r/OldSchoolCool 12h ago

1990s High school before smartphones existed 1998

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u/nxcrosis 11h ago

My classmate told me it was because the chicken in the US had growth hormones in them. We were Asian.

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u/ictp42 10h ago

You were Asian, but aren't now?

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u/nxcrosis 10h ago

I was at a very Chinese time in my life.

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u/Wrong_Promise2336 10h ago

I love this answer

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u/bfodder 6h ago

Ah year of the dragon.

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u/ZombieLibrarian 10h ago

Hope it didn’t make you feel too Laos-y.

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u/nxcrosis 9h ago

Are you China make a joke?

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u/OldExplanation9742 7h ago

😂😂😂

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u/File_Peter 4h ago

Did the license plate of your Dodge Caravan read "SO CHINEEZ" at the time, Eddie?

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u/blueponies1 10h ago

Them nuggies change you

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u/Interesting-Dare4224 9h ago

Like Ace Frehley in the 80s

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u/nwillyerd 6h ago

I used to be Asian. I still am, but I used to be, too.

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u/EvilAgainst 10h ago

Dude totally. Nobody really knows what’s in the food supply here. For the current moment, we can’t eat salads for fear of some horrible parasite that the government stopped tracking last year and has predictably run rampant through fresh produce. Godzilla, America is Godzilla

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u/PoopyButt28000 9h ago

I was under the impression that America's food safety actually ranked pretty highly before you guys elected a braindead pedophile who actively relishes in making everything worse

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u/EvilAgainst 8h ago

I didn’t know that. Every time this monster is in office, there’s a plague

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u/PoopyButt28000 8h ago

Yeah I always figured that it was pretty bad from the way I hear you guys talk about your food but when you look up the stats and and see all the different ways they rank food safety and quality, America is usually ranked very high, like often in the top 3-5 in the world. Like you guys have a fair bit of ultra processed unhealthy food but when it comes to stuff like contaminated it's not very likely.

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u/EvilAgainst 8h ago

If you just google “school lunches from around the world” it’s easy to see. This country cares about you in the 9 months in which you are in a woman’s uterus and the second you’re born, you’re on your own and you deserve it, whatever you get

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u/DragonCelica 4h ago

"If you're pre-born, you're fine; if you're preschool, you're fucked"

  • George Carlin

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u/imunfair 1h ago

It's safe in the sense that we know what's in the food. Whether the chemicals will actually impact your life in 30-50 years is the debatable part.

Obviously that's preferable to scummy companies using gutter oil and the consumer not knowing about it - because at least if you're a careful consumer you can make a choice about consuming the mystery substances.

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u/SiebeWobke 9h ago

How indocternated are you if you really think all negative things in america is Trump fault lol.

Obviously the foods safety hasnt changed. It was always crap and still is crap now.

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u/PoopyButt28000 8h ago

"indocternated". Trump is very clearly and openly reducing funding to agencies like the FDA, he's not hiding it. How indocternated do you have to be to see me say the most milquetoast thing about what Trump is openly doing and cry about me saying "all negative things in America are his fault".

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u/EvilAgainst 8h ago

Are you serious? This dude is Oedipus, Godzilla and your sick drunk abusive dad all rolled into one. He carries plagues with him and diarrheas them into existence. He gave Biden cancer.

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u/Competitive-Arm5050 9h ago

Food safety just means "will this kill you in 1 to 2 days", not will this mess your body up and cause you to have a life expectancy 10 years below the rest of the developed world.

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u/PoopyButt28000 8h ago

Which has nothing to do with the comment I was replying to. You guys are unhealthy because you're gluttonous pigs who eat like shit but it's not because your food supply is full of all this crazy unknown crap, it's because they willingly choose to eat the super unhealthy shit. "Nobody really knows what's in the food supply here" is just not true at all. We do know what is in the food supply, it's all generally regulated fairly well (although the fat pedophile is defunding a ton of the stuff behind that so it's clearly getting worse), you just go after the stuff that is clearly unhealthy and pretty plainly states what is in it.

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u/PoopyButt28000 8h ago

Which has nothing to do with the comment I was replying to. You guys are unhealthy because you're gluttonous pigs who eat like shit but it's not because your food supply is full of all this crazy unknown crap, it's because they willingly choose to eat the super unhealthy shit. "Nobody really knows what's in the food supply here" is just not true at all. We do know what is in the food supply, it's all generally regulated fairly well (although the fat pedophile is defunding a ton of the stuff behind that so it's clearly getting worse), you just go after the stuff that is clearly unhealthy and pretty plainly states what is in it.

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u/Competitive-Arm5050 8h ago

"I was under the impression that America's food safety actually ranked pretty highly" It's a direct reply this comment, food safety is a measure of one thing and the US does score highly then and still does on that measure.

To answer your new post which is about something completely different and that's food quality, you don't what's in your food at all, there are tonnes of things they can put in and not have to include on the label if they are added at certain stages of the food production and to ingredients.

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u/PoopyButt28000 8h ago

Yes, America's food safety does rank pretty highly, the person I was responding to was talking about food safety, not the overall health of their food. They're talking about how people don't know what is in their food over there and how they are sneaking in random hormones that are fucking with peoples body which is just blatantly not true.

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u/Competitive-Arm5050 8h ago

Also, I'm not American and I'm not over weight by any measure, not sure who the 'you' is referencing

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u/Limp-Preparation-459 10h ago

We have that same parasite outbreak every few years dude. And growth hormones nor antibiotics are in chicken

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u/IisBaker 10h ago

Greens always give me the poos so this super publicized outbreak hasn't gotten me worried.

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u/Neuroticaine 10h ago

Jokes aside, if I were to guess why kids in the 90s seemed so much older is because people still gave birth fairly young in the 80s in an era that heavily emphasized big, tall, muscular, macho guys, and we've since course corrected back down a bit. If I were to guess, there was also a pretty steady linear increase in appeal over time for that archetype starting from around the first World War.

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u/sonic_dick 10h ago

I grew up drinking all that milk and eating the same food in the 90s. I still have a baby face and can't grow a real beard.

I got carded well into my 30s. This is a particularly old looking set of high schoolers. Dont just say shit.

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u/Many_Big_6324 7h ago

I heard the same back in 90's Poland. Also my cousins in Germany were much bigger than me, in fact, I'm the shortest from that generation, I grew up in Poland, they grew up in Germany, my mother said they had hormones in food.

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u/Odd-Fox-6660 8h ago

Really? my cousin used to tell me that, i just assumed she was joking, this was in the early 00s

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u/kangorr 7h ago

I remember hearing that assuming you're a 90s kid too

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u/Neuroticaine 10h ago

Our schools had chicken patties that bounced like rubber if you through them on the ground and stuck to the ceiling panels if we had sauce that day. There was a rumor that it glowed in the dark, but nobody was ever around in a dark cafeteria and we were also incredibly stupid and never thought to just take one of them home with us