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Centrist Committee posted:the packaging of these things makes me angry and sad I'm beginning to get an idea of how Americans use up so much more goddamn energy and produce so much more goddamn waste than normal human beings.
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wait till you see plastic consumption in asia - the wrapping that goes into japanese consumer products will shock you
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Nov 30, 2021 09:58
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my schools only had the bottom of the barrel public school food. in highschool we had the choice of whatever the day's main item was, a baked potato / salad bar, or a hotdog/hamburger that was swimming in some sort of brownish green water. there were also a whopping 2 snack vending machines, which i usually bought my lunch from. this random pic is pretty close to what i remember getting for my entire childhood  except getting a pretzel + mustard packet would be absurd, we never got individual condiments. we got half a handful of mini pretzels. there were bulk ketchup and mustard pump bottles where you got the hot dogs. we couldn't leave for lunch either. i tried to find some other pics but essentially every pic of a school lunch online looks better than what I remember eating. i'd talk to kids from other districts that had actual things to choose and the ability to leave school and go to a deli or something and i was literally locked in eating prison food. surprised i never got nutri-loaf
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Nov 30, 2021 10:09
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We had that in highschool, though you could also pay more for premium meals instead, to ensure you're sufficiently differentiated from the poor kids as god intended
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Nov 30, 2021 10:13
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Eating from plastic is straight barbarism.
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Nov 30, 2021 10:21
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Orange Devil posted:I'm beginning to get an idea of how Americans use up so much more goddamn energy and produce so much more goddamn waste than normal human beings. If we didn't make that oil into single-use disposable plastic garbage it would just get turned into fuel and burned, at least this way there's a decent chance it'll wind up in a landfill sequestering that carbon for the eternity it takes plastic to degrade. You're welcome.
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Nov 30, 2021 10:21
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Also the ocean is pretty much just a real big real wet landfill when you think about it.
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Shame Boy posted:We had that in highschool, though you could also pay more for premium meals instead, to ensure you're sufficiently differentiated from the poor kids as god intended Since becoming an adult, I've become horrified at the idea of charging kids for meals at school. But, then, that wouldn't drive home the idea that the poor kids should be grateful for whatever scraps they're given. My school lunches were never as bad as the one in the picture, but they weren't fantastic, either. If we lived in a non-hellscape, schools would have the budget and direction to cook up good, actually nutritious (not "ketchup is a vegetable" nutritious) meals that would be free. Then again, in a non-COVID world, I'd love to see public cafeterias funded and operated under the same premise, except open to everybody. Edit: I mean, you could still do it in a COVID world, but they'd need to be take-out only.
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Nov 30, 2021 10:32
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Grades 3-6 we got these greenish-grayish breaded fish fingers that were very bouncy, and I loved them. Then when my mum heard I liked fish fingers, she bought some from the store and they were the horrible orange ones with the white fish bits kind of loose inside. I've never found the good fish fingers anywhere and no other caff has served them since  That was my school food story thanks for listening. e: The bounciness isn't why I loved them, it was just a characteristic they had that I've not found present in any other fish fingers.
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Nov 30, 2021 11:41
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PokeJoe posted:my schools only had the bottom of the barrel public school food. in highschool we had the choice of whatever the day's main item was, a baked potato / salad bar, or a hotdog/hamburger that was swimming in some sort of brownish green water. there were also a whopping 2 snack vending machines, which i usually bought my lunch from. That looks like jail food. Probly just a coincidence tho.
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Nov 30, 2021 11:42
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Edmund Sparkler posted:That looks like jail food. Probly just a coincidence tho. in asia, food vendors have driven out of business in short order for much more
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Nov 30, 2021 11:46
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the worst part about school lunches was not having any lunch money so you got a lovely peanut butter sandwich and couldn't get chocolate milk like gee sorry I didn't make my parents go bankrupt
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Edmund Sparkler posted:That looks like jail food. Probly just a coincidence tho. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aramark quote:
more: https://www.nycfoodpolicy.org/prison-labor-is-remarkably-common-within-the-food-system/ quote:Aramark
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Nov 30, 2021 12:33
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my high school didn’t have cafeteria food, we had six microwaves and two vending machines with, like, ramen and small hamburgers in them. it sucked
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Nov 30, 2021 12:40
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The approaching holidays have reminded me of one of my least favorite memories: my partner had fond memories of spending Christmas with their family and having Christmas-themed book read to them on Christmas Eve. They contacted the family member a few years ago to ask if they still had those magical books from the 80's, filled with love and warmth. Their family member told them that yes, they had them, and that they could buy them from them. So my partner came home with a small collection of well-worn books that they loved as a child and paid MSRP for as an adult because their family member saw a way to make money. The books don't come out. I think that the experience ruined some of the magic.
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Nov 30, 2021 12:53
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petit choux posted:This tweet doesn't matter. None of this matters. 
