Todays lunch at CPS - pizza with a stalk of broccoli?

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  • Mizokon [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

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    Remember the Reddit rage when China initially supplied shit food to athletes during the Olympics? This shit happens all the time in U.S. schools.

    This bit from the wiki page is.. interesting:

    really gross

    In 2013, an investigation by Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Chris Hedges discovered that the food provided to inmates at Burlington County Jail in New Jersey was substandard and spoiled, and often made prisoners sick with diarrhea and vomiting.[38] Maggots found in the food preparation areas at Parnall Correctional Facility in Jackson, Michigan may have been the source of an outbreak of food-borne illness.[39][40] Maggots were also found in Aramark food products at Michigan's Charles Egeler Reception & Guidance Center[41] and two Ohio prisons, the Ohio Reformatory for Women and Trumbull Correctional Institute.[42] Aramark, however, was cleared by the Michigan Department of Corrections of any responsibility for inmate illness and for pests in Michigan.[43] Ohio and Michigan fined Aramark $270,000 and $200,000 respectively.[44]

    In April 2015, the managing board of The Cavalier Daily, a student-run newspaper at the University of Virginia, reported that Aramark literally "served garbage" to inmates in the Saginaw Correctional Facility in Freeland, Michigan. It also noted that Aramark has in the past "underfed inmates and fed them dog food, worms and scraps of food from old meals" and argued that the university should reconsider its relationship with the food services contractor in light of these ethical issues.[45] Michigan's oversight of Aramark's performance was criticized as inadequate in a report released in August 2015 by the group Progress Michigan after Michigan moved to end the contract.[46]

    Likewise, Aramark has been criticized for skimping portion sizes, food safety issues, and overcharging state governments (Michigan, Kentucky, and Florida) that have used their food in prisons; a Kentucky prison riot is reputed to have been caused by the low quality of food Aramark provided to inmates.[47][48]

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      edit-2
      2 years ago

      This bit from the wiki page is… interesting:

      That's on the pizza page?

      Edit: Answered.

      More...

      Aramark

      Chicago Public Schools

      Aramark has been criticized for the "filthy conditions" in Chicago Public Schools following the privatization of janitorial services and Aramark receiving a $260 million contract for their management. Responding to these reports, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said "Aramark's job is to clean the schools, so our principals and teachers can focus on their fundamental responsibility: education. They will either live up to that contract and clean up the schools or they can clean out their desks and get out."

      Aramark executives [redacted].

      • Judge_Juche [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        The bad food pictures that went viral were like grab-and-go boxes that was made by a literal robot and it just looked like hospital food. Everything served by people looked pretty good.

      • ssjmarx [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Honestly, having eaten American MREs they could stand to be more nutrition bar-esque. They're good in theory, but in practice it's really hard to eat them while on the move, so if you're not sitting in one spot for a long enough time you'll just be pouring the uncooked noodles and room temp sauce down your mouth.