school lunches

[Anonymous No.6465543]

Can you please explain school lunches to me?

1. Are they free?
2. If you pay, is it a flat price, or does it depend what you eat?
3. Are you / were you allowed to bring your own food to school
4. Why do they all have fucking milk, every fucking photo from around the world, they are all served with disgusting fucking milk? What the fuck?

Context for why I'm confused:
In my country (Aus-falia) we had to bring our own to school. There was a tuck-shop (an on-campus shop that sold food), but that was not what most people ate on a daily basis.

[OP No.6465545]

See what I mean about the milk?

Japs are lactose intolerant, why the fuck would you serve milk to an entire fucking NATION where they are all lactose intolerant!?!?

Why not feed fucking lettuce to cats, it's that fucking retarded.

[Anonymous No.6465547]

>3. Are you / were you allowed to bring your own food to school

?
There are places that don't let kids bring their own lunches? The fuck?

[Anonymous No.6465548]

I live in Sweden, and our school lunches are free. That is, they're tax paid.
We weren't even allowed to bring our own food if we wanted to in my school, because they thought it'd be unfair to the other children.

[Anonymous No.6465549]

>>6465545
Huh? What do you mean they're all lactose intolerant?

[OP No.6465552]

Here is another example of disgusting milk.
1% milk. I'm assuming that is so low in fat that it is almost murky water.
The thought of drinking that straight out of a carton makes me nauseous.

I love cheese, I'm not against dairy, but that shit looks vile and it is absolutely ubiquitous.

[Anonymous No.6465553]

>>6465545
They think milk is healthy, so that's why it's included, whether they're right or not. It's not like drinking milk is dangerous for lactose intolerant people, you just fart a lot.

[Anonymous No.6465558]

In my area (California, USA) school lunches require payment, however they can be free if you're poor enough. The price of a school lunch is a flat rate, it may also change throughout different school levels. You are also allowed to bring in your own lunch. Milk is served because it's cheap and also has a few nutrients.

[Anonymous No.6465559]

>>6465543
yeah, here you have to pay and its pretty expensive. unless someone in your immediate family gets disability/foodstamps/etc then you get free/reduced lunch

[OP No.6465561]

>>6465548
That is a weird reason to prohibit people bringing their own food. But thanks for the info.

>>6465549
Ok, so I am exaggerating for dramatic effect, but it's a fairly high percentage.

>Approximately 65 percent of the human population has a reduced ability to digest lactose after infancy. Lactose intolerance in adulthood is most prevalent in people of East Asian descent, affecting more than 90 percent of adults in some of these communities. Lactose intolerance is also very common in people of West African, Arab, Jewish, Greek, and Italian descent.
Source:
http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/lactose-intolerance

[Anonymous No.6465567]

wasn't this image debunked

[Anonymous No.6465568]

>>6465561
Well, it wasn't an official rule, but they just told our parents to not make lunches for us.
We weren't allowed to bring candy and things like that either.

[Anonymous No.6465573]

Milk is delicious OP, what do you mean?

[Anonymous No.6465575]

Spain here
1. They are not. You pay them monthly/annualy.
2. It's a flat price
3. You can bring your own breakfast, but not the dinner
4. No clue, we did not had milk.

In Spain most schools (i went to a public school, IDK about private ones) had a catering service that cooked the food on the school kitchen and served to the children.

Mind that you can also opt out and go eat at home if you wanted/had family at home that make you lunch. I was one of those, since I lived one block away from school and my grandmother was always at home.

Also that picture is bullshit. Food was much more like pic related

[OP No.6465576]

>>6465553
Yep, it's a persistent myth. As I said earlier, I love dairy (brie, blue cheese and vintage cheddar especially) but it's far from healthy.

>>6465558
How common is it for parents to pay?
Whenever I see tv shows they always get a tray and go to the cafeteria. I'm assuming they're meant to reflect a "normal" behaviour. But it's always hard to tell in tv-land.

>>6465568
We weren't allowed candy (lollies) either.
There were restrictions on some high sugar foods but it wasn't enforced.

[Anonymous No.6465577]

For reference, here's a rather typical Swedish school lunch. In most schools, you help yourself to the food, so you take as much or as little as you want, within reason.

[OP No.6465579]

Hey guys, sorry to be a dick, but I'm going to be posting from mobile from now on as I'm on the move.

Apologies in advance for the autocorrect typos that inevitably get through.

(courtesy sage for this post also)

[Anonymous No.6465582]

>>6465579
Nobody cares.

[Anonymous No.6465587]

>>6465545
There are varying levels of lactose intolerance. Most Japanese are able to ingest small amounts of dairy without any negative repercussions. 200 mL at lunchtime is not very much.

[Anonymous No.6465597]

>>6465576
>How common is it for parents to pay?

It's pretty common. Even on TV it's acknowledged to some degree (e.g. the trope of bullies saying "gimme your lunch money!").

Usually you just grab your food, and then pay at a register at the end of the line. Most shows won't actually show the payment process though for the same reason they don't show most mundane tasks, there's no reason to show it and it eats up time that could better be spent on something else.

[Anonymous No.6465599]

Canada here.
We had to bring our own lunch.
My juniour high sold microwaved pizza pops.
High school sold shit like muffins and shitty oven baked fries.

[Anonymous No.6465603]

>>6465543
well in Finland we have the best milk in the world so its really good. Also it gives you dat D what you need in dark

[Anonymous No.6465606]

>>6465543
Brazil here
>1. Are they free?
depends entirely on the school. Full time public schools are known for having free lunch and sometimes breakfast.
Most teaching periods are from morning to lunch time, or from after-lunch to evening, so eating lunch in school is rare, as you either leave and go home or eat before going.

>2. If you pay, is it a flat price, or does it depend what you eat?
depends entirely on the school.
Since lunch in school is not that common, there's usually breaks during the day that you can go out and eat snacks. It's more common to have random things to purchase, like sandwiches or sweets. Sometimes from school-kitchen, sometimes from actual restaurants. In one school I was there was even McDonalds inside (that didn't serve burgers but had the ice cream and grill'd cheese and i think fries and nuggets).

>3. Are you / were you allowed to bring your own food to school
yes, I don't think i've ever seen any school that did not allow your own food.

>4. Why do they all have fucking milk, every fucking photo from around the world, they are all served with disgusting fucking milk? What the fuck?
Milk is not commonly served with meals in BR, so no milk in lunch. Orange juice is probably the most common.
It is, however, present in schools that have breakfast or afternoon-break. You either get some of those box ones or is served in glass, either pure, with chocolate or with coffe. Yes coffe for small 6yo children, that's common.

[Anonymous No.6465607]

>>6465603
I'll give you the D in the dark.

[Anonymous No.6465610]

>>6465543

that picture is shooped. everyone everyone that picture is shooped

before i go to sleep and come back to see 150 posts

[Anonymous No.6465611]

In America, milk has long been considered healthy for kids.

BUT, the real reason is that buying milk for school lunch programs is a government subsidy for the American dairy industry.
Happens with a number of school lunch ingredients.

[Anonymous No.6465617]

Why do you have such an issue with milk?

[Anonymous No.6465645]

>>6465582
Fair enough. Won't notify in the future. Was worried it would look like I abandoned my own thread but as you say, nobody cares!

