A teacher has been left feeling disgusted at the "depressing" dinner his school served up to both staff and students. He explained how he joined the lunch line only to be served a mini pizza and chunks of what turned out to be sweet potato.
While he didn't share how much the meal set him back, the history teacher claims most of the school decided to go hungry that day rather than bite into the "cardboard" pizza and "mystery" chunks. He said on Reddit: "My school's lunch for today. Allegedly they are sweet potatoes." When one user commented: "Nothing sweet about those," he responded: "After consuming one, I asked my students what they thought, they said the same thing."
Another user added: "Wow - that is just pathetic. I would be in front of the school board ripping a strip. Prisoners get better food than that."
A third user said: "It looks like something you would find at a gas station around 10.30pm after food has been sitting under the heat lamp for about eight hours."
One more user added: "This should be illegal."
The measly-looking meal sparked a debate into how schools decide to spend their money, with some suggesting they'd rather invest in sports programmes than provide their students with a substantial meal.
One user said: "Sorry, but the football team needed new uniforms."
Another user added: "I literally thought this was a plate with dog food on it. Not that any dog (or human) deserves this.
"Crazy how the government always finds lots of money for useless stuff, but making sure our 'future' i.e. our kids have proper nutrition and are healthy - nope, no money for that.
"Tragic, truly. This makes me so sad."
It comes after a high school in western America was slammed for the "disgusting" meal they served to students before the Christmas break.
The student explained how the servers at his school proudly scooped the meal on to his tray while wishing him a merry Christmas.
Taking to Reddit, he said: "My school's Christmas dinner. It's hard to tell from the picture but the 'ham' is bright red.
"The other option was chicken strips which actually looked good but of course they had to run out right before I got in line."
He says the toxic-looking ham and mash potatoes tasted "horrible" - but the rest of the meal wasn't all that bad.
"The ham was not warm, it was sitting in a pool of opaque liquid before they served it", he added.
"I ate a piece and it tastes kind of metallic and not like meat. I'm just concerned that it is unnaturally red. Even though I'm starving, I'm going to leave the mystery slab alone.
"The gravy tastes like someone put dirt in a bucket of dollar store vegetable oil. The potatoes sucked, but the other stuff was fine, probably because it was fruit and vegetables."
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