While Finnish school lunches are generally good quality, some schools cut corners. School food in Vantaa criticized by Youth council.
While Finnish school lunches are generally good quality, some schools cut corners. School food in Vantaa criticized by Youth council.
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YLE’s title as of 14:44: *Vantaa Youth Council calls out school food’s ‘poor quality’*. It can change throughout the day. My title adds a little bit of wider context.
Kumiperunat never forget.
That potato brought back memories. Even though my school had really good quality food in general (local salmon once a month for example), we still had those odd boiled potatoes people in Finland refer to as kumiperunat. I attended school there in total 12 years (grades 1-9 and lukio), so I ate quite a few, unfortunately.
As of this autumn I’m working at my old school. The food is still 90% good, but the potatoes have definitely been the biggest improvement. Zero rubbery spuds and I go to eat after the kids are finished with their meals over an hour after lunch starts. Tbh the food is better now than 15+ years ago – more flavor, more variety, even more local.
Serving hundreds of meals approx. 200 days of the year, it would be surprising if there was never a potato that has something weird in it.
However, the third photo with uncooked ground meat is somewhat scary. Didn’t the staff really notice? Or did they serve it despite noticing?
(Could someone tell me what’s going on / what’s wrong in picture one?)
There are huge differences between schools and municipalities. When I started lukio in a different municipality than the schools I had been attending up until then the quality of food improved drastically.
My school had such good foods that i actually looked up the ingredients and started making them home.
This tuna salad is majestic.
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>tonnikala öljyssä (KALA), risottoriisi, kermaviili (MAITO), herne, kurkku, kurkkukuutio, vegaaninen majoneesi (SINAPPI), purjosipuli, sinappi (SINAPPI), SS kidesokeri 530 25kg, tilli, suola, sitruunapippuri (SELLERI), valkopippuri
Well some potatoes just have that thing inside. There is not much you can do to it except stop serving potatoes.
Ate school food for 12 years in Vantaa, had no problem with it.
Ota neljäs kalapuikko
I remember the whole lunch room smelling like vomit everytime we had fish casserole.