>>6465587
Just because they can, doesn't mean they should!
>>6465597
Thanks for the info.
Your reply actually answers several things that had never made sense to me. Bully, lunch money. Payment edited out. I feel better already.

>>6465599
Do you know I'd that was common across Canada?

[Anonymous No.6465646]

Milk is healthy

[Anonymous No.6465648]

>>6465646

milk is neither healthy nor unhealthy

[OP No.6465650]

>>6465617
I feel as if life has been one big lie.
Milk isn't that important for calcium and even if it was there are plenty of other places you can get calcium.
Basically milk exists because of brainwashing and lobbying.
As I've stated in previous posts, I'm not anit-dairy, I really like some cheeses, I mean I like them so much I'd have sex with them if that was possible without them melting on my dick, but I have a huge problem with the lies about milk.
Basically dairy iant that good for you. It tastes good, I love the taste, but it's not good for you and that is why I am mad.

[Anonymous No.6465652]

>>6465610
That's not shooping, that's cherrypicking. Usually when shit like this gets posts /int/ comes out of the woodwork and tells us how bullshit it is.
Hell, I'm from the US and even I can tell you the US part is bullshit. Everybody (I mean EVERYBODY) got the pizza at my school.

[Anonymous No.6465653]

>>6465650
>I'm not anti-dairy but
>milk is bad for you
>people only think it is because brainwashing
You're full of shit.

[Anonymous No.6465654]

>>6465547
I got in mad trouble for ordering chinese food to the high school once.

"Kids might have allergies"

"But I can bring in a PB&J?"

"You can't order food to the school"

"K"

Do it again tomorrow

Parents are called, they think it's ridiculous.

I get in-school suspension

>I-I have to g-go to the bathroom senpai

Order chinese food, tell them to text when it arrives

>Text comes

>I-I have to g-go to the bathroom senpai

>AGAIN?

>I think I'm going to be sick :(

Get chinese food, bring it back to ISS

>Parents laugh their asses off

>Principal is so angry he can't talk

>Teachers laughing

>Kids laughing

And that was the only time anyone thought I was cool

[Anonymous No.6465656]

>>6465652
no it is literally shooped. look at the plate it's the exact same plate in every single picture

there is not a single crumb or grain of rice out of place on any single picture, this is a fake picture

[Anonymous No.6465658]

>>6465656
>THEY USED THE SAME TRAY 6 TIMES! IT MUST BE PHOTOSHOP!
You dumb fucking nigger, do you not know what food photography is?
People make a LIVING making food look good for photos.

[Anonymous No.6465679]

>>6465548
>because they thought it'd be unfair to the other children.
how?
Hey here's different food I paid for
so unfair you get free food and I'm eating what I paid

[Anonymous No.6465682]

>>6465656
what is food styling/photography?
All of those were probably made in the same kitchen to exemplify foods around the world

and all of them are bullshit, no school serve food like fancy restaurants

[OP No.6465692]

>>6465653
If I smoked I'd say cigarette smoke is bad for you but I enjoy smoking.
Same concept but for dairy. It is not healthy to eat dairy and the people who say it is are the ones selling the product.
I genuinly believed milk was good for me until I actually looked into it. I was brainwashed by advertising and the 1980s-1990s healthy food pyramid (brotip: the old school pyramid was built by lobbyist groups, not specialist scientists).

[Anonymous No.6465694]

>>6465650
You will find that in Japan, there is actually good reasoning behind getting kids into the habit of drinking milk, partly because it's easy. Most people into adulthood end up not drinking enough of it or otherwise. This is why people are often encouraged to eat the fish bones - something many young people really don't like doing.

During the growth period, it got to the point where Japan was in need of high quality milk from abroad to satisfy growing demand and the countries looked to were Australia and New Zealand. This just happened to continue.

Hint: Dairy Farmers is owned by Kirin

[Anonymous No.6465697]

>>6465658
it is photoshopped, my dear dreadful faggot. i spent 2 years under a prop manager who was doing outsourced still life product photos for frozen meals i know what food photography is my man

[Anonymous No.6465704]

>>6465679
Pretty much yeah. It's a different culture, letting it show that you have money or in any way might be considered "better" than someone else is a massive faux pas. Showing off is one of the worst things you can do.
The fact that you have a better lunch with you would be interpreted as showing off the fact that your parents have money, time and effort enough to make you a nice lunch, and it could make the other kids feel bad because their parents didn't do the same.

[Anonymous No.6465851]

>>6465704
so everyone is forced on either tasteless or unhealthy meals?
nice

[Anonymous No.6465853]

>>6465697
OH NO
A IMAGE ON THE INTERNET WAS EDITED
CALL THE COPS

[Anonymous No.6465855]

>>6465654
>And that was the only time anyone thought I was cool

[Anonymous No.6465870]

>>6465692
What's unhealthy about milk over and above any other food product that's had some marketing done for it? Most people are aware that the whole "milk: good for your bones!" thing is from adverts and hearsay. Just seems like a fairly odd hill to die on.

[Anonymous No.6465909]

>>6465547
OP is asking that question, not stating a fact. How fucking stupid are you pretending to be?

[Anonymous No.6465914]

>>6465543
heres what i rmemeber about school lunches in america.....

primary school - UK
>had to bring lunch
>lunches werent so cheap
>not very good
>american
>hard to order due to direct interaction
>sucked
>would buy occasionally
>a whole milk was a pound

>move to US - florida - elementary school
>lunch was ok, cost 2.50

>middle school, post 9/11
>$2 for milk, pizza/cheeseburger, salad, fruit and whatever. milk was 0.49

>move from fl to nv (las vegas)
>$4.50 for chinese takeout box fileld with rice and chicken
>good shit
>filling

then i remember seeing the sodas go, then the meals from the cafeteria start to change, the price going up, and then food being sold by pizza slices and smaller amounts, while bigger meals were ignored because they sucked, cost too much, and were of junk nobody wanted to eat.

then obama was elected in, i graduated and entered this new liberal world

[Anonymous No.6465921]

>>6465650
I agree with you OP but you should do what I do and tell people you're lactose intolerant to avoid shitstorms

[Anonymous No.6465925]

>>6465654
Oh shit, I did this in the middle of math class like twice.
Got away with it the first time.
The second time, my teacher caught me and then I got lunch detention for three days.
I miss you Ms. Scully :( Srry for being such a little shithead.

[Anonymous No.6465931]

>>6465704
>Sweden
is /pol/ right?

[Anonymous No.6465953]

>>6465543
I've posted this before (in the states),

1. Usually no but if you're on food stamps or show that your family's income is low enough you can get free lunch and/or breakfast. However, the system is fucked and a lot of time you actually have classes during the times you could get food. I would usually have to cut class or leave for 15 min to get my free breakfast (breakfast was more edible than our lunches)

2. A standard meal is a flat price ($2.50 or something). However they also sold ramen in a cup for like $1 or nicer salads for a different price. Only the standard meals were covered by the school.

3. We were allowed to bring lunches to school but I have heard of people being required to only get their lunches from the school.

4. It looks better than giving out soda pretty much. Milk is cheap and kind of grandfathered in in the states, I don't know why they do it anywhere else

And that lunch for the USA wasn't my experience. We'd basically get the chicken nuggers on that tray plus some soggy ass tater tots or fries. If they had the cheap regular salad in stock they would come with the meal, but they consisted of a little bit of lettuce with a single grape tomato. And our chicken nuggers were notorious for having foreign objects in the meat

[Anonymous No.6465955]

>>6465543
School lunch is free if you're a poorfag. Your parents have to fill out certain forms.

