A Harrisonburg, VA school system thought it was a good idea to put photos of their school lunches on their website. But what they didn't realize is that the food they were taking pictures of was a collection of the most unappetizing piles of garbage you wouldn't feed to a dying hamster.
And for some reason, they decided to give each dish a name (sometimes it would be an "extreme" name like "Chicken Fryz") and put the dish's abbreviation in the upper corner of each photo. I guess this is so you can print these out, put them in alphabetical order and reminisce about the time you once ate a CSS and lived.
This might explain the increase in heart attacks among Harrisonburg sixth graders.
It's no coincedence that the abbreviation for this dish is "BM."
I'm guessing you might need a little more sauce to choke down those cardboard sticks.
If you cut white bread up into rectangles and give it a European name, it's still slices of white bread.
That potato needs some more cheese. And we need a science lab to figure out what's in that cup next to it.
Not only do they us a Z, but they also spell "Fryz" with a Y. Food doesn't get anymore extreme than this. (Kids love to eat extreme things, FYI.)
As you can see, the corn dog is such a complete nutritional package that it needs no sides.
This sandwich used to be called the "Ebola Chicken Sandwich.
This sandwich's abbreviation is "MS" because this sandwich is full of Multiple Sclerosis.
If this meat was any grayer, it would be attached to my grandfather's corpse.
I swear to God, they took a photo of a lunchbox to show you what a packed lunch looks like.
Ahh, the nuanced flavors of French cuisine.
For those of you keeping score at home, the abbreviation for spaghetti is "S."
I don't know what this is.
This could also be called the "Totally Burnt To A Tasteless Crisp Pizza."
This is Thanksgiving dinner just like Mom used to make. (When she was in a coma.)
if i had to eat that shit i would commit suicide first. i thought my school lunches were bad but that stuff up there looks like it came out of a animals asshole. but im licky this year i go to a school were you can get pizza hut or mcy d's somedays and the food isreal food not that alien food up there
I think that roast beef sandwich looks delicious. The turkey meal and the pizza look pretty decent too. We also had those pizza sticks, never any sauce, though. That was our breakfast a lot of the time. Us New Mexicans get mostly, you guessed it, mexican food. Even if it was horrid you get jalapenos or salsa to mask the awful flavor. Or shell out an extra dollar to get Pizza Hut or a sald.
if my wife would make food like that I would eat like a king... but in the school that I went to in Kodiak AK it was a lot like hitting a drive thru in some small third world cuntry.
There wont be no question about it, why most of americans are fat.
where are the god damn vegetables!
i wouldnt eat that crap.... whats with the cheese.
Those are NOT barbeque meatballs!! Plus the taco patty looks like a fuckin turd in a taco shell! And look at the cheeseburger macaroni. That shit looks like it could kill you instantly. This is the same food they feed prisoners!
thats gross but some of that stuff it better then the stuff we get all we get is greasy pizza, bag of chips filled with meat(travaling tacos) and chicken nuggets
When I was in elementary school, almost all of our lunch ladies were Dunkards. They made everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, from scratch. It was awesome. After elementary school, I never ate school lunch. That stuff above looks like the background of a Garbage Pail Kid card.
Good God no wonder Childhood obesity is so rampant in the school system these days. I cant believe the state approved that to be a healthy diet for kids.
I am from Northern Europe and although our school meals were not always very tasty and the menu often included meals (there was no choice) we did not like at all, it was at least 100x healthier than this.
Everything in those photos looks so fatty - and no veg around. On top of that all the fat seems saturated and not one of those meals contains any fibre. The worst form of calories here. In comparison to this I am rather happy they fed us with cabbage soup and ground liver sauce with potatoes among more tasty meals. (I hated both).
Oh man. It's sad that I can look at that and tell that my old high school probably gets food from the same place. I can actually pick things out like "My school had this, that, and an even more disgusting version of that." Those taco patties can't even compare to our school's tacos.
Man, I'm glad I go to a college with a decent food court now. :D
when i was in middle school we used to get Green sponge pizza ( the green part was mold) Stale bread an A few insects in our meals, one kid got a big spider in his sandwich
I'm glad i'm from England looking at the food you guys are being served. I'm in secondry school (I don't know what you would call it =p) and we get much better food. We have about the same amount of options and a lot tastier, healthier food. It is also cheap!
