Everyone knows how bad public school lunch can be. There’s always something to complain about, but we have to eat it because it’s the only thing we have. It seems like with all the tax money that we give they could at least give us some decent food.
Almost every kid loves junk food and sugary carbonated drinks, but a few years ago JCPS took colas and fatty snacks out of the schools. They replaced them with ‘healthy’ alternatives, like baked chips and granola bars; and cokes with juice and water. But have the students really gotten any healthier?
They can take away calorie ridden food but we are only at school for half the day, and only nine months out of the year. Changing one meal at school isn’t going to improve anything. Kids will just go home and stuff their faces with bad food.
School lunch is rather inedible. Even if you do drench it in ranch and hot sauce it’s not going to mask the cold, soggy, rubbery chicken patty flavor.The only good thing is maybe a roll if you are able to snatch up a warm soft middle one before everyone else does, or you’re stuck with the edge pieces.
Pizza day is a great day for students and everyone rushes to the lunch line to get there first and get their slice of pizza. It’s kind of ridiculous but if you want a good piece and ranch you have to hustle to beat everyone else. Even though it’s Papa Johns it can still be dry and flavorless.
Other days, when there isn’t delicious pizza to eat, school offers a $3.25 lunch. It’s much better then the regular lunch because it has different selections like pop corn chicken and warm fries and you get a caned drink with it. So I guess you can say that for a school lunch it is at the least decent food.
Some people, but not many, bring their lunches to school. For one, if you have something cold you need to put in a fridge, or if you have something you need to heat up, you’re usually out of luck. Unless you’re friends with a teacher that will let you use their appliances. Then when you get to the lunch room everyone is trying to pick off your lunch, just because it’s so much better than what they have.
Private schools, on the other hand, almost always have nice lunches. Sometimes they even serve tasty breakfast, chicken tenders, cheesy tots or get Arby’s. The seniors can get soft drinks and there are no lunch numbers to deal with, so you can go up to the line as many times as your little tummy will allow. It may be more expensive, but we should have choices like this, so that kids can decide whether they would want to spend their money on it.
We can all agree that lunch at school just plain isn’t good. There’s probably not a lot that we can do about this. But it’s been an issue since the dawn of time and might even continue to get worse. At the very least they could put back in the “garbage” so we could have something real to eat, and as for sodas, yes they do have a lot of sugar, but there is a thing called diet and low calorie.
October 9th, 2009 at 7:49 am
ilooooovvve jtowns ranch! its amazing but i think they add water and sugar to make it last all three lunches and also taste good
November 11th, 2009 at 7:19 am
i do not like school lunches. for the price im paying, i can go to mcds and get somthing i like.
November 11th, 2009 at 7:20 am
yes i totally agree with her, she is right we should have choices, we dont need lunch numbers….
November 11th, 2009 at 8:10 am
yes, school lunch can be horrible but if all of the students of jtown stop to think for a second, they will realize that millions of homeless people dont even eat a meal a day
November 14th, 2009 at 8:22 pm
I have never ate a school lunch from jtown before mostly becuase while im walking to 3rd and 4th period the smell of the food cooking makes me sick to my stomach.
November 20th, 2009 at 7:20 am
i dont eat school lunch
November 23rd, 2009 at 12:06 pm
J-town school lunches could be worse but they do have good ranch!
November 24th, 2009 at 6:26 am
I AGREE WITH HER I THINK THIS WAS THE BEST ONE…
December 5th, 2009 at 7:55 pm
There is absolutely no excuse for what they serve. I have 3rd lunch and it is the worst one to have. They always run out of something especially om pizza day. Also I agree with evan. You could most definately go to McDonalds and get better food. Eating healthy should be our choice. Instead it is forced upon us.
January 6th, 2010 at 7:16 am
According to an article recently provided to me via my english teacher, jails serve better food then schools.
January 12th, 2010 at 9:30 am
school lunch is absolutly awful.
I wish that all the food was fresh and not frozen and just heated up.
