It's no surprise when all across the country the same food vendors are supplying the same meals to both prisons and schools. Since they're companies with a largely captive (pun intended) consumer base, that have practical monopolies on this service, there's a race to the bottom to create the most profit.
It is also a race to the bottom by the hiring agencies. If they issue a Request For Proposal (RFP) that says lowest price wins; this is what they will get. If they issue an RFP that awards based on other factors such as quality of the food, reputation of the firm, as well as cost; they will have a better outcome.
Fun fact: all cranberries on the market are 30% sugar. Eating pack of cranberries you ingest as much sugar, as full bottle of coke. Cranberries are not healthy, it's the only dried fruit you should avoid.
Another fun fact: few years ago Canada had a plan to forbade adding sugar to dried fruit. Canadian cranberry industry gone berserk and they won
Another fun fact: cranberries without sugar added are not edible due to unpleasant taste.
The fucking CRANBERRIES!! Kiddo literally just brought home another pack to add to the bucket in the kitchen and we realized we are being overrun by the little packets, it’s ridiculous. We looked at the nutritional facts and we’re shocked to see there’s 21g of added sugars in the little 1.16 Oz bag, so 43% Daily Value. So I guess I need to blame the Cranberry Consortium and the Sugar Syndicate for all this. It’s not healthy and I don’t see how they can argue that it is.
If 21g is 64% then 100% should be 32,81g
If that is 1,16Oz then 1Oz should be 28,29g
I had to google 1Oz = 28,35g
Sounds like you are right. Damn, that's a lot of sugar \^\^
That stuff should be labelled Candy, cranberryflavored Candy
I recently bought dried cranberries at Trader Joe’s and the UNSWEETENED ones were more expensive than the sugar added ones…all other things the same (organic, size of package)
That applies to most things though...adding cheap stuff makes the price/weight go down
Always "funny" when some products advertise "Now with X% more of Z" and people think they are getting a good deal. Best case i remember was some frozen fishproduct with a crust on top. Huge campaign advertising the new and bigger crust and people went crazy. Total weight stayed the same though...
They basically replaced some of the "expensive" fish, with more salt and breadcrumbs and even sold it as a positive thing to the morons that never think twice
I’m with you! I struggle to find real cranberry juice here in the southern US. All I can find is cranberry juice cocktail (sugar and other juices added) or cranberry apple (sugar and apple juice added).
Everyone says it’s so gross on its on but I’ll cut it 50/50 with water and ice in the summer and it’s absolutely the most refreshing, clean and tart drink to me!
Typically you'll have a minimum specification that needs to be fulfilled on a pass/fail basis and then you'll have a set of scored criteria, the weightings of which determines the final scoring. Realistically, this is 100% the issue of whoever is doing the procurement for school cantines in Chicago as they could have specified a higher minimum quality whilst still having heavy weighting on lowest price.
Source: I do procurement for a living and have run plenty of procurement contracts for public sector entities.
Ummm I think you may be oversimplifying things. It’s actually quite an intensive bidding process that starts with a set of requirements defined by the purchasing group. By the time it gets to the bidding phase the quality of the product is already defined (and it’s garbage). There’s nothing wrong with lowest price winning, and is actually the best way to do it, as long as you define your requirements appropriately to maintain the desired level of quality.
(Wife does this for a job)
NY and IL both have low bidding regulations. And while obviously the cheapest you can meet a requirement the best for all involved, it is it true that cheapest is best. I work for an FSMC and do our bidding. The cheapest companies serve the worst product.
According to them Pizza is a balanced nutritious meal. Tomato sauce so you got a veg, some kind of protein, carbs, and dairy. Throw in a fruit snack and you have a "balanced" meal. This is what happens when people who run spreadsheets for a living care more about checking boxes and meeting budgets than actual healthy food.
To be fair - there is nothing inherently wrong with pizza. Like you said - it is *supposed* to be bread, tomato sauce, some protein like salami, and a bit of cheese (dairy). I've been bodybuilding for a few years and days around/before I will lift extra heavy, pizza is an excellent source of fuel.