All the horrible memories of school lunches are coming back to me now.
We had "creole spaghetti" made with macaroni noodles; "pizza boats" made with boat-shaped French bread (?); some kind of tamales - complete with corn husk; salisbury steak (never again); meatloaf with ketchup squiggles on top; and everyone's favorite - Frito pie. Talk about gastrointestinal distress.
The only reasons I went to lunch were Little Debbies and Blue Bell ice cream bars.
Well....Parents don't want to pay more than 1.50 for their kids lunch. Your kids get what you pay for. That much said, most kids really don't have much of a sense of taste. They eat what what is familiar. I remember being totally stoked about what would be to me now nasty awful pizza.
Quit blaming cheese for Americans being fat. Americans are fat because they eat huge quantities of red meat, enriched white bread, corn-oil everything, sodium, sugary sodas, and saturated fat. Have you seen portion sizes in our restaurants? And they act like it's a contest to see who can eat more. Disgusting.
I've been eating cheese several times a day since childhood, as did my whole family. Not a fattie in the lot.
I have not, however, ever had a "taco patty". Public school lunches traumatized me because the cheese was mostly made of salt and vegetable oil and I refused to eat it. Greasy fried things made of salt and oil, not actual dairy cheese, because public school systems can't afford REAL CHEESE. :)
Actually, we had the pizza sticks when I were in highschool, and they weren't to terrible. I mean, they weren't great, but compared to the rest the images they look quite inviting, to me.
i am so glad there are a ton of rich people in my school district....if my school served stuff like that i would die. we have food that actually looks like food....although the italian dunkers i think theyre called cheese filled pizza sticks here are pretty amazing.... ;)...but yeah....if i had any of the rest of that bullshit i wouldnt eat.....
omg thats awfull i almost blew my brains out when i saw the bbq meat balls usaly during luck i dont eat anything anyway tho becase they serve nasty shit :)
Wow. I remember my school lunches being bad (usually just really bland, institutionalized crap), but it was never that horrible looking. That stuff is just bad.
I work as a dietary-tech as my current job. I follow the menus to a t for the most part. The guys I cook for have no idea how good they have it. After seeing this, I actually feel really good about myself right now.
I made them baked pork chops, au gratin potatoes (with real cheddar cheese, not cheese food product), and broccoli with parmesan cheese for dinner tonight. They seemed to like it. Maybe I should makes some "Italian Dunkers" some night and see how well that goes over. They would probably mutiny.
truly nasty shit i agree with alex or the bbq meat balls
also thier right .If you cut white bread up into rectangles and give it a European name, it’s still slices of white bread. .....truly fucking hilarios
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June 2nd, 2009 at 05:36 am
I want some crack!
May 30th, 2009 at 07:40 am
if i had to eat that shit i would commit suicide first. i thought my school lunches were bad but that stuff up there looks like it came out of a animals asshole. but im licky this year i go to a school were you can get pizza hut or mcy d's somedays and the food isreal food not that alien food up there
July 18th, 2009 at 08:54 pm
I think that roast beef sandwich looks delicious. The turkey meal and the pizza look pretty decent too. We also had those pizza sticks, never any sauce, though. That was our breakfast a lot of the time. Us New Mexicans get mostly, you guessed it, mexican food. Even if it was horrid you get jalapenos or salsa to mask the awful flavor. Or shell out an extra dollar to get Pizza Hut or a sald.
June 17th, 2009 at 05:18 pm
These pics sorta made me hungry =(
October 2nd, 2009 at 08:05 pm
if my wife would make food like that I would eat like a king... but in the school that I went to in Kodiak AK it was a lot like hitting a drive thru in some small third world cuntry.
August 20th, 2008 at 06:40 am
Hello,
For your information, roast beef croissant ha nothing to do with french cuisine, thank God !
Disgusting ^^
August 20th, 2008 at 09:14 am
Don't they eat any vegetables and fruits?
August 20th, 2008 at 10:25 am
There wont be no question about it, why most of americans are fat.
where are the god damn vegetables!
i wouldnt eat that crap.... whats with the cheese.
