was sitting at a lunch table with my friends. One of them spit out their milk because it tasted bad... poured the milk out on the tray and there were cigarette ashes at the bottom of the carton. Was never the same after that
@@HauntakuTV A school I went to only had milk or water (from the fountain). I'm lactose intolerant. I didn't mind though cause water is good for you. Reminded me of when I was in a hospital and they kept serving me milk when I told them I was lactose intolerant and they got all pissy I wasn't drinking the milk.
I resonate with the “How is that milk” person. When I was in high school, they would often keep the milk in a cold fridge. It was so cold that sometimes I would grab a carton and it would be frozen solid.
When milk is served like that, one must wonder why they don't ration out powdered dry milk and offer water instead. Dried milk lasts quite a long while and isn't that expensive.
With my school, there was always a massive rush to get in the cafeteria first and get first grabs on the milk. If you were too slow, you’d be stuck with the frozen milk from the very back of the fridge.
10:21 Sometimes “rebranding” food does actually work, but probably for elementary aged kids. This was a reason why the TV show LazyTown (which was about a healthy lifestyle ) named fruit and vegetables Sportscandy (or in the German version Power snacks which i think sounds better.)
I loved watching that show with my sister when we were younger! It has a great message about activity and healthy eating that resonated with a lot of kids!
Just a few things I remember encountering in school… chunky milk, an orange that was black inside, bone fragments in the burgers, pasta that was more grease than noodle, frozen pb&js consistently, an apple with half a worm by the time I noticed, etc. You couldn’t pay me to eat there again. Oh yeah, and I remember looking up the brand on a food delivery box and it was the same company that supplied food to prisons.
Excuse me but BONE FRAGMENTS IN HAMBURGERS!? Damn and I thought my rubber tire, moldy, and burnt to a crisp hamburgers were bad. Like I've definitely seen everything else you mentioned but how do you screw up that badly to serve hamburgers with bone fragments!?
@@yikesmattiee Same. I also frequently see some sort of white mold in the patty. And the oranges usually had brown spots. Same for the tater tots. The broccoli tastes like bacteria.
1. So sorry but gives new meaning to "Orange is the New Black" and those "Hmm yes I'd like a boneless ________" memes 2. So worms do get into apples? Huh. Reminds me of when Mom found one in her pistachio. Traumatised her poor heart 3. A kid at my second-to-last school once found a vein in his so-called "pulled pork" sandwich. Was even worse when school law was to have the staff force-feed kids their against-will choice of one complete course and a bite of everything else. They counted bread and rolls as desserts (despite being whole wheat) and treated lunch as a class that you were graded for 4. How and why is this even legal? It's the literal food equivalent of "it's a kids' show/movie, they won't care if it's bad 'cause they're all stupid" . Hey, rule of thumb: Don't underestimate the intelligence of kids
Yeah, Los Angeles and Orange County has very good food as far as I remember. Star Foods supplied my elementary school and the Calzones were fire. High school we had decent burgers, pizza, fries, and even smoothies. I never had anything spoiled. I wonder how it's changed after Michelle Obama changed everything though.
I never ate cafeteria food as a kid. They actually made my mom come in because they were "concerned" about me not eating their food. Glad years later, this is finally coming to the forefront, but also disappointed it hasn't changed at all. 😔
This is why I always brought my own lunch. I know what's in it, I choose what goes in it, the amount that goes in it, and I had more time to eat. Lunch time is 20 mins. Waiting in the line can take that long sometimes. I've seen people get their lunch, dump it in the garbage bin, and head off to class because they didn't have time to eat. Even with a lunch from home 20 mins ain't enough.
You control more of what's in it, but not all of what's in it. Unless you can birth an untainted cow and reverse the corruption Monsanto and other harmful chemicals have done to our earths fruitful soils you cannot say you wholly control what your eating... they've taken that right from us long long ago
Unless some drastic changes are made, I'll probably be packing my kid's school lunches myself when I'm a parent. At least while they're in elementary school or even get them in a private school that makes good lunches or home school them.
Twenty minutes?????? That's not even enough time to go straight to the caf and sit down and eat something! The traffic alone takes five minutes on a good day!
I remember my elementary school lunches being decent (early-mid 2000s). Really, the worst thing we had was some cardboard pizza and lazily made chicken wraps. We even had millshakes for a while, which I thought the vanilla one was quite delicious.
The saddest part I think is, is that a lot of kids depend on THESE school lunches for various reasons as their ONLY source of food. -There parents may be abusive and use starvation as punishment -There parents may be poor and just... can't buy food -A parent spend any money they have on themselves or drugs/shopping/cigarettes'/etc etc -Or for whatever other reason A LOT of kids from low income places RELY on food they get from school. It's appalling that we spend HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS on Military and other funding while kids in our nation got hungry EVERY. DAY. This needs to change.
4:00 That mom makes a dang good point there. Money was tight, and we barely didn't get free lunch for the first few months, which we needed badly. My mother insisted it was fine, that she could pay, but the fact that she never noticed how I never ended up asking for money for lunch shows just how stressed she was. She never had time to make dinner, breakfast was always skipped, she was a single mom trying to juggle a job and college. When they told her we finally got free lunch, she insisted I tell them to give it to someone else, but I knew that would make things harder on her than they already were, so I just let it happen, and lunch was the only meal I had for most of my middle and high school experience. That's the case for a lot of kids, school is their only source of consistent food because it's easier on the parent compared to buying and making lunches, and this sort of treatment is.. It'd explain why we have 7th graders at 4th grade literacy rates, since lunches have only gotten worse and worse, schools can't be doing too much better internally either, parents refusing to hold kids back to let them catch up, it's a massive mess, man.. Can we just. Take better care of our future..? Please?
Oh, 18:20, lemme add, even in 2017-2019 there was mold in my juice boxes and congealed milk in cartons. School lunches have been junk for YEARS now. The fact that it's only gotten worse is depressing and disappointing to say the least.
Back in like 2009 or so, while i was in elementary school, my entire school was fed GREEN hotdogs, within 30 minutes to an hour after lunch time ended, hundreds of kids were being sent to the nurses office to get checked out, but since it was so widespread, all the parents were getting called for the kids to get picked up. I luckily didnt eat one of these hotdogs. I, as a 9 year old, took one look at the green hotdog and decided i would rather starve, so i threw it out and went and played at recess. One of my siblings and 2 or 3 very close family friends were sick from eating this school lunch so we were all picked up early from school. it was a crazy day
This reminds me of my middle school cafeteria. Plenty of PBJ sandwiches were nothing but two bread slices and others contained crystallized, old jelly that crackled like rock candy when you chewed and stale, cement-like peanut butter. I think they made them in bulk and then served them faaaar past the day they were no longer fresh. Occasionally they did serve something tasty that my classmates liked, but it was like the second the lunch staff knew we enjoyed something they NEVER served it again, lol. We definitely also experienced the issue with the vegetables and fruit being wasted, especially the former because they were cooked in such a bland and unappetizing way (and I actually liked vegetables as a kid).
Lunches at my school were awful too. I stopped drinking the milk because it was usually expired and actually made me sick at one point (it tasted fine but made me throw up so clearly wasn't) As fir the food it was usually raw, super greasy, super dry or had something else wrong with it. It was also fairly common to find hair in it.
I work in a middle school in Illinois, our lunches definitely don't look like that, outs actually taste decent although I wish they could use seasonings more, I eat fruit there daily myself and tend to get leftovers for home, taste fine Added on as I comment while watching, as for was, we do a share table, if the kid doesn't want their fruit or an unopened item, they put on the table for anyone to take if they want more, the kids love most of it We don't sell extras and the last 2 years lunch has been free for all students
I went to school in Illinois my whole life and I honestly enjoyed our lunches (bland yes but it was okay food) so I was always confused why people complained about school lunches. Now I understand! I think my old school should've done a share table like yours, that would've been a good idea for container items (We were usually served right on the tray, so a spoonful of veggies and fruit on the tray instead of like a container of fruit). We were also a very small rural school which might be why our food was pretty alright.
I can offer some actual insight on the “junk food” article. This was a thing at my high school. Back between 2000 -2005. You had the normal line which was all the parents were told about saying x dollars would buy x number of meals. They did not tell them about the subway line, the unlimited pizza line or the ala cart room with all kinds of junk (of the tasty variety. The school had no issue whatsoever letting us charge our “personal accounts. The article is framed very poorly and I can say many kids blew far more than $6 a day.
The one about the metal. That actually happened to me. I ate a metal piece in my lunch food in elementary and got sent to the hospital to have an x-ray done. It seems to be more common than you would expect.
my school used to serve pizza hut, but now they switched to pizza with bland cheese, with very bland sauce and a bland crust which gets soggy, even though it isn't greasy. The same pizza I remember eating back when I was in elementary school.
The food served in these clips rival that of Kitchen Nightmares… my condolences to the students who have to put up with those meals. The worst I ever had was a bad jumbo fish finger that made me vomit during nighttime. It didn’t look or taste the part though.