[Anonymous No.6465956]

>>6465925
w-where did you go to school?

[Anonymous No.6465970]

>>6465851
Our school lunches are pretty healthy if rather bland.
>>6465931
Not really. But it's deeply ingrained in Scandinavian culture, and if you don't like it, you don't like Scandinavia.

[Anonymous No.6465980]

My high school's lunch menu is here: http://www.monroe.wednet.edu/LUNCH-PROGRAM/HS-April.pdf

[Anonymous No.6466024]

>>6465980
Actually, now I'm kind of jealous because this menu looks way better than the crap they served when I actually attended.

[Anonymous No.6466027]

>>6465552
1,5% fat milk is considered normal in my country.
We also have 0.5% and 0.1%. I used to drink 1.5% but switched to 0.1%, and now anything higher than that taste like cream.

[Anonymous No.6466051]

>>6465559
>expensive
Lmao

[Anonymous No.6466064]

>>6466051
Like $4 per day for lunch is pretty expensive when your dad refuses to give you lunch money. Or an allowance. Or to drive you anywhere so you can get a fucking job.

[Anonymous No.6466075]

>>6465970
In Sweden does everyone sleep with ur gf because if only you do it means you're showing off?

[Anonymous No.6466115]

>>6466064
Pic related - your dad

[Anonymous No.6466116]

>>6466075
sweden yeah xd
Jante law is part of our culture. Deal with it.

[Anonymous No.6466127]

>>6466064
why don't you forge his signature and get free lunch? you don't have to be stoopit poor you just have to be in lower third of your community or something. plus when you have that shit on record you don't have to pay college application fees

[Anonymous No.6466143]

>>6465543
I'm from Michigan, USA.
1. In public (government-paid-for) schools, they're subsidized so they have a below-market cost. However, based on a student's family's income, they are available at a much lower price, or free. In poorer areas (i.e. most of the country), a good proportion of students eat them at free or reduced prices. Private schools (which are sometimes completely tuition-based, sometimes completely government-paid, and sometimes funded by a combination of private and public funding) have wide variation in individual policies.
2. It typically varies by school district and level of school in public schools. I think a typical approach is a flat price until high school (which is from around ages 14 and up in the US), when they sell a basic fixed-price meal (keeps the subsidized/free meals simpler), but some also sell a la carte meals.
3. You're allowed to bring your own lunch in all the public schools I've heard of.
4. As others have mentioned, it's a combination of popular folkbelief that it's a good nutritional drink, and government dairy subsidies and nurtition guidelines. All of it is driven by dairy industry marketing and lobbying. The dairy industry pays all elected national politicians (not directly, but through the usual legal bribery mechanisms used in the US). There are certainly some nutritional benefits to drinking milk, and certainly some health problems that result, as well as intolerances/reactions among individuals. One of the controversial practices is that most schools offer "chocolate milk", a corn syrup-laden junk food with a milk base, which is promoted by the corn industry, and given the choice, this is what most children choose. Schools have individual, local (city/county), state, and federal policies, so there is tremendous variation in the rules, and some schools limit or omit providing chocolate milk, but such policies are generally retracted within a year or two due to student & parent complaints.

[Anonymous No.6466188]

>>6465576
>How common is it for parents to pay?
>>6465597
>It's pretty common. Even on TV it's acknowledged to some degree (e.g. the trope of bullies saying "gimme your lunch money!").

Amerifag here. It varies based on the school; in a richer area, it would be uncommon, in a poorer area, free/reduced price is very common. There are many states where a majority of students get free or reduced-price lunches.

I think the answerer talking about lunch money may be an oldfag, or talking about old media, as lunch payments are increasingly cashless. Students typically swipe a card, and if it's not a free lunch, money is deducted from an account that the parent can fund with a check or credit card. With these systems, it's generally not apparent to other students who's getting a free lunch and who's paying. Before computers were common, they'd use lists of names and cash registers and what not.

[Anonymous No.6466269]

>>6466188
did you go to high school recently or do you work at one? when I went (5 years ago?) they had a paper checklist for free lunches and only cash was accepted for paid lunches

also (usually) in the states the portion doesn't change from elementary to high school. so when I was in elementary school I would want to buy food on Wednesdays (special food day) but in high school that meal wouldn't be close to curbing my hunger

also the shitty/inedible food is more a result of the american mass food production industry more than anything. I went to an upper class college and still broke my teeth on burger bones in the cafeteria

[Anonymous No.6466275]

>>6465704
Please don't listen to this guy. Fairly regularly, you'll hear that statement from people who haven't opened a book since elementary school or been abroad much. Jante was never intended to be imposed on Danes or Scandinavians but mankind as a whole.

[Anonymous No.6466280]

>>6465543
Here's the easy way... One you go to a school that let's you out combined with that and an allowance. Save the money. Do cool stuff with the money that you save, never declare that to your parents or parent.

Buy some books, read and learn what in those books.

Get a fuckin' job using the knowledge that you've learned from those books.

Get your own place.

???

Have some fuckin' fun.

Fuck school lunches.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLxhn5Q4-eM&feature=player_detailpage

[Anonymous No.6466293]

>>6465543
I graduated high school 10 years ago
But my school cafeteria was pretty good
It wasn't like you see on tv where you go down a line and the ladies would slop food down on your tray
We had an actual mini food court.
We had the basics like hamburgers and pizza
But we also had chicken tendies which weren't bad
A small deli to get deli sandwiches. I usually got a salami and pepperoni sub
The deli also could make different wraps for you, too
There was a bunch of other shit but I forgot exactly what they had
But yeah, guess that's one of the perks of living in a higher tax bracket

[Anonymous No.6466301]

>>6465552

[Anonymous No.6466309]

>>6466301
this would be funnier if it were less true

[Anonymous No.6466316]

>>6466275
Doesn't mean it doesn't apply to us in particular.

[Anonymous No.6466325]

>>6465548
>>6465561
>>6465679
It's because Sweden is a cuck country full of cuck people with extreme white guilt and SJW disease.

[Anonymous No.6466414]

Nobody ever had school lunches where I live. Everyone would just go to a supermarket.

[Anonymous No.6466428]

When I went to school, elementary through high school everyone had a " lunch number". That number corresponded with a digital funds account that the lunch ladies would use to deduct credits from when you got your lunch. If your parents didn't keep track and add to your account you were fucked if It didn't have enough in It when you got to the end of the line. There was free and reduced price lunch if your family had a low income. Up until highschool It was a line where the main entree was already on a disposable foam or plastic tray, and you then grabbed whichever side order, fruit, and type of milk you wanted. It gave the illusion of having choices but you weren't allowed to leave the line without having grabbed a fruit and a milk. Lots of kids just threw the milk away. There was the day's special, like a gross "hamburger", rectangular pizza, chicken in gravy, etc. If you didn't want the special you could get a pbj or salad any day. In high school they offered multiple lines with "a la carte" options like pastas, chicken nuggets, regular lunch food, random desserts, and what was basically just a bunch of shitty junk food. I packed my own lunch in high school.

