/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.14465399]

Why don't Americans send their kids to school with lunch? Why do parents let their kids eat this type of shit all week?

[Anonymous No.14465403]

>>14465399
i had pb&js everyday in elementary, it was a based time, kids these days cant eat it anymore cause muh allergies

[Anonymous No.14465456]

Don't americans brown bag it everyday?

[Anonymous No.14465466]

>>14465399
lazy and free/subsidized

[Anonymous No.14465471]

>>14465466
the free lunch was a a cheese sandwich, uncooked at my school

[Anonymous No.14465598]

>>14465471
Mine had hoagie or salad bar for free.
The only food I ate at school were: burgers, chicken nuggets, baked chicken, cheese pizza, mexican pizza, or tacos. Anything else like sloppy joe or spaghetti and meat sauce and I'd get one of these for lunch.

[Anonymous No.14465612]

>>14465598
my middle school actually had pretty good food, spicy popcorn chicken and cajun fries. high school didnt have it and i think michelle obama also killed it. the new jack in the box spicy popcorn chicken actually gave me a ratatouillie moment because they are extremely similar to my old middle school ones

high school food was eh, i typically didnt eat lunch so i could use my lunch money as spending money. id occasionally get some turkey dogs or their taquito thing

[Anonymous No.14465669]

>>14465612
I don't remember my middle school lunch at all. My high school cafeteria was under construction for two years of my high school. Instead they had these portable cafeterias that had gas station and fast food for sale. I would get hot pockets, nachos or pizza from time to time. Mostly I'd stick to vending machines and save up the rest of my money.

[Anonymous No.14465711]

I used to eat the tater-tots or cheese-its and throw the rest in the trash. They wouldn't let me just take tots, so it's their problem I was forced to waste food.

[Anonymous No.14465738]

>>14465711
I always sat around one of those, "Are you gonna eat that?" kids.

[Anonymous No.14465748]

>>14465711
the amount of food wasted at schools is insane

[Anonymous No.14466752]

>>14465399
most high school kids just ate the burger/fries or mini pizza lines if their lunchroom had it

[Anonymous No.14466969]

>>14465399
Elementary school hot lunch was only like once a week I think it is like this for many schools so a huge amount of kids are bringing food to school every day

[Anonymous No.14467011]

>>14465399
I went to a private school with no hot lunch in elementary school, but in middle school, bringing lunch got you bullied, and in high school, you left campus if you were cool, up until they banned it.

[Anonymous No.14467043]

>>14465399
>tfw fat kid
>mom would never make me a lunch so forced on school food program
>say fuck this i want to lose weight
>begin skipping lunch
>lunch supervisors catch on
>literally force my fat ass to get one of these sickening lunches and eat it in front of them
>one day get fed up and throw the whole lunch in the trash in front of the ladies face
>get detention for it

I fucking hate public schools

[Anonymous No.14467054]

>>14467043
also now that i think of it, the lady was some fat cunt. she probably had the crabs in the bucket mentality and didn't want to see me improve in a way that she was not able to. fuck fatties

[Anonymous No.14467061]

>>14465399
I miss the graham cracker sandwiches. They were so good. I miss the taco pizza and burgers too. And the desserts.

I think this why I'm so fat now.

[Anonymous No.14467123]

>>14467043
Should've been fat to begin with, fuckface.

[Anonymous No.14467126]

>>14467061
based Urara poster

[Anonymous No.14467136]

>>14467061
I remember flexing on jiggas when I had peanut butter crackers or pudding cups.

[Anonymous No.14467171]

>>14467123
>haha shoulda just had parents who loved you bro

[Anonymous No.14467240]

Well, this is something we don't have to worry about anymore, at least for a while.

This topic is probably more suited to /pol/ than it is /ck/. As other anons have touched on, it's all about social class. When my dad was a kid, he got bullied for not having wonderbread and having a sandwich that was on home-made bread. For my own kids, they've been picked on when I've gotten store bought bread and didn't get some sort of sprouted shit. I pack those kids a bad ass bento when I can and thankfully the one in elementary school is like "this is cool" because the one in middle school can't do it anymore without being picked on.

In the 90's when I was in school we caught on that "hey, some kids parents have no food and their lunches are subsidized" and they got made fun of instead. Then some crazy shit happened with who's paying for lunches.

>>14465399
This is no longer a thing though. It's even worse than the prison food that looks like. Now schools have corporate sponsorships and get fast food. Schools got soda machines and nacho bars. Now they're judged on how much they eat and not what they eat. No longer do they have the cracker crust pencil eraser pepperoni pizza I had as a kid, they have local pizza joints delivering it in with what they'd have to throw away from expiry requirements. The food merchants of the USA realized they don't have to give stuff that's about to expire to the tiger king for free. They can sell it to school students and the ones that can't afford it, well, they're subsidized for it. And they rely on teen peer pressure to make it all work. Kinda brilliant really.

