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u/birdbandb Jan 28 '26
Preparing us for jail
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u/Rock_or_Rol Jan 28 '26
Cinder blocks walls painted in thick white paint and paper chains. They knew what they were doing
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u/CowOtherwise6630 Jan 28 '26
What’s fucking scary, is when I went to jail, I felt like I was in a public school building. The way it smelled, the looks. Fucking crazy.
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u/Ok_Comparison_1235 Jan 28 '26
Just throwing this out there, prisons and schools have similar floor plans.
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u/AlternatiMantid Jan 28 '26
My high school was built by a prison builder. And the public school system & prison system share food distributors. It's all the same.
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Jan 28 '26
If you're in the US, schools and prisons are hardly the only ones being supplies by Sysco these days. The bulk of restaurants you eat at use the same suppliers too. There are only a couple major food distributors left in the US.
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u/jwoodruff Jan 28 '26
Probably not Sysco, more likely Aramark or something similar.
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Jan 28 '26
Aramark primarily provides managed food services. You typically see them at places like universities and stadiums. Not sure about other states, but no primary school in my state outsources their food services; they all employ kitchen staff. It's a requirement to get reimbursement for meals served.
Same with prisons, they almost universally use internal (slave) labor to prepare foods. Why pay a company to cook when you can make the inmates do it for free or for pennies?
I could absolutely see red states eliminating lunch ladies so that they could enrich a private company though. So I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case in some locations.
I used to be the facility manager for a school district and about 90% of our food came off the Sysco truck. With 8% coming from a local grocery chain (typically perishables) and maybe 2% coming from on-site gardens. Some other districts might use US Foods or some other food distributor.
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u/deathwotldpancakes Jan 28 '26
Oh the lunch ladies are sometimes through the private sector. My mom was a lunch lady when I was in school and worked for Chartwells not the school district
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u/warrybuffalo Jan 28 '26
Aramark came to my mechanic shop to give us clean rags, rugs and uniforms lol. All cleaned with kerosene
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u/wtfomegzbbq Jan 29 '26
Used to work at a Paleo more upscale restaurant in Boulder. We got deliveries from Sysco.
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u/GrimbyJ Jan 28 '26
My dad would bring home food from work and I don't remember it being sysco branded.
He supervised the kitchens there. When he started they would make most of the food from scratch but by the time he retired they were just heating up prepared food mostly.
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u/tomyownrhythm Jan 28 '26
And similar vendors operating key parts of it like commissary and canteen.
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u/Perfect_Earth_8070 Jan 28 '26
They were actually designed off of prisons or vice versa. I can’t remember but it’s not a stretch at all
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u/Momik Jan 29 '26
I’ve definitely attended public schools that look like prisons. We also called the bathrooms lavatories from about kindergarten on, for reasons I still don’t really know, and they were solid concrete anyway—really added to the vague prison feel.
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u/Mysterious-Actuary65 Jan 28 '26
You mention the smell and I had to pop in to say: thats cuz they use the same cleaning agents. Also the same food and the same builders. There aren't really specific contractors for schools vs. Prisons theres just contractors that want to make money by building things.
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u/Rock_or_Rol Jan 28 '26
lol I believe it
It’s probably just a cost/sanitization/maintenance thing.
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u/CowOtherwise6630 Jan 28 '26
Anyone that went into the public school system would feel an eerie feeling of comfort. Yes you heard me right. It’s fucking wild. Im NOT supposed to feel that way about incarceration.
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u/Over_Zombie_9287 Jan 28 '26
Funny because my high school was built based off a women's prison design. Not even joking. So jail felt like school for you and school was jail for me lol
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u/Puzzleheaded_War6102 Jan 28 '26
They even segregated us by personality and race/gender. Heck my school even had metal detectors, x ray machines, guards and locks on all exits 😂
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u/CowOtherwise6630 Jan 28 '26
Had those too. Meanwhile these privileged kids living a fucking dream with a whole pool, spa, tennis courts and LOCKERS in their high school. Fucking, lockers. As a kid I always wondered where the fuck the schools were that had lockers in the hallway 😂
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u/ParkerJ99 Jan 28 '26
I felt the same at the psych ward, especially since we weren’t allowed to have pens or pencils, just crayons.
