Posted on 09/21/2019 4:11:24 PM PDT by RummyChick
I remember back in the late 60s, early 70s, many of my classmates bitching and moaning over the food served in Dade County public schools. Ungrateful wretches.
As for myself, I was just thrilled to have a hot meal every noon. It sure beat the alternative — a bologna sandwich from home. Mom, God bless her, didn’t have a lot of imagination when it came to sandwiches.
But meat, two veg, bread, fruit, and dessert — all for 35 cents, it was heaven. And it expanded my culinary horizons — being from a Polish family from Buffalo, I had never tasted corn bread before. I also remember my first taste of real Cuban picadillo — as good as any I’ve had since.
Now the lunch in this picture — well, I sure don’t see meat, two veg, bread, fruit, and dessert. I would call it “sparse,” and that would be kind.
Taking someone else’s property without permission is theft. I’d make it crystal clear to the school droids that if they took food from my kid I’d have them criminally charged.
And I’d make it stick.
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Red Gold doesn’t make applesauce. Mostly just tomato products.
(I know the owner)
Zoom in, and that’s marinara sauce. For WHAT? I don’t know
I believe that is known as “pizza bread” in the Chicago school lunchrooms.
My hunch about a lot of school lunch programs: they buy the cheapest, lowest-grade crap possible, and someone pockets the surplus funds. When my son was in school in Chicago, the principal encouraged ALL parents to apply for the free meals program.
I wondered about that..
In some places it is against school policy.
Pockets rule.
Here is an article on the legality of schools saying what kids can bring to eat.
Please note where it piously suggests that parents should "One possible guide for determining what to pack for your child’s lunch might include your state’s Department of Health and Human Services guidelines."
In other words if you do other wise you risk having your childs lunch taken away.
Thanks for posting that. I remember back in my school days they would have kids announcing the week’s menus on the radio. I don’t know they got picked for that pleasant duty, but that’s the way it was.
Any one of those days looks better than what I have to eat now — low carbs, doncha know? About a month of that and you’d turn in your best pal for a jelly doughnut.
Still, I’m 20 pounds to the good, and the doc says that if I lose another 20 she’ll take me off metformin. So that’s a big, big plus, and you could even say I am now on the downhill side.
Still miss those jelly doughnuts, though.
Some schools don’t allow it, some remove items they don’t approve of from home lunches.
It is crazy out there.
That’s not a hot dog, it’s a shrink wrapped turd.
My first thought as well. Someone is skimming off the top. I've seen what my kids eat at their public school and it isn't bad at all.
Time for an audit.
We were given soggy bread and tea for our meals.
And we were glad to get it!
“I can’t have two fruits.”
Just what does that mean?
Tumblr has a list of total 112 genders currently.
It is getting real hard to figure this stuff out.
I was fortunate to have a great aunt as one of the cafeteria cooks, at my elementary.
She was from East TX and one of the best southern cooks, ever.
Our yeast rolls, turkey and dressing and homemade (yes, she made them from scratch) pies, were the envy of the district :)
Heck, even our middle and high school cooks/meals weren’t that bad, come to think of it. Mostly Grandmas in that kitchen, cooking. :)
they buy the cheapest, lowest-grade crap possible
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Well, In San Fran, get your scoop shovel or skip loader . . .
Instant school lunches
never send your child to public school
LOL...aliens over easy.
Who heads up the “HOMESCHOOL” ping list??
Keep your kids OUT of public schools!!
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