Literally the worst food I've ever eaten in school lunches, this is the "efficient logistics" which makes the DSA PMC believe Walmart is a better system than Soviet Russia's planned economy. Fresh food is too difficult under this mode of production, its easier to get kids these processed and salted/cured meats that cause horrible illness.

Two types of Lunchables with “improved nutrition” will be served in grades K-12 schools as soon as this fall.

They finally used food-grade vegetable oil instead of mineral oil

Here is my ode to Lunchables, the most MBA-friendly product to ever exist, with a significant footnote for the nutritionally suspicious element within. Ultimately, as schools become more strapped for cash, we will see more of these deals come about — and it’s a spooky indicator for our country’s health outlook.

Freightwaves.com go on the Adam Friedland Show bitch

As Moss wrote about in the 2013 book, a team of Oscar Mayer executives created Lunchables in part as a way to integrate the processed ham, bologna and pepperoni that were falling out of popularity with suddenly health-conscious Americans.

the nitrate industry needs more digestive system cancer deaths to feed their perverse feeder fetish

Through the past few decades, a series of mergers gave Oscar Mayer a slew of sister brands to also include in its Lunchables — like Ritz crackers, Kraft processed cheese and Capri-Sun from Philip Morris. That helped make the meals a win across the entire company, Moss wrote.

wait Capri-Sun is a tobacco corporate product? Makes sense, it has demonic branding and is sickly sweet, the woke left upholds this "small consumer joy" brought to you by McKinsey :pete:

Another glory attained by the Lunchables was its supply chain superiority. Automated factory lines can quickly slice and place the components on their small trays. After they’re produced, the food can stay edible for months. Unfortunately, this meant Lunchables could never include fresh veggies and fruits.

my grandma canning vegetables for the winter would be shocked and appalled at this Godless abomination

“The inventors of the Lunchables wanted to include carrots and celery and sliced apples, knowing that those were better things to give kids than a candy bar,” Moss told FreightWaves. “But they immediately kind of ran into the problem that this product, like most processed products, had to sit in the warehouse and then sit on the truck, and then sit in the grocery store, and then sit in someone’s fridge for days and weeks, if not months. The inventors could not figure out how to put something fresh into the transport system.”

DSA: "Walmart is a model for a planned economy, actually it's based to have giant trains like the ones that go through Ohio, degrowth wants to make us poor and malnourished. My local farm chicken will NEVER eat bugs to produce high protein eggs or meat available to nearby kids"

Decades later, the food industry still can’t figure out how to do that.

$$$$ can't $$$ figure $$$$ out :porky-happy:

“When you talk to people who are trying to change the food system for the better … the freight problem is the biggest one they’re facing in trying to figure out how to deliver freshness in a way that’s still affordable,” Moss said.

Locally sourced degrowth logistics are not possible under capitalism, it's not "affordable" to the satanic archons currently mining our planet of orgone

Consumers have become used to the idea that you could buy an actual meal from the grocery store and eat it right away. Sure, potato chips and pretzels have been around for a while as snacks, along with canned soups for a real meal, but the concept that you could pick up a product that has your drink, main food and even a dessert — no microwave or can opener necessary — was revolutionary in the late 1980s.

neoliberalism is indeed a revolution, a bourgeois counter-revolution which woke leftists now cheer as "consumer freedom". Radlibs will probably call you "ableist" for shitting on Lunchables because "some people can't slice their own bologna, check your privilege". bLaCk CoNsUmEr ChOiCe Of PiZzA tOpPiNg MaTtErs!!!

“Lunchables was really kind of the first item in the grocery store that brought the fast-food industry into the supermarket,”

current political economy status: burger country

You really didn’t have stuff in the supermarket that you could just rip open, walk out of the supermarket and eat walking down the street if you wanted to.” (Note: No one should ever do that.)

normalize eating food inside grocery stores, destroy the liberal delusion of being marketplace NPCs who are not-living-in-a-society.

Today, there are 39 Lunchables varieties, ranging from hot dogs to nachos to pizza and “chicken dunks.” The thing about Lunchables is that they’re … kind of disgusting. While writing this article, I have had specific flashbacks to how some of these things tasted and found my face crumpled up in disgust. (Moss wrote in his book that adults disliked Lunchables in taste tests.)

malnourished kids in the sterile capitalist wasteland: (their evolutionary instincts of starvation force them to devour what they perceive as food full of nutrition)

However, this really does not matter for kids. Moss said yet another genius aspect of Lunchables is its marketing. The kits give kids a rare bit of autonomy to make their own meal. And, other kids will be envious of their bright yellow box. And, parents who feel bad that they can’t make their kids lunch themselves may placate themselves by giving them Lunchables.

Children are such slaves to the system that this is their only source of liberation and agency, so sad :amber-snacking:

So that the product can be sold in schools, Kraft Heinz will make special, nutritionally boosted Lunchables. School meals have to meet certain targets pertaining to sodium, whole grains and a host of other components. Crafting new formulations will likely cut out some of the profit margin for Kraft Heinz.

But the opportunity to be in grades K-12 schools and directly selling branded products to students is worth it. Arizona State University professor Kevin Dooley said children will likely be eating Lunchables for a few years in school, but they could be buying Kraft Heinz for the rest of their lives. (They’ll likely even buy Lunchables for their kids when they grow up, too.)

Neofeudalism is real, also this is the same Big Tobacco practice of flavored vapes which woke left cheers. Vaping is HARM REDUCTION according to anarcho-Bidenists lol

It’s a great time for the kings and queens of packaged food to get into selling directly to schools, said Oliver Wyman retail and consumer goods analyst Bobby Gibbs. Inflation means that, even as companies have boosted profits, they’ve seen volume decline. Working with schools could mean volume remains rigorous.

Thanks for the "private-public" partnerships, Obama! Thanks, Black Lives Matter brought to you by Fritos!