I remember once a bunch of people tweeted at Gordon Ramsey showing him pictures of their gross school lunches, and he responded by saying how bad he felt for them having to eat that.
Thing is with the branding of veggies is some kids will be more inclined to eat get them if they have COOL WORDS. Some kids literally rely on cool words. Maybe if we didn't force kids to eat veggies that are not fresh and taste bad they would have a different mindset about it all, but schools could care less.
I graduated in 2000 and literally almost died from salmonella in a school lunch. Like, the ER doc said my blood pressure was so low that I was about 2 hours away from dying, and when I went back to school, I learned that about twenty other classmates also got sick with salmonella at the same time. So yea, this really isn't a new thing, which is one of the saddest and most unfortunate sentences I've _ever_ had to type under a UA-cam video. The difference is, now every kid has a camera in their pocket and a TikTok account to document and share these atrocities with the world.
I had two really extremely different experiences with school lunches. I had a school cafeteria that had a number of options I would consider to eat on a daily basis with decent vegetable options. When we moved across country I was shocked when I found out that lunch was four chicken nuggets. Four. I was in highschool and am athlete. Four chicken nuggets was a drop in the bucket. I would take tons of the salad to fry and subsidize the food but plain dry salad just is not a tasty option. The fruit was almost not edible, apples and pears being so under ripe it was like biting into a rock. I ended up sneaking extra money into my lunch account so I could buy second or third entries for years.
At this point, even the felt food from Mr. Meaty looks more appetizing. I'm glad I graduated 12 years ago, Obamalunch was never this bad, just terribly bland.
There goes my appetite for the next few days. I'm lucky I went to a public elementary school that served actually good food, then started bringing my lunch to my private middle and high schools.
no school, in poor or wealthy neighborhoods I attended, ever had something like this. Corporations have taken control of the lunch system and they will do the bare minimum and still fail if it saves them a dollar. Perhaps they even created the 'shortage' to get more money via supply lies. Then these cafeterias don't monitor the outgoing food and the principal or superintendent doesn't hold people accountable until local news shows up? OR probably still do nothing. Who knows how these people are disciplined, if at all, for this bs.
The school I attend is in a low income area so we get free lunches thanks to a grant. I know if it was up to our lunch ladies our food would probably look or taste much better, but the lady who orders it for us I believe only stays at the board of education and has probably rarely stepped foot into the school to see what we like.
I think the worst part is the fact that the school would reject students if they dont have money to pay for their lunches, even when their parents would try to apply for free lunches because they're poor
Back in the 90s during middle school for me, the pizza was basically bread with a blanket of cheese, so you can peel off the cheese super easily and it'd look like a slab of skin. One time I found grapes and cherries under the blanket of cheese.
I remember last year I got hot lunch, which at the time they were serving chicken nuggets. Me, liking chicken nuggets, didn't mind it. I bit into it and the chicken nugget tasted raw and gross. I looked inside and the whole part of the meat was bright pink. I've also had spoiled milk too. The only time the lunch is good is when they have pizza Hut or Dominos
Fun little fact for y’all: the truck that supplies American schools with school lunches, also supplies the local prisons! I’m lucky to be in a district where we get actual food like chicken alfredo, but not everyone is so lucky..
Grossest school lunch I had in high school was the chicken fried steak with gravy. The “gravy” in question was basically almost nothing but pure grease and oil. Basically puked my guts out on my way back home on the bus.
If they had 'rebranded' the vegetables with wierd names like x-ray vision carrots when I was in school, it'd probably have some success, just not for the reasons intended lmao. I'd have thought it was so stupid it'd be hilarious they did it unironicaly that my friends and I would probably eat them just because it was funny
It makes more sense for elementary school kids, who are more likely to be like, "Oh cool, this will give me x-ray vision?!" But middle and high schoolers are old enough to know that's not gonna happen.
@@shwahgamer Fr, I used to believe I could turn into Spiderman by getting bit by a spider, so I let it bite me and I had to go to the doctor. I stopped believing in stupid stuff like that after.
I had some bad lunches like mashed potatoes that behaved more like ice cream and tasted like plastic, but they weren't this bad! Sometimes, we did find mold or a strange object, but they were always on the vegetables and fruits.
They need to implement an open campus policy for lunch. That means they can go to a nearby restaurant or go home to get lunch and come back to school after lunch.
My high school did that. If you could drive, you were allowed to go out to eat. But you weren't allowed to bring any food or drinks back inside with you. So you had to finish it before you came back in. I don't know what the logic was behind the food part, but they did have one reason for the drinks. They didn't allow outside drinks at all, because they were worried about people sneaking alcohol in disguised as something else. You were allowed to buy drinks from vending machines inside, but that was it.
@@shwahgamer my high school didn't allow outside drinks unless they were in a sealed can, juice box or pouch. Kool Aid Bursts and Mondos were allowed too.
I actually went to Bernardo Heights Middle School and the school food there wasn't the best 😭 Thank god I packed my own lunches because the cheese looked like it was plastic. Most kids who got their lunches would put it in the trash or put it in a basket where other kids would take it (People didn't even do that either).
The tray could be heaping with diamond studded gold plated Tesla stocks and still... no kid is gonna walk over to the poor-kid-basket in front of the earth tire school to dig out some charity that wasn't good enough for anyone else. If they did that, they'd never have friends again. At least, that's what it was like when I was in school.
I’m from Finland and used to not enjoy school food. Public school food was the same that was served in hospitals and some foods were very not good. But now that I’m older and seeing what American kids eat, it makes me see the flavorless fish soup and weird sweet chicken soup as culinary art. We never got spoiled food (once like weird colored sausages but no one got sick) I hope this gets sorted out and the American kids will get actual food some day
As an American I don't think this can get better. Corporations rule and making as much money as possible takes precedent. Corners keep being cut and it won't stop.
The food at my school was horrible, I've had bone shard PIERCE my gums and have been given expired milk! Sometimes they would literally run out of food for some kids or give us barely any food to start with! I eventually just stopped eating all together at school and would come home starving, which is better than eating that slop. So glad I'm out of the horrible public school system and in college, I never have to worry about nasty school lunch again!
me and my sis have horror stories about school lunches. I remember getting the chips with beef and shredded cheese but the cheese was room temp and crunchy. I would also be a kid who threw away fruits and veggies since sensory and some make me sick. also it cracks me up that kids are now using uber eats and doordash to get food. I remember when my school banned anyone from ordering pizza LMAO, its nice to see kids still doing it
This makes me sad for todays kids. Growing up in the 90s we had pretty dang good school lunches. The milk was always kinda gross and usually half frozen. But we had a salad bar that was 10ft long with all the fixings. Even in summer school the breakfasts were amazing
As an Australian I used to be jealous hearing that kids in countries like the US had school lunches, since our only options were 1: Have food packed by our parent(s) or 2: Get lucky and be able to buy lunch orders from the canteen. As an adult, I’m horrified at what many of you guys were stuck with :(
Fruit and Vegetable branding ideas: Broccoli: The Trees' Knees Cauliflower: White Trees' Knees. Beans: Power Capsules. Carrots: Vision Pro. Apples: Seedy Sweets Bananas: Minion Delight (actually I think that's a really good one) Grapes: Sour Lil' Juicy Strawberries: Queen of Hearts. I am doing this as a meme, but also as a test of trying to make a undesirable product sound appealing, and yes, the Vision Pro is a pun.
When I was young in one of my schools, we had a thing known as mystery meat. Grayish white meat sometimes in buns or chopped up. But always had some hair, veins, dirt, papper, or plastic mixed in it. It also had a weird smell to it a salt and urine smell. Glad I only had to go to that school for 1 year
The middle school nearby has funding to buy like a some amount in acres of land. They are trying to buy it to make a nature reserve and build more fields for sports! Like cmon man, there’s so many better things to spend that on, not just food. The staff (not teachers, everyone above them) and security were laughable. Most schools don’t supply teachers with anything so even just that is something to take into account when talking about budgets in public schools.
But the football team needs a new field and jerseys. Growing up our school district could always find money for them but not have money to keep the art and AP/honors classes going
chad i'm sure you'd have a field day with what my former high school used to serve when i was a senior. good ol liquidated turd on a fried tortilla, shove some almost rotten veggies on the top and super dry chicken, and you have what they described was a tostada!
I used to have a favorite rare menu item: "beef chow mein", which was just noodles and meatballs in a teriyaki sauce. Then they changed something or cooked the meatballs wrong, and it went from a ground beef texture to a rubbery sponge. I actually bounced one down the hall.
As someone who grew up in America's school system, I was absolutely shocked when I learned other countries actually serve children really good food. We need to stop treating children in America like livestock. As for cursed lunch foods at my own schools, the #1 would have to be the little unlabled bag of suspicious crinkle-cut carrots we would occasionally get. Runner up would be the hotdogs, though. Basically looked like the turd bag but with a dry whole wheat bun. Had to eat them dry too because all the older kids would steal the condiment packets.
