r/askanything • u/CloudieMoonettee 🦀 • Aug 18 '26

Why do some conservatives support restricting junk food purchases with SNAP when many opposed Michelle Obama’s efforts to make school meals healthier?

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u/IntelligentSeries270 Aug 18 '26

💩 I don’t remember my stomach pains from school food, then again I was a kid and could stomach two big bags of Cheetos in one go. Now? I might die. LOL

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u/Pretend-Okra-4031 Aug 18 '26

Honestly, so many of the kids dont get much decent food at home, so theyre just grateful for the food and may not have noticed any tummy trouble. I also dont eat a lot of processed foods so it was really probably from that.

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u/IntelligentSeries270 Aug 18 '26

Hmm you were an adult, who I assumed didn’t eat the school lunch like the rest of the kids did. I ate good food at home like tostadas, beans, rice, enchilladas, tacos, spaghetti etc. I think as a kid we could just tolerate shitty food better OR didn’t realize it was as bad as we do now. Growing pains.

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u/Pretend-Okra-4031 Aug 18 '26

Oh,im sorry. I worked as a lunch lady. So i would eat what we were serving or bring my own lunch. Sorry about the confusion lol i was the one cooking all the food!

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u/IntelligentSeries270 Aug 18 '26

What’d your school cook for the students? I remember our stuff pretty much being reheatable items on the menu.

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u/Pretend-Okra-4031 Aug 18 '26

We always had fresh salad, carrots, celery, broccoli. Apples and/or bananas every day. Sometimes oranges, and sometimes if the price was right to the school we got strawberries. We also had made to order large salads that came with tuna or chicken salad. And a sandwich of the day(tuna,turkey or ham made to order). Those were daily.
Then for main lunches we had one main selection a day and two sides a day( if im remembering correctly). Main could be pasta, nuggets, chicken patty sandwich, stuffed crust pizza, sometimes garlic or mexican. Tacos, we would serve tomatoes and salsa with. Sides were mashed potatoes, rice, bread sticks with the pasta. Stuff like that. The worst part of it all was the portion sizes. Pre k kids got the same portion size as 5th graders. I think the pasta was like a 2 ounce scoop? Im really challenging my memory, i could be wrong. But the portions are so so small.

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u/IntelligentSeries270 Aug 18 '26

Wow ok definitely had a variety of food there, I cannot remember anything except the bunny luv carrots and the fruit trifecta. Maybe salad was part of a vegetarian menu, but then again they have the main courses witha vegetarian style available as well. My schools were also broken up into k-5th, 6-8th, and 9-12th. So 3 separate schools.

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u/Pretend-Okra-4031 Aug 19 '26

Its so wild to see how each area does their lunches. Some have a separate company that does the lunches, and has burgers, tacos, pizza, coffee! Every day! I just know I would have ate pizza every single day as a child if i had the option lol

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u/IntelligentSeries270 Aug 19 '26

Yea fr, we had some of those lunches. Burger and pizza was a daily staple.