August 20th, 2008 at 11:37 am
Those are NOT barbeque meatballs!! Plus the taco patty looks like a fuckin turd in a taco shell! And look at the cheeseburger macaroni. That shit looks like it could kill you instantly. This is the same food they feed prisoners!
August 20th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
We, in Canadien army Forces, have more good quality then that. Its verry stupid that they feed our kids with those shits.
August 21st, 2008 at 01:31 pm
The ORC actually looks like Orc meat. Absolutely disgusting. Could I get a side of owlbear wings? lol
August 21st, 2008 at 02:03 pm
thats gross but some of that stuff it better then the stuff we get all we get is greasy pizza, bag of chips filled with meat(travaling tacos) and chicken nuggets
August 21st, 2008 at 03:47 pm
I believe that if I throw up after a night of drinking, it would look more tasty than this cr*p!
August 21st, 2008 at 09:20 pm
When I was in elementary school, almost all of our lunch ladies were Dunkards. They made everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, from scratch. It was awesome. After elementary school, I never ate school lunch. That stuff above looks like the background of a Garbage Pail Kid card.
August 22nd, 2008 at 05:07 pm
No wonder that the world is going to a epidemic of fat ass people look what u are feeding the children!
August 22nd, 2008 at 06:30 pm
Good God no wonder Childhood obesity is so rampant in the school system these days. I cant believe the state approved that to be a healthy diet for kids.
August 22nd, 2008 at 08:37 pm
That biscut with the "Chicken Fryz" looks raw. delectable.lol
August 22nd, 2008 at 08:42 pm
I am from Northern Europe and although our school meals were not always very tasty and the menu often included meals (there was no choice) we did not like at all, it was at least 100x healthier than this.
Everything in those photos looks so fatty - and no veg around. On top of that all the fat seems saturated and not one of those meals contains any fibre. The worst form of calories here. In comparison to this I am rather happy they fed us with cabbage soup and ground liver sauce with potatoes among more tasty meals. (I hated both).
August 22nd, 2008 at 11:25 pm
that stuff looks tasty
August 23rd, 2008 at 04:22 am
Call HazMat!!! Especially for the taco patties.
August 23rd, 2008 at 05:06 pm
too bad for them, my lunches are awesome
August 24th, 2008 at 03:28 am
Oh man. It's sad that I can look at that and tell that my old high school probably gets food from the same place. I can actually pick things out like "My school had this, that, and an even more disgusting version of that." Those taco patties can't even compare to our school's tacos.
Man, I'm glad I go to a college with a decent food court now. :D
August 24th, 2008 at 08:06 am
actually my high schools has some of this stuff
and the CFPS i LOVE those things
i think they're delicious
August 24th, 2008 at 07:40 pm
when i was in middle school we used to get Green sponge pizza ( the green part was mold) Stale bread an A few insects in our meals, one kid got a big spider in his sandwich
August 24th, 2008 at 09:12 pm
I'm glad i'm from England looking at the food you guys are being served. I'm in secondry school (I don't know what you would call it =p) and we get much better food. We have about the same amount of options and a lot tastier, healthier food. It is also cheap!
August 24th, 2008 at 09:13 pm
The only way that meatball sub could get any worse is if you microwaved a used condom and delicately tucked it inside.
August 25th, 2008 at 03:03 am
All the horrible memories of school lunches are coming back to me now.
We had "creole spaghetti" made with macaroni noodles; "pizza boats" made with boat-shaped French bread (?); some kind of tamales - complete with corn husk; salisbury steak (never again); meatloaf with ketchup squiggles on top; and everyone's favorite - Frito pie. Talk about gastrointestinal distress.
The only reasons I went to lunch were Little Debbies and Blue Bell ice cream bars.
August 25th, 2008 at 03:06 am
Well....Parents don't want to pay more than 1.50 for their kids lunch. Your kids get what you pay for. That much said, most kids really don't have much of a sense of taste. They eat what what is familiar. I remember being totally stoked about what would be to me now nasty awful pizza.