I'm so glad i got out of school when they decided to mess up the school lunch system back in the late 2000s early 2010s Edit: So my high school in the early-mid 2000s, had 5 different lunch lines. The first line was usually a 'specialty' item that you had to pay for, wasnt part of the lunch program. One year the line was dedicated to cheese sticks. Two more lines were for the variety items, one line may have spaghetti, and the other line might have chicken fingers, the other two lines year round was 100% dedicated to pizza and ham/cheese/chicken burgers. They used to give us 20 oz cups of various juices of our choice (Fruit punch, lemonade, orange drink). However due to some kids deciding to spill drinks all over the place, they ended up replacing these drinks with those stupid carton milks. They later brought in a chick fil a cart so you can buy a CFA sandwich and fries as well. Yep, only thing Hillcrest high was good for were their lunches (And OITNB star, but thats a different story)
The food waste thing gave me flashbacks. Back in elementary school, I once packed my lunch myself and felt really proud (even though it was like, two cupcakes LOL). A staff member came up and YELLED about how I "didn't have enough to eat" and "wasn't allowed to leave without getting something else". After trying to explain myself, she wouldn't budge. I filled up my lunch tray... sat down... and ate my cupcakes. It was enough.
7:44 for those who don't understand back in 2016 to reduce water cost nationwide they had schools use foam trays that were as cheap and flimsy ad the foam plates you can buy
God, I remember my highschool year I got a cheeseburger from the cafeteria. I didn't eat it because it was half burnt and half frozen. A perfect line that was burnt perfectly split the burger in half.
I was always a lunch from home kid, so I very rarely ate a hot lunch. But i remember my senior year discovering the $1 cheeseburger one day. Despite everyone's shock and disgust, I LOVED them. I'd buy like 5 at a time and just destroy them lol.
I don't remember having inedible food for my school lunch back in the 90s, but it certainly wasn't really healthy. But I mean, they can't force you to eat veggies, you'll just throw them away. Usually I ate a loaded baked potato (which was available most days) and peaches. Unless they had pizza sticks, then I always got those.
I was always jealous of school lunches except for the broccoli+cheese soup. Going to school every day with a ham sandwich or a poor person sandwich of peanut butter on half hot dog bun because we were running out of bread and seeing everyone else get pizza or mac & cheese and chocolate milk... The only part I wasn't jealous of was that I didn't have to stand in line. 25 minutes for lunch and I could just sit down to eat my lunch right away.
When I'm a parent, unless some drastic changes are made to the American school lunch system, I'm not going to go a day without packing a lunch for my kid. (Unless I get too poor to afford food or something)
one day i got a bagel sandwich for lunch and i tossed the cheese onto the vending machine next to me. the cheese was stuck on the vending machine for like- the next 3 months. it didnt even mold, it still looked straight outta the plastic wrapper
This is legit so sad. Growing up in Wales I remember seeing American cartoons and tv shows talking about disgusting school food and I never thought it was actually this bad. The food served in our cafeterias was actually decent as far as I remember. They weren’t free (parents had to pay obv) and in high school you picked what you wanted and paid for it then and there, and the food was decent. It wasn’t healthy, but it wasn’t.. this :(
I’m gonna give some advice to every parent in the comment section that you can spread around as you like. If you wanna demand better from your school lunches, then I have a sure-fire strategy that will get through to the thick skulls of these cafeteria runners. And that strategy is: *boycott the school food!* Yes, tell your children to stop taking the school food. If the food is paid for, stop paying for it. The less of this sludge that gets on the trays of your children, the better. Instead, pack your kids lunches from home, food that you know your children would like. Even if it’s something cheap or not the healthiest item, at least it’s better than what the schools are providing. If your school forbids that, rebel against it. Tell them that you’d rather starve than put any of that slop in your mouth. If your cafeteria has a vending machine, get a snack from that, because even if it’s not much, at least you’d be getting something more appetizing than the school food. If they take away the vending machines, if they take away Doordash or whatever you get your own food from, you know the drill. Rebel and boycott! Only then can the schools see that their food is not very high-quality and that they’ll have to try harder. And don’t stop until they start serving food that you would expect from a Michelin star restaurant. Demand better from your school cafeterias! Do with this information as you’d like.
Get a load of this guy, thinking that boycott is actually gonna mean something in the end! Look, buddy, I know you mean well, but we know damn well that's going to do absolutely nothing in the end. Because the government is so much more powerful than you.
lmao this reminds me of back when i was in high school and my school wasn't big enough to have a real cafeteria so everyone at my school had to eat the (frequently low-quality) leftovers from another high school down the road. can't say i miss the american public school system!
I had no idea living in a dystopia could be so fucking hilarious, but here we are. Mad Max characters always seem to have a good sense of humour. I get it now. LOL THanks for speaking out Chad!
Man...I thought the lunches at the high school I went to were mediocre at best but this video made me realize that they were practically gourmet. The public high school I went to had several options: pepperoni or cheese pizza with french fries or tater-tots. Pasta with marinara or cheese sauce and a vegetable side. There was also a variety of hot sandwiches (fried chicken, grilled chicken, hamburger/cheese burger), calzones and salads. They were all available daily and came with fresh fruit and milk or juice. My school also served freshly baked churros and cookies as some of the "junk" food options. I mean I graduated high school in 2008 so I don't know if things have changed but the only time anyone complained about the school lunches was the time they tried to substitute the normal cookies they served with sugar-free ones (Which didn't last long because a school-wide boycott of the cookies cost the school roughly $10,000)
So once I got to high school, I mostly stopped buying my own school lunches since the school was so massive you’d be lucky to have any time to eat once you got your food. My friends frequently got school lunches however. Sometimes the food was definitely iffy in quality (like rubbery/solid applesauce) or just a bit dubious in general. A common offender for being dubious were the burritos and the pizza. I believe the burritos could be minimally customised before they were put onto your tray. Sometimes you’d unwrap them and pick them up and they would be leaking some sort of liquid. Another time a friend asked for a little extra sour cream in hers and it was all sour cream inside. This is not as bad as the pizza. Cheese that was like rubber and one time broke a plastic fork when a friend stabbed the pizza with it. The crust was often rock hard and just in general the pizza always had issues with it, often changing by day. It was… interesting to say the least. I’ve heard the applesauce is still rubbery (from my brother and his friends) and that sometimes there’s issues with the milk, but the pizza no longer has issues since they might’ve changed vendors for the pizza.
I once transferred to a high school in another state,I decided to have breakfast in the cafeteria,the mini pancakes were rock hard and when I wanted a healthier side, scrambled eggs,the staff told me that I could only have a pop tart as a side. I felt like crap the entire day.
At this rate, I would fully support a Home Economics class where the students are taught to cook food, so at least they can have something edible to eat during the school day. That, and I’m in full support for bringing in Doordash and UberEats, so the kids that have no better options, can have something to eat. And, as a bonus- bring in Gordon Ramsey to do a full on Kitchen Nightmares series!
As someone in cmcss it is pretty bad, as most high schools are far from restaurants and shops are far away, and leaving school and ordering food in is not allowed. Plus expired food is normal. Only way to get around it is to bring your own lunch.
I was in high school when the "healthy eating" mandate happened. We too had to take one fruit or veggie, and just like that one school, we also just threw it away, which led to a BUNCH of food waste. And to this day I still dont understand why they had us do it. Forcing us to take a vegetable or fruit didnt mean we HAD to eat it, so many didnt. It was the same as before, with kids who did eat fruits and veggies did, and those who didnt, didnt. Only now, it caused a LOT of food waste. This isnt to mention the fact we weren't given/allowed to have salt or pepper (supposedly due to the mandate, but idk). So one of the saddest meals I remember having was 1 boiled potato (no salt/pepper, no toppings given) and a steamed veggie (no salt). This lack of good tasting food led a lot of kids to just not eat, especially since we weren't allowed to leave campus to eat. And then there were kids like me, who straight up couldnt eat 50% of the time, because we had pizza day on tuesdays and thursdays, which sounds good for most people, but I had developed bad lactose intolerance freshman year, so eating pizza would make me sick, and there were no alternative options. High school was a rough time
Storytime : Once when i was in elementary school our school did a week where you could buy one of those slushie pouches like those margarita slushies you see at the store but for kids. Anyways, everyone was *CRAZY* excited to buy some, (I'm a lunchbox) and it was rock solid, kids started slamming it onto the table and i'm pretty sure it dented them because of how cheap they are. Kids began to cut them open and pour them out and the, "Blue raspberry" flavor was the literal color of apple sauce and the so called, "Tropical punch" was brown 🤢
That's extremely common with processed foods. They just didn't add the C37H34N2Na2O9S3 so they can say there are no synthetic dyes in it, and it meets the health regulations to be sold in schools. Cheetos sold in schools are less orange than the ones at the gas station. Pretty much every food-product is tan or gray before they dye them... think about it... if the blue raspberry slurpee has purple and yellow dye in it, what color is it before they dye it? If you put Gobstoppers in water, the dye dissolves before the sugar does, leaving gray balls behind. Often, your gray food is colored red by mixing dehydrated beetles into it. Between the chemical dyes that have brand names and putting bugs in my juice, I wish I had the option to eat only gray foods.
