Should teenagers and children determine what they eat for lunch?

[richardhutnik]

Kantor said:

MrBubbles said:
the assertion that schools should supply awful foods to children is just bullshit. they have an obligation to provide healthy and nutritious foods to the children. why in the world would they provide foods that are essentially harming the child??
if they dont want to eat it or if their parents dont want them eating it. then the parents can provide something else. schools shouldnt cater to stupidity .

Nobody's saying that they should supply awful food, just that they should supply good-tasting food, preferably of a range of different nutritious values.

If you have a society where kids are growing up on junk food and fast food, and that is all they find tasting good, then what?  Good tasting is a preference thing.  If the food isn't full of food poisoning and other toxins, and can be eaten, and provides nutritional value, why not go with that?  Kids don't eat it?  Kids won't eat food, even if it isn't bad, and they are hungry?  There was a time and era in America where you ate because you were hungry.  And there was the battle of the dinner table, where kids didn't want to eat healthy.

All this being said, there should be a decent group of recipes available, that at least are tolerable to swallow.