School Cafeteria Food

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

The food we got in compulsory school was alright. It was free and it was food. On fridays we got to have a glass of lingon berry juice, in previous years it had been served every day with free refills but there had been budget cuts... That's probably why it was the only place where I could stomach eating liver. I really doubt they could afford to put real liver in those patties, certainly didn't taste like it.

Fortunately it was the market that dictates prices on things and if there was something the market was overflowing with it was fish. The fish we got is now outrageously priced but back then it was seen as cheap trash the municipality could feed to children and dementia wards to save a buck. Salmon, cod, flounders, trouts, it all got dumped into the schools and it was pretty alright.

Trying to find the english word for a type of smoked fish(not smoked kipper, but similar) I came across this picture which is like a fancy version of our school lunch using the same type of fish.

Except our meals was not fancy at all, worn plates, glasses that have passed through the dish washers a couple of hundred times too many(you know that weird feeling when touching them), no smoothies/juice or fruit on the side, BUT we could have as many smoked fishes as we wanted and as much mashed potatoes as our plates could hold. We didn't see many vegetables outside of potatoes and similar root vegetables though.

Another thing they got on the cheap was hen. These hens were on their way out of the local egg laying industry so they were pretty scrawny, though and gamey compared to the common broiler chicken that are bred for meat.
Boil them long enough though, strip the meat from the bones... with rice and curry sauce it's pretty good. Pretty good.

We also got horse now and then though I don't think they were old race horses like some kids said they were.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

since i live in a "solicits heaven" the food was always free and it was for the most part, great! there was that one time when the cooking ladies had a strike and we were forced to bring our own food for lunch. that felt so awkward. i was such a picky eater back then, there wear days when i would just eat bread and drink water like i was some kind of prisoner. wish i eaten better so i could have gotten a better physic later in life.

my brother works in the school system and he has told me how the quality of food has gotten worse since when we were kids. the system is doing everything to be as cheap and "eco-friendly" as possible.

 

[Meat Target]

The chalupas they served at my elementary school looked like someone sneezed on a taco shell.

 

[Asian tech support]

In middle and high school, everything from the cafeteria had shredded carrot in it. Their soup, their strange fictitious Asian dishes, even their fucking pizza had shredded carrot in the sauce. At some point I just started taking my own lunch and only ate at the cafeteria when I forgot to bring it. I was fortunate enough to get out before Obama's husband made everything worse.
College was somewhat better, although any of their meat or fish was to be avoided. The chicken was ok. I survived my freshman year on a diet of cereal, salad bar, and chicken quesadillas, and ditched the meal plan as soon as I moved off campus.