[Anonymous No.6466438]

Uh, unless it was a special occasion don't you usually eat what your housekeeper prepared during the day's luncheon? We did, however, take brunch that the school prepared.

[Anonymous No.6466442]

>>6466325
>flag is replaced with cloth picture of principals wife getting fucked by immigrants

[Anonymous No.6466444]

>>6466442
why is sweeden the shittiest nordic country after norway?

[Anonymous No.6466450]

>>6466444
based trips confirms Sweden is trash

[Anonymous No.6466451]

>1. Are they free?
Generally no. My school would offer sandwiches to kids who didn't have money/lunch for whatever reason but if it got to a point where it was all they were eating the school would call home and possibly get child services involved in the kid didn't start getting their own lunches
>2. If you pay, is it a flat price, or does it depend what you eat?
My school offered 2-3 different meals per day all at varying prices, usually like 3.50-5$. There was also a deli. I'm told a lot of schools let you pay in advance or use a sort of credit system but mine didn't for whatever reason
>3. Are you / were you allowed to bring your own food to school
Mine let you bring your own lunches, the only rules were no nut products and no oranges. I don't think anyone in my school was actually allergic to peanuts in such a way but it's a school board decision. Oranges were banned because someone was deathly allergic to them.
There's also a pizzeria a short walk away from the school and if you had signed a form at the start of the year you could have permission to leave the school grounds to go there or home for lunch, or anywhere else really if you wanted to
>4. Why do they all have fucking milk, every fucking photo from around the world, they are all served with disgusting fucking milk? What the fuck?
I don't fucking know

[Anonymous No.6466478]

>>6466451
>No nuts
>No oranges
>In a school lunch
School principals are full dictator tier, holy shit.

[Anonymous No.6466485]

>>6466451
>no nut products and no oranges
holy gay where are you from?

[Anonymous No.6466542]

Yes, kinda (of) resplain (explain). I am 56. Lived in middle NC US, then Western NC US. School lunches can be pretty groody. It's all ways a tug of war between means and beans. Used to most of the "lunch ladies" were ladies that cared for the kids, and made sure no one went hungry. They still are. but little to work with. (GD, see, sometimes I break commandments, several before getting out of bed.They do the best they can on limited resources. Fast forward, now serving breakfast, a frozen reheated waffle, peanut butter, oj and milk. For sime kid's, it might be all they get. all day. Mystery meat, basacettie cassorole, slop soup (all the leftovers were kept and made into soup on Fridays)..Typyical lunch that I was too stupid to like was "salsbury steak"( yeah watched south park) ort just beans, greens and bread. .70 usd. I don't know how anyone can pay 2.00 per kid, multiple. Sometimes ya didin't have to.God bless the "lunch ladies" and "bus drivers" of every generation and race or color.
Pic kinjda related. What do vegan zombies eat? Grains.... God bless "lunch ladies" or people of any kind.Salt of the earth. quit your bitchen. Wht I used to walk... No, It's true, most are very good, one not are weeded out, quick like. And many speack like sailors, not too much around the kids. And still cannot make those light fluffy yeast rolls...

[Anonymous No.6466593]

>>6465543
>1. Are they free?
For some yes. School lunches cost $2.50 but you could get free or reduced lunch if you were poor enough.
>2. If you pay, is it a flat price, or does it depend what you eat?
You could ask for extra food for more $$ or buy snacks like chips cookies or ice cream
>3. Are you / were you allowed to bring your own food to school
>4. Why do they all have fucking milk, every fucking photo from around the world, they are all served with disgusting fucking milk? What the fuck?
I dint know. We had a choice of regular milk, skim milk, chocolate milk, or strawberry milk. Chocolate was the most pupular. Or you could buy a juice ar bottle of water (even though we had water fountains)

Overall I think our cafeteria system was pretty good although some of the food was shit but we had plenty of choices. Graduated 2012 from central Texas for perspective.

[Anonymous No.6466604]

>>6466593
>>3. Are you / were you allowed to bring your own food to school
Yes. In high school they used to allow going off campus for food but they banned that. Alot of kids still snuck out for fast food seeing as we were really close to a bunch fast food places.

[Anonymous No.6466628]

>>6466027
You might as well just drink water.

[Anonymous No.6466704]

>>6466628
Anything above 1% tastes like shit, way too smooth

[Anonymous No.6466709]

>>6465543
1. for poor kids
2. flat price for one meal, but they weren't big, so some kids would buy two or even three
3. yes, I usually did
4. no sugar in milk. Even before Michelle Obama they didn't like how fucking fat everyone is

[Anonymous No.6466719]

>>6465956
Ben?

[Anonymous No.6466902]

>>6466719
Nah homes. We had a Ms. Scully in my day, you know diddy bop? (my little brother, went to Smithtown)

[Anonymous No.6466908]

>>6465552
what happened to your salad bro?

[Anonymous No.6466925]

>>6465543
In my primary school (ages 4-11 in bongland) lunch was £1.40 whatever you got. I can't remember this much without prompting

In my secondary school the price depended on what you got, but iirc they recommended £1.80-£2.00. Proper meals ranged from a sandwich for 80p (later increased to £1), to a filled jacket potato for £1.20, to a meat-and-two-veg type offering for £1.80. There were small desserts and drinks for extra.

You were allowed to bring your own food, but you were supposed to sit separately. In practice everyone mixed, and lots of people ate outside or elsewhere.

We had subsidised milk in primary school every day, but not as part of lunch. I never saw milk in my secondary school.

[Anonymous No.6466928]

>>6466709

>No sugar in milk

You wanna try again?

[Anonymous No.6466933]

>>6466275
>>6466316
holy shit i just looked up Jante. you guys are fucked. those ten points are fuckin creepy.

[Anonymous No.6466934]

In my English school, you had to pay or bring your own if your parents were working.

Those with unemployed parents got a 'dinner ticket', which allowed them to get a meal at lunch time every day, but if you had extra money you could buy more stuff (like, the ticket would get you a sandwich and some shitty off-brand juice, but you could use any extra money you had to buy a flapjack or something).

I used to always get a tuna sandwich because I was poor.

[Anonymous No.6466942]

>>6466934
>poor kids get tuna sandwiches
Let me guess, you weren't allowed ham sandwiches because that'd be haram?

lel, have fun with Sharia law, britcuckistani.

[Anonymous No.6466951]

I used to get 40 dollars on monday for my weekly lunches. i used to give my friend who got free lunches a dollar for his lunch cuz all he wanted was a soda and bag of chips. i would spend the remaining 30 or so on weed. or pills.

[Anonymous No.6466955]

>>6466942
They did have ham, actually.

I doubt they allow it anymore, though.

[Anonymous No.6467000]

>>6466902
I-I have no idea who or where you're talking about

[Anonymous No.6467023]

>>6466902
>>6467000
remember the fightin song?

G Hee! G Hi! G Ho Ho Ho! Fightin Gudas! GO GO GO!

shit those were the days guise.

[Anonymous No.6467051]

>>6465543
In Italy, school lunch generally works like this:
>school and/or municipality subcontracts food services to an outside company
>meals are paid via vouchers, usually monthly or yearly, but some places allow one-time things
>If the school has an adequate hall meals are served there, otherwise they come prepackaged and eaten in classrooms (super-sad, I know)
>No milk

Outside food is absolutely verboten, mostly for safety concerns. This however is relatively recent, 10 years ago it was not uncommon for kids to bring food from home, but the school regulations have become very strict.
Never seen milk, sometimes we give yoghurt. Never seen a school lunch looking anything like the picture however.

