/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>5165392
this shit costs about 30 euro cents on average to produce

get the fuck on Finland's level

That is so incredibly sad
I feel bad for Amerifats
I had god-tier school lunch throughout my schools
Pic related, you also always were allowed to eat as much as you wanted

>>4470033
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>>4472393
The great irony in all of this is that what caused this dramatic regression in quality of school food in Finland was the drive for privatizing the service. I spent my school years during the last years of gubmint-provided cafeteria services, and the idea that some cafeterias would offer nothing but porridge and cold cuts feels completely criminally neglectful, something that must be affected even if it takes direct and violent action. Call me a commie if you will, but handing the reins over in the cafeterias has not only increased costs, but also severely sabotaged the efficiency of the system, reduced employee and consumer liberties, and practically killed "local" work in the cafeterias through centralization of services. And still it manages to be more expensive than the original services, thanks to the cut additional hands in the system such as company owners take.

That aside, school lunches broadened my culinary views immensely at a very young age. Dishes such as lasagne, moussaka, stroganoff, paella, Jansson's temptation, curry et cetera were first encountered in school cafeterias for me.

>>4138613
Ah... you do realize that what you're saying right now is complete apologetic asspullery? You have to be very, very alienated from what vegetables are in reality to call goddamn tomato paste industrial waste on a cardboard pizza "a serving of vegetable".

That people pull out the "vegetable is pizza lololol" card so frequently is because of what it represents - atrocious, intentional falsehoods legislated because of industrial lobbying combined with one political pressure group's unending desire to sabotage the other to keep them from "earning points for the next election".

If school dinners could be decided upon completely without the attachments of pressure from pre-existing food industry structures as well as the heartless realpolitik game players, the system would be far more efficient. Simple scheme - have a school and the cafeteria staff negotiate a cafeteria funding program between them, with realistic budget goals on both sides. Then have the cafeteria staff devise short term menus that are based on what produce yield the best quality/quantity/cost ratio in the local area during the current season. Namely, bargain-hunt. Even better would be hiring an additional staff member or a third party enterpreneur for the job of acquiring produce at the lowest cost alone, as that would allow the cafeteria staff to focus on their job.