Elizabeth Harrington documents for the Washington Free Beacon the ongoing saga of American public school students’ negative reaction to new school lunch offerings.
Desperate students are still taking to Twitter to reveal the horrors of school lunch under First Lady Michelle Obama’s rules, including empty chicken nuggets and complaints that meals taste like “prison food.”
While the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) raves about “locally sourced chicken sandwiches” that meet nutrition standards served in a school district in South Carolina, students across the country complain about what they are eating under the new rules.
“My poor little sister has to eat prison food #ThanksMichelleObama,” one student tweeted on Friday.
Students are unhappy about their “chickpea sliders” and whole grain pizza, mandated by the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act, which was championed by Mrs. Obama. The USDA has a 33-page guide—complete with flow charts—telling schools how they can meet the whole grain requirements.
Many students complain about meager portions. One student was served only a plate of nachos with a side of coffee-flavored fat-free milk.
“This is not anywhere near enough….” tweeted another, with a picture of an unidentified piece of mystery meat.
“WHAT IS THIS!??!,?!!?” a student tweeted about their meat serving. Examples of questionable meat servings are numerous.
