School lunches from around the world...it was fake

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They look pretty delicious, but those "typical" school lunches from around the world aren't so typical. They're actually misleading promotional photos from an advertising campaign for a health food store called SweetGreen.

As Mother Jones points out, the photo purporting to show a typical school lunch in Greece should have been a big red flag. Sadly, given the country's financial woes, Greece doesn't have the resources to provide the kind of meal pictured. They point to an article in the New York Times that explains schools in Greece, "do not offer subsidized cafeteria lunches. Students bring their own food or buy items from a canteen."

This isn't to say that American public schools aren't woefully lacking in nutrition compared with much of the industrialized world. But these staged photos are far from an honest depiction. SweetGreen updated their post to admit nearly as much, even if they hedged in the process: "These images are not intended to be exact representations of school lunches, but instead, are meant to portray different types of foods found in cafeterias around the world."

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