No of course not. But iirc the school lunches they served to my kids in the pre-Obama days featured bruised red apples, canned corn, canned three-bean "salad" (that not even the adults would eat), and far too many servings of starch. The menu would have mashed potatoes, rice, and a greasy dinner roll all on the same plate. Add a slab of mystery meat drowned in salty canned gravy, canned peas, and a small carton of milk AND a cookie or a piece of sheet cake for dessert, and that was lunch. There were several items on the school menu that would leave grease prints on a piece of paper if you sat them there for just a minute, such as the dinner rolls, the pizza, the corn dogs, the fish sticks, and the cookies. It's the same grease prints that fast food leaves on the paper bag when you go through the drive-thru, no different. My son once ruined his gym shirt by leaving half a peanut butter cookie on top of it in his backpack; the grease stain never came out.
I'm not going to argue that some of the old menu wasn't very tasty, because I know it was, but it was far from healthy. Throwing out the canned corn in favor of those little packets of carrots and cutting back on the sugar, starch, and salt was a huge improvement over what it was before, at least when it came to health concerns. Where the Obama Plan failed imho is that it removed too many of the unhealthy items without replacing them with something different, leaving the kids with a mostly empty plate. They also could have modified some of the recipes for the kid's favorites to make them healthier instead of just cutting them from the menu entirely.
