Greasy pizza. Mushy fruit. Salad made of just lettuce. This is an example of a lunch many school kids eat when they get lunch from their school cafeteria. Students joke, and complain, and rebel against meals like these, Patrik Jonsson discusses this in his article ‘’Kids rebel against bland foods in lunch line: Time for a 'pasta exemption'?’’ (2015). He talks about how kids are responding to all these regulations on school food.
“School lunches have been the subject of jokes, snickers, and outright mockery since at least the 1980s” (Jonsson, 2015, para. 4). This statement sums up what many kids talk about during lunchtime. I hear people complaining about what they’ve found on their lunch plates almost daily, how there’s no flavor, and if there is, it’s not a good one. Some students will refuse to eat lunch even if they are hungry because they simply don’t like the food the school provides. …show more content…
He quotes Julie Gunlock who speaks about the point of the lunch program, saying it was meant to get children to eat healthy, not to make them disgusted by the food because they cannot flavor it (Jonsson, 2015). Following this, Jonsson talks about how some students take it so far as to sell potato chips on a black market. While I do know of students as well as teachers who bring their own salt to school, I have never heard of people selling things such as potato chips black market-style. However, students often bring their own junk food for the day. It’s impossible to completely regulate what students eat in