The recrudescence of 'nasty, rotty'
school lunches in California
American Thinker,
by
Monica Showalter
Original Article
Posted By: PageTurner,
1/19/2020 7:10:41 AM
So what's the verdict on Michelle Obama's "nasty, rotty" school lunch program, supposedly loaded with green vegetables that somehow went onto the trays gray? We already know the kids couldn't stand it. Remember this?
President Trump has decided to at least partially scrap it.
According to The Hill:
Under the new rules, schools would be allowed to reduce the number of fruits and vegetables required at each meal. The latest change follows a 2019 rollback of restrictions on milk and sodium content in school lunches.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
earlybird 1/19/2020 7:20:01 AM (No. 292288)
Unless they’d serve Chinese stir-fry, it is almost impossible to cook green vegetables and hold them - and hold them - in steam tables without their becoming gray vegetables.
As for “fresh”, there is nothing wrong with frozen vegetables. Most have been found to be more nutritious than fresh.
As Monica writes, most kids eat “something different” when away from home. One meal a day that is “different” won’t kill them, but it could hurt the bureaucrats’ pocketbooks.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
udanja99 1/19/2020 7:27:25 AM (No. 292296)
And they did it on Mooch’s birthday - thwarting!
“Critics said the change will pave the way for greasier, more unhealthy foods such as pizza, french fries and burgers.”
Anyone familiar with the highly successful Keto diet will know that grease is good for you, especially the animal kind of grease. So add bacon to those burgers!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
udanja99 1/19/2020 7:28:32 AM (No. 292297)
Oops - danged spellcheck. “Thwarting” should be “thwap”.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
KatieJo 1/19/2020 7:31:39 AM (No. 292301)
FTA: "The city receives $2.32 from the federal government for each student entitled to a free school lunch. However, once the workers get their cut and the city covers its overhead, there remains only 17 cents for milk, 15 cents for fruit and 15 cents for vegetables."
It's the same with every government program, more money goes to feed the government payroll than the kids. They get 47 cents of the $2.32 allocated per student and the kids hated the crap. It's about power and growing government.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 1/19/2020 8:21:07 AM (No. 292359)
Wake up, folks!
No government at any level should be allowed to own, operate, or subsidize any school - - anywhere.
When you nitpick the details - - the leftists and communists have won. Demand the end to all government involvement in education - - or we're doomed!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
HotRod 1/19/2020 8:56:37 AM (No. 292394)
This has been a case in point of how liberal democrats aren't satisfied with managing their own lives. They want to micro-manage everyone else's lives instead. You can bet that those food police didn't eat the stuff they foisted on the school children. Typical democrat ''do as I say, not as I do!''
They really didn't care if most of the ''nasty rotty'' stuff went into the garbage, they just wanted to have their way!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
MeiDei 1/19/2020 9:09:09 AM (No. 292402)
After a nearly year-long experience in and out of hospitals and re-hab - my experience with prescribed diets seemed akin to M0's school lunch menu - not to be repeated. There's no way to fix watery veggies, dried chicken or limp bread, etc. lunch should be a happy time. Recess should be an active time with various sports encouraged depending on ability. Want to get the weight off the students and/or increase bone density - make those who live within a mile of their school walk.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Strike3 1/19/2020 9:29:14 AM (No. 292428)
Just when the quality of lunch finally equals the quality of public education, they want to improve - lunch!
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When have "School lunch" and "delicious" or "tasty" ever been used in the same sentence? Ever enjoy peabake? Most of it ended up on the ceiling, where it would stick and stay forever.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
red1066 1/19/2020 10:02:09 AM (No. 292459)
Schools systems around the country are nothing more than little socialist run countries. No one can question what they do or how they do it. The school systems are run with no regard for the people who pay, and if someone on the inside is found to be doing something which draws attention, the school system closes ranks to protect the insider.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
bad-hair 1/19/2020 10:10:48 AM (No. 292468)
Got to provide jobs for prison cooks once they're paroled.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 1/19/2020 10:22:52 AM (No. 292479)
Several things bothered me about the Moochelle national starve the kids program. One is that kids were not allowed in many schools to bring a lunch from home. They got confiscated. Another is that her kids were exempted from that lunch program, as their school had a chef who cooked the lunches. The biggest one though is the fact the media did not care for how many years that kids were being starved? Most of that garbage they were served went right where it belonged. The garbage can. Yet the media never said one word. That whole program was a disaster, and the amount of food wasted was disgraceful. But then that was typical Moochelle Obama, starvation coach of school children.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
SnowQueen 1/19/2020 10:25:56 AM (No. 292484)
If I ran a school cafeteria, this is what I'd serve: https://www.tasteofhome.com/collection/cafeteria-copycat-recipes-thatll-take-you-back/
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
TruthFetish 1/19/2020 10:30:36 AM (No. 292489)
I am old enough to remember when parents fed their own kids. As Clarence Thomas writes, every family can afford a loaf of bread and a jar of peanut butter.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 1/19/2020 10:32:48 AM (No. 292495)
Hit submit too soon. Thanks to the locating of processing plants right in the areas where the vegetables and fruit are being grown, frozen vegetables and fruits are indeed more nutritious than fresh. Most product is frozen within hours of being picked, vs the fresh which gets picked then sits around sometimes for literally days until it gets to market. So I have no problems with frozen product, because I know the reality vs the false impression most folks have. Of course if you go to a Farmer's Market, then of course fresh is the way to go. But at the grocery store, unless you are doing a vege plate and dip for a party, always do frozen.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
fayebeck 1/19/2020 10:40:32 AM (No. 292504)
I hate the word "nutritious".
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff 1/19/2020 10:58:24 AM (No. 292525)
Making School Lunches Great Again!
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We seen to spend a lot of time thinking about food.
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