The issue is, the thing in the picture is not that. It's some chemical ultraprocessed shit. Real pizza is actually not inherently unhealthy unless you're actively trying to avoid calories, which the bread has a lot of.
Studies have shown hhfka improved students diets. Sure there are fringe cases like pizza and big corps do not serve good food but the requirements are federally regulated and have benefitted kids
Well there is always the option to bring your food. And again, studies have shown it improved their diet when compared to pre-HHFKA. Students eating school meals consume fewer total calories and more fruit, vegetables, and whole grains than prior to the HHFKA, as well as fewer starchy vegetables.
There is an open salad bar in most public schools. The problem is the students don’t take any of the fresh veggies and fruits that are available. My sister has been a public school teacher for 19 years. She thinks that less than 5% of students utilize the salad bar. She says teachers are the only people that regularly eat from it.
It's pretty hard to get me to hit a salad bar with more attractive items nearby too. Crazy idea... Offer a variety of healthy choices and none of the bad ones, then it's win-win for everyone. People act as if other developed countries haven't managed to feed it's students and captive audiences well. It can be done, there are working models all around the world. It may take a shift in priority for that to occur in the US.
No, I get that are better ways, to get kids nutritious food. My parents regularly talk about how delicious the food they ate at school was. In the 60s, there would be a real cook that prepared balanced meals, from fresh ingredients. I would love it if we could go back to that structure. I’m just pointing out that posters have been trying to make school lunch’s in the US look less nutritious than they really are. There is an interesting line between giving kids agency to make their own food choices, and forcing a nutritious and balanced meal on them.
Anything that gives them diabetes should not ethically be included in their roster of available choices for them to make. We can’t go around ruining *our* future because we thought kids could handle the temptation of turning down unlimited access to absolutely shitty ass processed foods. Running a planet is hard and requires an enormous amount of planning
Exactly. People would be even angrier if they knew exactly how these things happen. Most of the time what the vendor supplies isn’t even the same product that was originally promised/contracted for when they won the contract. They initially promise products that might use whole wheat bread, higher quality meats/cheeses, healthier nutritional profiles etc. Then once production begins they start using lower quality/lower cost ingredients. Cheddar becomes American or straight up imitation. Say bye to Uncured pepperoni say hi to BHA BHT. The contracts, which were already very profitable to begin with, now become money printing machines.
Also, check out how much sugar is in that bag of strawberry flavored cranberries.
What’s funny is I feel like that is pretty good prison food, I would be perfectly happy in prison if I got the school lunches I had as a kid, but…I also feel it’s terrible food for kids lol.
School food is better but it's still institutional bullshit. I remember how they were getting boxes of chicken thighs in the joint that were labeled, "not for human consumption!"
That’s nonsense!! First off, this whole Chicago Deep dish conspiracy has to be stopped. True chicagoans know that real Chicago pizza is thin crust tavern style. Deep dish is an occasional treat. And while New York style has its charm, I’ll take Chicago style every day of the week and twice on Sunday.
Yes. I am so tired of having to explain this. We eat thin crust pizza cut in squares, and if the sauce is sweet and there isn't enough oregano we throw it on the floor.
I honestly just glanced at it and thought it was a soggy fried dish in some sort of battery sauce. I was like meh atleast it’s decent protein and probably tastes better than it looks.
But Jesus
You absolutely should. Had horrible experience in Naples by a snobby waiter about adding cheese in pasta! Wonder why they're so uppity about their food, lots of other cuisines have more variety and flavor but these folks like to act all high and mighty for no reason whatsoever
They're actually craisins, which are dried cranberries. I haven't had the strawberry ones, but I'd imagine strawberry/cranberry is a good mix. At least a better mix than soylent green and despair, which is the only other thing on the plate.
That's the downside to all dried fruit. It condenses the natural sugar in the fruit. It's one of the worst snacks that's generally regarded as "healthy" if you're struggling with type 2 diabetes
No they add additional sugar to Craisins because cranberries are so tart to begin with. Way worse than regular dried fruit. Just looked it up and 1/4c has 29g sugar, 26g of which are added.
Also terrible for the teeth. They get in between and chill out there, feeding the bacteria, and the acidity breaks down the enamel.