As a Minnesotan, I think it the bread with cheese was supposed to be cheesy bread, a Minnesota school lunch staple. But they messed it up. You don’t make cheesy bread with a hotdog bun.😂
School lunches used to be good when I was a kid! We had real food that was actually brought in from a store and it was actually edible. You could choose milk, water, or juice if you wanted. Then the whole Obama lunch thing came around and everything got remarkably worse. It went from stuff being edible to the school lunch being barely tolerable. It was a night and day difference that year. All the juices got removed, water got removed and only milk was left. We switched from getting a scoop of fruit salad to a pre-sealed cup of mostly frozen sludge. The pizza went from being extremely decent to something you actively avoided. We called it "Michelle Obama's Whole Grain Surprise" because you never knew what you were going to get that day but whatever it was, you could be 100% sure that it was going to contain whole grain bread in some aspect. I feel bad for kids now. School lunch used to be the highlight of the day since it was good food but that year in middle school where it switched was something I will never forget.
The hotdogs bun with cheese and marinara was a cheap imitation of my school's French Bread Boats. They cut a baguette in half and then cut thos halves in half covered with cheese and baked untill crispy on the bottom and served with marinara as a dipping sauce. Honestly the only good thing we had for lunch at my highschool
Have you ever had a gross school lunch? Do you attend one of these schools? Let me know!
The worst school lunch I've ever had was the burger. I swear I think they just made meatloaf into a burger. 😅
The nachos at my school uses the cheese look literally yellow paint
My friend recently sent a video of him pouring chunky milk on his tray. Happened last month.
The freaking cheese sticks 🤢 I remember I would just eat the edges and even then. And the one time I did eat the cheese part I choked on it and had to pull the string cheese out of my throat. No good memories with that stuff.
My school lunch was gross, but it was never this bad. I’m so glad I’m in college now so I don’t get type of gross food.
The problem is not necessarily that fruits and veggies themselves are disgusting, it’s the fact that those preserved pear cups and plain salad, uncooked broccoli, and cheap canned veggies are tasteless and unpleasant. There’s ways to make fruits and veggies taste good.
Completely agreed. If there had been a focus on improving the quality of all food, students would likely take fruits and vegetables of their own volition. Instead they’re forced to take unappetizing fruits and vegetables alongside their unappetizing meal. This really only exacerbates the issues of students eating unhealthy because the unhealthy options are the only ones that taste good.
@@josephbinette7743100%. It’s like there was a board meeting to choose the most unappetizing healthy options possible. I don’t know anyone who enjoys raw unrefrigerated baby carrots
My school straight up serves us rotting and moldy fruits and vegetables.
ikr? Even just steaming broccoli makes it taste 10x better
at my school they don’t even give ripe fruit they literally give yellow and green oranges 😭
I’m actually a “lunchlady” at an elementary school and I’m glad to say that we don’t have that problem there. I even eat the lunches. Everything is fresh, looks appetizing, and there’s a good variety. I feel for the kids that had to be served those kinds of meals 😰
I currently work at an elementary school and I get very jealous over the food they're given because when I was in elementary school we were given probably fake eggs and the soggiest foods known to man. Those tiny pie dish pizzas they have nowadays beckon me....
I'mma take it this has to do with cafeterias that Sodexo operates. Most of their history in schools is filled with lunchladies working under them heating (with microwaves) and rationing out what their employer sends over. The only righteous thing they did was back in 2011 when the company sued SEIU for RICO violations and the legally routine discovery uncovered the union's action manual for the protest the plaintiff deemed 'illicit'.
If you don't know them, Sodexo S.A. is a French company that operates cafeterias, usually around hospitals, schools and prisons.
I have major respect for any cafeteria workers that put effort into the food they serve instead of just providing slop
I went to a place called Desert Hills, and it wasn't all bad. At least it didn't give me disease
I don't know why the school I used to go to had good food but this makes me wanna throw up
Especially the one that looks like slimy vomit
So this is actually a huge issue. Basically schools legally must offer food but schools don't have to ability to manage that themselves so they get contracts with private companies and those companies are only interested in profit and typically the school can't do anything because they are locked in multi year contracts.
Actually, the federal government doesn’t require schools to provide lunch. The school system is left to the states to decide. However, if the schools follow federal guidelines for education, then they get extra federal funding. The federal government is blackmailing schools into spending money on lunches that are probably more detrimental than they are helpful. The truth is parents need to take responsibility and provide lunches for their own children. If you can’t afford to make lunch for your kids, you shouldn’t have kids.
@@ele.mentalboi9562 You're an idiot
@@ele.mentalboi9562 Both things are true
@@ele.mentalboi9562 very true.
@@ele.mentalboi9562not everyone can provide the food lol. That's why schools offer lunches.
School lunch being bad has been a problem for at least 50 years. My mom used to think we were just being bratty complaining about them. She grew up in England and they would be served cuts off a whole roast, or turkey, stuff like that. Since rationing was occurring, school lunch helped parents eke out the meager rations. The lunches were great and she couldn't understand our complaints. Until, that is, her Woman's Club had a meeting at school in the 70's and was served lunch, and it happened to be on hotdog day. The buns were either so stale they were hard or so overheated they were mush. The hotdog was a piece of rubber. After experiencing that meal, she said she was sorry for not listening to our complaints. Fortunately, she didn't have to face the worst thing - the canned spinach. I think it was army surplus left over from the Korean War, and it looked and smelled like it had been dredged out of a swamp then warmed up. We would cover it over with our napkin so we didn't have to look at it and could eat the other food. You had no choice in it being put on your tray or not. Thank God for those trays having separate compartments. I never saw a single child eat any.
How much does a box of Pogo corn dogs cost?? A measily sum of money any school can afford.
I always enjoyed school lunch in the 80s and 90s.
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The girl spending $100 on junk food was probably getting it because it was actually edible. She also mentions the line moves faster. When I was in high school waiting in the main lunch line took over half your lunch time, so some would just go through the more “snack” lines just so they’d have time to eat. I don’t completely blame her.
I'm honestly furious about this. The US may just be one of the most, if not THE most wasteful nation in the world when it comes to food. Anyone who's ever worked fast food, especially closing shift, can tell you just how many tons of nuggets and fries are thrown out every week so to hear about schools having a food shortage is just infuriating. I'm 35 and when I was in school, sure, the food wasn't the best but at least it was... well, FOOD!
WHY DO I LIVE HERE 😃
@@Shepherdale.Official Kinda hard to escape this capitalist nightmare when you have no money and most other countries look at us like we're some sort of plague...
It's not bad to be upset about food waste, but you have to look at it from a health point of view. Food can only sit out for so long before it becomes too stale to eat (unless you're literally starving, of course). I mean, would you buy a burger that's been sitting on a warming pad for an hour?
The reason companies don't give out old food is because by the time it reaches a destination to be distributed, there's no way to guarantee how fresh it is. You end up risking poisoning people with spoiled food. Even refrigerated leftovers have the chance of getting bacteria. Then there's the logistics of what to reheat and how to reheat it. Ever tried to reheat a Whopper when the veggies are stuck to the bun and cheese?
It does suck to just throw food away, but the potential to poison people is why it's thrown out. Don't be discouraged, though, food waste is an issue, but not all food waste is just "wasted", it really does have a legit reason behind it.
Things shown in this video, however? No, that needs to stop.
@@cujoedamanThe food doesn't even have to be spoiled. Someone could eat donated food and then sue because they were allergic or they got sick from something else. For companies, it's just not worth the risk.
Where I live, Pepperidge Farm used to allow small farms to take any bread they were going to throw out (most of which was no where near expiration) to feed to their cattle. At some point they put a stop to that. I don't know why and I hate knowing just how much food that could feed humans or livestock gets wasted.
When I moved to a new school during middle school, I was told by the other kids to never eat the fruit. The reason why was that the lunch ladies would pick up the fruit that hadn’t been eaten from the garbage cans and serve it the next day. One day, I saw a lunch lady do just that as I was taking my tray away.
I can imagine those fruits were cooking up brand new diseases from being in that trash can for 10 minutes-2 hours.
That can't be sanitary
Tbh, they were probably getting it for themselves. Say oranges or bananas have protection. You may say it's nasty and I won't argue but it is hard to look at all that food going to waste. Especially when you know what hunger taste like.
@@toker__ Please don't play Devil's Advocate here. Even if they have "protection", there is still the possibility of getting real sick from it.
@@ExtremeWreck massively depends on what, and I'm not encouraging anyone to do this. I'm just saying
It has always baffled me how the entirety of the United States has had terrible school lunches for decades. In Finland, students eat like royalty compared to the States. We've had good, nutritional, free school lunches since 1943.
