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- discoandhaze, on 09/23/2009, -0/+168I'd be pissed if I got a ***** pretzel for lunch.
- MeLikeyTacos, on 09/23/2009, -0/+114Is that really representative of school lunches nowdays? We used to have pizza, burgers, sub sammiches, nachos, stuff like that.
- mogebier, on 09/23/2009, -1/+69Seeing as this is a study from Whole Foods markets. why don't the provide the items to all schools at the same price as the lunches that are provided right now?
Because they can't.
The main reason why school lunches are so crappy is that they are cheap. It would be great to have all kids eating everything that is good for them, but that kind of food comes at a high price. Go to any Whole Foods and see. They are very pricey. - FlyingCaveman, on 09/23/2009, -1/+69I want a big soft pretzel now.
- Pepin, on 09/23/2009, -1/+67Since when is a pretzel the school lunch? I was expecting pizza or something...
- BohicaTwentyTwo, on 09/23/2009, -0/+51A frigging pretzel? What f*cked up school did he go?
- EddiePotato, on 09/23/2009, -1/+42You don't need to shop at Whole Paycheck to eat well. Brown rice and fresh produce are really cheap if you avoid the snobby boutique markets.
- Sheeeeit, on 09/22/2009, -2/+37The surgeon general was an adviser for Burger King... I wouldn't get my hopes up for any major improvement.
- brilliantpants, on 09/23/2009, -0/+32I'm not really sure where Whole Foods got their information for that "typical" school lunch. I think in school we might have occasionally received a soft pretzel WITH our lunch, but it's a little ridiculous for them to suggest that most kids would be served anything like the bizarre assortment on that first tray.
- j2los, on 09/23/2009, -1/+32This article is bogus. A soft pretzel and corn pudding (wtf is that anyway) is a typical lunch? Is this an Onion article?
- Aurabolt, on 09/23/2009, -0/+27TACO DAY
- doctechnical, on 09/23/2009, -1/+26And which of these lunches is more likely to end up in the garbage?
And when did all lunches become vegetarian? - inactive, on 09/23/2009, -3/+25The quesadilla lunch would cost much more than the pretzel lunch, which is ***** anyway because my school NEVER offered anything that lame as the main portion of the lunch. If you want kids to eat better in school, make it cheaper. Don't start with that "well, in the long run it IS cheaper because of the reduced health costs". That doesn't help parents that can't afford $5 school lunches or the districts that have to buy the food in bulk, so fresh foods are harder to buy. Buried.
- nablec, on 09/23/2009, -0/+22I've never had a soft pretzel for lunch.
- doctechnical, on 09/23/2009, -2/+23Could I get mine without so much sodium? You could de-ice a mile of highway with that thing. Sheesh.
- norman619, on 09/23/2009, -1/+20You don't think all fast food places get input from health professionals?
- rodon, on 09/23/2009, -0/+17A freakin' soft pretzel for lunch? Is this a school or a movie theater?
- vuthy, on 09/23/2009, -0/+16First thing I noticed: Where's the meat?! Besides a cheese pizza, I don't recall ever having a school lunch without some sort of meat or meat-like product.
- twiztidsinz, on 09/23/2009, -1/+17I'm with the seeming majority of people here...
When I was in school, lunch was typically pizza. Sometimes chicken nuggets and fries or nachos. As for fruit.. there was a fruit cup in syrup that tasted like the ass end of *****. Sometimes we'd have a hunk of cornbread, and 2% milk not whole.
Maybe once every 2 months they'd have soft pretzels and nacho cheese. - xsecretfiles, on 09/23/2009, -0/+15Chicken Sandwiches yummy
- haikuFU, on 09/23/2009, -0/+15There better be goddamn meat in my kid's school lunches when he's old enough to go. I don't care if it's roadkill, but it better have walked the planet at some point.
- densetsu23, on 09/23/2009, -4/+19What do you drink, *****?
- haikuFU, on 09/23/2009, -5/+19Lady in front of me had 1 bag of whole fruits and veggies... $88. That place is a ***** ripoff.
If they are advocating making school lunches healthier, then maybe they should pony up and start offering alternatives at comparable prices to what the schools are paying now. - proghead, on 09/23/2009, -0/+12you forget most kids actually pick the pretzel themselves.
this infographic is ludicrous. elementary and middle school children will not ask for quesadillas, a banana, and rice pilaf with spinach. Unless they have no choice, they will want pudding, cookies, and yes, soft pretzels. - junaeroplane, on 09/23/2009, -1/+12[citation needed]
- Jacare, on 09/23/2009, -0/+11key word there: meat-like product.
- kubedawg, on 09/23/2009, -0/+11Enchilada day was my favorite!
And what should've been posted was the fried seasoned fries, stuffed crust pizza and 20oz Dr. Pepper to view what most teens eat in school.
Oh and the mac and cheese + little smokies was good too. - jmandawg, on 09/23/2009, -1/+11Do you know how hard it is to find "Whole Chocolate Milk" in a carton?
- st3wy, on 09/23/2009, -3/+13Both sound boring... but the pretzel is by far the best thing there (or it would be, if there was cheese)...
Corn pudding? WTF is that? lol...
Where the hell is the meat? - DangerMouse9, on 09/23/2009, -0/+10One less fighter jet = Terrorism wins!
At least that's what they want you to think. - inactive, on 09/23/2009, -0/+9In a society where three meals a day is the norm, an 800 calorie lunch is definitely adequate.
800 x 3 = 2400
Q.E.D. - Hetman, on 09/23/2009, -0/+9MRE problem solved.
