Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-110.146.149.161-20150813074512/@comment-4010415-20150908100025

Huh.

The worst public school lunches I've ever had were in middle school. The popcorn chicken tasted and felt like it was 98% fat. The pizzas had visible puddles of grease sitting on them, and the cheese was kinda... I dunno how to describe it other than "spongey." The corn dogs... If you took the corn bread off the corn dog, you could see that the hot dog was kinda shriveled and spongey.

High school, the food was better, but didn't taste that great until after the wave of that little Michelle Obama healthier food overhaul happened. My high school had four lunch lines, and they each served something different:


 * Mexican food line - Nachos (chicken, beef, or no meat; melted cheese, grated cheese, or no cheese) or taco salad (Choose what all ingredients you want the lunch lady to put in it). After the healthier food thing, the beef actually looked better, more like beef, and actually tasted better.


 * "Burger line" - Burgers, chicken sandwiches, spicy chicken sandwiches, and chicken strips. You can grab a little thing with lettuce, tomato, and pickles in it to put on your burger. They switched up the sides a lot, and sides included rolls, apples, flavored french fries (which were soooo good), and pineapple. The chicken strips, chicken sandwiches, and burgers were really bland, and the taste in the spicy chicken sandwich was just the spicy seasoning. After the healthier food thing, that stuff tasted better.


 * Pizza line - Pizza and sides. The pizza was sub-par, and then the school made a deal with Papa John's pizza restaurant and started serving us Papa John's pizza.


 * The other line - They rotated the menu throughout the week, with stuff like spaghetti, fried chicken, and sub sandwiches. This was the #1 line to get a salad, and the salads were all pre-packed in plastic bowls.

The weird thing is, after the healthier food thing, the salads got worse. The salads were suddenly, like... 50% rotting lettuce. I stopped eating the salads because there wasn't enough in there that wasn't rotting for me to actually get full.

I've only ever gone to public schools that are considered the really good schools in the city. Though, my elementary school had cigarette butts and broken glass on the playground because of idiots who partied there at night for some reason. Thankfully, that school has been torn down and rebuilt and is much, much nicer now.