Now, this is mostly for primary school, where I work. At high school level things usually are more flexible, most don't even have lunch at school.

[Anonymous No.6467056]

Where I went to school:

1. The kids either brought money or their parents paid the school in advance.
2. I forget.
3. Yes.
4. Milk is healthy, brah. Chocolate milk GOAT.

[Anonymous No.6467198]

>>6466542
Hey, rambling grandpa, are you near Charlotte?

[Anonymous No.6467200]

>>6466709
I still remember when they banned strawberry milk. Twas a sad day. It was probably like 90% high fructose corn syrup, but I still guzzled that shit.

[Anonymous No.6467333]

>>6465543
1. Not unless your parents were poor and requested it. If they did, you got a little card each Monday that would get you 5 lunches.

2. In the early 80s in US it was $0.60. Little Debbies were available for $0.10.

3. Bringing your lunch was allowed but or idiot parents always packed either baloney or pbj sammiches. Eventually everyone gets tired of that and pays for the offered stuff.

4. White or chocolate was the only thing offered. Pop was considered a rare luxury item so no one had it except last day of school picnic. Milk didn't seem weird. At the time salt, fat, carbs and the rest of the shit wasnt considered bad. Parents smoked inside the car with the windows rolled up, fussing about milk was low on the list of concerns.

[Anonymous No.6467347]

>>6465543
Nothing is free you idiot, it's paid for by taxes.
The faggots in Baltimore want free shit and it's not going to happen.
The funny shit about these dumb niggers is they voted for obama who's opening up H1Bs which prevents them from getting jobs. They're so stupid that they don't know they their stupid. Cash payoffs work on both so called parties.

[Anonymous No.6467357]

>>6467347
>>>/pol/

[Anonymous No.6467378]

>>6467357
Why? I won't debate about stuff that I already know, that's a waste of time.
I wont push shit here, but it's no different then say a Ramsay thread or anything regarding some useless celebrity.

[Anonymous No.6467435]

>>6467347
You could have stopped after the first line. All the rest of your bullshit has nothing to do with the thread.

>They're so stupid that they don't know they their stupid.
Kettle, meet nigger.

[Anonymous No.6467576]

>>6465543
I grew up in the Los Angeles school system.
>1. Are they free?
Depends on income. I got free lunches for a while and then later on paid a small amount for them with these pre-bought tickets (about 50 cents for breakfast and $1 for lunch). I only paid for my lunch after my parents started making really good money so even middle class people get them for free it seems.
>2. If you pay, is it a flat price, or does it depend what you eat?
Flat price.
>3. Are you / were you allowed to bring your own food to school
Yes.
>4. Why do they all have fucking milk, every fucking photo from around the world, they are all served with disgusting fucking milk? What the fuck?
People are convinced that milk is crucial for survival and a healthy beverage.
I never really cared for it myself

[Anonymous No.6467707]

>>6466628
Amen. I drink 1%. not so bad. skim (0%) is like white colored water. And can not use in many recipies. The difference is dramatic, calorie wise. even 2%. If I drink "whole milk" now, it tastes like half'n half. Heavy cream is for feasts or baking that specifically calls for it. I have had a few (read major) surgeries. I'd rather not have them cut an artery or vein, split my chest open,stop my heart, and do a graft. Then staple me up. and say walk, now. 1% is just fine with me, thanks. inb4 soy, almond, or others. I do like almond, but not the same so keep still. People have been milking cows, goats and sheep and making cheese for milinea. because of medical, I use 1% for drinking, tea, coffee. Can ya hear it?? It's coming. Refuted by every vegan asswipe that will say "no other species drinks milk as an adult" Granted. You keep telling yourself that while drinking soy or coconut milk

[Anonymous No.6467872]

>>6465545
Did somebody just say "nation"?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trZlvpLihHk

[Anonymous No.6467881]

>>6467872
Are we doing this now? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZujhoHZBsg

[Anonymous No.6468046]

>>6465543
Not sure about other countries but in Canada (BC anyways, not sure if it's the same in other provinces):
- Pay a monthly fee of about $30
- Served lunch every day
- Seconds and thirds are also allowed as long as they still have food
- If your family is poor, they recommend $15-20 to help with the costs
- You can bring your own lunch to school why the fuck would anyone care if you did?
- We get milk or juice

[Anonymous No.6468085]

>>6465558
That feel when you find a full booklet of free lunch tickets and you get to eat for free for a month while some poor kid goes hungry or something, didn't really care.

[Anonymous No.6468103]

>>6465575
when you say dinner you mean midday meal right?

Also these 'school lunch comparisons' are always made by people that want to show how great people in every other country have it because they're soooo much more enlightened than us americans. They must choose school lunches from really nice schools or something. I went to public school and my lunches were never as bad as the ones they show for the US.

In this instance all the lunches are on the same table and the same tray, so i assume they got menus and then made very nice versions of that food, put actual effort into plating it on a styrofoam tray, and got an asian girl to take a pic of it.

I bet one school in finland serves berry crepes once a month, so they made a nice crepe and put some fresh berries on it for the pic. In reality its probably a decent crepe, but has frozen and thawed berries, which don't look nearly as nice.

repeat for every foreign dish.

meanwhile 'fruit cocktail' on the american lunch is just one of those plastic cups instead of drained and plated fruit cocktail with a strategically placed cherry.

[Anonymous No.6468153]

>>6467707
in australia we have a blend of almond and coconut milk that i drank while dating a vegan girl. it was and is delicious, but i prefer full cream milk.
you sound old and kind of dumb/illiterate/american.

[Anonymous No.6468156]

>>6465543
I dare you to find a Spaniard that had a meal that good.

[Anonymous No.6468166]

Denmark here.
We bring our own lunches, but could get milk everyday with our lunch if our parents decided to order it.

pic related, typical danish lunchbox

[Anonymous No.6468177]

I have never heard of a school in the US not allowing kids to bring their lunch?

Why would they do that?

[Anonymous No.6468212]

>>6468177
Generally it's for safety reasons. Celiac disease, peanut allergy, things like that. If the school issues the meals, there can be control in what goes in there. If kids bring lunch from home, you cannot be sure that one kid doesn't give another half his sandwich and the other has an allergic reaction, followed by the parents suing the school. Supervising is already a chore without those worries.
Now, you can argue that this is stupid, and I agree with you, but that's how bureaucracies think.

[Anonymous No.6468223]

>>6468212
I can see the kernel of logic in there, but it seems extreme to me to ban parents from making lunches just so a handful of children should be safer.

I suppose if the school lunches were top tier, it would be a different story, but mine were generally unhealthy and bland. I wonder if parents have ever threatened to sue BECAUSE they couldn't make lunch for their kids. Why can't the needy kids eat lunch somewhere else, or go to a school just for the allergic?

How did all of this work 50 years ago? We somehow functioned as a society without all of these crazy rules in place. Were people just not as likely to sue back then?

The college I went to had a strict "no onion" rule in one of the buildings due to a teacher's allergies. Apparently even a whiff of onion could cause her to lock up.

I'm not sure how she functioned in life given that onions are pretty omnipresent.

