Persuasive Essay

Who doesn’t like lunch? School lunch is a time of the day I look forward to. During lunch, we don’t have to learn anything; we get to spend time with friends. Afterwards comes recess. But are school lunches as good as they can be? Sometimes we have delicious spaghetti or tacos on Thursdays. On other days, entrees like disgusting veggie pizza ruin my lunch. School lunches should be better quality, tastier and include more choices for students consistently.

As I walk down the lunch line, I see poor quality food. Sometimes, I can tell the food is leftover, because it is the entrée from the day before and is sometimes burnt. For example, once they served cheese quesadillas on Thursday, even though it was Wednesday’s option. They were all burnt and ugly. You could see the dark marks all over it. The chicken tenders are bumpy. The chicken tenders once had huge bumps that looked like warts on them. The milk cartons sometimes leak. To prevent this from happening, the manager should buy from a different milk company. The hamburger meat appears to have fillers. Once, I bit into a hard, white bone. I have also discovered that the hot dogs are bouncy! My friend tried bouncing the hot dog on the floor and it bounced all the way back into her hand. For better quality, the cafeteria should use cleaner, fresher meat and order milk from a better company.

When I sit with my friends and start my lunch, I taste the hard, whole-wheat hamburger bun with too much flour on it. On the bottom I can always see the whiteness of it. Other times, I taste sweaty grilled cheese; it is very wet. To make it tastier, the cafeteria could use yummier bread, like they have at Cheesecake Factory. Some of there bread is crunchy, but some is soft. At the start of your meal the server brings a wide variety of bread to your table. My dad’s favorite is the healthy, multigrain bread. Mine is the baguette.

There are too few choices at lunch. Sometimes there are three main dishes and I don’t like any of them. There could be old rotten pizza, hummus bitable, and peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Peanut allergy students can only have two of those! If you are a vegetarian with a peanut allergy you have even fewer choices. Lunch should be more like a buffet every day, with more choices for students.

Fairfax County Public Schools might worry about the expenses, but why should they? If the students have this than there will be less waste and restaurants will be happy to give coupons and discounts. If school lunches are better quality, tastier and offer more choices, then kids will look forward to school and to lunch.