Countless students complain about the food served in our cafeteria, yet that hasn’t stopped anyone from eating it. Why eat something you don’t want when you have the option of bringing your own lunch, which is more than likely to be a healthy alternative? The food served for lunch in our school isn’t as bad as everyone claims. Contrary to popular belief, the school lunch isn’t different parts of Frankenstein’s monster. There are some serious problems that should be addressed, though. The lack of juice on certain days of the week, C Lunch and the occasional expired pack of apples found at breakfast in the mornings leaves everyone in chaos when entering the cafeteria.
Tuesdays and Thursdays are the two days of the week when tears are shed over the lack of juice served. Why this happens, and why it only happens on these two days of the week, is the biggest mystery in Freedom High School. Students have become so aware of the days where juice is not served that the terms “Dehydration Tuesdays” and “Thirsty Thursdays” were coined for the occasion and is now widespread in the school. On top of this, we have to pay extra money if we want water instead of milk. Any student who may be lactose intolerant has to pay more to avoid major digestion issues. Does this make any sense?
The lunch menu is generally consistent, giving a choice of a wrap, chicken salad, pizza or a fourth choice that is randomly selected each day.
Junior Ryan Kaufman noticed that this fourth choice the cafeteria serves contains a lot of the same lunches. “I’m pretty sure we’ve had Chicken Patties for a few weeks now,” Kaufman said. While everyone would love to see a wider variety of food, it’s doubtful that doing so would result in fewer complaints.
All those issues aside, the real flaw of the food system is C Lunch.The question of there being enough food for everyone in the cafeteria at that time is a delicate one. It’s not unlike the end of the world. It’s practically like Dec. 23, 2012 in the lunch room during C Lunches. Most of the time, they’ve run out of enough food for everyone to be able to get what they wanted to eat. The chance of getting any leftovers from the lunch room that day is scarce, but the rays of hope from the possibility of extra food being handed out encourage the students to try to look forward to this dreaded lunch.
Everyone understands that the cafeteria food has downfalls, but it’s sort of a first-world problem, isn’t it? The choice to pack a lunch you would rather enjoy with as much juice and food as you want is always there. And, maybe by doing that, you’d help save some lunch for the poor kids with C Lunch.