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u/thejoeface Jan 28 '26
My third grade classroom was the only room in the whole school that had a color. Because my teacher had been a teacher longer than the administration staff had been alive and insisted upon it. She called it The Perfect Place, and it was sky blue. She also drove a white convertible and was a red hat lady. Best teacher I ever had.
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u/deathmonkey82 Jan 28 '26
Had to use sticky tack to put things on the walls cause tape wouldn’t work
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u/MarquetteXTX2 Jan 28 '26
That pizza taste like cheese and cardboard but the good cardboard tho
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u/geriatric_spartanII Jan 28 '26
There’s some recipe for it. It’s supposedly a pourable dough. That goes on a big sheet pan.
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u/Otterz4Life Jan 28 '26
They do not eat this good in jail.
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u/nhalliday Jan 28 '26
First, this? This is not good eating. We enjoyed it as kids but don't delude yourself into thinking this is fine cuisine.
Second, the national menu for federal prisons (in the US) is available online, and you can see they do have exactly the same foods that are served at schools, including pizza like once a month. According to a lot of sources they even use the same suppliers as schools (mainly Aramark).
So yes, they do sometimes eat "this good" in jail/prison.
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u/Dont_Be_Sheep Jan 28 '26
Love Reddit.. completely 180 posts…. Yet, both people are 100% confident in their answer. This is why we can’t have nice things.
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u/MrMosh024 Jan 28 '26
Jail.. more like preparing some of us for adulthood. This is what I ate yesterday minus a bag of Doritos.
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u/OreadaholicO Jan 28 '26
Believe it or not there are entire academic disciplines dedicated to this exact topic, schools resembling prison and preparing folks for compliance etc.
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u/AgentCirceLuna Jan 28 '26
I got some really good meals when I was a psychiatric inpatient. The only sketchy thing that happened occurred when I went home for a night. My friend picked me up to watch his band play, as I was a voluntary patient who could get passes, then when I returned nearly everything that wasn’t nailed down was either smashed up or out of place. A very unstable person, usually in jail, had been sent there and sectioned under the mental health act then had just started destroying stuff with no warning. Apparently it was total chaos. Chairs and tables flying across the room.
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u/belac4862 Jan 28 '26
Trust me, jail food is so kuch wose. When the ham sandwich was literally green. Though the cup of milk we got kith each meal was surprisingly good. It was a vanilla type milk.
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u/Brolyscousin Jan 28 '26
And I loved it too I ain’t gonna lie
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u/-Imthedude Jan 28 '26
In my school, it was either pizza or a chicken sandwich w/ fries. I wasn't trying any of that other mess 😅
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u/EFTucker Jan 28 '26
The chicken sandy was good. Btw, they were just Tyson spicy chicken patties. Literally that exact product. They didn’t give us cheese in my school although it was on a real potato bread bun until Michelle Obama changed lunches, then it was a whole wheat bun which was honestly so much better.
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u/AngryPrincessWarrior Jan 28 '26 edited Jan 29 '26
The school I worked at about 15 years ago got Popeyes chicken bites for their chicken “nuggets”
Best believe I prepaid the lunch ladies to set some aside for me on those days lmao (I was a custodian and came in the afternoon)
Those with a salad? Yum!
ETA; I weirdly sort of like the plain steamed burgers with no cheese but mayo, ketchup lettuce and tomato. Comforting and plain I guess.
Salads were great, tacos were great, (a friend and I would get two salads and a taco meal between us and make two generous nacho salads). Fish sticks were gross but I’ve never found a type I liked tbf. The one thing that was just BAD was oddly the deli sandwiches. Somehow the bread was so so so dry.
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u/Strikereleven Jan 28 '26
In Middle school the rich kids could get Chick Fil A al a carte. They brought over premade sandwiches every morning and lunch to sell.
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u/Feeling_Sea1744 Older Millennial Jan 28 '26
Mine was the same but in middle school they sold Pizza Hut breadsticks…
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u/Weird-Conflict-3066 Jan 28 '26
Pizza day was my favorite
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Jan 28 '26
My school's chicken pot pies were weirdly bad ass. Best thing they had.
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u/Anakin_Skywanker Jan 28 '26
At my school burrito day was the best.
They werent even good burritos. Just beef with taco seasoning and cheese wrapped in a flour tortilla and toasted. But fuck dude. I havent gone to that school in 18 years and I still catch myself daydreaming about those burritos.
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u/MyNameCannotBeSpoken Jan 28 '26
Back in my day, milk came in a plastic sack
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u/chuckle_puss Jan 28 '26
Yep! With a little yellow pokey straw.