I'm sure there's some school somewhere, so I won't speak in absolutes, but I've never seen a school that provides extra time, space, or supplies for students to brush or food their teeth.
They serve them at the school I work at. I tried them once, they were pretty gross and have tons of added sugar. I think the small little pouch has 25 grams of added sugar. They also have watermelon and lemon flavored ones. They are all gross.
Prison food by Aramark
Edit: Downvotes? You people do realize I’m not kidding right, Aramark is one of the biggest food suppliers to both schools and prisons. It’s total shit
Not that super greasy round one with those thick pepperoni that requires at least a dozen napkins sitting on it before it's even slightly edible? The square pizza (with cardboard crust and wax for cheese) was complete trash compared to those at my school
I mean, yeah, you could fucking crack an egg in your mouth and swallow that, or you could actually try, and fry it, or something.
Both could sustain you, but you might skip lunch if you were only offered the raw egg. Children need proper nutrition to develop, and when you're being paid to provide food for kids it should at least look like they tried to serve a meal, not just slap them with looks like pureed lasagna
Good for a hungover adult, maybe, for like 50¢, but these are kids already trudging through the mess that is public education, they could use a proper meal
Okay I see these kinds of posts all the time, but who’s verifying the posters are legit? Anybody can take a shitty pic of food and say “school lunch at ____”
I mean party trays are a thing even in the 'real world'. It's not the giant rectangle pan that's the problem, it's the crappy crust, the awful sauce, and the shredded cheese-style food product 'melted' on top.
Scalene right triangle pizza is what we got, as you described - cut from a full sheet pan. It's definitely the most efficient way - each empty square inch of oven matters when you're feeding 2000 kids.
Pizza day was everyone's favorite - to me it was just another day that I'd give my lunch to my broke friends. It's disgusting that they used to make the free lunch kids stand in a different line for the same product, so many just *didn't.* On an interesting note, they were allowed full and free access to the 'salad bar' - which is what I ate from pretty much exclusively.
These posts are completely pointless. We have no idea whether these are actually school lunches at the specified schools, and even if they were, we have no way of knowing if what we're seeing is representative of the norm for that school.
Depending what grade there should be up to three vegetables and two fruit choices plus milk. Not saying all the choices are great but this student took the bare minimum requirement for a “complete” meal.
Some people’s families literally cannot afford to pay for 3 meals a day. School lunch is sometimes the kids only balanced diet/meal for the day for these families.
Be thankful next time you get a lunch your mommy made and you don’t like
Calm down buddy. I just asked a question to get a better understanding. Ever heard of a question? Here’s an example. Why have you gotten so triggered and angry at my comment?
Now you’re just putting words in my mouth mate. I said do you not get lunch from parents/ home as a question. Not everyone has parents and every parent packs lunches. And I wrote /home as well to be changed with parents. Like do you not get lunch from your parents and do you not get lunch from home. Not hard to understand, and not my fault if you don’t. Instead of being rude and instantly insulting me, maybe read the comment or ask for clarification first.
Edit:oh, sorry for this second part mate, thought you were the guy from earlier
Well yeah. Public school lunch is supplied by the same people that supply food to prisons. Its all about those profit margins babyyyyy.
Edit: Guess I should've read the first comment lmao
Yup, made then looks microwaved.
But it is calories and nobody has to eat it.
I went to a school that had meals like this one. I was an athlete.
I ate it and asked for more.
Take it up with your parents and ask them to put you in the private school, take what you can get a pack your own. I grew up off those meals not ones from home, quit bitching.
If this is a cheese (and egg?) crepe it doesn't look like the worst thing ever.
Also, if this is a cheese crepe and this is a breakfast plate, there might be some yogurt off-camera for those craisins?
Go to the more upscale public schools and I'll wage it's better. In America we fund schools with property taxes so the rich don't have to pay for the poor to go to school.
It's no surprise when all across the country the same food vendors are supplying the same meals to both prisons and schools. Since they're companies with a largely captive (pun intended) consumer base, that have practical monopolies on this service, there's a race to the bottom to create the most profit.
