With the advent of taxpayer paid school lunch for literally every student in the state of Minnesota, a friend of the blog emails:
So have you figured out the menu for the first bunch of rich folk’s kids you’ll be buying lunch. I think mine will be liver and onions and lutefisk so they’ll never ask again.
Not a bad idea, at least on the surface.
But remember Dash this is going to be government food.
I have a hunch lutefisk will look pretty good by the time they choke it down for a month or two.
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So, are you telling me that the program that gives every student in the state a free lunch – is being administered by the same folks who gave us the $500 million Feeding Our Future scandal?
Next you will be telling me that wasn’t the plan all along.
Have you been to school lunch lately? My grandkids’ school has a food court for the cafeteria: salad bar, pizza, deli sandwiches.
Nobody gets mystery meat gravy over instant mashed potatoes anymore.
Best I can tell, the rationale for this is the evidence-free assertion that minorities do so poorly in school because of bad nutrition. I can accept this as likely true in third world places like Bangladesh, Biafra, and others. But I shop at Walmart. I can look in the carts of people buying with SNAP cards. I see plenty of food, maybe not what Michelle Obama would consider healthy, but plenty of calories. Another liberal theory that will collide with reality. They’ll come up with more reasons I’m sure, but “free” lunch is here to stay.
golf;
Moochelle Obumbler’s lunch guidelines are almost religion in Minnesota schools. I have neighbors with school aged kids that have gone ballistic on their respective school administrators over replacing their kids home lunches with whatever bear fat filled goodies they serve.
doc, as boss said, we are no different than “…third world places like Bangladesh, Biafra, and others.” when kids are fed Moochele’s diet. Yet another reason US has become a banana republic.
As Big Man pointed out, mystery meat over instant mashed potatoes, doesn’t sit well with all students, especially females.
Here’s one of the meal replacements forced on his daughter. Her home lunch consisted of deli turkey and havarti cheese on 12 grain bread, red grapes, Sun chips and an oatmeal raisin cookie. They tossed it in the trash and gave her 5 chicken nuggets, a fruit cup of basically fruit cocktail, fries and jello. Being only six, she got upset and started crying, because she thought she did something wrong.
Several of us went to the school board meeting and raised hell about it. They tried to dismiss us until one of the parents mentioned…dum, dum, dum, dum…private schools!
boss, what you described is calorie, fat and sugar overload vs a healthy lunch. But science™!
The thought that comes to mind for me is that if a child does not have breakfast before coming to school (free breakfast is also provided, I believe), it’s cause for social services to get involved. A serving of Cheerios or a peanut butter sandwich costs what, a quarter? It’s not like someone getting a slew of welfare payments–WIC, SNAP, TANF–ought to be incapable of providing basic food for their child.
bike,
Great point.
Store brands are even less expensive than the name brands and I challenge anyone to be able to tell the difference in a blind taste test. I’ve proven this on numerous occasions to family and friends.
An interesting thing is that at a group lunch at work, the subject came up, and the reason given for not addressing things via social services was that there were simply too many parents who couldn’t be bothered to make sure their children ate a meal before going to school.
OK, as a parent of six kids, I know it’s not always easy to get them to do what they ought to do, and I make no pretense of being a perfect parent, but…..seriously? People cannot make sure their kids have SOMETHING to eat before going to school?
Really, what the state is doing is to infantilize parents by taking up their responsibilities, and the end result, IMO, is that kids are going to pay the price because, absolved from a basic responsibility to feed their own children, parents are going to start neglecting other responsibilities of parenthood. Then, having not had adequate parenting, we are going to see “failure to launch” and crime skyrocket–the kids have been taught, after all, that others ought to be pillaged to pay for their upkeep.
At the same time, other adults are going to decide that they are going to cordially refuse to pay for the upkeep of children they did not have the pleasure of helping to conceive. It’s a system that will get us coming and going.
“My grandkids’ school has a food court for the cafeteria: salad bar, pizza, deli sandwiches.”
Research has shown people will eat processed dog shit if it’s attractively presented.
“My grandkids’ school has a food court for the cafeteria: salad bar, pizza, deli sandwiches.”
Research has shown people will eat processed d0g shit if it’s attractively presented.
When will they start serving insects as the protein?
Fresch, I thought that bugs were always part of the “mystery meat”, and added some savor to the vegetables as well. No?
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