“If parents like Sarah Palin want their kids to eat cookies for lunch, no one is going to stop them.”
Well isn’t that snarky? If you don’t want your kids to eat at the salad bar, you must want them to have cookies for lunch. Like that out of shape pig Sarah Palin and her obese family????
The author of the article, Ed Bruske, is obviously a self-loathing asshole.
Hahahaha! Like that's going to stop little Johnny from blowing buggers and spitting in it.
Moochelle has to be one of the biggest morons on the planet.
Having a salad won’t do anything if you smother it with dressing like 1000 Island or Ranch or French...
Obestity has nothing to do with schools.
Schools served the same things back in the 70s and 80s they do today and there was far less obesity back then.
They’d be better off increasing phys ed classes. Kids exercised more back then. Now they’re all online or texting or facebooking or playing video games.
Ironically enough, the WH use dto run this thing called the President’s Challenge for Physical Fitness. It was a contest among all 50 states where people signed up and used these stepcounters to measure how physically active they were for say 6 weeks or so over the summer. AK won back to back in 2008-9. The first two yrs of the program that started in 2008. For some reason, the WH ended the program after 2009. I wonder why?
http://www.fitness.gov/presidents-challenge/pcfsn-awards/presidents-challenge-winners-2009.html
So under Gov Palin’s leadership AK was the most active state in both 2008-2009 She should really tout that.
It’s not about salad bars. I saw last night where she was out there hiking 12 miles with her dad and his friend. That’s what’s needed. You don’t get obese if you do stuff like that.
1)They lost a fortune on them
2)They were impossible to keep clean and presentable looking.
When I was a kid we packed a lunch.
We were “allowed” to buy lunch on Pizza day and Spaghetti day.
Our school had Italian lunch ladies
A bunch of little kids using the same pair of Tongs to scoop up lettuce, with all the condiments in separate little containers (with their own set of Tongs) that they have to scoop out before they get to the Golden Ring, the Dressing!
What do you get after they hit the dressing, Lettuce Soup.
What makes Crazy Aunt Esther any sort of an expert on nutrition? Did the concept even exist on the south side of Chicago?
LOL! Does this sound like a government program or what?
"YOU! BACK OVER TO THAT SALAD BAR AND DON'T COME BACK WITHOUT ANOTHER 3.5 OLIVES ON THAT PLATE, MISTER!!!!"
A salad bars for kids is complete stupidity.
They are like a giant petri dishes of food born and cross contaminating critters.
I would never allow my kid near a salad bar.
Before people holler that millions eat from salad bars and never get sick, it is because they are meant for adults and adults can handle the pathogens better than kids.
Adults are also more sanitary.
Can you imagine a bunch of untrained dirty kids who don’t wash their hands after the toilet or filthy from the playground or other sick kids slobbering and grabbing at food a salad bar?
Better to be a fat kid than a dead kid.
Salad bar + kids = food fight. Can you imagine?
Most salad bars I’ve seen have very fattening items, otherwise nobody would get them.
I've also got a picture of a barely-moving salad bar line of giggly 8 year-olds, all playing build-a-salad with the varied little globules, slices and dices arrayed before them and little plastic scoops to pile on the pastel-colored fatty dressings and stale croutons and little reddish shoe-leather bits for garnish......
.....then most of these mountains of mush of will not be eaten and will end up along with taxpayers' dollars shoved through the swinging flaps of unmonitored trash bins.
This is another brain-seizure from administration food nazis.....and is eventually gonna come back to bite the naive, trying-so-hard-to-be-relevant, willing tool, Michelle, right in her asparagus.
Leni
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
People like Ms. Obama will not, cannot ever just leave people alone to live their own lives. Others must be "improved" or "enlightened" or have their consciousness "raised", if necessary: by force. It's for their own good and of course it's for... the children.
This will give "feeding at the public trough" a whole new meaning ...