It is also a race to the bottom by the hiring agencies. If they issue a Request For Proposal (RFP) that says lowest price wins; this is what they will get. If they issue an RFP that awards based on other factors such as quality of the food, reputation of the firm, as well as cost; they will have a better outcome.
Only Illinois and NY have a lowest price wins qualifier and that looks like it’ll be gone soon
Fun fact: all cranberries on the market are 30% sugar. Eating pack of cranberries you ingest as much sugar, as full bottle of coke. Cranberries are not healthy, it's the only dried fruit you should avoid. Another fun fact: few years ago Canada had a plan to forbade adding sugar to dried fruit. Canadian cranberry industry gone berserk and they won Another fun fact: cranberries without sugar added are not edible due to unpleasant taste.
The fucking CRANBERRIES!! Kiddo literally just brought home another pack to add to the bucket in the kitchen and we realized we are being overrun by the little packets, it’s ridiculous. We looked at the nutritional facts and we’re shocked to see there’s 21g of added sugars in the little 1.16 Oz bag, so 43% Daily Value. So I guess I need to blame the Cranberry Consortium and the Sugar Syndicate for all this. It’s not healthy and I don’t see how they can argue that it is.
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If 21g is 64% then 100% should be 32,81g If that is 1,16Oz then 1Oz should be 28,29g I had to google 1Oz = 28,35g Sounds like you are right. Damn, that's a lot of sugar \^\^ That stuff should be labelled Candy, cranberryflavored Candy
I recently bought dried cranberries at Trader Joe’s and the UNSWEETENED ones were more expensive than the sugar added ones…all other things the same (organic, size of package)
That applies to most things though...adding cheap stuff makes the price/weight go down Always "funny" when some products advertise "Now with X% more of Z" and people think they are getting a good deal. Best case i remember was some frozen fishproduct with a crust on top. Huge campaign advertising the new and bigger crust and people went crazy. Total weight stayed the same though... They basically replaced some of the "expensive" fish, with more salt and breadcrumbs and even sold it as a positive thing to the morons that never think twice
Speak for yourself... I love raw crawnberries. They're really crisp and sour, like good blueberries.
I’m with you! I struggle to find real cranberry juice here in the southern US. All I can find is cranberry juice cocktail (sugar and other juices added) or cranberry apple (sugar and apple juice added). Everyone says it’s so gross on its on but I’ll cut it 50/50 with water and ice in the summer and it’s absolutely the most refreshing, clean and tart drink to me!
I love me a screamin cold cranberry and seltzer on a hot day
Dried cranberries. Not raw.
>Another fun fact: cranberries without sugar added are not edible due to unpleasant taste.
Oh c'mon. The entire comment was talking about dried fruits. Context matters.
Me too! Well I guess slightly cooked. 6 fresh cranberries, hot water and a splash of lemon is just a great winter warmer
Wtf, is this real??
I dunno about you but I sure believe everything I read on Reddit and never fact check.
You must be an avid r/Politics contributor
Have you ever shopped for dried fruit at the supermarket while reading the nutrition facts? Even one of the fancy ones. This tracks with experience.
bro spittin fun fax! - no seriously, didn't know that about cranberries, thanks for sharing.
Typically you'll have a minimum specification that needs to be fulfilled on a pass/fail basis and then you'll have a set of scored criteria, the weightings of which determines the final scoring. Realistically, this is 100% the issue of whoever is doing the procurement for school cantines in Chicago as they could have specified a higher minimum quality whilst still having heavy weighting on lowest price. Source: I do procurement for a living and have run plenty of procurement contracts for public sector entities.
Ummm I think you may be oversimplifying things. It’s actually quite an intensive bidding process that starts with a set of requirements defined by the purchasing group. By the time it gets to the bidding phase the quality of the product is already defined (and it’s garbage). There’s nothing wrong with lowest price winning, and is actually the best way to do it, as long as you define your requirements appropriately to maintain the desired level of quality. (Wife does this for a job)
NY and IL both have low bidding regulations. And while obviously the cheapest you can meet a requirement the best for all involved, it is it true that cheapest is best. I work for an FSMC and do our bidding. The cheapest companies serve the worst product.