It's not the entire country, there's a huge variance between districts. While most public school lunches are far from gourmet, they're usually absolutely fine. We hear about the nasty ones like in this video *because* they're nasty and out of the ordinary, without hearing about the countless others that serve lunch every day with no issues.
Which makes the problem even worse, in my opinion. The hundreds and thousands of districts who do it right make it even more damning to the ones who fail. By showing that it's possible with the right people, care, and planning, it just shines a light on how the failed schools failed out of incompetence rather than some passive helpless situation
There are multiple accounts of stories kids being forced to sit and eat some of the most vile stuff in Finnish schools. I can personally remember several foods from the 90's that were obnoxious that I would never feed to a child. Some of the regular problems with school food in my schools were e.g. moldy boiled potatoes, undercooked chicken etc.
I went to a private Catholic school as a kid, and the food was garbage then. This was back in the 1990s! This is definitely a nationwide thing. The "Mystery meat school lunch" trope is real.
Mystery meat is crazy. I know my high school fed us that like maybe twice a month (Granted we always had a dedicated pizza and hamburger/chicken sandwich line daily), but if you wanted the variety there were two other lines for that. The mystery meat always came with a scoop of rice and gravy, and the best damn yeast rolls you'll ever have. Needless to say people paid extra money for extra yeast rolls because they werent touching the meat lol
@nostalgicumbry3279 Yup! Seems about right! We had the ice cream scoop of rice, too. What was up with that?? Our mystery meat was usually on a Kaiser roll or some sort of bread. One time, most of my class got food poisoning from one of the BBQ sandwiches. I think I brought a lunch from home that day. I went to a public high school where the food was a little better taste-wise, but we also had a juice bar and a snack bar, which was mostly junk food 😅
Which is funny cause my grandma who is in her 80s said that the school lunches she had were excellent. It was actually cooked food prepared by a cook.
@Gatorade69 Wow, your grandma was lucky. The schools must have cared about their students more back then!
Even in high-school in the mid to late 2000s it was bad. It looks like it's gotten way worse sense I've been out of school. Feel sorry for these poor kids
10 years ago, I was sitting at a lunch table with my friends. One of them spit out their milk because it tasted bad... poured the milk out on the tray and there were cigarette ashes at the bottom of the carton. Was never the same after that
That wouldn't be the schools fault but the provider of the milk. Still nasty. I find it funny how they force milk on people, milk is gross.
I spat out a long, white hair from mine at one point.
@@Gatorade69 They don't force milk on ya, but they don't have that many options to pick from.
No there wasn't cigarette ashes in a sealed milk carton.
@@HauntakuTV A school I went to only had milk or water (from the fountain). I'm lactose intolerant. I didn't mind though cause water is good for you. Reminded me of when I was in a hospital and they kept serving me milk when I told them I was lactose intolerant and they got all pissy I wasn't drinking the milk.
ya may not be able to trust school lunches, but ya can trust Chadtronic to make a video about it . bless ya man.
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I resonate with the “How is that milk” person. When I was in high school, they would often keep the milk in a cold fridge.
It was so cold that sometimes I would grab a carton and it would be frozen solid.
THAT WAS THE WORST especially because you only have 20-30 minutes to eat and that's not enough time to thaw out a block of milk 🥲
I remember that too
When milk is served like that, one must wonder why they don't ration out powdered dry milk and offer water instead.
Dried milk lasts quite a long while and isn't that expensive.
@@Code7UnltdThe schools where I live offer water but you have to pay like $1.50-$2.00 extra for it
With my school, there was always a massive rush to get in the cafeteria first and get first grabs on the milk. If you were too slow, you’d be stuck with the frozen milk from the very back of the fridge.
10:21 Sometimes “rebranding” food does actually work, but probably for elementary aged kids.
This was a reason why the TV show LazyTown (which was about a healthy lifestyle ) named fruit and vegetables Sportscandy (or in the German version Power snacks which i think sounds better.)
God, if only they named it Dank’s Daikon Radish- I would’ve ate more! I swear!
This still probably would've worked for my friends and I in high-school just because it would've been stupidly funny to us they did it unirocialy lol
That or use zoo pals. Apparently it helped everyone eat more veggies and fruits to see the animals faces.
I loved watching that show with my sister when we were younger! It has a great message about activity and healthy eating that resonated with a lot of kids!
Loved that show!
Just a few things I remember encountering in school… chunky milk, an orange that was black inside, bone fragments in the burgers, pasta that was more grease than noodle, frozen pb&js consistently, an apple with half a worm by the time I noticed, etc. You couldn’t pay me to eat there again. Oh yeah, and I remember looking up the brand on a food delivery box and it was the same company that supplied food to prisons.
I also remember bone fragments in the burgers 🤢
Excuse me but BONE FRAGMENTS IN HAMBURGERS!? Damn and I thought my rubber tire, moldy, and burnt to a crisp hamburgers were bad. Like I've definitely seen everything else you mentioned but how do you screw up that badly to serve hamburgers with bone fragments!?
@@yikesmattiee Same. I also frequently see some sort of white mold in the patty. And the oranges usually had brown spots. Same for the tater tots. The broccoli tastes like bacteria.
1. So sorry but gives new meaning to "Orange is the New Black" and those "Hmm yes I'd like a boneless ________" memes
2. So worms do get into apples? Huh. Reminds me of when Mom found one in her pistachio. Traumatised her poor heart
3. A kid at my second-to-last school once found a vein in his so-called "pulled pork" sandwich. Was even worse when school law was to have the staff force-feed kids their against-will choice of one complete course and a bite of everything else. They counted bread and rolls as desserts (despite being whole wheat) and treated lunch as a class that you were graded for
4. How and why is this even legal? It's the literal food equivalent of "it's a kids' show/movie, they won't care if it's bad 'cause they're all stupid" . Hey, rule of thumb: Don't underestimate the intelligence of kids
Chicken patties that were 75% hockey puck, 25% batter
For my entire public schooling I was very fortunate to have decent to good lunches provided by the district. I can't imagine it being like this.
Yeah, Los Angeles and Orange County has very good food as far as I remember. Star Foods supplied my elementary school and the Calzones were fire. High school we had decent burgers, pizza, fries, and even smoothies. I never had anything spoiled. I wonder how it's changed after Michelle Obama changed everything though.
I never ate cafeteria food as a kid. They actually made my mom come in because they were "concerned" about me not eating their food.
Glad years later, this is finally coming to the forefront, but also disappointed it hasn't changed at all. 😔
This is why I always brought my own lunch. I know what's in it, I choose what goes in it, the amount that goes in it, and I had more time to eat. Lunch time is 20 mins. Waiting in the line can take that long sometimes. I've seen people get their lunch, dump it in the garbage bin, and head off to class because they didn't have time to eat. Even with a lunch from home 20 mins ain't enough.
You control more of what's in it, but not all of what's in it. Unless you can birth an untainted cow and reverse the corruption Monsanto and other harmful chemicals have done to our earths fruitful soils you cannot say you wholly control what your eating... they've taken that right from us long long ago
Unless some drastic changes are made, I'll probably be packing my kid's school lunches myself when I'm a parent. At least while they're in elementary school or even get them in a private school that makes good lunches or home school them.
Twenty minutes?????? That's not even enough time to go straight to the caf and sit down and eat something! The traffic alone takes five minutes on a good day!
Unfortunately not everyone has the means to pack their own lunch 🥲 I'm happy for any kid who is able to bring their own food lmao
@@NekoChanSenpaiWhat do you mean traffic? Do you think OP does not pack its lunch at home before it goes to school?
I remember my elementary school lunches being decent (early-mid 2000s). Really, the worst thing we had was some cardboard pizza and lazily made chicken wraps. We even had millshakes for a while, which I thought the vanilla one was quite delicious.
The saddest part I think is, is that a lot of kids depend on THESE school lunches for various reasons as their ONLY source of food.
-There parents may be abusive and use starvation as punishment
-There parents may be poor and just... can't buy food
-A parent spend any money they have on themselves or drugs/shopping/cigarettes'/etc etc
-Or for whatever other reason
A LOT of kids from low income places RELY on food they get from school. It's appalling that we spend HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS on Military and other funding while kids in our nation got hungry EVERY. DAY. This needs to change.
yes stop giving money to Ukraine I agree
@@shadow4040I starved a lot at school too because my mother thought it was a smart idea to push her ED on to me at 10 years old
@@crazysilly2914As if the US hadnt spend most of its money on military prior to the conflict
As if they can't buy bread ???
so if the kids hungry because of thier parents tell me again why that is the schools fault?
4:00 That mom makes a dang good point there. Money was tight, and we barely didn't get free lunch for the first few months, which we needed badly. My mother insisted it was fine, that she could pay, but the fact that she never noticed how I never ended up asking for money for lunch shows just how stressed she was.
She never had time to make dinner, breakfast was always skipped, she was a single mom trying to juggle a job and college.
When they told her we finally got free lunch, she insisted I tell them to give it to someone else, but I knew that would make things harder on her than they already were, so I just let it happen, and lunch was the only meal I had for most of my middle and high school experience.
