Comment on Is school cafeteria food in America trash?
Gerudo@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
It absolutely depends on where the funding comes from. I know someone who works student nutrition for a school district that doesn’t receive state funds, it’s all county school tax funded. They chose to contract out to a company that provides the food. Usually this is a recipe for disaster, but they actually provide high quality food. All fruit or vegetables are fresh, not frozen or canned. All food is prepared fresh daily, no microwaves. Their food is so good, every employee that she knows, eats the food too. This is in stark contrast to prison food level quality found in many districts.
OwOarchist@pawb.social 14 hours ago
Very literally prison food.
Public schools in the US often contract with companies to provide the school lunches, and the companies fulfilling those contracts are often exactly the same companies that provide food for prisoners in the prison system.
Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 hours ago
This is a false equivalence. The same company providing food for two different markets might be providing two different menus. Like a cake company which makes different cakes, and also some bread products, maybe some biscuits… you wouldn’t open a box of biscuits and find a cake inside. Except maybe Jaffa Cakes. What was I saying again?
Oh yeah, faulty logic, but it wouldn’t surprise me if there were some mix-and-matching going on. Capitalism gotta capitalise.
OwOarchist@pawb.social 2 hours ago
Sometimes the school food is actually worse because our prisons are much better funded than our schools.
JennyLaFae@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 hours ago
It’s literally the same food in some areas, 1 for 1, no false equivalences. Like I could go to jail and get served the same thing available in the school cafeteria.
MML@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
It’s not all that different for restaurants, you could go to 10 different ones and get the same Sysco Tyson chicken patty.