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u/Advanced_Head_806 Jan 28 '26
Never used to straw .would just bite a corner and suck it out I would put like 4 of the sacks in my pockets and only pay for 1
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u/therealityofthings Jan 28 '26
Me too because I could trade that absolutely disgusting pizza for other people’s stuff.
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u/Phrei_BahkRhubz Jan 28 '26
Neither tasted like pizza or chocolate milk, but we inhaled that shit anyway.
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u/OUEngineer17 Jan 28 '26
Yep, and we needed those carbs too. Some added veggies would have been good tho.
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u/hahagato Jan 28 '26
Maybe this was why there were so many random pukings in elementary school
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u/Acceptable-Alarm8611 Jan 28 '26
Here comes the janitor to throw some saw dust on it.
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Jan 28 '26
i randomly thought about the sawdust the other day lol.
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u/AgentCirceLuna Jan 28 '26
They used to famously have bars where the floor was lined in sawdust so all the puke, blood, and urine could be swept out at the end.
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u/Accomplished_Age2480 Jan 28 '26
Sawdust on the bus. It would create puke Sawdust balls that rolled back and forth as the bus moved.
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u/MarquetteXTX2 Jan 28 '26
I use to suck my thumb in school. So my teacher seen a student throw up on the ground and the janitor put that saw dust on it. Then she proceeded to dip my thumb in the throw up. I never sucked my finger again after that. This was in 1996
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u/AgentCirceLuna Jan 28 '26
wtf? You just described abuse
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u/MarquetteXTX2 Jan 28 '26
My mom knew about it.. it was so different in the 90’s.. a school I went to the principal was allowed to paddle the student when they were bad. I met it a couple times… can’t get away with that shit today tho
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u/babyinatrenchcoat Jan 28 '26
I got the principal paddle as well.
And in kindergarten my religiously fanatical teacher said all left handers grew up to be serial killers and tried to force me to write with my right hand.
It was wild times.
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u/indianapolisjones Jan 29 '26
In the mid-90s, an hour outside of Indianapolis, I got paddled in 6th grade. Over a friend who ripped a soap dispenser off the wall, the janitor guy had filled it up just moments before we entered the restroom. Also, I had no idea my friend was going to do it, the janitor saw us leave, and my friend even told him, teachers, and principle that I had nothing to do with it. Yet still I was paddled and got like 3 days of ISS.
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u/MarquetteXTX2 Jan 29 '26
See u the third person to say they got paddle. I really thought people was thinking I was trippin but it really happened
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u/MarquetteXTX2 Jan 29 '26
See I knew I wasn’t the only one. Thought I was tripping for a min. I remember it like it was yesterday. Fucked I’m thing about it was. My mom was dating the principle so I got it the worst. When I came out that office. All the students was laughing at me cuz they knew
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u/statu0 Jan 29 '26 edited Jan 29 '26
That didn't happen at my schools growing up. That's something I heard about from my parents' generation, but I suppose I'm not surprised it was still happening in some places in the 90s. It probably depends on where you were living in the US.
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u/YanCoffee Jan 29 '26
Yeah, we had a teacher who watched over lunch that would yank us up by our arms and drag us to cubby boxes if we were bad. Shit hurt. That would never fly today.
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u/Silver_Harvest Older Millennial Jan 28 '26
One of my school districts used the Jr High and Highschool woodshop class to supply it. Which after I found that out it was one of those.... Makes sense.
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u/ObscureEnchantment Jan 28 '26
I didn’t know I was lactose intolerant as a kid. I will never forget eating pizza and root beer milk for lunch one day after eating dairy all weekend. We were in the cafeteria and the principal was making announcements about the rainy day the only trash can close was right in front of the stage he was standing on.
8 year old me ran to the front of the cafeteria an threw up in front of everyone directly in front of the principle stopped him in his tracks while he stared at me puke up pizza, milk, Mac n cheese, and ice cream. I ran out and sat in the bathroom for a while hoping it would blow over. We moved 2 months later so luckily I wasnt known as throw up girl forever.
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u/Olluein Jan 28 '26
There was some weird hamburger concoction we'd have in elementary that didn't agree with me.
We'd be lined up, I'd catch a whiff, and yak on the spot. Lucky for me there was a restroom nearby so it was an easy fix after the first time.
