Students Fed Up With Michelle Obama’s School Lunch Overhaul
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That is just sad. And I think it's awful that grown adults are applauding these kids and their quest to eat junk instead of nutritious food...basically using them for your own political purposes because of your irrational hatred of the Obamas. You all should be ashamed of yourselves.
These kids are not hungry because they're not getting enough food; they are hungry because they refuse the food they are served, and go pig out on vending machine chips and candy instead.
So, get rid of the real food but keep the calories in the form of the sugar and fat these kids will eat, because apparently Mommy and Dad don't make them eat their veggies at home.
Seriously, you all should be embarrassed to take the side of unhealthy eating in kids just because you're a political zealot.
I want to go on pizza day, I used to love school pizza. It took a couple of napkins to blot off all of the oil, but after that it was great.
Lurk
Happy Creepy Ass Cracka
An interesting quote in the second link confirms something I am accused of making up in an earlier post.
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Oh stop it. The only reason you give a damn about school lunches is because you hate Barack and Michelle Obama. If some Republican came out in favor of healthier GOVERNMENT PROVIDED food for kids, you'd be all for it.
You all bitch about the welfare girls being able to purchase snack chips and junk with their "Independence" Card, yet here you are ranting that kids should be able to eat that stuff on our dime.
Hypocrite much?
Lurk
Happy Creepy Ass Cracka
Actually, the presence or absence of Mooch and Barry has nothing to do with my belief that up to 8 Federally funding feeding programs (none of which is audited or monitored) are too many and too intrusive on the American taxpayer.
Lurk
Happy Creepy Ass Cracka
Yr welcome.
Thanks. She's too quick to pigeon-hole people on the forum.
Vince
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Yes, exactly. Let parents provide a healthy or unhealthy breakfast, lunch and dinner for their kids. Let parents teach them right from wrong. Let the parents start parenting. Let the parents actually take the responsiblity.
Not often I see you so steadfastly refuse to look a the facts of a matter. Simply put..the mass exodus from the govt program is because the food involved is too often bland, tasteless and virtually inedible crap. Do the local systems and food "preparers and planners" deserve some credit for that crappy outcome?..of course they do. But the simple fact that the problem is so pervasive nationwide and that so many school systems are now opting out, forgoing the money, speaks for itself.
inorite - it is all about hating the Obama's
remember no one stood up for DJ when cigarettes were banned - so GFY now
School lunch was never a gourmet meal, that I recall. Some of it was good, most was meh, the rest was downright horrifying ("beef" tips on runny instant mashed "potatoes" is one I remember from my yoot). These kids with their carryout chain pizza and their salad bars, we never had stuff like that when I was growing up. We had soft serve ice cream that was 25-cents extra. Some kids skipped the meal and just got ice cream. Many kids skipped school lunch altogether and got M&Ms from the gas station across the street. Because I'm smarter than most, I fixed my schedule so that I had Home Ec right before lunch period, so I could either eat whatever we fixed in class or warm up my soup from home.
Kids not eating their school lunch is nothing new. It's at least 45 years old. Do you not remember when you were a kid, all the food that ended up in the trash can? So now we have to revamp the menus so this generation's spoiled brats can have whatever they demand? Seriously? Because nothing's too good for Biff and Muffy's little cherub?
What do you think they eat in the mess halls at military bases? I'll give you a hint: it varies from base to base, depending on the cooks and supplies. Just like at schools. And do you think school kids should be better fed than our military men and women?
I remember when the women that prepared the food in my school's cafeteria were the same ones that ran the firehouse kitchen and catered weddings. It was most excellent.
But that was a long time ago.
If you want to ignore all those links about how the new government food guidelines affected the edibility of school lunches in so many school systems....that's your call to make, of course.
Hundreds of links...like this one. http://www.timesunion.com/living/article/Local-school-districts-opt-out-of-federal-lunch-4783711.php
But they all say pretty much the same thing: The new federal guidelines were to restrictive, food sales plummeted and food being thrown out skyrocketed.
Unfortunately, the poorer school districts will have a much more difficult time opting out; it's the wealthier districts that can afford to go without that fed money.
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NextJen
Raisin cane
I remember 'Pizza Burgers'. A hamburger bun with a dollop of meat sauce on it, topped with a slice of American cheese and then put into the oven until the cheese melted. Kids always wanted to buy lunch on Pizza Burger day.
I remember pizza, hamburgers with crinkle cut fries, mushy green beans that most kids threw out, squares of jello sitting in a little paper cup, and Raggedy Robins (no bake cookies). I felt like we always had enough to eat in our school lunches back 30-40 years ago.
I remember pizza, hamburgers with crinkle cut fries, mushy green beans that most kids threw out, squares of jello sitting in a little paper cup, and Raggedy Robins (no bake cookies). I felt like we always had enough to eat in our school lunches back 30-40 years ago.
Yes, I will ignore them in favor of what I can personally observe and what I personally remember. I know how the media works: someone sends out a press release, one of the "reporters" makes a story out of it, the other lazy "reporters" pick it up, and voila! Hundreds of links all saying the same thing.
Go ahead and scoff but that is indeed how it works, whether you want to believe it or not.
So local schools are opting out of the federal lunch program. So? Kids don't want to eat the school lunch (because that's such a brand new thing, never heard of before). So? Kids don't like fruits and veggies, they want to eat pizza and tacos every day. Gee, that's a new one, too.
You seriously don't think that whole "Kids tweet to Michelle Obama" thing was a set up? Do you honestly think those kids thought to do that on their own? Bitch to the First Lady about their school lunch?
All you parents, ask your kids what they served in the cafeteria today at lunch.
All you teachers, tell us what they were serving today.
If it was gruel and a dry hamburger patty, with a shriveled half kiwi on the side, I will happily admit I was wrong.
All you teachers, tell us what they were serving today.
If it was gruel and a dry hamburger patty, with a shriveled half kiwi on the side, I will happily admit I was wrong.
From what my son tells me, SMCS is still putting out decent grub in the cafeterias. So there you go..that one data point that settles the matter.
Actually since chow is also a morale issue, the quality tends to be very good. I will say that the quality at USCG shore facilities went down in the late 80's/early 90's when they removed the active-duty cooks from the galleys and replaced them with contract food service companies as a cost saving measure.
How many school systems need to have complaints before it can be considered an epidemic of school kid starvation? We hear all these stories about people none of us know, in places we've never heard of, but what we do know is that it's not happening in our school district. Or in the school district of anyone we know. Which is not to say it's not happening, but it can't be nationwide. You'd think if anything we'd be seeing Michelle the Starver's gruel lunch program right here in the People's Republik.
I think it's a bunch of overblown bull#### from spoiled kids or adults with a political agenda, probably a combination of both.
ahh. A clue doth present itself.