January 12th, 2010 at 10:20 am
The school lunch is not the best food ever but some people at home might not eat and it might be their only meal of the day so i dont complain about it. But i really do like pizza day
January 12th, 2010 at 10:21 am
i think that jtowns school food is nasty because it isnt good
January 12th, 2010 at 10:22 am
i think the school lunches food is completely nasty haha except for the 3 dollar(Good Lunch)thats the only thing worth buying at this school
January 12th, 2010 at 10:26 am
School Lunch Isn’t Bad , It Just Isn’t Good . If You Are Really Hungry , You Will Eat School Lunch Regardless .
January 12th, 2010 at 11:24 am
Our Lunch Sucks!
I don’t doubt that for one second Christina. LoL
Oh and Sometimes The Ranch Tastes Horrible. :(])
January 12th, 2010 at 12:03 pm
I think school lunch could deff be better. They aint really feedin us because we dont eat cause we dont like it.
January 14th, 2010 at 6:15 am
i agree.school lunches are nasty
January 14th, 2010 at 6:19 am
School lunches are cold and nasty. If everyone doesn’t like it then stop eating it. If we stop eating the food then they will have all this food that no one has eat and they will have to throw it away, and then the school will lose money, and then maybe the school will stop and think that maybe we don’t like the school lunch and maybe they will get better food for us.
January 14th, 2010 at 8:08 am
our school lunch need to be changed
January 14th, 2010 at 8:10 am
RIGHT OUR LUNCH ISNT THE BEST BUT I GUESS WE
HAVE TOO LIVE WITH IT
January 14th, 2010 at 9:05 am
Our school lunch is a plan……..beast
January 14th, 2010 at 9:06 am
School lunch is on the A game, and stop complaning it’s beast diseal.
January 14th, 2010 at 11:53 am
Our lunches need more variety
January 14th, 2010 at 11:54 am
School lunches need more variety especially the $3.25 lunches
January 14th, 2010 at 11:55 am
I agree, we do need better lunches.
January 14th, 2010 at 12:06 pm
Our lunch is horrible. I think we need better stuff then what we have.
- the ranch an papa john is the only forreal good thing to eat.
January 21st, 2010 at 5:56 am
…I wish my school lunch didn’t make me sick :,(
January 21st, 2010 at 5:56 am
help ?
January 21st, 2010 at 6:24 am
I think they need to start buying real food then artificial stuff.
January 25th, 2010 at 9:19 am
maaaaan i donnt like the lunch except for on wednesday and even the papa johns taste different from when i get it from home for some strange reason
February 3rd, 2010 at 8:08 am
I agree. The lunches i had at Christian Academy were like going out to eat at a fancy buffet every day. We had popsicles, and arbys, and kfc, ; pizza, soda machines throughout the school, (MAKING MONEY, FOR THE SCHOOL, MIGHT I ADD) OH, ; by saying some people only get one meal a day at jtown, so dont complain… That’s a tad bit crazy, in my opinion. If you only get one meal a day, can’t it at LEAST be nice tasting, appetizing, or not cold/rubbery? Especially if you’re paying for it and know people around you get better food at home? Or possibly make it to where we’re not eating either the same thing all week or leftovers all week. I feel sorry for the lunch ladies, because it is not necessarily their faults, but when food looks like mushed together things that have been sitting in your refridgerator for a month, they are not appetizing, and usually if it looks bad, nobody is going to eat it. Kids might stock up on rolls if it is their only meal, mainly because of the taste or look of the food ; they cannot afford the 3dollar lunch.
February 3rd, 2010 at 8:13 am
Papa Johns hardly makes the pizzas they send to schools. They halfway do them, due to the large amount they have to make for multiple schools.
It’s better if you order pizza from home, of course.
If you had to make over 100 pizzas, would you do all of them to their fullest potential? With the economy getting bad,they’re going to cut down on all of these pizza ingredients, especially since the school is probably getting a good deal on all of these pizzas.
It’s ridiculous, but there’s really nothing you can do, and that part of lunch isn’t the school cafeteria’s problem this time.
Just F.Y.I.
February 10th, 2010 at 10:19 am
Thanks for a insightfull post.