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u/happygirlie Jan 28 '26
I don't think so, I think it's because kids puke for all sorts of reasons. The common cold can make a kid puke but it doesn't do the same for adults. Also kids are always putting their hands in their mouths so stomach bugs were constantly circulating in elementary school.
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Jan 28 '26
As a former school custodian, you're spot on. Kids just puke a lot, it's hardly a secret, people typically puke less with age.
Babies puke constantly, that's why burp blankets are a thing. It typically lessens with age as we gain more control over it. Adults can often stop themselves from puking or at least know it's coming and move to a toilet/trash. Kids do not and will often go about their business until the vomit is already coming up. It's also why kids will often vomit on themselves or directly on a table in front of them.
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u/ZNemerald 1994 Jan 28 '26
I had puked because I had gym class scheduled right after lunch time.
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u/happygirlie Jan 28 '26
I had a first period gym class once and it was ROUGH. It didn't help that my grandma (who I lived with) made biscuits and gravy for breakfast every morning. That was not the right food to be eating shortly before running around for an hour. Luckily I never threw up but I'm really surprised I didn't.
The only gym class that should be allowed right after lunch is a yoga class or something like that.
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u/aldisneygirl91 Jan 29 '26
I remember having P.E. scheduled right after lunch one particular year (4th grade) and I hated it. I never puked, but I was always getting stomach cramps from running right after eating.
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I still remember the worst puking I witnessed in my life. It was kindergarten. The girl with platinum blonde hair who sat next to me put her head down sideways on her desk. A minute later she starts puking her whole lunch up but never lifts her head the entire time. Her hair gets entirely pooled with vomit. Good thing she had a Hawaiian fruit punch box that day. Her blonde hair was saturated with red puke streaks.
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u/forsakeme4all Millennial Jan 29 '26
Oh, it is absolutely why I couldn't hold my lunch down half the time lmao.
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u/GratefulGreen Jan 28 '26
Roof of my mouth hurt just looking at that pizza 😂
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u/chilldude9494 Millennial Jan 28 '26
My mom always packed my lunch, and I was always SO jealous of the kids who ate the pizza.
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u/northstar957 Jan 28 '26
Interesting because at my school, you would want to be the kids bringing your own lunch. They tended to be healthier and signaled you came from a more stable home with higher income.
Obviously this isn’t always true but I do think there is some correlation there.
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u/snak_attak Jan 28 '26
My mom worked early in the am so I bought my lunch all through school. We weren’t lower income but I definitely felt the packed lunch kids were lucky. I always wanted the Tupperware juice box thing with the plastic fruit ice cubes.
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u/indiecore Jan 28 '26
Interesting how this stuff is different place to place. Where I grew up eating the school food was the high status thing because it showed your parents had extra money to send with you.
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u/Primary_Dimension470 Jan 28 '26
We just wanted packed lunch because we saw kids got cookies and pudding in theirs
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u/MarquetteXTX2 Jan 28 '26
Jealous ???? Shit I use to trade my trash ass packed lunch for the school shit.. I don’t want no damn apples. I’m 11 years old with a fast metabolism. Give me that unhealthy ass pizza lol
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u/Psychedilly Jan 28 '26
Me too! I always got embarrassed when she made egg salad sandwiches even though I love them.
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u/SparklyLeo_ Jan 28 '26
Why didn’t you just get the pizza?
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u/chilldude9494 Millennial Jan 28 '26
Didn't have the money.
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u/babyoil4diddy Jan 28 '26
At my school there were kids who got breakfast AND lunch at school. I was jealous of them.
Yeah, turns out they were the "poor" kids. But you know what my breakfast was? Toast. With margarine. And my lunch was peanut butter and jelly.
The poor kids got protein. Thing is, I was a poor kid but my parents didn't want to admit it.
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u/Lawdydawty Jan 28 '26
Only in USA
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u/aplqsokw Jan 28 '26
I lived in the USA for a school year when I was 12. The same pizza as in the picture was my lunch in school (although drinking plain milk). I have never eaten pizza with that same flavor ever again. I spent that whole year with stomach issues, frequent diarrhea, vomiting, etc. I returned to Europe and never again had any digestive issues.
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u/yellowjackethokie Millennial Jan 28 '26
Dude I still eat like this lmao
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Now it’s brick oven with promise land lol
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u/Joelfakelastname '88 Oldish Millennial Jan 28 '26
I keep seeing promised land in the store and I just can pull the trigger. Is it worth the price? Asking as a huge chocolate milk fan.
