lunch charts

Salix Babylonika · 2015-12-13 04:33:02

did you have these in middle and high school??

I just saw something on YuruYuri I haven't thought about in ages
[11:29:05 PM] Jane Grape: did y'all have those shitty fucking like
[11:29:10 PM] Jane Grape: lunch charts in middle and high school?
[11:29:40 PM] Jane Grape: like it would be like "ooh on Wednesday you get a fuckin, like, half a grilled cheese sandwich and some shitty tomato soup."
[11:29:52 PM] Jane Grape: "on Friday we just buy the old pizza from the pizza place a few blocks down"
[11:30:07 PM] Jane Grape: "on Monday you get French toast and a thing of milk because we suck"

Crystal · 2015-12-13 04:34:51

I thought that happened everywhere. I liked the sorta-variety, honestly.

Obā-san · 2015-12-13 04:36:46

our food charts always went out a full month

Salix Babylonika · 2015-12-13 04:37:58

well I never had a school with like a good cafeteria so I always sort of came to loathe them.

Our high school did have a soft pretzel cart however (some of you may remember me talking about this back on Ye Olde TVTropes Forumme) and those were like a dollar, which was less than the actual lunch, so I often just ate those

Princess Alice · 2015-12-13 04:41:43

The various schools I went to did it different ways.

The school I went to from kindergarten to 3rd grade had a weekly lunch schedule attached to the school newsletter each week.

The school I went to for 4th & 5th grade had a monthly lunch calendar that went out each month.

And the middle and high schools just used the same schedule each month and put it on one giant fridge magnet they handed out at the start of the semester.

Anonus · 2015-12-13 04:42:19

I always brought my own lunch to school

Imipolex G · 2015-12-13 04:44:48

up through middle school, sure

in high school we had a pizza cart thing so I ate a lotta pizza

Salix Babylonika · 2015-12-13 04:46:52

also basically the only drinks at my high school cafeteria were Gatorade--which is Gatorade--and Zimmerman's Iced Tea, which has an infamously high sugar and calorie count (shit actually hurts my teeth to drink).

VERY HEALTHY

Obā-san · 2015-12-13 04:47:54

how does that even happen

i mean, there are federal neutritional guidelines

Salix Babylonika · 2015-12-13 04:48:52

Today is Tomorrow said:
how does that even happen

i mean, there are federal neutritional guidelines

technically, they also had water.

and milk, which, I don't know where they got it from, but it wasn't very good milk.

Crystal · 2015-12-13 04:49:16

Should I recognize that tea name? Also, wow.

^ Not even good milk.........

Salix Babylonika · 2015-12-13 04:49:29

their response to increased health regulation was basically just to add a vegetable of some sort to every meal. Usually it was a couple baby carrots or a few cuts of celery.

Salix Babylonika · 2015-12-13 04:50:01

Crystal said:
Should I recognize that tea name? Also, wow.

it's a regional brand.

The Lehigh Valley's very own. Locally also known as "Zimmies" (their slogan is "Gimme a Zimmie", that's not a joke).

Princess Alice · 2015-12-13 04:50:12

I ate a lot of these in freshman year:

They were cheap and I knew I liked them more than whatever the actual lunch being offered was much of the time.

Salix Babylonika · 2015-12-13 04:50:21

OH

the last year I was there we got like a good drink cooler, now that I think of it.

So that was good.

First three sucked though.

Princess Alice · 2015-12-13 04:51:32

Also there was a Pepsi machine in the cafeteria but federal regulations required them to turn it off during the lunch period because the government needs to pretend to care about childhood obesity.

So, naturally, I would always just ask for a hall pass (which I'd always get because the lunch teacher liked me) and walk to the other Pepsi machine at the other end of the school.

Princess Alice · 2015-12-13 04:52:06

I'd say "13-year-old Centie ate a shitload of junk food" but I still kinda do.

It's just that now I'm more aware that I'm doing it.

Obā-san · 2015-12-13 04:52:50

this is the most depressing thread ever honestly

Salix Babylonika · 2015-12-13 04:53:03

the good drink cooler stocked Turkey Hill brand stuff (another regional brand if I'm not mistaken though one with a somewhat wider distribution) so it was a fairly wide variety of tea and juice.

That said it was often sold out by Friday because they only restocked it once a week. So by the end of the week it was down to Blueberry Tea and Cranberry Juice which no one liked.

Salix Babylonika · 2015-12-13 04:53:38

actually a friend of mine would buy a couple teas at the beginning of the week, take them home, keep them in his fridge, and bring them back and resell them at a profit.

He got in trouble for that at some point.

Princess Alice · 2015-12-13 04:54:54

Turkey Hill is owned by Kroger, so we get their products up here in Ohio, too.

It was only since 2010 or so that we've had Turkey Hill-branded convenience stores in Ohio, though.

Crystal · 2015-12-13 04:55:15

Jane said:

Crystal said:
Should I recognize that tea name? Also, wow.
it's a regional brand.

The Lehigh Valley's very own. Locally also known as "Zimmies" (their slogan is "Gimme a Zimmie", that's not a joke).

