My children won’t eat the spaghetti because the noodles are nasty. I have tried using whole wheat noodles at home to no avail. I get the same reaction as the school. I throw away the nasty noodles, too. Even hubby hates whole wheat noodles. That is saying something.
When I was in school, I usually bought lunch. I would drink my milk. And I would eat the dessert which was a cookie, or a piece of dried out cake, or jello with fruit inside (jello would be hard on top). Oh. If they served pizza, I would eat that. I loved the pizzas and would buy them in bulk for my children if I could find them today. Lol. The rest of those nasty lunches went into the trash day after day. I had a friend who would share her fruit and Doritos with me. I occasionally would make my own lunch, but I usually threw away my sandwiches. (I would take a ham sandwich w mayo. I didn’t realize it at the time, but that mayo was nasty. I do not buy the same brand my mother bought and can stomach the stuff a little better now.)
Anywho, I have gone to lunch at school quite a bit this last year. The children regularly say the food is nasty. Hungry, growing boys will eat the food. Medicated growing boys won’t. They just sit there and wish they were unmedicated and wish they felt like eating.
The ‘pizza’ at my HS was absolute garbage. Pizza Friday was popular, but I never ate it. It was a doughy concoction with something approximating tomato paste smeared over it. I can’t even guess what they were using for ‘cheese’. I do know that there was darned little of it.
OTOH, there were a lot of other things on the menu that were deemed less edible, so in a way it makes sense.