BURLESON, Texas – Kerr Middle School student Tanner Glenney learned last week that not everything is bigger in Texas.

The evidence was his school lunch: a taco shell with about a “thimble” amount of meat in it.

At first Tanner thought it must me a mistake, but his friends at the lunch table received the same miniscule meal.

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“I get this, and it’s that big,” Tanner told NBC, holding up his fingers. “I was like, ‘Ok, where’s the beef?”

“I went around and I was I’m like, ‘Did everyone else get a small taco?’” Tanner said. “And everyone’s they’re like, ‘Ya, we got a small taco.’”

So Tanner posted an image of his “puny taco” on Facebook and tagged his mother, Shelley Glenney.

“I first thought it had to be a mistake or the kids were messing around,” Gleeney said. “And then when he told me that’s all we got, it’s just a little shocking. I didn’t know what to think.”

Tanners post quickly went viral, and parents lost their minds.

“I saw the reactions from the other parents, saying their fuming and it’s outrageous,” Glenney said. “They can’t concentrate when they don’t have enough to eat.”

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Parents, students, school staff and others across the country have revolted against the tiny portion sizes and strict limitations imposed on public schools in recent years through the Healthy and Hunger Free Kids Act, a pet project of Michelle Obama aimed at curbing childhood obesity through bureaucracy.

The changes, which impact every school that accepts federal lunch subsidies, limits calories, fat, sugar, sodium and other elements of school lunches, and requires students to take a fruit or vegetable, whether they want it or not.

The federal regulations have convinced more than 1 million students to drop out of their school lunch programs, and hundreds of schools to drop out of the National School Lunch Program to serve students healthy foods with reasonable portions. The requirement for greens has also produced well over $1 billion in food waste since 2012.

“If any mom fed her kids like this, we’d be in trouble,” Shay Fowler posted on Facebook. “Can you imagine the testimony against a mom who fed her children this crap? ‘So, for dinner one night all you kids had to eat were two taco shells with just one bit of hamburger in it? Is that how your mother fed you?’”

“No wonder the children go straight to the kitchen soon as they get home,” Neva Caldwell posted.

Becky Atess Cleveland pointed directly at Washington, D.C. as the root cause for the mini lunches.

“Food portions have been greatly cut by Michelle Obama’s food guidelines for districts that take food and or funding from the feds,” she wrote. “We had meatloaf at my school on Saturday that would maybe half fill a muffin tin. Medium size meatball and that was for adults at $3.

“Other items were ½ cup maybe of creamed potatoes and 1/3 cup green beans and a small breadstick; unsweetened ¼ cup apple sauce.”

“My first thought was ‘why is that all my child got when I paid for him to have a full lunch?’ I would be demanding money back in my child’s lunch account!” Christy McMillen wrote.

Burleson’s Associate Superintendent of Educational Operations Jerry Hollingsworth apologized to parents for the mini tacos, and told NBC he plans to look into the matter more closely.

“Any reasonable person can see there’s not enough meat on that taco,” Hollingsworth said. “I’m certainly not aware of this being a pattern and if that’s the case, we need to fix it and we will.”

Hollingsworth thanked the Gleeneys for highlighting the problem.