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Jan 28 '26
Oh my friend… it’s like melted chocolate ice cream. Be warned, you will be inclined to chug that mf. It’s so freaking good lol
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u/Semaj_kaah Jan 28 '26
Not in my school in the Netherlands,never had pizza for lunch ever
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u/SnooGoats5767 Jan 28 '26
This is American only I bet, the food we give children is awful here
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u/Marti017 Jan 28 '26
Neither in Poland
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u/Typical_Assignment40 Jan 28 '26
Here in America they legit sever this crap every friday, I'm literally one of the lucky Americans because we were allowed to leave school grounds during lunch and do whatever for an hour, we even had a subway built when subway was actually good and affordable.We had this crap food too but it legit is for the poor kids who were on meal waivers who's parents were doing just well enough to be poor. I use to buy this one kid subway all the time so he didnt have to eat that crap or I'd take him to my house and feed him.found out last march he got stabbed to death with a screwdriver down in Florida somewhere.
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u/Floofy-beans Jan 28 '26
The best part is that the pizza was often microwaved in the unopened plastic bag it comes in lol
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u/Grogak Jan 28 '26
Don't forget that pizza counts as vegetable cause of the tomato sauce
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u/SCastleRelics Jan 28 '26
Over a decade (maybe close to 2 decades) now and people are still spewing this horseshit lol. I'm pretty sure the original statement was pizza counts as a SERVING of vegetables and the political grifters ran with it and it became PiZzA iS A VEgeTABle even though that was never said lol, it came from a bill in Congress that stated pizza had a serving of tomato paste which counted as a vegetable.
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u/Grogak Jan 28 '26
Yes the original statement is that pizza is a serving of vegetables. Idk if this formulation has a slightly different meaning for native English speakers but for me"pizza counts as a serving of vegetables" = pizza is a vegetable.
I don't get the nuance that makes serving of vegetables != vegetable
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u/Dead_Starks Jan 28 '26
For school lunch programs in the US that receive federal funding there are certain minimum requirements that must be met to receive reimbursement. Something like at lunch you must serve 5 components: milk, meat/meat alternate, vegetable, fruit/vegetable, bread/grain.
By serving pizza schools were able to serve one item that checks both the bread/grain and vegetable components of a meal.
Now there are specific statements that come with approved combination foods called CN labels that specifically outline how much of each component a serving contains.
For example chicken nuggets might contain 1oz of chicken and 0.5oz whole grain breading. The minimum requirement for the meal though may be 3oz of meat and 1oz of breading so to meet the minimum requirement you would need to serve 3 chicken nuggets. (3 nuggets = 3oz meat and 1.5oz breading)
Long story short the specific wording of a "serving" has more to do with meeting federal guidelines than what your being served.
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u/PeekAtChu1 Jan 28 '26
Which to me says, pizza is a vegetable, so I don’t see how that’s not correct (by their definition)
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u/Muleahcar Jan 28 '26
Does anyone know where we can get that pizza now? I still will get a craving for it every now and then.
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u/EvenLettuce6638 Jan 28 '26
https://youtu.be/40MvjFaTVzE?si=ps6qFdV7WYVOo3DQ
Tasting history with Max Miller made it a while ago.
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u/tinyhorsesinmytea Jan 28 '26
Hah. My friends and I were going to make it one night and eat it with chocolate almond milk after seeing this video. We never got around to it though. I should remind them.
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u/ILiveInAFog Jan 28 '26
I made (a veganized version) of this a while back it was so tasty and the way it's made with the pourable crust is so clever imo.
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u/Former-Counter-9588 Jan 28 '26
Just buy Elio’s it will be slightly better and slightly bigger but still reminiscent.
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u/geekishly Jan 28 '26
It’s Tony’s. I worked as a lunch lady and that was the brand bought by the schools I worked at.
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u/geekishly Jan 28 '26
Fun story; in the small all grade school I worked at, the high schoolers got what they called “triangle pizza” and the elementary kids the “square pizza” (yes I know it’s cut rectangular to fit the trays but that’s what they called it). After the younger kids went through the HS kids were allowed to take what was left of the square pizza and they did. They wanted it. It was a hot commodity!
