EP47【說】我小時候不太喜歡的營養午餐The History of Taiwan’s School Lunch Program.｜原來那一餐也有歷史

Did you like school lunch when you were a kid? 你小時候喜歡吃營養午餐嗎？ Let me be honest. I didn’t really like it. 我先說，我沒有特別喜歡。 It wasn’t terrible. It was just… pretty ordinary. 不是因為它真的很難吃，只是……很普通。 There was rice, vegetables, soup, and sometimes fruit or milk. 有飯、有菜、有湯，有時候還有水果或牛奶。 When I was a kid, I didn’t think much about it. Lunchtime meant eating lunch. 小時候的我不太會想太多，中午到了就是吃飯。 But as I got older, I started to wonder about something. 但是長大以後，我突然很好奇一件事情。 Where did the school lunch we ate every day actually come from? 我們小時候每天吃的營養午餐，到底是怎麼來的？ If we talk about the history of school lunch in Taiwan, we can start with 1951. 如果要說台灣營養午餐的歷史，可以先從 1951 年開始。 Taiwan was still rebuilding after the war, many families were struggling, and children’s nutrition was an important concern. 那時候台灣還在戰後重建的階段，很多家庭的生活條件並不好，兒童營養也是受到重視的問題。 In 1951, UNICEF (The United Nations Children's Fund) provided skim milk powder for schools to give to students. 1951 年，聯合國兒童基金會提供脫脂奶粉，讓學校提供給學生。 So at first, school nutrition programs were not really the complete lunches we think of today. 所以一開始的營養午餐，其實還不是我們今天想像的「一頓完整午餐」。 Then, in 1957, things moved one step further. 到了 1957 年，事情又往前走了一步。 Taiwan started testing school lunch programs in several schools. 台灣開始在一些學校試辦營養午餐。 The government started thinking beyond giving children milk and began asking, “Can schools provide children with a more complete meal?” 這時候，政府開始思考的不只是「給孩子喝牛奶」，而是能不能在學校提供一頓比較完整的飯。 The school lunch system expanded greatly because of U.S. aid in the 1960s. 真正讓營養午餐大幅發展的，是 1960 年代的美援。 The United States provided Taiwan with agricultural products such as wheat, flour, skim milk powder, and cooking oil. 當時美國提供台灣不少農產品，包括小麥、麵粉、脫脂奶粉和食用油等。 In 1964, Taiwan launched a large-scale school lunch program for children. 到了 1964 年，台灣正式推動大規模的學童營養午餐計畫。 From this point on, school lunch was no longer just about nutrition. It slowly became part of everyday school life. 從這個時候開始，營養午餐不只是「補充營養」，而是慢慢變成學校生活的一部分。 It was also about nutrition education, hygiene, and eating habits, not just filling children’s stomachs. 而且它也不只是讓孩子吃飽，還包含營養教育、衛生和飲食習慣。 But the system did not depend on American aid forever. 不過，這套制度並不是一直靠美國的援助。 In 1969, the U.S.-supported school lunch program ended. 1969 年，美援營養午餐計畫結束。 After that, Taiwan gradually moved toward running and funding its own school lunch programs. 接下來，台灣開始慢慢轉向自己籌措經費、自己辦理學校午餐。 By the 1970s, school lunch became more organized and gradually spread to more schools. 到了 1970 年代，營養午餐開始更加制度化，也逐漸在更多學校普及。 And then, it became a part of everyone's childhood. 然後，它就一路走進了大家的童年。 It’s that such an ordinary meal was connected to postwar Taiwan, international aid, government policy, and changes in Taiwanese eating habits. 而是這麼普通的一餐，竟然跟戰後台灣、國際援助、政府政策，還有台灣飲食習慣的變化都有關係。 You’re not looking at a lunch that simply appeared one day. 你看到的不是一頓突然出現的午餐。 It slowly became what we know today after Taiwan went through many different periods of history. 它其實是台灣走過很多年代之後，才慢慢變成我們熟悉的樣子。 And if you ask me whether I miss school lunch now? 至於你問我，我現在會不會懷念營養午餐？ Well…嗯……Not really. 還是不太會。 -- 練習 lunch box便當盒 Please wash your lunch box after school.（放學後請把你的便當盒洗乾淨。） -- 請幫我訂月.分享.留言五星評分.讓我更有動力更有靈感一職生出好內容優 #生活英文 #台語 #營養午餐 #美國援助 #podcast -- Hosting provided by SoundOn