[Anonymous No.6468243]

>>6465558
I'm from California, can confirm. I went to a private school until 6th grade and we had an index card with the days of the month on it which our parents paid for and we got the cards punched everytime we got lunch. the lunches were quite horrendous the only thing that was tolerable were the pbj uncrustables and sometimes the pizza if the right lunchlady made it and wasnt overflowing with grease. In 6th grade I went to public school only to find that the lunches were of the same quality but they had a snack bar that served "better" lunches on different days like personal pizzas from pizza hut, or burritoes from taco bell, chick fil a, etc as well as cookies (which were dank) chips and the like. Those lunches were $3.75 vs. $2.50 that the cafeteria made. My dad paid for the school lunch about half the time or whenever I would ask, otherwise he would make me something (which he had no problem with), I would make something (if it was something I really wanted), or use my own money to buy shit from the snack bar. Middle school cafeteria had a menu that varied by day but would cycle the same stuff each month, and we could get as much salad (which looked like it came from a prepackaged bag), croutons and ranch as we wanted. As for drinks, we had a choice between 2%, 1%, fat free or bottled water, i usually got water.

[Anonymous No.6468245]

>>6468166
looks tasty. makes me wish for a table laden with Smorrebrod in the house

[Anonymous No.6468250]

>>6465543

>MURRIKA (california)

>1. No
>2. you pay, its 2 bucks for lunch 1.50 for "breakfast" and "nutrition"
>3 No, you cannot bring your own food
>4 BECAUSE

[Anonymous No.6468252]

>1. Are they free?
Gerfag here; finished school in 2005.For the duration of my secondary school education you could always get lunch for 4.50 EUR in the school canteen. Or maybe that used to be the price in DM, I can't remember. For the poorer families there was an option to have it substituted.


>2. If you pay, is it a flat price, or does it depend what you eat?
Flat price per lunch ticket, lunches varied and were brought in by a third party caterer, a butcher's lunch business.

>3. Are you / were you allowed to bring your own food to school
Yes. When I started secondary school my mother always gave me sandwiches and a big pack of milk to take to school for the morning breaks before lunch time.

>4. Why do they all have fucking milk
What are you, a fag? Milk is awesome!

[Anonymous No.6468267]

>>6466628
I had to drink skim milk as a kid.
1% is a treat.
I use 1% now.
Good parenting.

[Anonymous No.6468268]

>>6468250
>>3 No, you cannot bring your own food
you cannot have freedom anymore in freedom land

[Anonymous No.6468271]

>>6468250
>>3 No, you cannot bring your own food

HAHAHA, looks like you lived in a "liberal" area. I could bring my own lunch.

[Anonymous No.6468284]

>>6468267
my mom used to drink skim milk, it is really like dirty water.
my father always liked whole pasteurized, so that's the one I'm used to

we also have a farm and we have dairy cows there, but that milk is too impossibly strong and thick
only good for making cheese or baking

[Anonymous No.6468321]

>>6468223
>I suppose if the school lunches were top tier, it would be a different story, but mine were generally unhealthy and bland. I wonder if parents have ever threatened to sue BECAUSE they couldn't make lunch for their kids. Why can't the needy kids eat lunch somewhere else, or go to a school just for the allergic?

In fact this actually happens, I've seen it firsthand a couple of times, not to the point of legal action but parent committees and angry letters to the schools and the municipalities.

The problem I think is that school headmasters are becoming increasingly administrative figures, and (at least here) they have several schools to attend to, so a blanket ban on some things is easier to manage than case-by-case situations that could rise. I don't even blame them, I've seen what crazy parents can do with legal threats, when you have 10 schools to manage you cut to the chase.

[Anonymous No.6468402]

>>6465543
I've never liked the idea of having milk with something savory
Do people actually do that?
Do people actually like to do that?

[Anonymous No.6468413]

>>6468250
Murrica (every other state)

1. Free if the parents are poor as shit
2. in grade school and middle school it's 1-2 dollars for lunch and breakfast is free (In highschool breakfast is free and you can get a regular lunch but there are also "à la carte" options (my school had like 7 different lines. 2 regular lunch, 1 pizza, 1 chicken, 1 snack, 1 deli, 1 vegetarian)
3. You can bring whatever the fuck you want
4. Milk tastes good, but a lot of schools have juice too or you can buy a water or juice for like fifty cents to a dollar

[Anonymous No.6468441]

>>6467333
Forgot to add... 60 cents was 1/5 of what minimum wage was, so comparable to $2 today. That's a fair price for mass produced shit food. Think about it, stock quantities are easily predictable, variety and substitutions not an option since they plan menus months in advance, the labor was pooled from a program at the high school called "occupational work experience" program. You could get out of 2/3 day of school by doing lunch room duty, picking up trash on the play ground, washing buses. Etc. Weird though, they run the prisons like this too and everyone smirks about it and are happy to see the convicts get chumped. Damn shame they did it to the kids too. Thanks pres Ronnie Ray-gun

[Anonymous No.6468446]

>>6466942
>Sharia law

[Anonymous No.6468459]

>>6468441

>40+ years old
>posting unintelligible word-salad on a Burmese Child-Porn Imageboard on a Saturday morning
>strange obsession with Reagan

Typical left-wing burnout here, folks.
Truly a cautionary tale.

[Anonymous No.6468481]

>>6468446
don't you brits mean sherry's law? it got its name because a little white girl named sherry was violently gang raped by savage pakis and the cucked uk gov let them go.

[Anonymous No.6468510]

>>6468481
That sounds vaguely familiar, I remember reading something about that and thinking, "what goes around comes around".

[Anonymous No.6468512]

>>6468459
>a Burmese Child-Porn Imageboard

top lol

[Anonymous No.6468574]

>>6465548
socialism plz

[Anonymous No.6469075]

>>6465931
/pol/ always is

[Anonymous No.6471038]

>>6465548
I would send my child into school every day with a home-made sandwich labeled "Unicorn Tendies" to make sure them socialist poorfags knew their place.

[Anonymous No.6471318]

>>6468459
>>6468512

I want reddit to leave.

[Anonymous No.6472241]

>>6465870
>Most people are aware that the whole "milk: good for your bones!" thing is from adverts and hearsay
wrong, most people very much believe it

[Anonymous No.6472886]

Man, the lunches at my high school were the shit. They'd have the basic area that you paid for, the deli section where the wannabe hippies and vegan fucks went, a section with all the cool stuff like delivered Chick Fil-A, Hot Pockets already heated, sport drinks, all that good shit. Then there was a section where you could get pizzas (whole or slices), mozzarella sticks, even some bomb lasagna. But even the basic lunches were perfectly fine, and they were $.40 a day.

[Anonymous No.6473602]

>>6466064
I started saving up my lunch money in senior year. Lost ten pounds and had 200 bucks sitting in a box for a few years before I made myself spend it.

[Anonymous No.6473669]

Nice thread OP

>>6473619

[Anonymous No.6473717]

Wisconsin (USA) here. Elementary school lunches looked kinda like OP's pic for USA, and we also had rocky rococo pizza available about once a week iirc. We were always allowed to bring whatever we want.

In highschool however, we had "open campus lunch", meaning we could actually go wherever we wanted as long as we were back for 5th hour. I very often went to the Subway or Culvers (a burger place), and many other people ate on like the front lawn, or in a hallway or classroom (lots of the teachers allowed it). We did have a lunchroom, but I think only like a fifth of the students regularly ate there.

