A blog I have enjoyed reading this year, Fed Up With Lunch, posted today asking people to post menus from their children’s schools. Obviously, I don’t have any children, but I still have internewts. I looked up the menu for the school that’s down the street from our new house.
This week: (“non-meat” option in parenthesis)
Monday: French toast and beef sausage (grilled cheese)
Tuesday: Hamburger or cheeseburger (fish shapes) (WTH ARE FISH SHAPES?)
Wednesday: Chicken Strips
Thursday: “Nacho’s”
Friday: Chicken Poppers (shrimp poppers)
A) everything is fried or covered in cheese
B) WTH ARE FISH SHAPES?
C) Umm, I don’t think fish counts as a non-meat
Oh wait, it gets better the week after:
Monday: Chicken Fries (cheese filled pretzel)
Cheese. Filled. Pretzel. I’m not arguing that this doesn’t sound yummy, but I don’t think that it’s a very good lunch, especially for a little kid.
When I was a kid, I brought my lunch to school probably 95% of the time. I remember getting to eat school pizza (which I know remember as inedible bricks of cardboard) was super exciting. And I loooooooved the giant chocolate chip cookies for 25ยข. And ice cream day on Friday!
Wait, why was my elementary school selling us cookies and ice cream? I bet those hours after lunch were terrible! At least we had recess. Apparently many schools have like 20 mins for lunch and no recess. I find this awful.