That's the case for a lot of kids, school is their only source of consistent food because it's easier on the parent compared to buying and making lunches, and this sort of treatment is..
It'd explain why we have 7th graders at 4th grade literacy rates, since lunches have only gotten worse and worse, schools can't be doing too much better internally either, parents refusing to hold kids back to let them catch up, it's a massive mess, man..
Can we just. Take better care of our future..?
Please?
Oh, 18:20, lemme add, even in 2017-2019 there was mold in my juice boxes and congealed milk in cartons. School lunches have been junk for YEARS now. The fact that it's only gotten worse is depressing and disappointing to say the least.
Back in like 2009 or so, while i was in elementary school, my entire school was fed GREEN hotdogs, within 30 minutes to an hour after lunch time ended, hundreds of kids were being sent to the nurses office to get checked out, but since it was so widespread, all the parents were getting called for the kids to get picked up. I luckily didnt eat one of these hotdogs. I, as a 9 year old, took one look at the green hotdog and decided i would rather starve, so i threw it out and went and played at recess. One of my siblings and 2 or 3 very close family friends were sick from eating this school lunch so we were all picked up early from school. it was a crazy day
Green eggs and ham horror story I guess
This reminds me of my middle school cafeteria. Plenty of PBJ sandwiches were nothing but two bread slices and others contained crystallized, old jelly that crackled like rock candy when you chewed and stale, cement-like peanut butter. I think they made them in bulk and then served them faaaar past the day they were no longer fresh. Occasionally they did serve something tasty that my classmates liked, but it was like the second the lunch staff knew we enjoyed something they NEVER served it again, lol. We definitely also experienced the issue with the vegetables and fruit being wasted, especially the former because they were cooked in such a bland and unappetizing way (and I actually liked vegetables as a kid).
I love peanut butter and jelly yet I never went near ours. Like that peanut butter tasted off.
It's not hard for a school to drive down to a Metro store and pick up sandwiches for an affordable price.
Probably USDA surplus peanut butter and jelly. The same people who gave us “government cheese”
I'll never get tired of Chad's crazy reactions, thanks for making great videos all these years 😊
glad you enjoy!
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Lunches at my school were awful too. I stopped drinking the milk because it was usually expired and actually made me sick at one point (it tasted fine but made me throw up so clearly wasn't)
As fir the food it was usually raw, super greasy, super dry or had something else wrong with it. It was also fairly common to find hair in it.
I work in a middle school in Illinois, our lunches definitely don't look like that, outs actually taste decent although I wish they could use seasonings more, I eat fruit there daily myself and tend to get leftovers for home, taste fine
Added on as I comment while watching, as for was, we do a share table, if the kid doesn't want their fruit or an unopened item, they put on the table for anyone to take if they want more, the kids love most of it
We don't sell extras and the last 2 years lunch has been free for all students
That share table idea is genius.
@johnpett1955 it's a requirement in our district, eliminates some waste and kids get more if they need it, milk too
I went to school in Illinois my whole life and I honestly enjoyed our lunches (bland yes but it was okay food) so I was always confused why people complained about school lunches. Now I understand! I think my old school should've done a share table like yours, that would've been a good idea for container items (We were usually served right on the tray, so a spoonful of veggies and fruit on the tray instead of like a container of fruit). We were also a very small rural school which might be why our food was pretty alright.
Free lunch for everyone?! How? If the schools that I went to when i was a kid did that, they'd probably go bankrupt.
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I can offer some actual insight on the “junk food” article. This was a thing at my high school. Back between 2000 -2005.
You had the normal line which was all the parents were told about saying x dollars would buy x number of meals. They did not tell them about the subway line, the unlimited pizza line or the ala cart room with all kinds of junk (of the tasty variety. The school had no issue whatsoever letting us charge our “personal accounts. The article is framed very poorly and I can say many kids blew far more than $6 a day.
When I was in school the biggest lunch problem we had was finding out the hamburger meat was actually turkey meat with seasoning
or monkey mystery meat...
So, a turkeyburger. Oh no.
The one about the metal. That actually happened to me. I ate a metal piece in my lunch food in elementary and got sent to the hospital to have an x-ray done. It seems to be more common than you would expect.
Wouldn’t be surprised if the school food was leftovers from unused MREs that soldiers didn’t eat
I'm a picky eater, I've never had any school lunches but I do remember people describing the pizza as eating cardboard.
Yeah, I don't think cardboard pizza sounds good.
my school used to serve pizza hut, but now they switched to pizza with bland cheese, with very bland sauce and a bland crust which gets soggy, even though it isn't greasy. The same pizza I remember eating back when I was in elementary school.
my school’s pizza is nasty + undercooked. i refuse to eat school food and im not even picky
Same, I’m picky too, never bought school lunch in my life.
my school pizza is at best, yummy.
though the crust is normally unmemorable and the sauce is orange but the other parts are good
The food served in these clips rival that of Kitchen Nightmares… my condolences to the students who have to put up with those meals. The worst I ever had was a bad jumbo fish finger that made me vomit during nighttime. It didn’t look or taste the part though.
I remember once a bunch of people tweeted at Gordon Ramsey showing him pictures of their gross school lunches, and he responded by saying how bad he felt for them having to eat that.
@@shwahgamer Yep, I remember that, I think he said “I’ve seen better food in prisons”.
Thing is with the branding of veggies is some kids will be more inclined to eat get them if they have COOL WORDS. Some kids literally rely on cool words. Maybe if we didn't force kids to eat veggies that are not fresh and taste bad they would have a different mindset about it all, but schools could care less.
That was exactly my issuse for not eatting healthier because school made sure to have only rotten food.
Chad ive been watching your channel for years, and im so glad you're returning to older styled videos. Its really bringing me back.
chadtronic is a chad
I graduated in 2000 and literally almost died from salmonella in a school lunch. Like, the ER doc said my blood pressure was so low that I was about 2 hours away from dying, and when I went back to school, I learned that about twenty other classmates also got sick with salmonella at the same time.
So yea, this really isn't a new thing, which is one of the saddest and most unfortunate sentences I've _ever_ had to type under a UA-cam video. The difference is, now every kid has a camera in their pocket and a TikTok account to document and share these atrocities with the world.
I had two really extremely different experiences with school lunches. I had a school cafeteria that had a number of options I would consider to eat on a daily basis with decent vegetable options. When we moved across country I was shocked when I found out that lunch was four chicken nuggets. Four. I was in highschool and am athlete. Four chicken nuggets was a drop in the bucket. I would take tons of the salad to fry and subsidize the food but plain dry salad just is not a tasty option. The fruit was almost not edible, apples and pears being so under ripe it was like biting into a rock. I ended up sneaking extra money into my lunch account so I could buy second or third entries for years.
At this point, even the felt food from Mr. Meaty looks more appetizing. I'm glad I graduated 12 years ago, Obamalunch was never this bad, just terribly bland.
There goes my appetite for the next few days. I'm lucky I went to a public elementary school that served actually good food, then started bringing my lunch to my private middle and high schools.
no school, in poor or wealthy neighborhoods I attended, ever had something like this. Corporations have taken control of the lunch system and they will do the bare minimum and still fail if it saves them a dollar. Perhaps they even created the 'shortage' to get more money via supply lies. Then these cafeterias don't monitor the outgoing food and the principal or superintendent doesn't hold people accountable until local news shows up? OR probably still do nothing. Who knows how these people are disciplined, if at all, for this bs.
The school I attend is in a low income area so we get free lunches thanks to a grant. I know if it was up to our lunch ladies our food would probably look or taste much better, but the lady who orders it for us I believe only stays at the board of education and has probably rarely stepped foot into the school to see what we like.
I think the worst part is the fact that the school would reject students if they dont have money to pay for their lunches, even when their parents would try to apply for free lunches because they're poor
It’s wild the garbage schools have always fed kids, but at other countries their stuff looks like 5 star meals and are actually balanced..
Miso soup for a hot lunch in Japan is a classic low-budget good meal
Finally a good reason for parents to be upset.
Genuinely happy to see the new Parents Upset videos! Nice change of pace Chaddy!
Back in the 90s during middle school for me, the pizza was basically bread with a blanket of cheese, so you can peel off the cheese super easily and it'd look like a slab of skin. One time I found grapes and cherries under the blanket of cheese.
I remember last year I got hot lunch, which at the time they were serving chicken nuggets. Me, liking chicken nuggets, didn't mind it. I bit into it and the chicken nugget tasted raw and gross. I looked inside and the whole part of the meat was bright pink. I've also had spoiled milk too. The only time the lunch is good is when they have pizza Hut or Dominos
Fun little fact for y’all: the truck that supplies American schools with school lunches, also supplies the local prisons!
I’m lucky to be in a district where we get actual food like chicken alfredo, but not everyone is so lucky..
