I’ve heard that food served in American schools is bad because of the fact that it’s either fast food corporations taking the spotlight or outsourcing the labor to third party contractors (the same ones who make food for inmates across prisons) but fed towards kids.

Yep, that’s actually the case for them. As comments like: “the food kids are fed at school is exactly prison chow” are said. The company under contract makes the same “slop” inmates eat then ship that at schools for kids (seriously, what are they feeding them?)

In comparison:

  • How good is cafeteria food at school in your country?
  • Is the food quality actually good as if it’s “home made”?
  • TabbsTheBat (they/them)@pawb.socialEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Haven’t had US school food, so I can’t make a direct comparison, but given I heard ketchup counts as a vegetable, and the weird gloopy slime milk I’ve seen online, I imagine it’s a lot better here

    For the free school lunch, usually we’d have random rotation of a starch (mashed potatoes, buckwheat, or rice usually), a salad (beetroot, bean, coleslaw, I don’t remember the others on rotation), meat (pork patties, patties stuffed with egg, chicken cutlet, fish patties), a soup (bean, cabbage, beetroot and some others), and a drink (usually tea, juice or kompot). For the paid lunch there were more varieties, and extra goodies like pastries

    And for the quality, I wouldn’t say it was quite like home cooked. I mean it was all cooked fresh and all, but it used a lot of long shelf life vegetables like dried beans and potatoes, and sometimes it definitely had an aftertaste of basement lol. Though at least most of the stuff was fresh. There used to be a truck unloading produce whenever I was going into the school since I got there early

    Overall I’d definitely say the school food was at least palatable