i fucking hated lunchables, mass produces, no nutritional value and overpriced. hurr durr hey kids do yo want a disgusting cracker stack instead of food and nutrients?

It was free and rather good. Not surely top notch food but good and simple stuff that keeps you well fed. This best thing about it that they always cooked it from the scratch in the cafeteria
(obviously, but I've heard that places like in USA there actually is no chefs but everything is just microwaved or similar eaasy-prepare food).

Thank God we do not have actual fastfood establishment integrated into middle schools like in USA. I always feel some much better about the state of things around here when I remember what it is like in america.

My family was poor, so I could get my lunches for free. I never did unless I forgot my lunch. I made mine everyday. Greasy pizza/chicken patties/chicken nuggets, a gallon of french fries, and sugar laden chocolate milk never sounded good to me even when I was really young. Plus who the hell wants that crap when you can have home-made lasagna. Fuck now I have to go make some lasagna.

>>1154418
shut your cunt hole angie.

Weeaboo < Reese's Cup

>>1154422
I highly doubt that that is angie and some such.

There are places in the US that make home cooked meals for their students. What's funny is that home cooked meals have proven to help with testing, and the over all behavior in children.

http://www.healthyschoolmeals.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&
;id=10&Itemid=10

I bought my lunch everyday in the cafeteria.
I went to a private school so you'd expect the food to be of a high standard BUT YOU'D BE WRONG. It was shit, but who cares, you're a kid.

>>1154427
>I highly doubt that that is angie and some such.

dohohoho

>>1154437
>>1154437

>>1154434
I think this is what people in american school boards and in states governing actually think.
"Why have a good food for the children? It's not like they complain or anything. They are just kids"

>>1154451
Yes, except private schools ARE PRIVATE, you dumb fucking idiot. They aren't government funded.

And before you tell me "eh, they're still the same americans", there was actually several in-house chefs at my elementary and middle school, and the food was very good.

But wait, it was all pizza and hamburgers and shit, right?

lol.

>>1154458
That is why I said school boards. And since they are private the temptation to cut down cost from meals becomes even more tempting.

>>1154418
miss eurofag?

>>1154458
>But wait, it was all pizza and hamburgers and shit, right?


This was the very definition of my school. You get sick of the food really quick.

>>1154469
School board =/= Independent private school. I bet you're pissing all over yourself because you're over thinking what I just said, but it's true.

By the way, here's the school in question faggot.

http://www.norfolkcollegiate.org/home/home.asp

DAMN THAT PLACE LOOKS LIKE SHIT LOOK AT ALL THE FAT AMERICAN KIDS LOL

>>1154476
Pro-tip if there were a large percentage of fat people in that school, they wouldn't have been in the picture anyway. They want the most photogenic... fat people are not normally photogenic.

>>1154482
No shit.

>>1154487
So by your own admission

[sarcasm]>DAMN THAT PLACE LOOKS LIKE SHIT LOOK AT ALL THE FAT AMERICAN KIDS LOL[/sarcasm]

Doesn't mean anything and you have no real evidence to back up your non-fat american school.

tl;dr? Hurr durr pictures don't mean anything hurr durr

>>1154491

Evidence for what? Angie's ridiculous and bat-shit insane anti-american selfdom?


nah lol

I brought my lunch in grade school.
In Jr. High it was typical institutional food, but I remember was that I could get chips and Little Debbie snacks at school and we never had stuff like that at home.
In high school I was in a trades program and went to work in the afternoon so I ate lunch elsewhere.

Live in the USA, went to a public school all my life. My school lunches in elementary school were awful. We called the chicken nuggets "knuckle pucks" because they were so hard. We used to throw them at each other or try and play table hockey with them. The burritos they sometimes served came with a slice of American cheese on them. We played a game with these, too: take the cheese off and slap it on the underside of the lunch table. The person whose cheese lasted the longest wins. There were multiple winners because that cheese had staying power. Another game we played was "see how many napkins it takes to remove the grease from the pizza." It was an ungodly number all the time. I complained to my mother, who said I should tell someone but none of the lunchladies wanted to hear it. This lunch was something we had to pay for, so I didn't eat it often because we were poor. Mom gave us sandwiches instead, just mayo + cheap bologna + American cheese on cheap white bread, so it's not like that food was a step above or anything.

