I remember most people hated the school provided lunches except for tater tots.
Only the milk cartons were empty. All the ketchup packets were stomped on the ground.
“I remember most people hated the school provided lunches except for tater tots.”
Depends on how hungry you are.
In my elementary school, there were some kids that came from the backwoods from dirt poor families. This was before food stamps. They looked like stick figures they were so skinny.
At our school, if you cleaned your plate at lunch, you could go back for ‘seconds’ and get whatever food was left over. Those kids ate every scrap of food on their plates, lima beans, carrots, didn’t matter they ate everything. I remember to this day one kid swabbing off his plate with a piece of cornbread, stuffing that in his mouth, and running back to the serving line.
I’m pretty sure those lunches were all some of those kids got to eat. We can debate welfare and supporting other peoples kids, but you’d have to be pretty hard-hearted to want to cut off school lunches for kids like that.
Most of those lunch trays went from the line to the garbage cans.
Don’t understand why today’s kids can’t be given real food like we had. Real pieces of chicken. Real fruit. The smell of homemade yeast rolls and peanut butter cookies wafting through the hallways during English class before the lunch bell. You know, a cheaper but still yummy version of Sidwell school lunches.
They were disgusting when I was a kid. And they wouldn’t let you throw them out. Torture.