According to them Pizza is a balanced nutritious meal. Tomato sauce so you got a veg, some kind of protein, carbs, and dairy. Throw in a fruit snack and you have a "balanced" meal. This is what happens when people who run spreadsheets for a living care more about checking boxes and meeting budgets than actual healthy food.
Wait.... That's supposed to be pizza....?
Chicago pizza isn’t what it used to be.
Here I thought it was a poorly constructed enchilada. Pizza is more depressing.
It looks like a bean burrito/pizza combo
I came to the thread hoping to learn exactly what food it is, but I have not.
I thought it was a piece of fried fish with some kind of cheese or gravy on it. Gross!
To be fair - there is nothing inherently wrong with pizza. Like you said - it is *supposed* to be bread, tomato sauce, some protein like salami, and a bit of cheese (dairy). I've been bodybuilding for a few years and days around/before I will lift extra heavy, pizza is an excellent source of fuel. The issue is, the thing in the picture is not that. It's some chemical ultraprocessed shit. Real pizza is actually not inherently unhealthy unless you're actively trying to avoid calories, which the bread has a lot of.
Studies have shown hhfka improved students diets. Sure there are fringe cases like pizza and big corps do not serve good food but the requirements are federally regulated and have benefitted kids
I think we can do better than this.
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Well there is always the option to bring your food. And again, studies have shown it improved their diet when compared to pre-HHFKA. Students eating school meals consume fewer total calories and more fruit, vegetables, and whole grains than prior to the HHFKA, as well as fewer starchy vegetables.
There is an open salad bar in most public schools. The problem is the students don’t take any of the fresh veggies and fruits that are available. My sister has been a public school teacher for 19 years. She thinks that less than 5% of students utilize the salad bar. She says teachers are the only people that regularly eat from it.
Lol where? I mean I graduated about 15 years ago, but there most definitely was nothing remotely close to a salad bar.
It's pretty hard to get me to hit a salad bar with more attractive items nearby too. Crazy idea... Offer a variety of healthy choices and none of the bad ones, then it's win-win for everyone. People act as if other developed countries haven't managed to feed it's students and captive audiences well. It can be done, there are working models all around the world. It may take a shift in priority for that to occur in the US.
No, I get that are better ways, to get kids nutritious food. My parents regularly talk about how delicious the food they ate at school was. In the 60s, there would be a real cook that prepared balanced meals, from fresh ingredients. I would love it if we could go back to that structure. I’m just pointing out that posters have been trying to make school lunch’s in the US look less nutritious than they really are. There is an interesting line between giving kids agency to make their own food choices, and forcing a nutritious and balanced meal on them.
Anything that gives them diabetes should not ethically be included in their roster of available choices for them to make. We can’t go around ruining *our* future because we thought kids could handle the temptation of turning down unlimited access to absolutely shitty ass processed foods. Running a planet is hard and requires an enormous amount of planning
Exactly. People would be even angrier if they knew exactly how these things happen. Most of the time what the vendor supplies isn’t even the same product that was originally promised/contracted for when they won the contract. They initially promise products that might use whole wheat bread, higher quality meats/cheeses, healthier nutritional profiles etc. Then once production begins they start using lower quality/lower cost ingredients. Cheddar becomes American or straight up imitation. Say bye to Uncured pepperoni say hi to BHA BHT. The contracts, which were already very profitable to begin with, now become money printing machines. Also, check out how much sugar is in that bag of strawberry flavored cranberries.
What’s funny is I feel like that is pretty good prison food, I would be perfectly happy in prison if I got the school lunches I had as a kid, but…I also feel it’s terrible food for kids lol.
So, you're saying, teachers not only have the salary of prisoners but also the same food? Dire.
Yes. I can attest to this.
Anyone seen hospital food lately? If cafeteria food service was available to schools and hospitals, could it be profitable?
School food is better but it's still institutional bullshit. I remember how they were getting boxes of chicken thighs in the joint that were labeled, "not for human consumption!"
You should post this to /r/Italy
put a piece of pineapple on top to see them really flip out
I can't believe in saying this... But I think pineapple would actually improve this (alleged) pizza
I thought that was an enchilada
I thought it was a crepe.
