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If you were employed there was never a time in American history were food was expensive. When you consider the relative price increase needed to serve quality f
by casey2 2y ago
If you were employed there was never a time in American history were food was expensive. When you consider the relative price increase needed to serve quality food to students cost becomes a bad joke. The reason is that nobody is America cares because there is no food culture there is food product and nationalization.
The idea that you can have a national lunch program, with 0 national dishes and no standard for preparation is only something that could come from D.C.
America has plenty of regional cuisine that is likely cheaper to source locally, people just rarely take into account the fact that money spent close is much more likely to come back to you, 90%/10% is a good rule here. For every dollar you spend you get 90 cents back if the entire supply chain is local and 10 cents if it's completely external.
- wahern 2y agoIn 1930 about 1/4 of income was spent on food. In 1950 it dropped to 1/5. Today we're at less than 1/10. Sources: https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2013/august/price-inflation-for-food-outpacing-many-other-spending-categories https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2013/august/price-infla... https://cepr.net/publications/in-the-good-old-days-one-fourth-of-income-went-to-food/ https://cepr.net/publications/in-the-good-old-days-one-fourt... And the price of food was definitely a consideration in debates over school lunches in earlier years: https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/exhibition/food-power-and-politics-the-story-of-school-lunch/ https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/exhibition/food-power-an... Also, to suggest food has never been expensive in the United States seems quite a hyperbolic statement to make given the history of poverty in the 19th and early 20th centuries, at least up to the New Deal. You seem to be making a social (laziness) or political (greedy powers-that-be) point, but it's sort of irrelevant to people, including working class people.
- chneu 2y agoIt's wild how Americans can believe in a completely alternate view of what's going on because they have no idea of history. We have it extremely good in 2025 despite what people feel is going on. Compared to even a couple decades ago we are very well off.