Несъедобные обеды американских школьников

[peacetraveler22]

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[dubovich]

My third grader always prefers a home lunch. She feels nauseous after eating school lunch. And if she ends up eating in school she would only eat a peanut butter sandwich.

[peacetraveler22]

I used to eat peanut butter sandwiches all the time! It was my favorite thing for school lunch. :) How do Europeans and Russians live without peanut butter? :)) I could not do it!

[dmitiry_s]

We can't understand how you are eating it) just everyone who I know don't like peanut butter. It is not typically for us. Usually we're eating soups and meat/fish/chicken with sudedish like as potatoes, rice, pasta or buckweat. We think that it's healthy. Russian schools have the same menu. And it's free.

[peacetraveler22]

Sure, I understand. Peanut butter is something unusual or exotic for Russians, but for Americans it's totally normal. Almost all children are eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches during their childhood. :) I eat peanut butter on a lot of things - celery, bread, crackers, and it's most delicious on red apples. :)) In the U.S., school lunches are not free. Children must pay for them, but the U.S. government subsidizes the cost for low income families.

[seadevil001]

Peanut butter is horrible. That one thing only famine will force me to eat. Mind you, I do not have anything against peanuts per se.

[peacetraveler22]

I guess it's an acquired taste for foreigners. :) You don't even like the greatest of all candies - Reese's peanut butter cups? :))

[seadevil001]

Oh gawd! Even reading this candy name I shudder.

[peacetraveler22]

:))

[dubovich]

Well, nowadays so many children have peanut allergies that peanut butter is not being served in many schools.

[mb_b]

On my first exposure to peanut butter ('make your own sandwich'), I spread it over turkey breast, causing some dropped jaws around the table. Soon after that, I earned the distinction of 'family trash pail' for eating anything the kid(s) wouldn't finish, I just couldn't stand the idea of anything going to waste - perfectly understandable considering where I had just come from. Years after, it was still officially maintained that I 'had no taste buds'.

[peacetraveler22]

:))