Ah, that figures.

I erratically brought lunch from home.

Salix Babylonika · 2015-12-13 04:59:29

Central Avenue said:
Turkey Hill is owned by Kroger, so we get their products up here in Ohio, too.

It was only since 2010 or so that we've had Turkey Hill-branded convenience stores in Ohio, though.

Turkey Hill buddies!

what's your favorite TH drink

Crystal said:

Jane said:

Crystal said:
Should I recognize that tea name? Also, wow.
it's a regional brand.

The Lehigh Valley's very own. Locally also known as "Zimmies" (their slogan is "Gimme a Zimmie", that's not a joke).
Ah, that figures.

I erratically brought lunch from home.

I did this fairly often too

even more often though I would just go to lunch after school and bum around at the library til it closed.

As sad as my life could be construed to be now, at least I have more to live for than Tony's Pizzeria.

sunn wolf · 2015-12-13 09:29:41

did america ever have a Jamie Oliver Healthy School Dinners Revolution like britain did or do your schools all still serve total garbage? ours used to be that bad too but things got better now because there was this very high profile campaign led by Jamie Oliver which pointed out the total shit that kids were getting fed

Sredni Vashtar · 2015-12-13 15:37:24

We haven't. It's still in the same arena as prison food, and usually by the same suppliers.

Tachyon · 2015-12-13 19:17:00

iirc didn't Jamie Oliver try to take his campaign to the USA and get told to piss off basically?

Princess Alice · 2015-12-13 19:18:16

Sredni Vashtar said:
We haven't. It's still in the same arena as prison food, and usually by the same suppliers.

I don't remember much about what I ate in juvie but I remember thinking at least some of it was a bit nicer than what I got at public schools

Klinotaxis · 2015-12-13 19:32:28

school food was a la carte in high school

and supplied by sodexho which indeed also supplies prisons

Obā-san · 2015-12-13 19:33:31

@ this whole thread no wonder childhood obesity is a thing

Klinotaxis · 2015-12-13 19:34:24

was there any doubt? I ate a lot of pizza made from reconstituted Styrofoam

Obā-san · 2015-12-13 20:30:51

though when I was an obese or almost obese child it was more due to stubborn resistance to the idea of exercise

Obā-san · 2015-12-13 20:31:01

god it is so nice to be able to run

Section42L · 2015-12-13 21:15:04

Tachyon said:
iirc didn't Jamie Oliver try to take his campaign to the USA and get told to piss off basically?

pretty much, yeah

Zeether · 2015-12-13 21:41:43

I remember that the lunch menu at my school was televised on the morning announcements

Anonus · 2015-12-13 23:50:23

nobody ever brought their own food, did they

Anonus · 2015-12-13 23:52:27

I mean school lunches are such shit, and you can opt out, so...why not?

LW · 2015-12-13 23:56:37

Anonus said:
I always brought my own lunch to school

Same here, cold lunch all day every day (well, not really all day, but I think you get my point, haha). I used to trade swiss cake rolls for chocolate rice krispies treats back in the day though.

That said, those lunch charts do sound familiar. I think those may be standard for any cafeteria setting, since I remember seeing them at businesses/government buildings with cafeterias too...

Obā-san · 2015-12-14 00:07:42

Anonus said:
I mean school lunches are such shit, and you can opt out, so...why not?

people can't afford it

Princess Alice · 2015-12-14 00:11:14

Today is Tomorrow said:

Anonus said:
I mean school lunches are such shit, and you can opt out, so...why not?
people can't afford it

also a good point

Sredni Vashtar · 2015-12-14 00:36:56

And it takes too much time to make anything decent that will keep half the time anyway.

lee4hmz · 2015-12-14 22:16:43

Every school I went to up to and through high school had those damn charts. I pretty much ate what they gave me, since we were always broke, but sometimes the lunch ladies would do little things to make the experience a bit nicer (like putting seasoned salt on the fries at one elementary school I went to).

In high school, I was (still) on free lunch and didn't get to eat the kinda-like-fast-food the a-la-carte line served, so it was a good day when they were serving something good. Also, they didn't have seasoned salt, so the soggy baked "fries" were improved greatly by think, watery ketchup that was mostly apple cider vinegar (which happens to be good on fries). As for drinks, well, poor kids don't get to use the soda machine (and even the rich kids had to wait until after hours), so I drank a lot of chocolate milk.

When I was at Virginia Tech, I ate a lot of the cheap pizza they had at one of the dining halls. They also had all-you-could-drink cranberry juice cocktail, which was nice.

lee4hmz · 2015-12-14 22:26:48

And I have a love-hate relationship with those Tony's breadtangles. Sometimes I miss them, but other times I keep thinking of that one time one of the kids in my class kept telling me he'd spit in my food. :P

Zeether · 2015-12-14 22:26:59

"Why don't you take a picture, Arnoldo, it'll last longer."
"I was just trying to figure out what this green stuff is."
"Who CARES what it is? It's green, it's on a dish, if you're gonna eat it, put it on your tray. If you're not gonna eat it, move along."

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