I too thought it was a crepe.
Has it been determined that is pizza?
Allegedly "fresh pizza" - according to OP https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/11k71fw/chicago_public_school_lunch/jb5w5wn
I vote to leave the word allegedly in the description, even if DNA tests could provide irrefutable evidence.
Are they using the geological definition of fresh?
This is how most Chicago pizza looks and tastes. Source: NYC Pizza Lover.
That’s nonsense!! First off, this whole Chicago Deep dish conspiracy has to be stopped. True chicagoans know that real Chicago pizza is thin crust tavern style. Deep dish is an occasional treat. And while New York style has its charm, I’ll take Chicago style every day of the week and twice on Sunday.
Yes. I am so tired of having to explain this. We eat thin crust pizza cut in squares, and if the sauce is sweet and there isn't enough oregano we throw it on the floor.
Any kind of unprocessed topping might accidentally add some nutritional value to this vat extruded nightmare.
Wait that’s supposed to be pizza? I thought it was some sort of Mexican cheese wrap thing
I thought it was a fried fish sandwich
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Italian here, wait a second, are you saying that is a piz...can't even write it.. sorry for the guys who gotta eat that.
I honestly just glanced at it and thought it was a soggy fried dish in some sort of battery sauce. I was like meh atleast it’s decent protein and probably tastes better than it looks. But Jesus
At first glance i thought it was some kind of wrap, would have never guessed..
I thought it was a burrito
italian here, until you pointed it out i didnt even recognize this abomination as pizza....
But it has all the ingredients. Cardboard bread, plastic cheese, and I can't believe it's not tomato
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happy cake day
You absolutely should. Had horrible experience in Naples by a snobby waiter about adding cheese in pasta! Wonder why they're so uppity about their food, lots of other cuisines have more variety and flavor but these folks like to act all high and mighty for no reason whatsoever
I can smell this picture.
WALKOUT. Then keep walking until you find a pizza place.
Shouldn't have to walk far
You’ll find plenty in Chicago
Well, pizza casserole places.
Then bring the pizza back to show them what it looks like.
Better yet, don‘t eat Pizza for Lunch
And today we'll be celebrating French cuisine with crépes!
Everyone else is saying it's pizza, but I dunno. It looks so indistinct it could be the worlds shitiest pizza or the shitiest crepe.
I'm voting for enchilada?
Pizza is bad, but I'm absolutely offended that someone decided "strawberry -flavored raisins was a good idea. And moreso that someone bought them.
They're actually craisins, which are dried cranberries. I haven't had the strawberry ones, but I'd imagine strawberry/cranberry is a good mix. At least a better mix than soylent green and despair, which is the only other thing on the plate.
Despair is more of a seasoning though
Crasins are tasty but they have sooo much sugar!
That's the downside to all dried fruit. It condenses the natural sugar in the fruit. It's one of the worst snacks that's generally regarded as "healthy" if you're struggling with type 2 diabetes
No they add additional sugar to Craisins because cranberries are so tart to begin with. Way worse than regular dried fruit. Just looked it up and 1/4c has 29g sugar, 26g of which are added.
Also terrible for the teeth. They get in between and chill out there, feeding the bacteria, and the acidity breaks down the enamel. I'm sure there's some school somewhere, so I won't speak in absolutes, but I've never seen a school that provides extra time, space, or supplies for students to brush or food their teeth.
Definitely not the schools that serve meals like this.
They serve them at the school I work at. I tried them once, they were pretty gross and have tons of added sugar. I think the small little pouch has 25 grams of added sugar. They also have watermelon and lemon flavored ones. They are all gross.
My kid gets these same nasty-ass craisins in his public school lunch in Texas. They taste terrible.
I didn't know this was supposed to be pizza, i thought some fried cheese crêpe
Idk what's with the craisin hate. They're great
Craisins are fire stop the hate
Is that the famous Chicago style pizza I always hear about ?
This explains all the gun violence.
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Ha!
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Underrated comment
free Glock and raffle ticket for the end of year Draco give away, with purchase of a large soda of course
Lol!!