Grossest school lunch I had in high school was the chicken fried steak with gravy. The “gravy” in question was basically almost nothing but pure grease and oil. Basically puked my guts out on my way back home on the bus.
If they had 'rebranded' the vegetables with wierd names like x-ray vision carrots when I was in school, it'd probably have some success, just not for the reasons intended lmao. I'd have thought it was so stupid it'd be hilarious they did it unironicaly that my friends and I would probably eat them just because it was funny
It makes more sense for elementary school kids, who are more likely to be like, "Oh cool, this will give me x-ray vision?!" But middle and high schoolers are old enough to know that's not gonna happen.
@@shwahgamer Fr, I used to believe I could turn into Spiderman by getting bit by a spider, so I let it bite me and I had to go to the doctor. I stopped believing in stupid stuff like that after.
@@MuffinOSCwell yeah, it had to be a radioactive spider first
always a good day to see some chadtronic
I had some bad lunches like mashed potatoes that behaved more like ice cream and tasted like plastic, but they weren't this bad! Sometimes, we did find mold or a strange object, but they were always on the vegetables and fruits.
Schools can easily pick up some tv dinners for cheap. They don't have to make it fresh, it just has to be edible and somewhat healthy.
They need to implement an open campus policy for lunch. That means they can go to a nearby restaurant or go home to get lunch and come back to school after lunch.
My high school did that. If you could drive, you were allowed to go out to eat. But you weren't allowed to bring any food or drinks back inside with you. So you had to finish it before you came back in. I don't know what the logic was behind the food part, but they did have one reason for the drinks. They didn't allow outside drinks at all, because they were worried about people sneaking alcohol in disguised as something else. You were allowed to buy drinks from vending machines inside, but that was it.
@@shwahgamer my high school didn't allow outside drinks unless they were in a sealed can, juice box or pouch. Kool Aid Bursts and Mondos were allowed too.
I actually went to Bernardo Heights Middle School and the school food there wasn't the best 😭
Thank god I packed my own lunches because the cheese looked like it was plastic. Most kids who got their lunches would put it in the trash or put it in a basket where other kids would take it (People didn't even do that either).
The tray could be heaping with diamond studded gold plated Tesla stocks and still... no kid is gonna walk over to the poor-kid-basket in front of the earth tire school to dig out some charity that wasn't good enough for anyone else.
If they did that, they'd never have friends again. At least, that's what it was like when I was in school.
I’m from Finland and used to not enjoy school food. Public school food was the same that was served in hospitals and some foods were very not good.
But now that I’m older and seeing what American kids eat, it makes me see the flavorless fish soup and weird sweet chicken soup as culinary art.
We never got spoiled food (once like weird colored sausages but no one got sick) I hope this gets sorted out and the American kids will get actual food some day
As an American I don't think this can get better. Corporations rule and making as much money as possible takes precedent. Corners keep being cut and it won't stop.
@@Gatorade69 it’s very sad. You guys deserve good food
The food at my school was horrible, I've had bone shard PIERCE my gums and have been given expired milk! Sometimes they would literally run out of food for some kids or give us barely any food to start with! I eventually just stopped eating all together at school and would come home starving, which is better than eating that slop. So glad I'm out of the horrible public school system and in college, I never have to worry about nasty school lunch again!
FDA needs to be reinforced and to be actually paying attention to what the school is serving
me and my sis have horror stories about school lunches. I remember getting the chips with beef and shredded cheese but the cheese was room temp and crunchy. I would also be a kid who threw away fruits and veggies since sensory and some make me sick.
also it cracks me up that kids are now using uber eats and doordash to get food. I remember when my school banned anyone from ordering pizza LMAO, its nice to see kids still doing it
This makes me sad for todays kids. Growing up in the 90s we had pretty dang good school lunches. The milk was always kinda gross and usually half frozen. But we had a salad bar that was 10ft long with all the fixings. Even in summer school the breakfasts were amazing
As an Australian I used to be jealous hearing that kids in countries like the US had school lunches, since our only options were 1: Have food packed by our parent(s) or 2: Get lucky and be able to buy lunch orders from the canteen.
As an adult, I’m horrified at what many of you guys were stuck with :(
Fruit and Vegetable branding ideas:
Broccoli: The Trees' Knees
Cauliflower: White Trees' Knees.
Beans: Power Capsules.
Carrots: Vision Pro.
Apples: Seedy Sweets
Bananas: Minion Delight (actually I think that's a really good one)
Grapes: Sour Lil' Juicy
Strawberries: Queen of Hearts.
I am doing this as a meme, but also as a test of trying to make a undesirable product sound appealing, and yes, the Vision Pro is a pun.
When I was young in one of my schools, we had a thing known as mystery meat. Grayish white meat sometimes in buns or chopped up. But always had some hair, veins, dirt, papper, or plastic mixed in it. It also had a weird smell to it a salt and urine smell. Glad I only had to go to that school for 1 year
What did it taste like?
If it tasted bad then it might be human.
The problem is the schools are not spending their money properly
That and that funding is seriously behind what is needed due to tax cuts to large businesses and the upper class.
The middle school nearby has funding to buy like a some amount in acres of land. They are trying to buy it to make a nature reserve and build more fields for sports!
Like cmon man, there’s so many better things to spend that on, not just food. The staff (not teachers, everyone above them) and security were laughable. Most schools don’t supply teachers with anything so even just that is something to take into account when talking about budgets in public schools.
But the football team needs a new field and jerseys. Growing up our school district could always find money for them but not have money to keep the art and AP/honors classes going
The greedy rich are taking it for themselves
chad i'm sure you'd have a field day with what my former high school used to serve when i was a senior. good ol liquidated turd on a fried tortilla, shove some almost rotten veggies on the top and super dry chicken, and you have what they described was a tostada!
School lunches really are looking more and more like the generic school lunches in cartoons 💀
lmaoo
I used to have a favorite rare menu item: "beef chow mein", which was just noodles and meatballs in a teriyaki sauce. Then they changed something or cooked the meatballs wrong, and it went from a ground beef texture to a rubbery sponge. I actually bounced one down the hall.
Oh, so despite all the "reforms", school lunches haven't changed a bit.
not allowed to order doordash is absolutely insane
Thank goodness my school actually cares and that I pack cold lunches
As someone who grew up in America's school system, I was absolutely shocked when I learned other countries actually serve children really good food. We need to stop treating children in America like livestock.
As for cursed lunch foods at my own schools, the #1 would have to be the little unlabled bag of suspicious crinkle-cut carrots we would occasionally get. Runner up would be the hotdogs, though. Basically looked like the turd bag but with a dry whole wheat bun. Had to eat them dry too because all the older kids would steal the condiment packets.
It's not just the children that we treat like cattle.
Why didn't the cotton industry collapse after the Civil War?
I'm so glad i got out of school when they decided to mess up the school lunch system back in the late 2000s early 2010s
Edit: So my high school in the early-mid 2000s, had 5 different lunch lines. The first line was usually a 'specialty' item that you had to pay for, wasnt part of the lunch program. One year the line was dedicated to cheese sticks. Two more lines were for the variety items, one line may have spaghetti, and the other line might have chicken fingers, the other two lines year round was 100% dedicated to pizza and ham/cheese/chicken burgers. They used to give us 20 oz cups of various juices of our choice (Fruit punch, lemonade, orange drink). However due to some kids deciding to spill drinks all over the place, they ended up replacing these drinks with those stupid carton milks.
They later brought in a chick fil a cart so you can buy a CFA sandwich and fries as well. Yep, only thing Hillcrest high was good for were their lunches (And OITNB star, but thats a different story)
The food waste thing gave me flashbacks. Back in elementary school, I once packed my lunch myself and felt really proud (even though it was like, two cupcakes LOL). A staff member came up and YELLED about how I "didn't have enough to eat" and "wasn't allowed to leave without getting something else". After trying to explain myself, she wouldn't budge. I filled up my lunch tray... sat down... and ate my cupcakes. It was enough.
I went to Catholic school and the food was amazing! The kitchen was controlled by Italian ladies, so it makes sense
7:44 for those who don't understand back in 2016 to reduce water cost nationwide they had schools use foam trays that were as cheap and flimsy ad the foam plates you can buy
As a child in middle school, I feel this
Now remember, some schools actually charge all students money for this crap. And some parents think it's ok
God, I remember my highschool year I got a cheeseburger from the cafeteria. I didn't eat it because it was half burnt and half frozen. A perfect line that was burnt perfectly split the burger in half.
Come on, guys! Let's go have some Bussin' Broccoli! 😂
I was always a lunch from home kid, so I very rarely ate a hot lunch.
But i remember my senior year discovering the $1 cheeseburger one day. Despite everyone's shock and disgust, I LOVED them. I'd buy like 5 at a time and just destroy them lol.
I don't remember having inedible food for my school lunch back in the 90s, but it certainly wasn't really healthy. But I mean, they can't force you to eat veggies, you'll just throw them away. Usually I ate a loaded baked potato (which was available most days) and peaches. Unless they had pizza sticks, then I always got those.
