• Fluffy_Ruffs@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Plastic cheese on stale bread with ketchup sauce. The chocolate milk on the other hand was always on point.

    There would always be a sad piece of fruit on the side which never got eaten. If only we were taught a little bit about nutrition. Sure we knew what the food pyramid was but no adults every reinforced it.

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          The square school pizza used to be made from scratch. Now it’s all made in a factory.

          ITT is a bunch of people that ate the old recipe I think.

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            It could be people that ate the old recipes, but in-house cooking was mostly phased out (podcast, but there’s a transcript) by the early 80s, so it would be one of the earliest school memories for a 50 year old.

            I know Lemmy skews older than other social media, but I don’t know if that checks out.

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      Pretty sure an enforced diet by the school would be highly controversial and opposed by many parents, despite the possible health benefits.

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        There’s actually a fascinating history(conspiracy?) of how American public schools which used to make their own lunches slowly got pinched by changing nutrition standards and swept into Gordon Food Service (?) frozen food hell because it was cheaper at the time. Super glad I got live through it all! /s