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Grades 3-6 we got these greenish-grayish breaded fish fingers that were very bouncy, and I loved them. Then when my mum heard I liked fish fingers, she bought some from the store and they were the horrible orange ones with the white fish bits kind of loose inside. I've never found the good fish fingers anywhere and no other caff has served them since
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Nov 30, 2021 13:29
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The school lunch issue comes back to a center theme of right wing politics which is that they think it is the parent's responsibility. They don't think we should provide for school lunches via taxes because they think feeding kids is the parent's responsibility. And they don't think parents will be motivated to pull their weight if we make it too convenient for them. This 'parental responsibility' argument allows for a tremendous amount of victim blaming. And it cuts both ways, because when it comes to problems with their own schools they think people are 'indoctrinating' their children. I wonder what % of homeschooling parents are like this.
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tokin opposition posted:the worst part about school lunches was not having any lunch money so you got a lovely peanut butter sandwich and couldn't get chocolate milk tbf you probably didn’t help
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Nov 30, 2021 14:16
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Edmund Sparkler posted:That looks like jail food. Probly just a coincidence tho. 
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Orange Devil posted:I'm beginning to get an idea of how Americans use up so much more goddamn energy and produce so much more goddamn waste than normal human beings. The way Americans handle Christmas is ungodly.
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petit choux posted:The way Americans handle Christmas is ungodly. Literally, America Christmas is against God.
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can't talk about lunchables in the capitalism thread without mentioning the lines of bigger and even unhealthier ones for "older kids"   
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why would you post a picture of dwayne "the rock" johnson https://thumbs.gfycat.com/AdolescentParallelBeaver-mobile.mp4 ArmedZombie has issued a correction as of 16:10 on Nov 30, 2021 |
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Nov 30, 2021 16:05
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lunchables are gross my mom just made me cheese and ketchup sandwiches for lunch in elementary school
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Nov 30, 2021 16:08
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tmfc posted:can't talk about lunchables in the capitalism thread without mentioning the lines of bigger and even unhealthier ones for "older kids" MAXED out DOUBLE-STACKED TACOS 100% WHITE MEAT * ~Sensible Solution~
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Nov 30, 2021 16:21
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The Chairman posted:there is nothing wrong with eating New Jersey lifelong North Carolinian here to say that this delicacy redeems the entire state https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IfWuUVgFSQ Shame Boy posted:I have eaten rear end while in New Jersey but enough about Victory Pig pizza
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Nov 30, 2021 16:33
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when I was a kid in England, before moving to America, our lunches were proper plates of food prepared by a nice group of ladies and after we ate our lunch they’d give us desert which was full on, like a big bowl of sponge cake covered in hot custard
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i am harry posted:when I was a kid in England, before moving to America, our lunches were proper plates of food prepared by a nice group of ladies and after we ate our lunch they’d give us desert which was full on, like a big bowl of sponge cake covered in hot custard yeah but have you considered eating gruel from a silver pouch
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Nov 30, 2021 16:46
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i am harry posted:when I was a kid in England, before moving to America, our lunches were proper plates of food prepared by a nice group of ladies and after we ate our lunch they’d give us desert which was full on, like a big bowl of sponge cake covered in hot custard hosed up
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https://twitter.com/michelletandler/status/1465393612577853440?s=21 oh no
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https://twitter.com/michelletandler/status/1465395141913432065 lmao
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PokeJoe posted:my schools only had the bottom of the barrel public school food. in highschool we had the choice of whatever the day's main item was, a baked potato / salad bar, or a hotdog/hamburger that was swimming in some sort of brownish green water. there were also a whopping 2 snack vending machines, which i usually bought my lunch from. this is literally why pizza lunchables were a luxury
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Lastgirl posted:this is literally why pizza lunchables were a luxury As poo poo as this lunch is, it still looks more edible and filling than whatever the gently caress those lunchable things are Also "lunchable" sounds like one of those fake but official sounding terms like "nutrimins" that keep products from having to do the things they claim - "well, we never claimed we were selling a meal per se, any supposed allusion to the word 'lunch' on the part of our range of partially reconstituted cardboard products is entirely fabricated by the customer" steinrokkan has issued a correction as of 17:09 on Nov 30, 2021 |
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Nov 30, 2021 17:05
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pizza lunchables and dunkaroos, the cadillac of school lunch food
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tell me you’ve never lived anywhere with weather without telling me you’ve never lived anywhere with weather.
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Jazerus posted:hosed up it was about thirty years ago so all I can remember is a big plate of fish sticks, peas and corn, and maybe mashed potatoes, and sometimes we got bangers and mash! and the bowls of dessert you could only have if you ate up all your lunch. I’d wager that the eating experiences of many children in countries that weren’t full blown capital hellscapes, where a person is worth something, anything, were a lot better than what we all got for school lunch here.
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am i supposed to care about luxury retail stores being boarded up??
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