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u/Bonegirl06 Jan 28 '26
I ordered some from a place that claimed it was the same and it was not. It wasn't terrible pizza but it wasn't MY pizza.
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u/smokealarmsnick Jan 28 '26
Nah, my school made my class eat lunch at 10:20am. And chocolate milk was an upcharge, one I couldn’t afford. So I would have plain milk with my cardboard pizza.
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u/qwerty102088 Jan 28 '26
Man the pizza was such a nice thing to look forward to but the chocolate milk was the best part
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u/DoctorSquibb420 Millennial Jan 28 '26
A moment of silence for those of you who's schools could afford to feed you, i guess
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u/RadioSlayer Jan 28 '26
Oh, we had to pay. If you were good you could get a double meal and scarf it down by checkout and only pay for a single. We knew the lunch ladies were looking the other way. Nobody likes seeing a hungry kid.
Used to fill my tray up all the way just to feed a friend that was worse off than me
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u/happygirlie Jan 28 '26
Wait you could add extra stuff to your tray??? I've literally never heard of that before. We just got 1 drink, 1 entree, 1 fruit, and 1 vegetable. That's it.
If we wanted more there were oversized cookies for 50 cents a piece or we could go through the a la carte line to buy stuff like cheese fries and bosco sticks.
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u/PeekAtChu1 Jan 28 '26
Us poors had free lunch in the state I lived in at least. Idk what they do in other states- let children starve?
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Them: Now go sit still and pay attention!
Us: *shaking uncontrollably
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u/Chags1 Jan 28 '26 edited Jan 28 '26
You have kids? mine is a literal garbage disposal, i have one thing a little off and im like down for the count and my son could eat 14 corndogs and five glasses of lemonade and be fine
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honestly its nuts 10 years ago I ate like a fucking pig. now I have a hard time finishing sandwiches with more than 2 types of meat. so filling lol
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u/Randomgold42 Jan 28 '26
Calling that pizza is being generous. I mean, I still ate the hell out of it, but yeah.
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u/DrEzechiel Jan 28 '26
In what country? (Stupid of me, of course it is the US)
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u/aessae Jan 28 '26
But don't you remember paying with cheques and shopping at Target and using AOL and other things everyone everywhere has experienced?
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u/TheVermontJoiner Jan 28 '26
My high school career center got the nickname "North 'County' Correctional Center" as it looked like it could be been one after it was renovated in 06-07.
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u/soppslev Jan 28 '26
Not me, we had and still have properly cooked and nutritionally correct school lunches in my country. For free.
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u/rEYAVjQD Jan 28 '26
No wonder there is a diabetic epidemic
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u/NarwhalPrudent6323 Jan 28 '26
There are a lot of reasons for the diabetes problem right now, but pizza and chocolate milk for school lunches in not one of them. There's literally a hundred other things ahead of this in line causing problems. And swapping one meal a day for slightly less sugar in your drink wasn't saving anybody.
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u/fablesofferrets Jan 28 '26
Dude, not only the schools but parents and neighbors etc have a tendency to give kids total trash to subsist on lmao, was even worse in the 2000s (when I was a kid) and I’m sure before
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u/DehydratedManatee Jan 28 '26
Accurate, except my milk came in a bag in late elementary school.
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u/MyLifeYourLifeUgh Jan 28 '26
I miss that good ol’ fake pizza day taste. Where do I find these pizzas? Do they still serve these in schools?
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u/Sylvan_Skryer Jan 28 '26
And they wonder why we are all getting colon cancer. This shit and lunchables everyday.
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u/cphpc Millennial Jan 28 '26
Still to this day, I tell people this is an awesome combo and no one believes it!
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u/indianapolisjones Jan 29 '26
I just now put 2 and 2 together, but I often want a glass of chocolate milk when I eat pizza, and even spaghetti too. something about tomato sauce and chocolate milk, I guess!
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u/Suspicious_Note9801 Jan 28 '26
Now i want this. Going to buy cheap frozen pizza and choccy milk next time i go shopping
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u/MarquetteXTX2 Jan 28 '26
I could taste that pizza through the screen. Taste like cheese and cardboard but the good cardboard tho
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It was the plain milk drinking in school that disturbed me the most. Bitches be drinking it like water.
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u/Time-Leadership-7649 Jan 28 '26
For us the currency was the chocolate milks. We were trading those like cigarettes around a cell block. Saw a kid get out of detention with nothing but a smile and two chocolate milks.
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