[Anonymous No.6473738]

>>6465548
Same stuff here in Finland, except that I've never heard of schools prohibiting children from bringing in their own lunches instead.

School lunches here are served in a buffet-type manner which I believe is different from the schools of many countries, especially ones where you have to pay. That is, everyone can put their own plate together in the way they wish (although sometimes the amount of meatballs or similar may be limited per person), with a salad and one to two types of primary dish, as well as some bread, butter (usually crispbread) and water/milk.

The foods served are normally very ordinary. A lot of schools never have stuff like pizza or fries on their menu. They may have a burrito/pizza/other special day once a year though. Occasionally, albeit rarely, dessert is served as well.

Honestly, I think the system works alright as it ensures all children have a chance to eat a quality meal at least once a day. Teachers pay, I think, around 5 euroes or so for the same meal, and the costs per person of making a meal are normally around 1.5-2.5 euros.

[Anonymous No.6473760]

In Greece there aren't any school lunches (I don't know about private schools) and there never were.

[Anonymous No.6473770]

Our 🔯🔯 grand school leaders 🔯🔯 charge $2.95 for four chicken strips, a thing of mashed potatoes or green stuff, and some shitty kiwis or oranges. Don't forget the classic "healthy" zero fat milk aka not even near flavor town. You were just fucked if there was no potatoes or they decided to douse it in the black sludge gravy whatever the fuck that shit was. They also charge $3.50 for the same meal with chain pizza like dominoes. Most kids get the pizza and a chocolate milk. No one drinks the regular milk and strawberry milk in a carton is also trash. In elementary school they called the Jewish lunches that cost more "super lunches". Fuck the United States education system.

[Anonymous No.6473773]

>>6473770
Also niggers eat for free and get free taxi fair (as paid by the county the district is in) regardless of the fact that those smelly niggers live in some ghetto ass hood nigger project in Shit Louis. Fuck Missouri.

[Anonymous No.6473776]

>>6473738
Finnish schools have no need for windows because it's always dark outside =(

[Anonymous No.6473779]

>>6473738
Yep. Some schools manage to get their hands on some really nice ingredients, too. Although most menus tend to be rather uniform, the stuff that gets served varies regionally and between schools. In Oulu, they serve rössypottu, when I was visiting Helsinki when I was younger, they served falafel and rice. Some schools offer tasteless, rubbery potatoes, whereas some rural schools can get proper ones that can be incredibly flavourful. So, the stuff isn't the same for everyone and some meals are a better quality than others.

University students can get a similar meal for 2,70 uro, although the quality tends to be slightly higher. These cheap meals are also partially facilitated by society. I don't think I could personally afford vegetables of quality meat in winter in sufficient amounts on a regular basis if it weren't for this opportunity. A kilo of tomatoes can be up to ~5 euro at worst. I really ought to start pickling stuff in autumn, when veg is still cheaper.

[Anonymous No.6473806]

>>6465543
>that picture

yeah right

[Anonymous No.6473859]

>>6473779
Isn't the rubbery-ness of potatoes caused by boiling them without their skin? That's what I heard Pekka Sauri say in some interview on the radio a while back. He said they didn't have rubbery potatoes in Helsinki schools anymore because they now only served the potatoes with the skins intact.

Also, you are very correct about the variation of school meals by culture inside the country. In that same interview with Pekka Sauri (it was actually a discussion rather than an interview I guess), there was this upperclass Helsinki mother crying to him about how school meals are of "such horrible quality" because, and this is what she used as an example, the "creamy" meat sauce didn't in fact use real cream but a mixture of vegetable fats. In her opinion, schools should serve real butter and stuff of the like, you know, all the provenly unhealthy stuff that is now for some reason considered so very healthy by the southern upper middle class people.

[Anonymous No.6473904]

>>6466293
You know commas are a thing and you don't need to start new line for every single clause right?

>>6465543
Frenchfag here, grew up in a small village. You paid for lunch for the year and it was actually cooked in a kitchen by cooks paid for by the village. It wasn't fancy food, as they still had to feed around 80~90 kids, but it was good nonetheless. Every table would get a tray filled with whatever main and side dish, and you would take what you wanted.

When I moved to America, lunch was pretty bad in comparison due to a combination of shitty ingredients and not enough time being dedicated to eating.

[Anonymous No.6473918]

>>6465648
Did schrödnigger's cat drink it?

[Anonymous No.6473928]

>>6473918
cheeky bugger

[Anonymous No.6473945]

>>6465548
Sweden: The post

[Anonymous No.6473948]

>>6473918
He is right though, most food products aren't particularly healthy or unhealthy. What's determined to be healthy is what fat fucks can shove a gallon of down their gullets in one sitting without dying within 24 hours, that's basically it.

[Anonymous No.6473958]

>>6473773
>being this retarded
>blaming children for the failures of their parents
Uhh, everybody got to school for free you fucking idiot. My dad is a bus driver for my town's school district and the schools are responsible by federal law to pick up kids wherever they may be. Kids that live in more impoverished zones are usually cared for more, because y'know their parents are fucking losers who can't take care of them. So the schools will sometimes help out. It isn't just niggers that eat for free, it's anybody that can't afford a school lunch because they're from a poor household.

[Anonymous No.6473961]

>>6473958
B-but anon, I thought only blacks and latinos could be poor?

[Anonymous No.6473993]

>>6473859
>provenly unhealthy

I'd like a source that isn't speculation from the 60's. Still bullshit to complain over a single ingredient when the chefs are obviously cooking quality meals though

>>6473904
Is the school lunch scene from when Bourdain goes to Lyon accurate for other parts of France? Or is it nice just because it's Lyon?

[Anonymous No.6473995]

>>6473961
>>6473961
Oh no anon! Did you know that even the asians and whites could be poor! Hell even if polynesians live on this part of the planet they could be poor too!

[Anonymous No.6474387]

>>6473993
Again, it was a very small village with a school with 3 teachers, so its probably non-standard.

Other schools had an actual lunch line and trays, but overall quality was still pretty good, especially the lunch right before Christmas break, we'd get all kinds of yummy appetizers and other good stuff.

[Anonymous No.6474492]

When I was in elementary they still had a working kitchen that prepared breakfast and lunch, but you could only eat the breakfast if you were poor. Lunch was paid for monthly and you were given a card to show that you had paid. I switched schools in 5th grade and there was no kitchen. A truck dropped off foil wrapped lunches that had been heated. They were awful. I preferred to take my own lunch. Usually a salami sandwich and a Hansen's soda.

[Anonymous No.6474499]

>>6465654
>senpai
It's sensei you weeb.

[Anonymous No.6474510]

Elementary school:
Had a cafeteria where you could buy food. The main meals were a fixed price every day, but you could also buy fruit, milk, and ice cream individually. I brought a packed lunch and bought milk most days. Sometimes I had the school meal. It wasn't great, but it wasn't awful either.

Intermediate:
Had a cafeteria, but the food was horrible. I always brought my lunch so I don't know if it was fixed price or whatever.

High School:
Had a cafeteria and also vending machines (snacks, sodas, etc.) I brought my lunch.

[Anonymous No.6474513]

Poland here.
Lunches costed 3zł, which is less than a dollar.
Different stuff every day.
Portions were pretty big, a hand-sized cutlet with potatoes, bowl of soup, and glass of compote. Also free refills on soup and compote.

