Lady blogs about school food for a year (with pics!)

[Zorkorist]

Let them eat Cake!

-John

 

[Zorkorist]

The subsidized meals at my HS were actually the same thing they charged us 5 bucks for. Usually a chicken salad/spaghetti with meatballs/pizza/turkey burger/something.

I actually went to HS in the same city as AznAnarchy did, different side of the tracks though so to speak. I usually brought my own sandwich and whatever else on my own.

Even today, you see adults brown-bagging it to lunch.

Some of us looked at a Xchool Lunch as a luxery.

-John

 

[Zorkorist]

But, apparently, it is an every day thing for poor kids.

-John

 

[JSt0rm]

But, apparently, it is an every day thing for poor kids.

-John

You saw it as a luxury because you didn't get to eat junk. The poor kids only ate junk. See the difference?

 

[AznAnarchy99]

Even today, you see adults brown-bagging it to lunch.

Some of us looked at a Xchool Lunch as a luxery.

-John

Its not a luxury for us it was what we could afford. I.survived high school with free school lunches and ramen for dinner everyday. When I was lucky I saved enough to buy food off the dollar menu from fast food restaurants.

 

[Zorkorist]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but by high-school, Scool lunches werenet free.

It was like $5 to me, and a major expenditure, so I din't eat lunch... but as a luxery.

I'm not going to fault your home life, as obviously I got enough food, and obviously you got enough food, we just chose different times to eat, apparently. You ate school crap, and I ate peanut butter and jelly, at home.

-John

 

[JSt0rm]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but by high-school, Scool lunches werenet free.

It was like $5 to me, and a major expenditure, so I din't eat lunch... but as a luxery.

I'm not going to fault your home life, as obviously I got enough food, and obviously you got enough food, we just chose different times to eat, apparently. You ate school crap, and I ate peanut butter and jelly, at home.

-John

school lunches are free for poor kids.

 

[Zorkorist]

That kind of fucked me up... because as I was paying taxes for the poor school kids, I couldn't afford a school lunch.

-John

 

[AznAnarchy99]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but by high-school, Scool lunches werenet free.

It was like $5 to me, and a major expenditure, so I din't eat lunch... but as a luxery.

I'm not going to fault your home life, as obviously I got enough food, and obviously you got enough food, we just chose different times to eat, apparently. You ate school crap, and I ate peanut butter and jelly, at home.

-John

The area I live in has a pretty large number of low income Families and the program is all the way to senior year. I ate what I could when I could. I used to starve myself instead of eating school food but if that's all I could get I had to eat something. At that time I had no job and my family wasn't providing and I'm willing to bet I wasn't the only one with that situation in high school.

 

[Zorkorist]

I'm just saying, as others have said in this thread, that there is better food than school food. I'm not going to knock the poor, and I'm not going to deny them a meal. But there are better meals, than zschool food.

-John

 

[Joel Olstein]

All public school food is really really bad I went to school in 5 different states all the same poor quality dirt burgers every Wednesday and horrid abominations they call enchiladas once a month in areas with a large Latino population

 

[JSt0rm]

That kind of fucked me up... because as I was paying taxes for the poor school kids, I couldn't afford a school lunch.

-John

So as a kid you were working a job and couldn't afford to eat because of the taxes you paid? ok :whiste:

 

[JSt0rm]

I'm just saying, as others have said in this thread, that there is better food than school food. I'm not going to knock the poor, and I'm not going to deny them a meal. But there are better meals, than zschool food.

-John

you realy cant wrap your mind around the fact that some people cant afford anything and get free school lunches? Yet yourself couldn't afford lunch even though you worked?

 

[Zorkorist]

Yeah, I can't wrap my mind around the fact that people can't provide for their children. In America. This is not some free-loader state, this is America, where you can dream the American Dream.

-John

 

[Zorkorist]

This ain't India, or China, or Bangledesh, or Zimbabwe, this is America, and prosperity is hard to miss.

If you fail here... oh, jeez.

-John

 

[dmcowen674]

I grew up on Long Island and the ladies cooked everything on site back then and was great stuff.

I remember always paying for the meals. Always had a choice. If didn't like what was on the menu for that day I could bring lunch and just paid for milk or juice or deserts.

 

[dawp]

This ain't India, or China, or Bangledesh, or Zimbabwe, this is America, and prosperity is hard to miss.

If you fail here... oh, jeez.

-John

even in america someone has to mop the floors and jobs like that don't pay too well.

and you get jackasses that get a divorce and refuse to pay child support.