You Gonna Eat That?
I remember school lunches in Boston as being a celebration of mostly fried foods, so processed they no longer resembled the name given them. You were never sure if you were eating breaded chicken or breaded fish, for example. I rarely bought one because I usually brought a sandwich for lunch. But the little I recall of them, they weren't exactly healthy. Though that was Boston in the eighties, before child obesity became one of the foremost problems of childhood and adolescence. Lately, I've seen comparisons of school lunches in the U.S. with lunches in Europe. The U.S. still fares poorly. But it still fares better than Spain. Ever since school lunches have been mostly outsourced to catering businesses, lunch has become a Russian roulette of spoiled meals, or raw dishes, or too little food. The regional government's attempt to save money has meant children who eat at school might or might not end up eating healthily. The catering businesses have to bid to get the contr...