I worked in a school where they did get produce from the govt for the kids’ lunches. It wasn’t like that nasty govt cheese either but stuff as good as you would find in a supermarket. One day they had fresh blueberries that were really good but, most of it ended up in the trash.
But it’s not just a poor people thing. As a kid I remember seeing what Americans would eat and thinking it was disgusting. Mac and cheese from a box? Soup from a can? TV dinners? I weighed that against seeing my aunt buy fresh fish that had been caught just hours earlier, getting fruit from an orchard that my father’s friend owned, eating bread that was still warm from the oven and seeing dinner walking around earlier in the day.