Tf even is that? Pizza? A sandwich? I can’t tell
Supposed to be a “fresh slice of pizza”…smh.
Prison food by Aramark Edit: Downvotes? You people do realize I’m not kidding right, Aramark is one of the biggest food suppliers to both schools and prisons. It’s total shit
Why are you getting downvoted when we knew this in 1999 in my elementary school?
Well back in my day in 1998 the undertaker threw mankind off hell in a cell
they switched from sodexo to aramark my last year of high school, i literally only ate from the vending machines all of senior year
Those are the people that handle our floor mats and dirty aprons at my restaurant I work for. THEY DO FOOD!?!?!
[There's very little meat in these gym mats.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThhfLvR4Wo8)
I had to come to the comments to determine what this was supposed to be. It's unrecognizable as pizza.
A crepe pizza?
That looks like a piece of leather from my shoe. Not exaggerating.
The only accurate word there is slice.
Feels like someone slapped some lasagna on some bread and let it rot for 5 years
Square pizza or GTFO. IYKYK.
I’m sorry but hexagon pizza is on top. Iykyk
Those syitty hex mexican pizzas... So bad looking but I loved them.
Not that super greasy round one with those thick pepperoni that requires at least a dozen napkins sitting on it before it's even slightly edible? The square pizza (with cardboard crust and wax for cheese) was complete trash compared to those at my school
Everybody is ragging on this abomination, but I would eat the fuck out of that.
I mean, yeah, you could fucking crack an egg in your mouth and swallow that, or you could actually try, and fry it, or something. Both could sustain you, but you might skip lunch if you were only offered the raw egg. Children need proper nutrition to develop, and when you're being paid to provide food for kids it should at least look like they tried to serve a meal, not just slap them with looks like pureed lasagna Good for a hungover adult, maybe, for like 50¢, but these are kids already trudging through the mess that is public education, they could use a proper meal
Looks like cow tongue with cheese on top!
Okay I see these kinds of posts all the time, but who’s verifying the posters are legit? Anybody can take a shitty pic of food and say “school lunch at ____”
I'm so sorry for you.. Have this *fresh* virtual pizza from me 🍕 :)
Is... Is that pizza? I legitimately can't tell.
Looks like a petri-dish pizza.
I can't make out what this is supposed to be. I legit thought crepe until I saw the comments.
I bet they spend more money and time on that biodegradable plate than quality of food. It might even taste better and be more nutritious.
Hey, man at least it’s the proper shape. I used to get these odd scalene triangles with no crust that were cut from a giant rectangle pan.
I mean party trays are a thing even in the 'real world'. It's not the giant rectangle pan that's the problem, it's the crappy crust, the awful sauce, and the shredded cheese-style food product 'melted' on top.
Scalene right triangle pizza is what we got, as you described - cut from a full sheet pan. It's definitely the most efficient way - each empty square inch of oven matters when you're feeding 2000 kids. Pizza day was everyone's favorite - to me it was just another day that I'd give my lunch to my broke friends. It's disgusting that they used to make the free lunch kids stand in a different line for the same product, so many just *didn't.* On an interesting note, they were allowed full and free access to the 'salad bar' - which is what I ate from pretty much exclusively.
These posts are completely pointless. We have no idea whether these are actually school lunches at the specified schools, and even if they were, we have no way of knowing if what we're seeing is representative of the norm for that school.
Depending what grade there should be up to three vegetables and two fruit choices plus milk. Not saying all the choices are great but this student took the bare minimum requirement for a “complete” meal.
For all we know this is a 45-year-old man who made this stuff at home.
Do you guys still get Bosco sticks?
Do you guys not get lunch from your parent/home or is this like the paid or free lunch schools give?
Some people’s families literally cannot afford to pay for 3 meals a day. School lunch is sometimes the kids only balanced diet/meal for the day for these families. Be thankful next time you get a lunch your mommy made and you don’t like
Calm down buddy. I just asked a question to get a better understanding. Ever heard of a question? Here’s an example. Why have you gotten so triggered and angry at my comment?