- ajwinder, on 09/23/2009, -0/+9Corn pudding is the result of federally subsidizing a crop to extreme proportions ;)
- Coffeedemon, on 09/23/2009, -0/+9Holy *****. Where would this be? Makes me happy I live in an area surrounded by farms. Seasonal produce is pretty cheap overall at the chain grocery stores and if that fails there are a couple of downtown farmer's markets.
- miggyb, on 09/23/2009, -3/+11I call *****. Unless by "bag" you mean a garbage-sized one. My girlfriend and I went grocery shopping for a friend of hers that was pregnant, got a full shopping cart, and spent $100. It's probably about twice as much as a regular place, but I didn't see any $20 vegetables.
- AlanLivingston, on 09/23/2009, -1/+9God damn! Let me tell you a story about liver pizza!
The nutritionist decided she was going to make pizza healthy at our school, so she ground up liver and sprinkled it on our pizza. We'd been told a week ahead of time, we were going to get pizza for lunch. (yeah, I geeze... I know you youngsters got pizza every Friday, so does my house-ape, dammit! Now get off my lawn...) By the time Pizza Day rolled around, we were bouncing off our chairs.
We all filed into the cafeteria and got our pizza. Off to the tables to eat! It smelt OK. Maybe a little funky, but that was probably because of the sour milk smell from the milk cooler in the corner. Oh yeah, Friday was chocolate milk day, too!
I took my first bite! I chewed and an explosive stink of nastiness filled my head. WTF! I can't eat this crap! The lunch-nazis forced each one of us to eat our square boards of pizza with the taste-of-ass topping. I went home and bitched to my Mom and dad. I was in kindergarten, so there were tears involved. "They fu-uh-uh-uh-uh-ucked up the pi-i-i-i-i-zahhh!", I cried!
I remember my Mom hearing about what had happened and mentioning that the school had a freezer full of "Liver Pizza" and didn't really know what to do with it. They actually made us eat it. It was probably the wurst month of my kindergarten year!
In hindsight, I kind of feel sorry for the nutritionist. She's just trying to do the right thing for us kids and it completely backfired. I'm just pretty sure I would have tried it at home first, though. You can throw away one pizza. It's a little harder to throw away a freezer full of school money, though. - Coffeedemon, on 09/23/2009, -1/+9Jebus! Can they make their presentation any less user friendly? I guess its more important that it looks cool.
- lunachique, on 09/23/2009, -0/+8There was actual cooked food when I was in elementary and middle schools. There was mashed potatoes (instant, but not terrible), gravy, corn, and turkey. There were also frozen burritos that were baked right before they were served, beans in a tostada shell, pizza with gluey looking cheese, hot dogs with green spots, and some kind of nasty sausage wrapped with a pancake. The worst thing that was truly heinous was the Mexican rice. They served it with an ice cream scoop and it would keep its shape even if you winged it at a wall with a satisfying splorch and let it creep down wacky wall walker style. We used to have rice ball races.
- Uthman, on 09/23/2009, -2/+10We used to have a lot more than that. and a lot less healthy than either. Also, those two dont even look that different except for the sodium
- jdames1980, on 09/23/2009, -2/+9It is disturbing that the USDA allows for so much sodium in a lunch. Really, a pretzel for lunch, WTF!
- JoshDelvin, on 09/23/2009, -1/+8What the *****?! Where the cold pizza
- djmeltdown, on 09/23/2009, -1/+7@discoandhaze, you beat me to it -> who the ***** eats a pretzel for lunch?
i went to many different schools in my day having bounced around from divorced parents.
in elementary school we got that soft pretzel *****...always something ***** up, like nobody knew how to cook. greasy grilled cheese, or cardboard pizza. 6th grade was marginally better.
My 7th grade cafeteria, although it wasn't a subway, was comparable with fresh made-to-order sandwiches and salads. Nice improvement
In 8th grade, i went back to *****. They had 2 lines, the USDA mandated lunch, or the fast food line, which served anything that could be deep fried and put under a warming lamp.
High School was a joke. There was no choice, you got the USDA mandated ***** or you brought it from home. With no fridge or microwave, it was tough to bring something that wouldnt spoil in your locker, get crushed in your backpack, and had to be eaten cold or room temp.
I have a 2 yr old and a 3 yr old that I feel all-natural and completely organic, I'll be damned if the school system is going to force this ***** down my kids throat. - SirNoobius, on 09/23/2009, -2/+8you can just buy the pretzel and throw it in there but you have to make the dang casadilla, you have to make the rice with tomatoes and that costs alot of money. unless USDA can increase the budget (if we send one less fighter jet over to Iraq it'll cover cost for few years) then no one really has any right to complain.
- gotjpeg, on 09/23/2009, -0/+6when the hell did they start serving giant pretzels for lunch?
- Uthman, on 09/23/2009, -1/+7seriously.. we used to have a whole selection of mystery meat: raccoon, deer, possum, and a variety of other roadkill
- PowderedToasty, on 09/23/2009, -0/+6I still dream about the school lunch steak and cheese sandwiches...
- Jacare, on 09/23/2009, -0/+5not just an adviser, the nutritional adviser.
- Agrajag, on 09/23/2009, -0/+5I have this problem with pretty much every idiotic "infographic" on this site. Sure, there's information in there somewhere but it's impossible to make any sense of it.
- feelmypimphand, on 09/23/2009, -1/+6Dugg for 'Whole Paycheck'
Kin to Neiman Marcus' 'Needless Markup' -
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