August 25th, 2008 at 04:08 am
Wow, those look delicious compared to the school lunches I'm used to. Except the meatball sub, of course. This one looks terrible.
August 25th, 2008 at 01:20 pm
They all look lovely. Apart from the chicken and taco patty.
August 25th, 2008 at 04:57 pm
once i had chicken fryz at my school and i puked everywhere until i couldnt puke anymore
it was pretty extreme
August 25th, 2008 at 05:46 pm
That isn't spaghetti. It's french fries with meat.
August 25th, 2008 at 08:44 pm
The sad thing is, this might be the best food some kids get all day.
August 25th, 2008 at 08:51 pm
Quit blaming cheese for Americans being fat. Americans are fat because they eat huge quantities of red meat, enriched white bread, corn-oil everything, sodium, sugary sodas, and saturated fat. Have you seen portion sizes in our restaurants? And they act like it's a contest to see who can eat more. Disgusting.
I've been eating cheese several times a day since childhood, as did my whole family. Not a fattie in the lot.
I have not, however, ever had a "taco patty". Public school lunches traumatized me because the cheese was mostly made of salt and vegetable oil and I refused to eat it. Greasy fried things made of salt and oil, not actual dairy cheese, because public school systems can't afford REAL CHEESE. :)
August 26th, 2008 at 04:33 am
Actually, we had the pizza sticks when I were in highschool, and they weren't to terrible. I mean, they weren't great, but compared to the rest the images they look quite inviting, to me.
August 26th, 2008 at 01:36 pm
It'd be more nutritious to throw away the kid's food and eat the kids instead
August 27th, 2008 at 06:18 am
That all looks way better than what any of my schools has served in the past. Including the salads. And people still wonder why I bring my lunch...
August 27th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
I think something that needs to get a little more attention in this discussion is the fact that they took a picture of a lunchbox and labeled it 'pl'.
August 28th, 2008 at 12:07 am
i am so glad there are a ton of rich people in my school district....if my school served stuff like that i would die. we have food that actually looks like food....although the italian dunkers i think theyre called cheese filled pizza sticks here are pretty amazing.... ;)...but yeah....if i had any of the rest of that bullshit i wouldnt eat.....
August 29th, 2008 at 12:16 am
omg thats awfull i almost blew my brains out when i saw the bbq meat balls usaly during luck i dont eat anything anyway tho becase they serve nasty shit :)
August 29th, 2008 at 12:19 am
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August 29th, 2008 at 04:07 am
Wow. I remember my school lunches being bad (usually just really bland, institutionalized crap), but it was never that horrible looking. That stuff is just bad.
I work as a dietary-tech as my current job. I follow the menus to a t for the most part. The guys I cook for have no idea how good they have it. After seeing this, I actually feel really good about myself right now.
I made them baked pork chops, au gratin potatoes (with real cheddar cheese, not cheese food product), and broccoli with parmesan cheese for dinner tonight. They seemed to like it. Maybe I should makes some "Italian Dunkers" some night and see how well that goes over. They would probably mutiny.
August 29th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
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truly nasty shit i agree with alex or the bbq meat balls
also thier right .If you cut white bread up into rectangles and give it a European name, it’s still slices of white bread. .....truly fucking hilarios
:) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :).........
August 29th, 2008 at 03:12 pm
hahahahah sucks for u we get chick fillet hahahahahahaha
August 29th, 2008 at 08:16 pm
i lol'd so hard @ Italian Dunkers xD are those luch ladies crackheads??
August 30th, 2008 at 12:29 am
I am soooooooooooooooooooooooo glad they dont serve this crap @ my school
August 30th, 2008 at 12:34 am
I WOULD HATE TO BE THOSE PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
August 30th, 2008 at 02:56 am
Taco Patty recipe
1 patty
2 taco shells
rip patty in two pieces and place one piece in each shell. serve.
August 30th, 2008 at 05:59 pm
My school serves the cheese filled pizza sticks and they're actually really good.
But chya everything else looks gross.
August 31st, 2008 at 09:52 am
Ha. I had to go to college before I got nasty caf food.
But then again pretty much everything on that list looks good to me.
And the stuff in the bowl next to the potato is a shredded meat of some kind, chicken is my guess.
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