Imagine a girl starving and ready to eat lunch. She is daydreaming thinking about the big, juicy, tender chicken nuggets that she knows are waiting for her in the cafeteria. Thinking it’s going to be something good she waits patiently in line for her lunch. It’s finally her turn she grabs her food and walks to her seat. She is disgusted her dream chicken turned into whole wheat macaroni and cheese without warning. No notice, no heads up, just stinky macaroni and cheese. All of a sudden she gets chills just looking at it, she takes a bite. Then instantly vomit goes everywhere!!! On her clothes. On her shoes. On her friends. And on the stinky macaroni and cheese. This girl was me!!

I dislike many of the choices for lunch in the cafeteria. I wish I had time to make my lunch, but I don’t. So most days I suffer through school lunch. I ask myself why the school provides kids with food we won’t even try to take a bite out of? Why provide us with food that will make us gag? Why provide us with food that gives us chills on the back of our necks just looking at it? Yeah, you probably think that kids only like junk food. We do, but we also still like healthy food as long as it tastes good. Don't give us hot dogs that taste and bounce like rubber. Don’t give us pizza that taste like trash. Don’t give us food that we don’t like.

School lunches have a bad reputation all over the world. Zachary Maxwell, grossed out and disgusted, made a documentary on school lunch. It showed how gross school lunch is at his school in New York. “What was meant to be a "Yum-O! Marinated tomato salad" from a recipe by celebrity chef Rachael Ray, for example, turned out to be a slice of pizza. As for the tiny salad on the side? That was curiously lacking any of the aforementioned tomatoes, though a sad-looking sliver of carrot did peek out from under a sprinkle of chopped lettuce.” Zachary, a 4th grade student, in the New York Public School, also struggles with the same problem. This is one example of how school lunches live up to their bad reputation.

I took a survey at my school and my results showed that most kids don’t like school lunch. Seventy percent of the eighth graders that I talked to bring chips and soda because they don’t want to eat school lunch. They consider this to be lunch. Twenty percent of kids try to bring lunch from home. Ten percent of kids don’t eat at all. Those kids become nausea and dehydrated. By not eating, kids don’t have as much energy, so they have lack of speed to do work and become tried and in some cases fail classes in school. Some kids get very sick when they don’t eat during the day! One hundred percent of kids or maybe I should say every kid in my school doesn't like some part of the school lunch. I could not find one kid that enjoyed every meal every day. This is a problem!! Everyone should be able to enjoy lunch everyday. So why try to provide us with nasty lunches that makes us get sick.

Why do they give us soggy vegetables that we just throw away. Looking in the trash barrels after lunch I see that a lot of money is wasted by the food that is throw away. Yeah maybe vegetables and fruits are good for us and keeps us healthy and strong. But when you give us soggy vegetables and fruits with mold on it the healthiness dies out and it becomes leftover trash for lunch on the lunch menu. I asked a couple of kids how do they describe school lunch and one person said school lunch is “unpleasant and unappetizing’ and another person said “sickening, dreadful, and horrible” So why do you give it to us if you know its bad and we know its bad.

What if you were a child and had to eat something they didn’t like? What if you were a parent and your child hasn’t been eating? What if you didn’t eat all day until you got home because you had nothing to eat at school? Do you want this to happen to your child, grandchild, or someone young that you know in your family or a friend.

Like the saying- you are what you eat- so do you want a family member or a friend to be a disgusting unhealthy child?

- To stop this you can tell the public schools to provide kids with better food.