/ck/ - Food & Cooking

I don't have any images, but Finnish anon here. I don't get what's the deal with US and UK school lunches which seems to me like it's mostly junk and garbage. Yeah, I get that it appeals to kids because of our primitive need for carbs, fats and salts. I could imagine myself getting those chicken nuggets, fries, slice of pizza, handful of corn, mushy carrots and chocolate milk for free, but I wouldn't want to pay for it as a parent if I had even a slightest chance of giving home cooked meal with my kids to school. It's completely shit food and probably won't be beneficial as kids grow up accustomed to that. I know that there is huge money and politics running in those school lunches.

Here is a weeks menu of what I had in school as a kid. Every meal included a plain selection of salads which you are usually free to pass if you don't like it along with bread. Salads usually had a choice from iceberg lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber, shredded carrot, canned tangerine wedges and sometimes something else aswell. You could choose all of them or none.
Many schools also had a choice between water, milk, sour milk or juice.
Monday
>Chicken fricassee, rice and black currant jam

Tuesday
>Potatoes, meatballs and gravy

Wednesday
>Cabbage casserole and lingonberry jam (lingonberry is almost like cranberry)

Thursday
>Pea soup with ham. Mustard and diced raw onion as condiments.
>Often pancake with strawberry or raspberry jam for dessert.

Friday
>Spaghetti bolognese and shredded cheese as a condiment

Kids at school has heavy influence over what kind of food is served.
For example, if too much food is left after day again and again it strongly implies, that the kids don't like it. So they do what is logical and drops it off the menu and comes up with something else instead. Sometimes and perodically we had these short questions about food and what new we should get to replace the ones removed.

Liver dishes for example lessened in popularity and was replaced.

does this board exist for any reason other than shitposting and memes?