SCHOOL LUNCHES
School Lunches
This year, as many would agree, the school lunches are not as good as last year. For one thing, where did all of our favorites go? Pizza is barely served once a month, instead of once every other week. In addition to that, the new recipes have not gone over well. Cream of broccoli soup used to be a favorite to many, as were the French fries. Now, the soup is watery and the “homemade” fries seem to be bathed in grease and have no flavor. The salad bar has no rotating items other than pasta salad.
Solution? Bring back the old recipes and schedules.
Andrew Reiter ’13
Share your opinions and suggestions.
I think the school lunches are delicious, and when there are hot dogs I am happy. But if necessary bring back the old lunches.
| Posted 3 years, 1 month agoI miss the old french fries. They were so good. Also, the pizza is barely served anymore. It is really good, but I guess we are going though a “healthy” year of school lunches this year. We should get back the old fries and serve pizza each Friday. Let’s get back to the old lunches, please.
| Posted 3 years, 1 month agoI think the school lunches are a lot different this year. I don’t know how it was in sixth grade but in seventh there were good french fries that were crispy and the taco day was better. I think that they should better pizza also and stop changing everything up. Stick to the old stuff from last year because it was a lot better.
| Posted 3 years, 1 month agoI think that school lunches aren’t as good as last year or the year before, but i won’t complain because there are most likely other people who don’t even have meals to eat. I’ll just be thankful for what I’m getting.
| Posted 3 years, 1 month agoI agree with Becca. I like the old french fries way better and I think they should just serve those instead of the “homemade” fries. Also, I think that they should serve pizza every Friday.
| Posted 3 years, 1 month agoI couldn’t agree more. The pizza schedule seems to be irregular and messed up. Waffle fries are a bit superior to giant balls of greasy who-knows-what.
| Posted 3 years, 1 month agoThe old lunches were actually really good and should ought to be served more often. The lunches now always leave me searching for something new to eat. I see that we are in the “healthy and lean” phase, but we could include some food that is both yummy and good for your body. Please take my suggestions into consideration.
| Posted 3 years, 1 month agoI have to agree with you Andrew. I don’t like the lunches very much either. I wasn’t here last year, but I can definitely say that this year’s lunches are horrible. Some days I can’t find anything good to eat and I’m either forced to eat something that I normally would not want to eat or I don’t eat anything at all and I just have a drink. I would love to have pizza more often and I have to agree with you about how the fries are terrible with all of the oil. I only remember one time this year when we got to have the good fries that I think you are referring to. They weren’t oily at all and I’m sure they were not homemade. I hope we can resolve this problem because I don’t want to have anymore days when there is absolutely good to eat. I could always have some type of sandwich, but I want at least one treat a day to make lunch better.
| Posted 3 years, 1 month agoI think we should have more Pizza lunches at. I agree with Andrew but I do not know what the old lunches were so I can not agree with Andrew on that point. I do however agree with him on the french fries they are so greasy and flavorless I don’t get them when they are served.
| Posted 3 years, 1 month agoEven though I wasn’t at WA last year, I still agree. The lunches could be much better. Also, the 3 best lunches (chicken patties, meatball subs, and pizza) are barley served. And one last thought: the desserts are very tempting but not healthy enough.
IGM
| Posted 3 years, 1 month agoWell since its my first year here i don’t know what the lunches were like last year but i do enjoy most of the things they serve. But i do wish we could have pizza more often because one day i walked in to get my lunch and it was “salad”. It turned out to be really good but i don’t think that a salad will make a hungry middle school kid full. So i agree the should bring back some of the old recipes.
| Posted 3 years, 1 month agoThe food this year is good but I am not sure if it is as good as last year since this is my first year at W.A. when i was a shadow last year the food was much better. this year the food is all the same. the french fries are greasy and after eating them it made me feel like I had to have something healthy. The are particularly dry and tasteless. I also think that they make pasta to much. So I would like to see more variety in the food.
| Posted 3 years, 1 month agoI am a sixth grader and don’t know what the old lunch menu was, but I think pizza should be served more often. I also think that tacos, macaroni with cheese, and hamburgers should also be served in place of constantly eating salad. There should always be a better variety of soups and chicken nuggets. What happened to the classic grilled cheese? What about the mashed potatoes or corn bread!!! Do not forget the butter biscuits or waffles.I also think that a larger and healthier variety of cakes and sweets. (smoothies are sweet and healthy too) Pasta is served way too often! I hope the lunch menu and schedule changes.
| Posted 3 years, 1 month agoAlthough the pizza is good, I agree it is not served nearly enough. I don’t know what they tasted like last year, but now the fries have no flavor, and are drenched in grease. For about two weeks a little while ago, the lunch room was serving better fries, but have gone back to the old ones. Hopefully, the food will get better.
| Posted 3 years, 1 month agoI agree. I wasn’t here last year, but from what my brother has told me, this year sounds a lot worse than last year. The french fries are really greasy and disgusting. I also think that at lunch there is barley any seats. The sixth graders usually get three or four tables. I think this is a big problem and many of us agree. We want food that isn’t covered in grease.
| Posted 3 years, 1 month agoI agree with the idea of bringing back the old lunches. I haven’t been here to experience them, and they sound delicious. Those greasy french fries really are gross, but I enjoyed the season salt ones from after March break. I was annoyed that they have gone back to the slimy ones this week. Except for the various turkey noodle, chicken noodle, and strawberry soups, the soup is watery and not very filling. Also, there is rarely normal cheese at the salad, instead there is cottage cheese or feta (not that i don’t like feta). One last comment: the Upper Schoolers get to have real sherbet almost every week. We have fake popsicle things instead. I think it would be nice to try it. I think we should change some things about the school lunch.
