#ThanksMichelleObama: Students Tweet Disgusting School Lunch Photos

As of 2:30 p.m. ET on Friday, the hashtag #ThanksMichelleObama is trending nationally on Twitter. But unfortunately for the first lady, the tweets are pretty much all sarcastic.

The trend of teens posting disgusting photos of their school lunches with the message to the woman who spearheaded a campaign to make those meals more nutritious appears to have started in Wisconsin, but thanks to some heavy promotion from BuzzFeed, has quickly spread to the rest of the country.

Here’s a sampling of the horrific school lunch photos on Twitter this week:

Had a very #healthylunch today. The apple definitely made up for the "mystery mush" #ThanksMichelleObama pic.twitter.com/RWCnQRCxJK

— Hunter Whitney (@huntwhitney4) November 13, 2014

This is my lunch. I'm in high school. #ThanksMichelleObama pic.twitter.com/02t4MScBIe

— Maya Wuertz (@wuertznightmare) November 17, 2014

Yum school lunches #thanksmichelleobama pic.twitter.com/eS27j75Oae

— Jess Sency (@Jess_Sency) November 18, 2014

#ThanksMichelleObama pic.twitter.com/dbihOq4Ygg

— marra christmas (@MaraKalee) November 20, 2014

this Looks like chicken and tastes like sausage im so confused #ThanksMichelleObama pic.twitter.com/3y150oGZpl

— hard pa$$ (@idkaysia) November 21, 2014

Wow so appetizing #thanksmichelleobama pic.twitter.com/OnugafKqeB

— Shalee Sue (@Shalee_Deaver) November 21, 2014

While the hashtag is really starting to blow up today, it appears to date back at least to September 2012, when one student posted this photos of some wheat pancakes on Instagram, writing “#thanksmichelleobama #not”:

mmmm wheat pancakes #thanksmichelleobama #not

A photo posted by Breanna Schultz (@bschultz20) on Sep 9, 2012 at 9:05am PDT

[Photo via screengrab]

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