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yikes! posted:we had a nacho option every day and that was my lunch 90% of the time. It was just chips, ground beef, and nacho cheese and I wish I had some right now. Were the beef and the cheese separate entities? In my elementary school, the nachos were a handful of stale chips covered in a brown lumpy goo that tasted both vaguely meaty and cheesy. I stopped eating cafeteria food after getting a big chunk of gristle in a turkey and gravy lunch, and crunching down on that thing managed to put me off ever eating cafeteria food again.
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drat if I ever saw someone get an order of breadsticks with dipping sauce at lunch I’d think it was the fuckin’ Taj Mahal
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Gay Weed Dad posted:- 2x bread sticks with a ladle of marinara oh, you mean ITALIAN DUNKERS  
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Pastry of the Year posted:oh, you mean ITALIAN DUNKERS What the gently caress, is that just white bread and marinara?
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Feb 12, 2020 17:32
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Close. White bread and ketchup.
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Feb 12, 2020 18:17
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The fact I’m not able to find the pictures they’re using via google image search has me concerned that Pastry of the Year is currently being exposed to this on an ongoing basis.
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Feb 12, 2020 18:22
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One time I forgot my lunch money at home and didn't realize it until I got to the register. "Can I just give ya'll the dollar tomorrow" was not acceptable so they took my tray and made my first grade self go without lunch. I learned to never ask for forgiveness from The Man and I didn't forget my money after that. Baltimore city public school.
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Feb 12, 2020 18:39
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this looks like a screencap from a Tim and Eric sketch
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Feb 12, 2020 18:48
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Ugly In The Morning posted:The fact I’m not able to find the pictures they’re using via google image search has me concerned that Pastry of the Year is currently being exposed to this on an ongoing basis. Fortunately, no.
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Feb 12, 2020 19:38
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 SCP# 2762A: The HCP
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Monkey Fracas posted:
...somebody hosed that pita, didn’t they?
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Feb 12, 2020 20:00
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my cousin got into meth its terrible seeing them like this
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 The slice of cheese, lol  These are just doritos holy sit  Patties of what!? These are just the best. I am very hungry.
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Feb 12, 2020 20:08
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I remember loving the school breakfast in 2nd/3rd grade. if they didn't have French toast with that nastily good syrup, I'd usually get one of the single serve containers of cinnamon toast crunch with a BAG of chocolate milk to pour into it. I quickly turned into a fat little fucker throughout elementary school my one lasting memory of middle school lunch is the huge microwavable burritos they had at the a la carte window. they served them to us still steaming inside the plastic wrapper. there was always a high risk of burning your mouth on the first bite and also having other parts of the burrito still be half-frozen. they were disgusting, but still the best available option because the pizza was awful in high school I had a slice of extra greasy pizza or a dry rear end chicken sandwich almost every loving day for my first two years. my last two years I was able to leave campus so my lunch turned into slightly better pizza from the corner store along with lots and lots of Arizona iced teas. I can't imagine eating any of that poo poo now
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Feb 12, 2020 20:27
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Burn this country to the ground.
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Feb 12, 2020 21:38
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One big slab of molten fat melting into the earth
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Feb 12, 2020 21:40
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Bust Rodd posted:That’s wild, NY State required it by law. When did you have time to eat it? I got on the bus at like 6:30am and got there around 7:30am or so and it was off to the races. The buses only gave us about 15 minutes to get to class before school started. To be fair I've had my brain shocked a lot and don't remember much of school in my childhood.
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Pennywise the Frown posted:When did you have time to eat it? I got on the bus at like 6:30am and got there around 7:30am or so and it was off to the races. The buses only gave us about 15 minutes to get to class before school started. The busses where I was (Duchess county, NY) let us off at 7 and class wasn’t til 730, so we had plenty of time. It was like a bit under 600 people in all 4 grades, so there wasn’t too much of a line for the bagels.
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I'd kill to have bagels for breakfast at school. Bagels are a delivery vehicle for cream cheese which I'd look like a goon just shoveling cream cheese into my face so the bagel helps. gently caress now I want a bagel. I'm gonna buy some later. Sad grocery store ones but that's all I got. 
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Feb 12, 2020 21:57
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Hardon Crime posted:some kids turned them into a pile of bullshit by piling on olives and mayo but it was possible to make a sammy that wasnt completely loving garbage That reminded me of a post HugeGrossBurrito did in my Subway thread. I posted a pic of my sub. And HGB went with it.
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Feb 12, 2020 22:05
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Pennywise the Frown posted:I'd kill to have bagels for breakfast at school. You better believe I always paid the extra for the second cream cheese container.
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Feb 12, 2020 22:05
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Ugly In The Morning posted:You better believe I always paid the extra for the second cream cheese container. 
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Feb 12, 2020 22:06
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the square pizzas were the freakin best with their processed sausage crumbles and greasy "chease"
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Feb 12, 2020 22:07
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Schools are legally required to give you time to eat your food if you qualify for school breakfast and lunch, you just missed the first 10 minutes of first period or you ate your food in class.
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Feb 12, 2020 22:14
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I always brought my lunch. I think I bought lunch at school maybe 3 or 4 times, mainly when they had these surprisingly good beef stick things.
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Feb 12, 2020 22:20
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Chinatown posted:the square pizzas were the freakin best with their processed sausage crumbles and greasy "chease" You can go to hell. That soggy undercooked piece of poo poo was a crime to children. This is one of the best pics I found of that garbage. 