Chad is the best! Thank you for your videos! My dad and I love them!
I was always jealous of school lunches except for the broccoli+cheese soup. Going to school every day with a ham sandwich or a poor person sandwich of peanut butter on half hot dog bun because we were running out of bread and seeing everyone else get pizza or mac & cheese and chocolate milk... The only part I wasn't jealous of was that I didn't have to stand in line. 25 minutes for lunch and I could just sit down to eat my lunch right away.
When I'm a parent, unless some drastic changes are made to the American school lunch system, I'm not going to go a day without packing a lunch for my kid. (Unless I get too poor to afford food or something)
great, now i'm hungry
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one day i got a bagel sandwich for lunch and i tossed the cheese onto the vending machine next to me. the cheese was stuck on the vending machine for like- the next 3 months. it didnt even mold, it still looked straight outta the plastic wrapper
The Cheese Touch.
This is legit so sad. Growing up in Wales I remember seeing American cartoons and tv shows talking about disgusting school food and I never thought it was actually this bad.
The food served in our cafeterias was actually decent as far as I remember. They weren’t free (parents had to pay obv) and in high school you picked what you wanted and paid for it then and there, and the food was decent. It wasn’t healthy, but it wasn’t.. this :(
I’m gonna give some advice to every parent in the comment section that you can spread around as you like. If you wanna demand better from your school lunches, then I have a sure-fire strategy that will get through to the thick skulls of these cafeteria runners. And that strategy is: *boycott the school food!*
Yes, tell your children to stop taking the school food. If the food is paid for, stop paying for it. The less of this sludge that gets on the trays of your children, the better. Instead, pack your kids lunches from home, food that you know your children would like. Even if it’s something cheap or not the healthiest item, at least it’s better than what the schools are providing. If your school forbids that, rebel against it. Tell them that you’d rather starve than put any of that slop in your mouth. If your cafeteria has a vending machine, get a snack from that, because even if it’s not much, at least you’d be getting something more appetizing than the school food. If they take away the vending machines, if they take away Doordash or whatever you get your own food from, you know the drill. Rebel and boycott! Only then can the schools see that their food is not very high-quality and that they’ll have to try harder. And don’t stop until they start serving food that you would expect from a Michelin star restaurant. Demand better from your school cafeterias!
Do with this information as you’d like.
If you can’t make lunch for your kids, you don’t deserve kids.
Get a load of this guy, thinking that boycott is actually gonna mean something in the end!
Look, buddy, I know you mean well, but we know damn well that's going to do absolutely nothing in the end. Because the government is so much more powerful than you.
lmao this reminds me of back when i was in high school and my school wasn't big enough to have a real cafeteria so everyone at my school had to eat the (frequently low-quality) leftovers from another high school down the road. can't say i miss the american public school system!
I had no idea living in a dystopia could be so fucking hilarious, but here we are. Mad Max characters always seem to have a good sense of humour. I get it now. LOL THanks for speaking out Chad!
Man...I thought the lunches at the high school I went to were mediocre at best but this video made me realize that they were practically gourmet. The public high school I went to had several options: pepperoni or cheese pizza with french fries or tater-tots. Pasta with marinara or cheese sauce and a vegetable side. There was also a variety of hot sandwiches (fried chicken, grilled chicken, hamburger/cheese burger), calzones and salads. They were all available daily and came with fresh fruit and milk or juice. My school also served freshly baked churros and cookies as some of the "junk" food options. I mean I graduated high school in 2008 so I don't know if things have changed but the only time anyone complained about the school lunches was the time they tried to substitute the normal cookies they served with sugar-free ones (Which didn't last long because a school-wide boycott of the cookies cost the school roughly $10,000)
So once I got to high school, I mostly stopped buying my own school lunches since the school was so massive you’d be lucky to have any time to eat once you got your food. My friends frequently got school lunches however. Sometimes the food was definitely iffy in quality (like rubbery/solid applesauce) or just a bit dubious in general. A common offender for being dubious were the burritos and the pizza. I believe the burritos could be minimally customised before they were put onto your tray. Sometimes you’d unwrap them and pick them up and they would be leaking some sort of liquid. Another time a friend asked for a little extra sour cream in hers and it was all sour cream inside. This is not as bad as the pizza. Cheese that was like rubber and one time broke a plastic fork when a friend stabbed the pizza with it. The crust was often rock hard and just in general the pizza always had issues with it, often changing by day. It was… interesting to say the least. I’ve heard the applesauce is still rubbery (from my brother and his friends) and that sometimes there’s issues with the milk, but the pizza no longer has issues since they might’ve changed vendors for the pizza.
I once transferred to a high school in another state,I decided to have breakfast in the cafeteria,the mini pancakes were rock hard and when I wanted a healthier side, scrambled eggs,the staff told me that I could only have a pop tart as a side. I felt like crap the entire day.
6:20 either the orange stuff is supposed to be boiled/mushy carrots or chopped sweet potatoes
At this rate, I would fully support a Home Economics class where the students are taught to cook food, so at least they can have something edible to eat during the school day. That, and I’m in full support for bringing in Doordash and UberEats, so the kids that have no better options, can have something to eat. And, as a bonus- bring in Gordon Ramsey to do a full on Kitchen Nightmares series!
As someone in cmcss it is pretty bad, as most high schools are far from restaurants and shops are far away, and leaving school and ordering food in is not allowed. Plus expired food is normal. Only way to get around it is to bring your own lunch.
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I was in high school when the "healthy eating" mandate happened. We too had to take one fruit or veggie, and just like that one school, we also just threw it away, which led to a BUNCH of food waste. And to this day I still dont understand why they had us do it. Forcing us to take a vegetable or fruit didnt mean we HAD to eat it, so many didnt. It was the same as before, with kids who did eat fruits and veggies did, and those who didnt, didnt. Only now, it caused a LOT of food waste. This isnt to mention the fact we weren't given/allowed to have salt or pepper (supposedly due to the mandate, but idk). So one of the saddest meals I remember having was 1 boiled potato (no salt/pepper, no toppings given) and a steamed veggie (no salt). This lack of good tasting food led a lot of kids to just not eat, especially since we weren't allowed to leave campus to eat. And then there were kids like me, who straight up couldnt eat 50% of the time, because we had pizza day on tuesdays and thursdays, which sounds good for most people, but I had developed bad lactose intolerance freshman year, so eating pizza would make me sick, and there were no alternative options. High school was a rough time
because government busy bodies.
Storytime : Once when i was in elementary school our school did a week where you could buy one of those slushie pouches like those margarita slushies you see at the store but for kids. Anyways, everyone was *CRAZY* excited to buy some, (I'm a lunchbox) and it was rock solid, kids started slamming it onto the table and i'm pretty sure it dented them because of how cheap they are. Kids began to cut them open and pour them out and the, "Blue raspberry" flavor was the literal color of apple sauce and the so called, "Tropical punch" was brown 🤢
That's extremely common with processed foods. They just didn't add the C37H34N2Na2O9S3 so they can say there are no synthetic dyes in it, and it meets the health regulations to be sold in schools. Cheetos sold in schools are less orange than the ones at the gas station.
Pretty much every food-product is tan or gray before they dye them... think about it... if the blue raspberry slurpee has purple and yellow dye in it, what color is it before they dye it? If you put Gobstoppers in water, the dye dissolves before the sugar does, leaving gray balls behind. Often, your gray food is colored red by mixing dehydrated beetles into it.
Between the chemical dyes that have brand names and putting bugs in my juice, I wish I had the option to eat only gray foods.
@@SeekerGoldstone lol yea but it was funny watching their reactions breaking it in half and seeing the colors :)
As a Minnesotan, I think it the bread with cheese was supposed to be cheesy bread, a Minnesota school lunch staple. But they messed it up. You don’t make cheesy bread with a hotdog bun.😂
School lunches used to be good when I was a kid! We had real food that was actually brought in from a store and it was actually edible. You could choose milk, water, or juice if you wanted. Then the whole Obama lunch thing came around and everything got remarkably worse. It went from stuff being edible to the school lunch being barely tolerable. It was a night and day difference that year. All the juices got removed, water got removed and only milk was left. We switched from getting a scoop of fruit salad to a pre-sealed cup of mostly frozen sludge. The pizza went from being extremely decent to something you actively avoided. We called it "Michelle Obama's Whole Grain Surprise" because you never knew what you were going to get that day but whatever it was, you could be 100% sure that it was going to contain whole grain bread in some aspect. I feel bad for kids now. School lunch used to be the highlight of the day since it was good food but that year in middle school where it switched was something I will never forget.
We need Gordon Ramsey.
I’m now 25 but I remember vividly in high school them serving us hot dog buns with shredded cheese on them as a meal lol
The hotdogs bun with cheese and marinara was a cheap imitation of my school's French Bread Boats. They cut a baguette in half and then cut thos halves in half covered with cheese and baked untill crispy on the bottom and served with marinara as a dipping sauce. Honestly the only good thing we had for lunch at my highschool