In junior high it was a little different, I brought my lunch more but also bought food because I was a fat ass. They had a "snack line" where you could buy bagels, fast food, pizza, candy, and sodas, as well as the soda/candy machines.

This was worse in high school, where I bought lunch most of the time (I had a job). There was a regular lunch line, but then a fast food line and a weird "student store" run by the students that carried different foods. A regular breakfast for me was 3 Otis Spunkmeyer chocolate chip cookies, 1 liter of Dr. Pepper, and one of those small tins of sour cream and onion Pringles. Lunch was usually that + popcorn chicken, with some candy bought so I could have something to eat during class as well.

Yeah, I was fucking mega fat.

My mother barely made my lunch for me, she gave me money to buy it at school. Most of the food in elementary school was disgusting (the pizza tasted metallic, the tater tots were soggy, etc.)

In middle school, I mostly ate from the outside food courts that were pretty good. In high school, the cafeteria food was basically shit in a bowl, and I exclusively ate from the outside food courts...which were expensive as hell

that can't be a japanese lunch. the bento is not pinku

OP's pic is in error. Real winners had pizza Lunchables. Fuck, I STILL eat those things when I get the chance. Lunchables > bento any day of the week.

>>1154411

I work for a bulk-foods manufacturer in Oregon that provides vegan/vegetarian lunches for local day cares, charter schools, and select public schools. Here is the menu for this week:

Vegetarian Organic Macaroni and Cheese
Organic Peas
Organic Apple Slices

Vegan Organic Rice and Bean Burritos
Organic Carrots
Organic Orange Honeydew

Vegan Organic Asian Rice Bowl
Organic Broccoli
Organic Orange Smiles

Vegan Organic Pasta Fagioli
Organic Green Beans
Organic Pear Slices

Vegetarian Organic Garlic White Sauce Pizza Bagels
Organic Cantelope
Organic Veggie Mix

We produce about 5000 meals a week, but we're growing. We also provide the Organic Rice and Bean Burritos for the Portland Public School District and it is in rotation as a vegan option in all the schools in that district.

>>1154529
It is pretty kawaii (cute) though.

>>1154531
Lunchables makes a line of bento-style meals in Japan.

As a side note, most public schools are supplied by Sodexo (formerly Sodexho). This company also supplies food to prisons, and the Marine Corps is the only branch of service to have a contract with them as well.

>>1154538
[citation needed]

Momma made my lunch, Dad would give me money. I loved all the horrible food, the lunchables, the cafeteria hot dogs, whatever. For a long time I was getting pasta, chips, cookies, some fruit or vegetable; even though it was packed it was still crappy.

For the first half of high school I packed a turkey on wheat sandwich, an apple and dried cranberries/almonds. The second half of high school everyone had cars and we'd sneak off campus for tacos 80% of the time. Good stuff.

>>1154541

Sodexo is my fucking arch-nemesis they serve the crappiest, cheapest food they can find and charge premium prices for it. The only reason any institution pays the prices is because the meals are reimbursed by the government.

They are my fucking arch-nemesis

>>1154542
spoilers: Lunchables was actually based on Japanese bento.

so it's kind of hurr durr

I attended a tiny rural grade school. We has meals cooked on site by a couple of cooks. After lunch, a local farmer would come by and pick up any uneaten food to feed to his pigs.

>>1154547
I read a study that showed prison violence goes down up to 40% when omega-3 fats were introduced to prisoners in the form of adding salmon to the menu.

Sodexo doesn't offer this, it's all shit, like you know. Sodexo supplies prisons with their food.
Sodexo also supplies the Marine Corps with their food, and the Marine Corps has the highest violence rate compared to the other branches of service.
As Sodexo persists, school violence goes up as well.
Coincidence?

also, notthisshitagain.jpg

>>1154553
I'm this poster here >>1154534

Sodexo uses such cheap food their profit margin is literally around $0.80-$0.90 per dollar. We make a much smaller profit margin, but sell much higher quality food and it has made it pretty easy to steal customers from them left and right.