[Anonymous No.14467253]

I give my wife's son a banana.

[Anonymous No.14467260]

my school had vending machines so i'd get poptarts and hide in the library during lunch period

[Anonymous No.14467295]

>>14465403
sunbutter is a pretty good peanut butter alternative

[Anonymous No.14467301]

My parents sent me to school with a butter and cheese sandwich everyday, would have preferred the school slop if I could afford it

[Anonymous No.14467341]

>>14465399
Because boomers sent their kids to babysitter camp so they could sit at home and drink wine, and wife swap, and start cults and shit. Kids that ate it liked it, it became tradition, now each proceeding generation doesn't think there's anything wrong with it.

[Anonymous No.14467507]

>>14465399
there was a student ministry type building right across the street from my high school that would buy boxes of $5 pizza from little caesars and resell it to the high school kids at lunch for a dollar a slice once a week, it was a massive fucking rip off but a great many retards including myself went anyway, the school lunch wasn't even that bad apparently but pizza is always better
you'd pay at the back entrance and take as many slices as you paid for, though they really had no way of telling how much you paid for without going back to the people taking the money and asking if they remembered, which i don't think they ever did.
people eventually realized they could pay a dollar and take 2 or 3 slices instead of 1 and I abused the hell out of that until they realized they weren't making much profit so they started stamping your hand based on how much you paid for,
you could also stay inside and hang out, the church staff would occasionally shill and tell people about services at the main church and stuff, it was an ok spot to spend lunch regardless
basically it was a waste of money but no one really cared since it was probably their parents money anyway
they eventually stopped for some reason so I started walking home for lunch a lot
and yeah, i dont even remember op's question
the high school was also really close to a lot of restaurants and stores so some people would go there at lunch as well or just eat their own lunch
there was also a russian kid who would pull out a driscolls blueberry container and eat it in class, he was pretty based

[Anonymous No.14467537]

>>14467240
Have school lunches seriously changed this much from the 5 years ago I was i high school? Every cafeteria I ever ate at as a kid in any grade we got like, sub-Great Value quality food, in addition to those little plastic cups of cereal for breakfast. Only things worthwhile on the whole menu was stuffed crust pizza, chicken nuggets, hot dogs, fries, and a McRib knockoff. Everything else was pretty shit. And all the vending machines had sugar-free versions of the drinks, although our snack machines were infinitely better. I didn't start seeing the good vending machines in school till I started college.

[Anonymous No.14468362]

>>14467537
not really

[Anonymous No.14468387]

>>14465399
My wife makes my daughter those little bento boxes, she makes me a big boy version when we have more leftovers. I love her so much

[Anonymous No.14468414]

Your typical American family isn't eating that much better than your example. Processed garbage full of sugar devoid of complex and balanced nutrients. So even if they did pack them a lunch it will still be some shitty sandwich made with processed garbage and sugary processed "snacks" to go along with it.

Even if they could bring leftovers of lets say a nice home cooked meal of whole foods they likely won't have any way of heating it up because these schools think students with access to a microwave would be a safety hazard or something gay like that.

[Anonymous No.14468452]

>>14467507
What's wrong with bagels? Shoulda posted PF's pizza day, where you can go to Planet Fitness and eat all the pizza you want

[Anonymous No.14469611]

I just skipped lunch entirely and drank their water.

[Anonymous No.14469674]

>>14465456
>Don't americans brown bag it everyday?
There were a ton of brown-baggers Last Thursday, but schools figured out if they banned home-brought lunches, then they could force students to sign up for the School Lunch Program and make more money. Now students don't get to have notes from their parents on their napkins saying "i love you" any more. Sad.

[Anonymous No.14469717]

>>14465399
Not sure if it would be the same in the USA but when I grew up in Thailand many kids where poor and there parents wouldt prepare them proper food either because there too busy or too poor. You could tell who these kids where because they would be going for seconds and thirds. The Gov also instituted a plan to give all kids 250ml of milk a day to every kid to help get more protein into there diet. Knowing the nigger problem in the USA it probably means a lot of niglets are malnourished so sorta have to feed them or else there gonna have a problem like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22JgHBb-0dg and theyll just jump the mutts.

[Anonymous No.14469778]

Graduated high school in 2007 and I remember their being an outcry from classmates when they stopped serving fries aside from Fridays. One lardass had the audacity to complain citing the school was trying to "turn us into sticks".
Bitch I was 120lbs, lay off the junk food. My family was on the border of lower and middle class, so I mostly packed lunch.

[Anonymous No.14469800]

>>14465399
they very often do, maybe about half and half