Imagine you’ve been waiting all morning to get food. Your stomach is grumbling and your mouth is watering. You’re craving a nice crispy chicken. You get into the lunch line all excited only to pick up your chicken and are shocked. The side they allow you to see when you pick up the chicken looks pretty normal, but as soon as you flip it over you’re presented with the most slimy looking chicken to ever grace the earth. It’s all mushy and gooey. So now, you have to starve because of the ratty chicken they give you. And lets say that the front and back do look good, when you bite into the chicken, there are either hard or chewy pieces. Now, once again, you have to starve.  Why?

If you check the internet, you’ll find that most of the school lunches in America are like this according to the students who have to eat them. Chewy or decomposed looking chicken unless you go to a super rich private school and you have chick-fil-a or chipolte for your options. But if you take a look at lunches in other schools, you’ll see how much better their students are treated. For example, school’s in Italy serve their kids  a starchy dish (altering rice, pasta and soup), a main course (based on meat, fish, eggs or cheese), two or more vegetable side dishes and plenty of fresh fruit. The fruit alone is enough to have you shocked. If you have  ever gotten an apple from the lunch room you know that the apples are usually mushy. So the fact that they have fresh fruit is something worth being jealous for.

Another country that serves their kids better food is Brazil. First of all, Brazil gives their kids lunches for free. But here we have to pay at least like $30 a week just to keep from going hungry. Sometimes kids can’t afford to bring lunches to school. So they buy the cheap lunches. But eventually all the money spent on school lunches add up. I understand not all schools in Brazil have free lunches but the fact that some do show their consideration for their students. The kids in Brazil eat rice, beans, roast meat with vegetables and cabbage and a carrot salad. There’s a chance some of these foods could be gross to some people but, they are thought out and cooked properly and probably not rotting everyday.

One of my friends, Addison, gets lunch every single day at school. She normally gets the pizza or the chicken. This is what she has to say about it, “I think the school lunches are okay at times. It really just depends every day. One day it could taste great and another day it tastes a bit crappy. Usually more on the crappy side. The pizza is typically the most promising and tastes the most normal. It’s the bread and the cheese that throws me off most of the time. I don’t really ever get the chicken sandwiches but when I do it’s always disappointing.” I agree with Addison on the pizza and the chicken sandwiches. The first day of school I got a chicken sandwich and I was extremely disappointed as well. It just wasn’t good and there were little crusty’s inside of the chicken. I didn’t get the sandwich once after that.

Another one of my friends, Jasmine, also gets food everyday. She says every day she tries something new. This is what she said about our schools lunches, “I think the pizza is terrible. Specifically the buffalo ranch pizza. It is so greasy and has way too much cheese on it making it taste gross Plus the cheese itself is pretty bad so when they put way too much on it, it ruins the whole thing. I also find the Mexican pretty gross because the rice can be a bit too hard and chewy and the chicken is usually undercooked. The lettuce also tastes a bit rotten too. Almost like it’s been in the water for way too long. It’s like you’re eating wet paper.” I totally agree with Jasmine. Also to add onto the Mexican food review, when you get the little bowl of the lettuce and the cheese there is always so much lettuce and not enough cheese. And this cheese actually tastes good and we need more of it.

So overall, we can conclude that Lake Mary High School needs to make their lunches better and their students happier.