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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DH grew up in SA and had lunch at school, which was steak and veggies. When he came to the US in HS and saw macaroni and cheese, he said he wanted to vomit. (Now he likes it, btw.) Not all schools abroad do not provide lunch or lunchtime for kids. Where were you, PP?![/quote]

I was in Eastern Europe.[/quote]

Well, no wonder.  If that was during the Cold War there was no food to serve.  I remember when I visited East Berlin.  In the Lebensmittelgeschaeft there was like one can of peas on the shelf.  [/quote]

PP, did you see bears walking the street as well? I also went to school in Eastern Europe. Our kitchen was pretty basic, and only some of the older students took advantage of it, probably because, as a PP pointed out, the second meal of the day in our culture is traditionally around 3pm, not noon. Most schools in the f.USSR did provide a subsidized meal to the primary grade students. For the same reason as in the US -- they wanted to make sure that even kids living in squalor had at least one hot meal a day.

What I'd like to know is since when did the US school boards decide that this one meal could consist of [b]prison-grade chicken nuggets[/b]? I started school in the USSR in the late 80s. The big empire was falling apart. Corruption was rampant. There were shortages of everything. We stood in line for hours to buy a bag of sugar. And yet the lunch I ate at school was infinitely more nutritious than the crap they feed my daughter in one of the richest school districts in the US.[/quote]

Maybe the suppliers are providing special incentives for the school district to award them the bid. Jamie Oliver tried to get in with the LA county schools with healthy meals. Great for the kids but not too shabby for Jamie Oliver, Inc.[/quote]

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