Here is a picture of my elementary school lunch. I graduated HS in 1992 so this pic is from the early to mid 1980's at a school in Phoenix, AZ.

We also had cheese crisps a lot.

>>1154577
Those peas look sad.

>>Those peas look sad.

That is actually corn, not peas.

>>1154584
That makes it even worse...

I loved school lunches. Would rather eat one or two of those a day now then what I do eat which is sandwiches, mac and cheese, spaghetti.

The whole country has tax payed lunches, so free for all students in grades 1-12.

Tasted great, had good nutrition values and everything. Wish I had that now. Though the university lunch costs 2.5 euros (3,5 USD) at the moment so it's not that bad. Also university food is even better than the one we had in high school.

>>1154577
This is my lunch except replace orange with french fries, and corn with green beans. Bleh.

I brought Mountain Dew to school and spent my lunch money on gas and dip. Sometimes I bought Yoohoo.

>>1154599
Seconded, except for the uni lunch thing. I usually try to bring my own lunch to uni, since it's a bit more expensive for me than that lucky Anon.

Well, I hate to say it but in terms of school food EU is vastly better.

I brought my lunch throughout elementary school and middle school. The food was horrendous - occasionally I would forget my lunch and have to suffer through it.

My sophomore year of high school, my district went to a healthier food selection. They installed a salad bar, and started serving stuff that was actually edible - like stuffed shells and baked potatoes. The school lunch standards like chicken nuggets and pizza were also changed and ended up being quite good. They also made white chocolate macadamia nut cookies which were amazingly delicious. I bought my lunch almost every day after that.

Public school district, btw. But it wasn't too terribly large (maybe about 5000 kids in the entire district?) so it was easier to move to a higher quality of food.

In my opinion school food can be just about anything but fastfood. When kids get pizza in school more than once a year something is seriously wrong.

I remember basic chicken noodle soup, generic hamburgers with a sweet flavor to the meat, gross pizza rectangles with congealed looking cheese on top, tater tots, overcooked vegetables, standard overly sweet gross milk, really rubbery hot dogs, disgusting dry and sandy chicken nuggets with bbq sauce.

>>1154680
Did you seriously have like real hamburgers in school? Or is it just some kids putting meat in between bread with gravy as a "hamburger".

>>1154690

I'm not that guy but we had some decent burgers at my schools.

During elementary through high school, I had free lunch. It typically consisted of whatever was on the lunch menu rotation for that day(School would release calenders with what was for lunch that day, a week in advance of the next month..so we'd get the calendars for June's lunch in the last week of May and so forth). Sometimes this included Pizza..sometimes hot dogs that really would bounce. That, plus a yogurt was typically my lunch there..

Middle School food wasn't much different, however we had a lake nearby that was home to some snapping turtles, and a rumor around school was that the hamburgers were made from them. Besides that funny rumor, the food was the same shit...but we no longer got tater tots and got fries. ; ;

High school was the shit. I was in 2 schools for 9-12, and one had different sections for different things - one was an Italian counter, another was Soup, another was a Deli, and so forth(with separate lines leading up to two cashiers). The second was a bit more like middle school with the single line, and the food..was bleh compared to the first. However, both served fucking awesome Blue Raspberry slushies I'd get once every two weeks, that'd turn your mouth blue for the rest of the day. The only good thing about the second is that they had a separate counter for snacks that was open all the time and had a much wider variety of healthy and unhealthy snacks.

>>1154693
That's terrible. Fastfood is NOT school food.

I never had this problem with school food. And I went to some pretty shitty schools. The food i ate was all decent, if sometimes greasy or cooked poorly.

I remember in particular, that through my entire public school career, that the vegetables were always very good. They were crisp, green, and when it came to stuff like corn, which had to be cooked, it was warm, plump, and spiced.