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Feb 12, 2020 22:32
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That looks amazing compared to my schools pizza. It was basically mozzarella cheese and oregano flakes melted onto a piece of styrofoam flatbread. I think I ate it twice throughout 12 years of public education.
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Feb 12, 2020 23:07
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Yeah the kind I had was always under cooked and it was lightly dusted with cheese.
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Feb 12, 2020 23:08
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We had both the hexagon Mexican Pizza and the rectangle one. I recall liking both of them. The only other thing I remember eating was pretty decent roasted chicken, mashed potatoes with gravy and green beans. It wasn't great but it was fine. I do know there was no junk food, vending machines, candy, coke any of that. This was into high school, end of the 80s. I heard just a few years later things starting changing. Also my freshman year was the last year the high school still had a smoking section for students. 
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Feb 12, 2020 23:30
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yeah in middle school for me in the mid 90's you ate whatever the single meal was on the menu, there wasn't any choice whatsoever. to drink you got a small milk carton but everyone bought soda at the convenience store next door before school and drank that. I remember one day me and a few friends smuggled in a 2-liter of surge and acted out the commercials shouting SURGE and spraying the stuff everywhere before getting a week of detention or something. In high school there was the option of the same school lunches we had in middle school or personal pans from a pizza hut express, which was a tiny separate counter built into a little niche in the hallway and not in the main lunchroom, so every lunch hour that hallway became a mosh pit packed full of students trying to get to the counter with no organization at all, sometimes you were lucky if you got your pizza before lunch hour was over. about once a week some extremely clever person would crush one of those glass stink bomb vials in the middle of it all
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Pennywise the Frown posted:You can go to hell. That soggy undercooked piece of poo poo was a crime to children. DELISH!!! 
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Chinatown posted:DELISH!!! Fuckin' love me some square pizza. The best thing was getting two and mashing them together like a greasy cheese oreo.
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Pennywise the Frown posted:School lunches are criminal. Jamie Oliver had it right but the US failed in trying to make school lunches healthier. You can't just mandate healthier food. You need to appropriate money for it. Funding for schools in the US is just terrible and the cost of non-garbage food is just too much that could go towards the football team. I was one of those kids that brought lunch because school lunch was kind of expensive for what you got and my family was poor. Most days I'd have basically the exact brown paper bag lunch you'd picture: something like a pb&j sandwich, a banana, and a ziplock of some crackers or a granola bar or such. This was consistently cheaper than what the school would offer, probably under half the cost, and probably had 10% of the salt content. As an adult I pack lunch for work most days, mostly cause I don't wanna grab fast food or such, and it's typically something easy to heat up in a microwave, leftover soup, stirfries, casseroles, that sort of thing. And again, it's cheaper that the apparent national average of school lunch costs. So why is it that school districts seem to live entirely out of prepackaged overpriced garbage where not only is the money for a meal more than many families can afford, but it's like not even good food? They're doing it at such a large scale you'd think the whole economy of scale aspect would make it quite cheap. You could literally delver pallets of produce because you're cooking for so many.
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ArbitraryC posted:What's weird to me is this just seems like the opposite of pretty basic econ 101 rules. it's grift and federal contracts, I'm pretty sure.
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ArbitraryC posted:What's weird to me is this just seems like the opposite of pretty basic econ 101 rules. Lunch workers don't really do much. Maybe put the frozen pizza in the oven or assemble some frozen chicken sandwiches. Just hire a few cooks and use fresher ingredients. Vegetables can be cheap if bought in bulk. Grains, rice, potatoes are dirt cheap. Just make a protein one day, add a side of a starch and a vegetable. Probably the same cost as the premade garbage from a giant food service company and isn't literally indirectly killing you. I don't know, I'm not sure how this stuff works. I'm sure it could be done cheaper and healthier.
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How does the glorious USA school lunch system handle dietary requirements, vegetarian, vegan, halal, etc?
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yoloer420 posted:How does the glorious USA school lunch system handle dietary requirements, vegetarian, vegan, halal, etc? lol
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Northern Ireland lunchroom food spoilered It tended to change on a weekly basis. There were some staples like fries, roast potatoes, various kinds of rice. They usually got combo-ed with burgers, slices of roast meat, various curries or chilis, respectively. Dessert was usually some weird variation on a sponge cake served with custard or a bizarre pink blancmange, but occasionally we'd get some good poo poo like little cups of Carte D'Or or Haagen-Daas ice cream. Once a month or so they would cook up a "world food" menu where it would be cheap school renditions of popular international dishes. So we'd get Mexican one week, Italian another. Indian, Chinese and Philipino also cropped up. The world food stuff was great, since the kitchen tended to cook far more of that poo poo than people would ever ask for. So you could wolf down your first 2 quesadillas and head straight back up to the counter for 2 more, and then 2 more after that. My school also had a pretty decent breakfast menu but that was for the rich kids whose parents dropped them off early and who had money. The rest of us just milked the free lunches for all they were worth.
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yoloer420 posted:How does the glorious USA school lunch system handle dietary requirements, vegetarian, vegan, halal, etc? they probably do something now but back in the day I think they just relied on the fact that any kid who would bring something like that up would get peer bullied into shutting up about it, or they brought stuff from home
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