What is wrong with you people? Jake, there is a vast difference between what the Obama's get and the slop shown in the pictures.
Do you think school lunches looked more like the Sidwell school lunches before Obama became President?
If the pictures are correct then yes, only by degree.
Do you think what they are serving our children now is appealing? If the pictures are true.
"If the pictures are true" is not relevant. Those few pictures may be "true," but not representative of all school lunches. Lunches, which, by the way, are not prepared by the First Lady. What she did was help establish nutritional guidelines. I'm betting the Sidwell lunches are hitting those nutritional guidelines, but only by using really fresh, really quality, really expensive ingredients.
Public schools are trying to hit those guidelines on a budget, with people of greater and lesser talent in food preparation. Some of them don't know how to cook healthier food.
That said, even with more lax nutritional guidelines, the school lunches I ate as a kid didn't look that different from a lot of the photos shown.