Perhaps it's the fact that the schools I went to made about half the stuff they served. It wasn't exactly what you would call great, as when you have to make food for shitloads of kids, you usually rely on cheap, greasy, mass-producable stuff, but still, it was good. I dunno. But in particular, I remember that enchilada casserole was FUCKAWESOME from K-12, and that the taco salads were pretty badass, too.

>>1154718
A burger is a perfectly reasonable lunch meal. It's bread and meat with some vegetables on it. Add a reasonable side dish and it's a healthy meal.

I really can't remember school lunch in elementary, because my mother made one for me so often I rarely ate the schools.

In Jr High there was a salad bar which I used mostly. Then another line had frosties, fries, and pizza sticks. $1.25 for a frostie, so awesome. And of course the normal line with burgers, mashed potatoes, hotdogs, and pizza. Then there was the school store with candy and beef jerky.

Then highschool there was a sub sandwich bar, salad bar, and normal line. The school store had energy drinks, coffee/espresso, cup-a-noodles, and candy. Mostly went with the sandwiches and salad. Until senior year when we were allowed to go off campus and buy whatever.

>>1154690
Yeah, we had real burgers, but you could tell they were cheap bulk burgers, also sloppy joes.

>>1154746

Oh fuck yes, sloppy joes. I remember how sloppy joe days were always a big thing. I think they came with pickles..and some sort of gelatin dessert.

I went to public schools but in an affluent area, there weren't (and still aren't) any private schools inside the "not a massive pain in the ass to get to every day" radius so it was 90% middle/upper middle class and some country club rich bastards.

In elementary school if you bought the school's lunch you could choose between two fucked nasty hot lunch options each day such as nachos or chicken nuggets or a shitty burger but nobody ever got them except for the handful of poorfags. Everybody else had lunchables if they had a working mom or a packed lunch if they had a stay at home mom; my mom packed me a sammich (usually turkey), a fruit, a vegetable, a capri sun (fuck yeah), and 2 or 3 hersheys hugs or a couple jolly ranchers. yep, american is pig disgusting lol.

In middle school you could get similar shit to above or also some decent pizza or there was a subway style sammich line that I got almost every day. Pizza and subs were 1.50 and came with milk but the poorfags that qualified for free lunches still had to eat the bullshit hot lunches because that's all they could have for free XD I heckled them roundly that if their parents didn't spend 20 dollars on cigarettes every day they could be chillin' with a sub like me lol.

I went to college instead of high school so I have no idea what they served there.

School lunch sucked ass until my senior year were the district completely redid the cafeteria along with the food and everything become pretty fucking good.

My mom would make me 1-2 sandwiches, which were generally shitty but probably more nutritious than whatever is in the OP. She would always pack a juice box, which was pretty good, but I hated it whenever I had apple or orange juice (not a fan of apple juice, and the orange juice boxes tasted like shit).

In high school I'd just buy a hot dog or go to one of the restaurants within walking distance of the school, if I even ate lunch at all. I think I ate cafeteria food four or five times in my entire high school career. Shitty food was shitty.

Cow tongue. they served us cow tongue in texas in school...oh god...AAAAGHHH

>>1154784
Fuck.

My elementary school in Connecticut had really good school lunches. The calzones in particular were delicious.
By middle school, I'd moved to Maryland, where lunches seemed to consist of flaccid french fries and cheese steak subs made with generic Steak-ums. I usually just got a muffin or a popsicle or something at that point.

>>1154784
Wuss. One of the best sandwiches I ever had was a cow tongue sandwich at a little Jewish deli in NYC. It tastes like corn beef. Stop prejudging your food and taste it before you bitch.

>>1154784

That's actually one of the best things you could eat!

>>1154810
it tasted fine, really. but they didn't tell us about it until later, which creeps me out. also, it's TONGUE. wtf? up until that point, I didn't know people actually cooked tongue.

bagel + butter every day for 2 fucking years.

>>1154810

That's because it was corned beef.

Cow tongue and brisket are the two most common cuts to corn.

