School Cafeteria Food

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

So how was the food at your school cafeteria?

How would you describe it?

 

[Dee]

Typical.

Pizza, tater tots, burritos, nachos, cookies...

Yeah, we didn't have very healthy food when I went to school a decade ago, but I'm sure there must have been one or two healthy options I didn't give a shit about at the time. xD In fact, I recall experimenting with the burrito and the chocolate chip cookie together. It was oddly not bad.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

I remember in middle school, having to stand in the free lunch line to get standard food while all my friends were getting the "good food" from the snack bar with their money. But the standard free/reduced lunch actually contained a fruit or veggie and all those rich kids were strictly eating pizza and nachos, so I suppose it was a good thing in a way if you want to think about it like that.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

our school was different. Based on your behavior, youd get points. Like reps. When you have enough, you can buy stuff, foods and snacks. Yes, even lunch

Oh we had a thing like that too. Yard duties and teachers gave out these coupons for free food from the student store or snack bar when they thought you deserved them.

 

[Normandy]

There were a few good items, but a lot of it was bad. Especially the burgers. People joked that they must have been made from rat meat they were so bad. The one thing that was most popular was the nachos. There would be huge lines for them on nacho days.

 

[GoldenBlade]

My school doesn't feed us a wide range of foods. It's typically the same things over and over again. Their food is pretty good though, so I can't complain.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

My school doesn't feed us a wide range of foods. It's typically the same things over and over again. Their food is pretty good though, so I can't complain.

Is high school food different than middle school food?

 

[GoldenBlade]

My school doesn't feed us a wide range of foods. It's typically the same things over and over again. Their food is pretty good though, so I can't complain.

Is high school food different than middle school food?

Nope. They still give us the same stuff.

 

[DrLeftover]

Mystery meat, with ketchup.

It might have been a chicken patty, hamburger patty, the ever popular "Pizza burger", or something that claimed it was pork, or even breaded veal.

They looked more or less the same, and were all bland. Which explains the ketchup.

 

[Jazzy]

Chicken Nuggets - Pizza - Nachos - Hamburger or Cheeseburger - Spaghetti (repeat same over and over). The lunch always came with vegetable and fruit. The food wasn't horrible but it wasn't the best either.

 

[DrLeftover]

Typical – As Michelle Obama Purges School Vending Machines Of Sugary Snacks, WH Machine Sells 590 Calorie Honey Buns

Posted by Adam Sharp on Wednesday, September 17th, 2014 at 4:42 pm

It has been widely reported that Michelle Obama’s fight against childhood obesity in America’s schools has reached past the lunchroom into bake sales and even the vending machines.

The First Lady’s new standards remove any sugary snacks over 200 calories from the machines. Sometimes machines are emptied all together leaving students upset and hungry.

Not willing to put her healthy vending machine items where her mouth is–
Michelle’s hypocrisy is on full display in the place where she should have the most influence, The White House vending machine:

White House vending machine sells a "Jumbo Honey Bun" with 590 calories, 17g of saturated fat and 30g of sugar

http://www.progressivestoday.com/typical-as-michelle-obama-purges-school-vending-machines-of-sugary-snacks-the-white-house-veding-machine-sells-600-calorie-honey-buns/

 

[Webster]

Chicken Nuggets - Pizza - Nachos - Hamburger or Cheeseburger - Spaghetti (repeat same over and over). The lunch always came with vegetable and fruit. The food wasn't horrible but it wasn't the best either.

That what mainly what passed for school lunches back when I was in school...

 

[~KAGE-008]

My school doesn't feed us a wide range of foods. It's typically the same things over and over again. Their food is pretty good though, so I can't complain.

At the high school I was in, that same thing applied. It started to get boring and boring. Until I found about an alternate cafeteria for selected people. Had to wait until September or so back in 2012 and last year just to have lunch there.

Now at college, the foods are becoming more interesting as time passes. More foods that I didn't eat before were introduced there. And yes, I actually tasted them.

 

[DrLeftover]

I had said "mystery meat with ketchup"...

they can't even have that now:

8 Oct

Meanwhile, students in Austintown, Ohio aren’t faring much better.

“Kids can’t take two ketchup packets [for burgers] because that would set them over on calories” for that condiment, Natalie Winkle, district food-service secretary and assistant tells The Vindicator.

The district’s food service director says costs are up and revenues are down.

http://eagnews.org/students-stomachs-grumble-over-michelle-os-menu/

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

One ketchup packet isn't enough to mask the flavor of that fortified protein disk (aka burger patty).

 

[Nyx]

We had the same things over and over...

Chips (most of my friends had them covered in gravy or cheese)
Burgers
Hot sausage rolls
Mash served from ice cream scoop that always looked an odd colour.
Turkey twizzlers
Pizzas
Cheese & potato pie
Lasanga
Beef burgers