This Is What America's School Lunches Really Look Like

[MissMillie]

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/11/20/246400702/this-is-what-america-s-school-lunches-really-look-like




With so many kids not getting enough to eat at home, the subsidized school lunch program is often all they get--and let me tell ya, it doesn't look to appetizing.

There's one photo captioned "When you find out what it is let me know"

[brooklynite]

1. Here's a school lunch in France

[Arcanetrance]

3. I'd love to have just the brie and crusty bread right now

Having one of those days where the only food I want is food that's not in the house

[Laelth]

5. That looks fantastic. n/t

-Laelth

[B2G]

8. rolls, cheese & pie?

Doubt that would fit into the recently reduced calorie requirements here in the US.

Does look good though...

[msongs]

10. nice but do these kids actually eat most of it or just toss it? nt

[Buns_of_Fire]

11. What, no spork? (The rest of it looks good, though.) nt

[Arcanetrance]

2. Those look worse than the food I got at school

[Laelth]

4. k&r for better school lunches! n/t

-Laelth

[HockeyMom]

6. I worked in a Title 1 school in South Florida

The cafeteria staff themselves made Rice with Black Beans, Salad, and served Oranges, Bananas, or real treat, fresh PINEAPPLE for dessert. Egg and cheese (breatfast) or Bean (lunch) Burritos with sides of RAW veggies and fresh fruit. When they made their own from scratch Cuban Sandwiches, the kids, and TEACHERS, lined up for that one. Staff had to put in their orders early for that one. While the kids refused to eat COOKED veggies, they loved the RAW ones (carrots, celery, and even raw broccoli).

The typical school lunch of burgers, fries, chicken nuggets, pizza, went into the garbage. These kids wanted to eat what their parents served them at home, which was none of the above.

[onethatcares]

12. I'm with you on that

once you get used to eating the vegetables raw, it's like a jones on sumpin.

sounds like a great lunch and cafeteria staff.

[Scuba]

7. Kick for healthy diets and help for our kids and their schools.

[last1standing]

9. I couldn't identify anything on those trays.

It all just looked like... well, I guess if I knew what it looked like I could have identified it.

[Logical]

13. Millions in the world would be thrilled with that food. n-t

[Demo_Chris]

14. While some might find this food unappealing...

For MANY kids this is the only food they will have that day. Not once, or even once in a while, but basically every day. That's their breakfast, lunch, and savory dinner. Nor am I talking here about some handful of kids. No, this number is certainly in the millions.

We are losing the fight to provide even this much because we cannot help these kids without helping their parents, and neither party wants to do that.

There demographic that rarely gets mentioned here or on the news. We talk about seniors, and cry crocodile tears over children, but we rarely talk about the working younger folks. The generation who inherited a 15 trillion debt, NAFTA and free trade, unaffordable healthcare, a collapsing infrastructure, college costs in the stratosphere, and you name it its bad. They inherited the smoking wreckage of an empire and the bill for the cleanup.

That, and now they are now also expected to come up with some extra cash for their Obamacare bill, because their seniors want that money from them as well. True to tradition, the young folks get screwed so the older generations can profit. Under Obama the affluent just got permanent cuts to their income and capital gains tax rates, because fuck the kids and the infrastructure and the debt, granny wants a new Lexus and both parties want to make sure she gets it.