>>1154885

生まれ変われば必死に日本人になりたいよ ;_;

>>1154842
many cultures consider tongue to be the most delicious part of the cow

i lived one block from my elementary and so went home every day at lunchtime

where i made my own lunch while my mother watched soap operas

>>1154885
Japanese housewaifus have too much time on their hands

i remember have a lunchables before and there was fucking corn in the pudding.. it pissed me off so much

I went to a public high school in southern California. School lunch was terrible, no nutrients, all salt and grease, and everything tasted old or funny. I realized this long before high school though, and they basically serve the same thing for grades K-12. I just wouldn't eat anything at all for seven hours, or I'd bring a piece of fruit and a bottle of water or juice to stave off hunger, and wait til I got home around 1 or 2 to eat.
Some of the clubs at school did set up grills and had BBQs every so often, but it'd just be standard store-bought hot dogs or patties for burgers. It was decent, but as always, overpriced. (My school was rather poor.)
The student store sold things like bags of chips, fruit snacks, donuts, punch, cookies, and pastries, which the PTA probably bought with fundraiser money from Costco every couple of days. Also, because of the large Latino population, we had an Orange Bang!/Horchata machine set up in there too, the latter probably being the only thing I ever paid for in school, ever.
And because the school was conveniently situated close to many plazas and shopping centers, the nearby "eating establishments" would sometimes send a couple of employees and a van of food to sell to the students. Usually, it was Jamba Juice, Subway, and McDonald's. Soda is not allowed; there was some law passed a couple of years ago. But that doesn't stop teachers, clubs, and students from selling cans of it for half a dollar to make some extra money.

tl;dr school lunches are still terrible.

>>1154963
Sounds pretty dismal.

>>1154915
How again does posting bentos which were related to OP's post mean that you are desperately trying to be Japanese. Oh yeah... This is an English image board LRN2 ENGLISH FAGGOT.

>>1154979
does this mean we have to focus on english food?

From what my gin soaked mind can recall years later...

Elementary - Soggy fried okra everyday
Middle - Steakums style cheesesteaks everyday
High - Popcorn chicken and fries when you could afford it
College - Bong hits, but the student union building had great shit if you had the Flex left

Looking back, shit mostly sucked as bad as the stereotype makes it out to be.

>>1154979
don't know 'bout you boy but ah speak 'MERICUN

>>1155084
FUCK YEAH

Also we need some of those "deep dish" pizza Lunchables in this thread.

>>1154986
The English do not have food.

>>1154784

Ungrateful....

>>1154963

I went to high school in SoCal, and we had the best and cheapest lunches. They had these salad "kits" for two bucks, I swear to god that shit was the most complete meal ever. Like the chinese chicken salad one had chicken, mandarin oranges, cucumber, sesame dressing, and those wonton strips.

Our burritos were freshly made and were loaded with eggs, cheese, chorizo, and cilantro.

Public by the way.

Tustin High school, to be specific.

>>1154411

Kindergarten - 5th grade: my mom made me bring my own lunch every day. But she made damn good sandwiches (PB&J primarily). I still love smashing up a PB&J sandwich like they used to get in my backpack. Every now and then my dad would give me some money to buy lunch, primarily on the last Friday of the month, PIZZA DAY!!!!!!

6th - 8th: Cafeteria was the same for my high school and they only served the shittiest, most disgusting lunches ever. The only people I knew who would get them were the kids on the free lunch program. Consequently, the school allowed Pizza Hut and Taco Bell to sell shit at the snack bar for dirt cheap so I pretty much ate a bean & cheese burrito, funions, and a soda every day for years.

High school: Grew up in a small city so we had off-campus lunch. We'd always go to a couple of friends' houses whose parents would buy ungodly amounts of food at Costco and who were also very generous. Goddamn I miss those lunches, some of the best times I've ever had. ;_;

When I was in high school, I used to eat a slice of the "vegetarian" pizza and french fries everyday. Pretty much just a supreme with no meat, and was strangely higher quality than the rest of the pizza.

My school also had subs, salads and popcorn chicken every day, but they of course weren't covered by the free lunch program.

>>1155167
Speaking of which, how many people had the abrupt switch to PIZZA AND FRENCH FRIES EVERY DAY when they hit high school? I seem to remember some semblance of a balanced lunch when I was in grade school.