[Anonymous No.6475141]

>>6465543
Finnfag here. Just came to say that picture is full of shit. The only realistic thing is the bread and even that shit is pretty uncommon.

[Anonymous No.6475599]

>>6466269
Not the person you responded to but I graduated in 2008 and we had numbers we punched into a keypad and it came from a prepaid account.

Those numbers were in effect while I was in middle school too so it wasn't anything new.

Washington State for reference.

[Anonymous No.6475648]

>Went to public school in NYC
>LITERALLY everyday was pizza day

[Anonymous No.6475711]

>>6467707
do you have autism? just wondering

[Anonymous No.6475756]

>>6465545
>Japs are lactose intolerant
They aren't, Japanese love things like strawberry milk and Haagen Dazs.

[Anonymous No.6475938]

>>6465543

when a country is smaller than America, they can up the quality of food because it doesn't cost them much. America has a larger population and a large population to deal with so the quality of the food has to be low for the sake of being able to feed kids something. It's way too expensive to be able to feed school food that isn't the same as prison food.

[Anonymous No.6475964]

>>6475756
I must have lactase added with it somehow, because as anon said, their body stops expressing lactase after infancy.

[Anonymous No.6475965]

Western Canada perspective.

Elementary: No food. Your parents made it for you. Or like mine, after grade 4 made me make it myself if I wanted to eat. Ate cup noodle exclusively for 3+ years straight out of laziness.

Highschool: (middleschool doesn't exist here you go straight to high) Cafeteria with overpriced salads for 7 dollars once french fries became too "unhealthy" and were removed from the menu. Gross shit made by the handicap kids for $5-10. Everyone packed a lunch or walked to the $2 pizza place down the road.

BONUS ROUND: Private Highschool: After I switched to a private academy for my last two years we had hot meals 3 times a day made by a dedicated lunch staff. (I volunteered once a week and they gave me extra on special days like authentic curry or pizza day)

[Anonymous No.6475995]

>>6465543
America (Flyover State)
1. No, parents had to put money into kid's lunch accounts. If there was no money in your account then you got a cheese sandwich in elementary and no food in middle school and up (I'm guessing that's because they assume at that point you should be able to pay for the meals yourself).
School lunches were only free if your family was poor and even then your parents had to fill out a bunch of paperwork to basically prove how poor they were. Had one friend who had to eat cheese sandwiches throughout elementary because their parents refused to fill out the paperwork.

2. It's a flat price for the basic school lunch. It could cost more beyond elementary if you bought snacks/better food from the a la carte.

3. You could bring your own food, but sharing it with others was against the rules. Also we were not allowed to trade food.

4. Milk is cheap along with the belief that it's a nutritional drink. Because clearly America is all about providing healthy/delicious lunches to kids. /sarcasm

[Anonymous No.6476007]

>>6475965
>(middleschool doesn't exist here you go straight to high)
Strictly speaking, we have a few middle schools, but I don't think they're very common. Some schools only go up to grade 6, though, so I guess I just think of the school I had gone to after that as a middle school.

[Anonymous No.6476022]

>>6475965
loli haet hamburger?

[Anonymous No.6476175]

>Upstate NY

My school added a breakfast option while I was there. I didn't use it much, all I remember are bagels and shitty breakfast pizza. Eggs, cheese and ham on a crust. At lunch they served a special of the day, typical fare for U.S. lunches. There was also a deli bar option for a semi-custom sandwich, fries and chocolate or white milk box. That's what I got almost every day. Shredded turkey sandwich dipped in ketchup. There was a snack bar where you could purchase chips, ice cream, cookies and drinks. Everything was paid including the lunches, you could even buy individual items like extra fries, etc. I don't remember price but it was pretty cheap, a dollar or less for each item. Poor kids could get free lunch but no snacks. Anyone could bring a bagged lunch. Kids 16 or older could leave school for lunch if they had their parents' permission.

[Anonymous No.6477479]

Live in Washington, typical school lunch. Milk is served bc of tax purposes here

[Anonymous No.6477536]

>>6477479
I take it the creamy goo in the upper right corner is dressing for the salad and not all organic protein ejaculate.

[Anonymous No.6477625]

>>6475599
Texas reporting in. Same thing. Use your student ID number for lunch accounts, punching the number into a keypad at the end of the line, and parents could add money in over credit card payment or you could bring a check or cash to school.

[Anonymous No.6477803]

>>6465543
The typical system in America is that the lunches are pretty cheap, like $2 for lower level students and like $2.75 for upper level students, and the parents/student deposit money into a school account to pay for them. Also, I remember seeing an article somewhere where people from those countries were like "lmao thats not what we eat". Spain was like "lmao, shrimps in school? ok" and a lot wondered why there was so much fucking food on the italian plate. You can apply for free lunches or cheap (like 50c) lunches if you're low income. Milk is because strong bones, gains, etc. At my high school and presumably many others students, sometimes only upperclassmen, can leave campus at lunch to eat at home or buy food or whatever. Typical result: rich brats eat chik fil a for lunch every day, wonder why they get fat.

>>6465552
This is a MUCH more realistic representation of an American school lunch. Very typical.

>>6465650
It's high in protein. I drink quite a bit of milk because I lift.

[Anonymous No.6477809]

>>6466325
>sweden bans their own flag
>soon, sweden goes to war with itself for crimes against itself
>sweden collapses into a singularity, forming a black hole
>earth is destroyed

[Anonymous No.6477834]

>>6465543
Wisconsin
1)Nope it cost money. Unless you're poor as fuck and you get it for free or if you're poor but not poor enough, you'll get it at a reduced rate
2) its a flat rate. Back when I was still going, it was like $2.50 a meal for high schoolers
3)Yes you can bring in your own food
4)cause milk is subsidized heavily here and its "healthy" enough. even the chocolate milk is considered healthy.

[Anonymous No.6478404]

>>6477536
Its actually ranch for the pizza, there was Italian dressing on the salad

[Anonymous No.6478417]

>>6465576
Mexican parents never pay here in southern california

[Anonymous No.6478853]

>>6466027
But cream tastes so good.

[Anonymous No.6478866]

>>6465645
>Just because they can, doesn't mean they should!
Actually that's the opposite. It is technically possible to become more lactose tolerant by eating dairy. When I was a kid I couldn't eat a slice of cheese without clearing out my house, but as an adult I drink milk all the time.

If I'd avoided dairy my whole life I'd still be lactose intolerant.

[Anonymous No.6478879]

>>6478866
>If I'd avoided dairy my whole life I'd still be lactose intolerant.

how do you know this

i was lactose intolerant as a kid and my parents were vegan so there was no reason to ever have dairy around and in my late teens i started eating dairy just fine

[Anonymous No.6479070]

>>6465543
Milk is fairly nutrient-dense, and it's perfect for growing children insofar as it contains a variety of nutritional qualities that lend its proteins to being used effectively, e.g. carbs to prevent catabolism, and a highly insulinogenic protein profile.

[Anonymous No.6479087]

Elementary: God awful food you wouldn't even feed POWs served alongside bagged milk.
Middleschool: Decent meals, though you needed to pay for things.
Highschool: Very decent food available, though after a year or two they cut back on some costs, and the pizza took a few too many for the team. It went from fantastic to meh.