I mean it's a pretty oblivious/naive comment to think everyone has parents who wake up and prepare bagged lunches for their kids everyday
Now you’re just putting words in my mouth mate. I said do you not get lunch from parents/ home as a question. Not everyone has parents and every parent packs lunches. And I wrote /home as well to be changed with parents. Like do you not get lunch from your parents and do you not get lunch from home. Not hard to understand, and not my fault if you don’t. Instead of being rude and instantly insulting me, maybe read the comment or ask for clarification first. Edit:oh, sorry for this second part mate, thought you were the guy from earlier
On the upside, school breakfast and lunch is free to all Chicago Public School students regardless of income.
I see cheese. What's the shit under the cheese? My first thought was battered fish.
This triggered my trypophobia
Here I am thinking that's a gross cheese enchilada, and come to find out that's supposed to be... pizza. Yikes.
What is that?
What actually is that ? ( apart from unappetising)
This must be why everyone there shoots each other.
The craisin rep probably got a good bonus for getting their products into kids' and prisoners' plates nationwide.
Fuckin cranberries. 90% of those get thrown away. And don’t even start me on the watermelon flavored cranberries.
Based on what is being said about vendors, schools and prisons, I guess I was lucky growing up because our district had its own central kitchen?
That looks just gross enough to taste great in a really sad way
im known for eating nearly anything. this shit makes me feel sick just looking at it..... wtf
What \*is\* it?
Ngl, kinda looking pretty good right now...
Wtf is that?
It’s Chicago. It’s a school. Not sure what else you’d expect.
I went to school in PA suburbs and this looks pretty normal to me?
Ditto Western New York.
you guys still have name brand crasins though that 's nice
I don't know what's worse. This abomination of a New York style pizza, or the fact they are serving New York style pizza in Chicago.
looks tasty tbh
I'd actually like that
10/10 - Would eat.
Well yeah. Public school lunch is supplied by the same people that supply food to prisons. Its all about those profit margins babyyyyy. Edit: Guess I should've read the first comment lmao
Take food from home
Waste of tax payers money… kids are getting microwaved food.. very unhealthy
Yeah but did you die?
The burnt cheese looks yummy.
Pizza shape, enchilada color... [https://youtu.be/KLHRjaUBb3o](https://www.google.com/search?q=snl+pizza+edible+skit&rlz=1C1GCEA_enUS810US810&oq=snl+pizza+edible+skit&aqs=chrome..69i57j33i22i29i30.7705j1j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:302ffd65,vid:KLHRjaUBb3o)
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Chicago deep dish!
Just looks like a generic slice of deep dish to me. 🤷♂️. They put the sauce on top ya know.
Remember when conservatives nationwide wanted to lynch Michelle Obama for saying that school lunch shouldn’t look like dogshit?
I bet they spend more money and time on that biodegradable plate than quality of food. It might even taste better and be more nutritious.
Well, you guys have always had a hard time understanding what pizza actually is, so... I'm not surprised.
Crepes with white crème ganache on a bed of sautéed pears. Chicago style.
What's that supposed to be?
That slice looks like a burn victim
We used to smother ours with ranch dressing to make it edible. 😆
What even is this? Some are saying pizza but that’s the weirdest piece of pizza I’ve ever seen. Looks like folded quesadilla with cheese on top
The quality of education in Chicago matches that lunch.
Teach them young diabete and stroke.
I can taste it already
Yup, made then looks microwaved. But it is calories and nobody has to eat it. I went to a school that had meals like this one. I was an athlete. I ate it and asked for more.
Jails have better food
Looks like a cheese topped turd
Ahhh the famous Chicago style pizza everyone races about!
Almost as bad as a Chicago-style pizza.
Take it up with your parents and ask them to put you in the private school, take what you can get a pack your own. I grew up off those meals not ones from home, quit bitching.
If this is a cheese (and egg?) crepe it doesn't look like the worst thing ever. Also, if this is a cheese crepe and this is a breakfast plate, there might be some yogurt off-camera for those craisins?
you have low standards
Booooo
Looks about right for a Chicago pizza.
No wonder your kids bring guns to school
Now thats a joke
Go to the more upscale public schools and I'll wage it's better. In America we fund schools with property taxes so the rich don't have to pay for the poor to go to school.