>>1155175
>PIZZA AND FRENCH FRIES EVERY DAY

Do you hear that? It's the sound of millions upon millions of arteries clogging.

My parents didn't understand the concept of schools having lunch for the first five years of me going to school so I ate nothing. Be grateful you faggots.

You know something I have NEVER seen one of these international differences comparison that was actually UNBIASED toward one another.


Now hold up now. Half the time the USA school menu ~wasnt~ that bad- It just happened to be generic food that was bought in massive bulk. Nothing salt and pepper couldn't fix.

Shiiiaaat for $2.50 a day I ate good. Now I only graduated in 04 but it has been at the standards I had had experienced since the mid 90s.

My HS had two random meals served a day, plus salad, burger, and pizza line. You were free choose for the price and in the event you felt like taking your generic cheeseburger and fries over to the salad bar and slathering them with a little ranch and a spoon of fake bacon bits (which didn't really suck all that bad) the $50 cents didn't hurt to shell out.

Though yeah I agree mixed veggies or fruit. Isnt so great though if its repetative.. =(

>>1155450
newsflash: that's the WHOLE POINT of the "main difference" pictures.

GOD I LOVED A SLICE OF PIZZA AND FRIES
fuck
im so nostalgic over that meal now from high school

I would layer the top of the slice of pizza with the fries sometimes, or sometimes just sort of dip some into the tomato sauce near the crust of the slice if it had extra
god
im hungry.

middle school for me was trash too, I'd get cheese fries and the cheese was awesome. never anything even remotely good. but i was also given like 5 dollars a week for lunch so .. $1 a day was typical.

My high school did have regular cooked meals, some were decent others sucked. the saving grace was that we had a salad bar.

i went to a private middle school (biggest waste of money ever) and all our food was sysco shit. had bagels + cream cheese or cereal everyday. unless there was chicken pot pie, that was pretty good. or the thick and creamy chicken noodle soup was the day's soup. not the watery slop though.

skin flap looking pizza from dominoes - 3.50 a slice [WTF]

nasty spicy chicken burgers, 2.50 each

sad thing is both of those were 1.25 when I was in kindergarten and have risen around 25 cents a year, fuck california.

Hold the fuck up, pump your goddamn brakes OP.

Are you some how implying that Lunchables is bad? I will fucking kill you and your whole family.

>>1154414
>>1154419

HURRR I WAS A HEALTHY KID I HAD PRECOCIOUS TASTES IN CUISINE LOLOLOL

i used to get psyched as fuck when i would get a pickle in my drink cooler in elementary school. even though my mom knew i loved it, she would only give me one about once a week...

in high school, my favorite lunch was sub day. they would give you a subroll with meat and cheese on it, then had a table with the veggie toppings down the line. you could pretty much make a salad ontop of your sub, then sit down and have a sub and a salad for the same price as a normal lunch. so fucking win.

fresh veggie day was awesome. you would get a bunch of those baby carrots, and if you dunked them in italian dressing then squeezed them real hard, they would go flying across the lunch room.

i was the sniper in the roo

Lunchables sold out to the health movement. You can't get a Reese's cup anymore. Fucking granola nazis. A single fucking Reese's cup at lunch isn't why kids are getting fat.

I practically never ate school lunches. For field trips I would get a lunchables(elementary school yum) or a sub from the deli at the local supermarket.

Then came middle school and high school. I lived around a bunch of ghetto mexicans and would treat myself to cheetos every so often. Though cheetos at a ghetto school doesn't last very long due to the freeloaders.

my high school had the best curry ever, it was probably made from shit but it tasted so fucking good.

>>1154531

Yeah, I remember schneider's lunch packs, you were the envy of the class if you had either lunchables or a fast food lunch. Hell if you had bento or something like that, you were merciless mocked for possibly eating some weird animal entrail like frog eyes.

i just had a sandwich that was 98% bread

I was too poor to afford it, so lunch was anything I could steal when no one was looking.
Mostly apples and ketchup packets.