REAL WORLD PROBLEMS: Lunchables Shortage

The so-called premium ones are nasty. The regular ones taste better. Sprouts has some good ones from their store brand. But I generally don't eat them.

Has anyone noticed that since flagooner left, three's been a shortage of fruitcups jes sayin

Meal kits, like Hello Fresh, are the Millennial’s dinner version of Lunchables

And stop sending me “OK Boomer” messages. My mailbox is full and I don’t know how to empty it.

Maybe there is a direct correlation with school resuming and a shortage of lunchables?

Shortages of everything it seems; the lunch meat section of our local store was bare bones. Good thing I like balogna.

Oh put-leeze

Mr. Dugan doesn’t have kids. His whole “I’m a demented pervert who is also a family man” act is just that: an act. He’s just a demented pervert.

But if he did have kids he’d send the lil’ Dugans to school with some gummy worms and a can of Bud Light Toasted Marshmallow seltzer

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^^^ that was a classic line!!!! Gummy worms and a marshmallow seltzer!!!

Lunchables? Fuck that, way too expensive. I'd have to dip into my strip club budget, no bueno. Those little shits get the 99¢ loaf of bread with whatever peanut butter and jelly are on sale that week and they should be grateful for it. 😉

All kidding aside, I'll never talk specifics about my babies on this site. Too many of you degenerates get excited by underage girls.

But I've never understood how anyone could send their kids to school with that crap. Shit if you're too lazy or busy to pack lunch, then at least let your kids order. The USDA is literally paying for all standard school lunches for the entire school year under the guise of pandemic relief. The goofy theory behind paying for all kids' lunches, including those in affluent school districts, is to avoid stigmatizing those kids who need free or reduced price lunches. Out tax dollars hard at work.

This would be no problem for juice if he had kids. He'd just load them up on leftover chicken fangers.

Right what a waste of money feeding kids. Of course school lunches should be free.

And there are shortages here too and stores selling greenish blue meat at $6 0er lb

===> "Right what a waste of money feeding kids. Of course school lunches should be free."

There's no such thing as a free lunch. I have no issue with helping the kids who need it, but spending billions of taxpayer dollars for kids who don't need the help is a colossal waste of limited resources.

School lunches are the least of our worries when it comes to government waste of money and resources, such a mean spirited thing to find and quibble about.

^ maybe if it was government subsidized car insurance he would be singing a different tune LOL

You don't need Lunchables. Give you kid a bag of potato chips and a Red Bull.

You guys should try Brown Cow brand yogurt instead of pudding

But I guess some go with pudding for the cosby vibesb😭

Cars, Video Games, Homes is one thing but lunchables, they’ve gone too far this time

"the same ones Juice eats during his lunch break at the plastic fork factory"

I had no idea Juice had advanced his career from the factory where they put the little plastic bands on the end of shoestrings! Congrats juice!

^^^ how else do you think he managed to graduate from the $1-$2 blinds poker table to the $2-$5 blinds!?!?!?

"have no issue with helping the kids who need it, but spending billions of taxpayer dollars for kids who don't need the help is a colossal waste of limited resources."

Fuck them kids.

Feed your own damn kids.

To those who think that burning cash on welfare for affluent families is a swell idea, I'm not sure what else to say, lol.

By opposing the entire program because money gets spent on affluent kids as well. You're propagating taking it away from those who really need it. Just because a program that helps the poor has flaws doesn't mean it's wrong or should be done away with. Doing so would be more detrimental

Let’s just say I know someone pretty well that works at an elementary school (and no it’s not Gawker). This is the most affluent school within the district. Parents are viewed as poor if they drive an Audi A4 or a 3 series Beemer (kidding). Still, being the most affluent school, 20% of the kids in the school live at or below the poverty line. You have a kid who gets their only food at school (breakfast and lunch) sitting next to a kid whose parents just bought a new Mercedes G Wagon.

I was shocked when I was told about this problem. My best guess is there was extra funding out there and the Fed thought it would be a way to help families that may have gotten hammered by COVID, they’re out there. I know a lot of solid middle class families that had at least one parent lose a job in the past year, and these were several white collar jobs.

Most of those “rich” kids aren’t getting lunch at school anyway, and when you personally meet some of those kids that only get fed at school, if you have half a conscious you’re not going to worry about some kids receiving free lunch that really shouldn’t be. Ricks right, we all are paying for it t some point (that is if you pay taxes) but personally I’d much rather see my money go to kids in my local community whether they need it or not versus all the bullshit the government blows money on outside of this country.

I also want to note this is not a permanent thing and I bet it disappears after the 2022-2023 school year.

I got free lunch at school when I was a kid. The way they did it was everyone got lunch tickets. Either free or paid. When we moved and I was in another school district. Lunch tickets were only for the poor kids. And we had to stand in a separate line. I'd skip lunch a lot of times because it was so humiliating at the time. It was so wrong.

In high school I didn't need free lunch anymore and I felt rich lol but it made a huge difference in how I felt about myself. Our high school cafeteria actually sold domino's pizza. 2 slices with fries and a drink was a meal. But we'd usually save money and go to a nearby church that gave kids free lunch.

A friend’s wife worked in a school cafeteria for 20 plus years so I heard a lot of stories. Her school district had oddly drawn boundaries that didn’t make a lot of logical geographic sense. The school included the most affluent families in town - but “affluent” in my town means a new Ford Escape, not a BMW. But the district also included most of the Hispanic neighborhood. The school was over 50% Hispanic.

80% of the students received some subsidy. It was based upon income on a sliding scale. Having free lunches is not the problem.

The real issue is food waste. She had to plan weekly menus based upon government nutritional guidelines. The amount of uneaten food thrown away every was massive. In theory, it sounds like a sound idea for a Washington bureaucrat to write nutritional requirements but in practice a 3rd grader isn’t going to eat some crappy canned peas. Money would be better spent buying Lunchables for the kids.

@icee: Schools have long ago moved away from paper lunch tickets, lol. The vast majority of school systems use an electronic payment system. Each kid gets a food account ID number and provides it to the cashier. Nobody knows who is receiving a free lunch and who is paying full freight except for certain school staff, which is why I termed this excuse as "goofy" in the first place.

@Motor: You ain't kidding. It all started when Michelle Obama decided to spearhead the healthy lunch initiative, which tied federal government payments to the school meeting certain nutritional standards. My oldest was in elementary school when the conversion came and the food, by all reports, became inedible. We were hearing reports from other parents, including school lunch volunteers, that kids were throwing away massive amounts of food.

For years after we packed lunch for our kids, but since 2013 there have been several relaxations and waivers of these rules to the point that the food is kid-friendly again. The Trump Administration played a big role in that and so far the Biden Administration seems uninterested in wading back into that fray.

^^ 100% correct - although there are grumbles that the Biden administration is thinking about going back to Michelle’s plan but I think they’re a little too tied up with other things right now.

You're saying kids shouldn't be fed because of supposed food waste. And blaming Obama for nutritional guidelines as if they were negative. Which is bs.

You're trying to rationalize letting kids go hungry