| Posted 3 years, 1 month agoI completely agree. We should get real ice cream. The lunches are disgusting. The best meals are only served about once every month. Although, I do love the new hummus.
| Posted 3 years, 1 month agoI am a sixth grader and don’t know what he lunches were like last year. I do know that all the people i know who go to school here told me that the lunches were great. I agree that they don’t serve pizza enough and that the french fries are gross. They had french fries a while ago that were really good then they stopped. Hopefully they will come back.
| Posted 3 years, 1 month agoAs most of the sixth grade students here I too have not known what the lunches were like last year. I have to agree though, a few of the lunches have been unappealing to me. I do like though how the french fries aren’t as greesey as before. Pizza does have to be served more often.I like how they have smoothies occasionally. The soups need to be more thick and let a little more flavor run over your taste buds. There has seemed to be a shortage of salami. I do like how they have been using roast beef, but it is getting tired now. Also, why isn’t there any PBJ on specials day. Lastly we should have a change in the ice cream and have some of their sherbet in our ice cream cart on Friday
| Posted 3 years, 1 month agoAlthough I do wish that the old recipes came back, I do not think the recipes are what is making us not like the lunches. I believe that we, the student body, are just getting tired of the lunches because we are used to them. Unfortunately, the new French Fries do not have very much taste. Cream of Broccoli was one of my favorites and it is watery. But, this has happened with almost all of the creamy soup, such as clam chowder. It is also not fair that we have not had the cooped ice cream at all, and the upper school has had it multiple times. All in all I think the lunches could be run a little better with more choices and better recipes.
| Posted 3 years, 1 month agoI need something to look forward too each week. Friday pizza is just the thing I need after a busy week. After a hot gym class indoors or outdoors it just crushes peoples hopes of relaxing and eating a steaming piece of pizza. When do we have pizza anymore? It certainly is not every other week like scheduled. It is more randomly served than ever. My tip: regulate the lunches!
| Posted 3 years, 1 month agoI agree strongly. I think that with the money from our tuition we should be able to have the old lunches back or maybe even better lunches. I don’t think It is fare that the head of school and school committee take away from us when they need or want something.
| Posted 3 years, 1 month agoI couldn’t agree with you more. I think we don’t get the lunches we used to get because of haw much they cost the school. Maybe it s because over the summer Kinsley was being built and that took a lot of the school funds. I think we should definitely get the old lunches back.
| Posted 3 years, 1 month agoI agree with your idea Andrew, last year I used to love the lunches. But now they are getting worse and worse everyday. I hope next year that they go to the old lunches
| Posted 3 years, 1 month agoI agree completely this is the most absurd thing! I thought the food was really good last year…. this year…. it just isn’t the same. I wish the old food would just come back!
| Posted 3 years, 1 month agoThe lunches where much better last year than they are this year and the lunch ladies are really rude and don’t talk to anyone. i started to get hot chocolates for lunch only because the food is so bad. I get yelled at by teachers saying that I have to have a real meal, but the food is so bad and there is nothing really to eat.
| Posted 3 years, 1 month agoI agree with you Andrew because the lunches this year seem to be a step down from last year. One rummer that I heard was that the lunch was a step down from last year on purpose because they wanted to make the dinner for the boarding students better, but its just a rummer.
| Posted 3 years, 1 month agoI agree with you Andrew, what ever happened to the pizza and Sloppy Joes! I want to know why they changed everything. They don’t even have “good” tacos anymore. I wish they would just go back to the old lunches. The new lunches aren’t even filling.
| Posted 3 years, 1 month agoI am in agreement with you. The food at Worcester Academy is sub par. It is better than lunch at the old public school I used to go to, but only because of the wide variety of food available. The entrees are the worst part. They are all greasy and could, in my opinion, be worse than the food at public schools. I don’t know how large the food budget is, but it should be increased to a point where something other than the soup is good. ( The soup is awesome, by the way)
| Posted 3 years, 1 month agoI used to love the clam chowder last year but now i just don’t eat it. It seems to be made mostly of water. The food was a lot better last year and seemed to be healthier too. In y opinion we need to switch change back the lunch.
| Posted 3 years, 1 month agoI used to love the clam chowder last year but now i just don’t eat it. It seems to be made mostly of water. The food was a lot better last year and seemed to be healthier too. In my opinion we need to switch change back the lunch.
| Posted 3 years, 1 month agoI think that you should be able to pack a lunch. Also, I was wondering, is there a reason why they found new recipes?
| Posted 3 years, 1 month agoThere is no such thing as a good lunch anymore. One time I ask for fries and they gave me 7 fries.
| Posted 3 years, 1 month agoAndrew, I also find that the school lunches aren’t as good, but for two reasons. Yes they did change the french fries, and we never get pizza anymore, but I think it’s also because some of the novelty has worn off. What I’m saying is we have gotten used to the lunches, so we find a lot of more faults in them. I can tell you that our lunches are one hundred times better than the ones at my previous school.
| Posted 3 years, 1 month agoBut back to the pizza. I completely agree with Nicole. Anyone who knows me well knows that pizza Friday is the highlight of the week, and when there is no pizza I get mad. Don’t blame the lunch ladies though. They just serve the food.
I think the school lunches aren’t even close as good this year as last year. I agree with Peter. We should be able to bring a lunch to school. I hope the lunches will improve next year because I only eat the lunch they serve two times a week. Some food is good, but others are not.
| Posted 3 years agoI totally agree with Aman too. He stated that the lunch ladies have been rude. The ones in Adams Hall are very nice and say “Your welcome” when they are thanked. On the other hand, the lunch ladies in the Megaron are a little rude. They completely ignore you for everything.
| Posted 3 years ago