Posted on 10/24/2017 5:07:43 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Brooklyn school kids, meet Meatless Mondays.
Fifteen public schools in the borough will ditch meat on their Monday menus starting this spring, Mayor de Blasio announced during a visit to P.S. 1 in Sunset Park.
And what’s good for the students is good for the mayor, he said.
“At Gracie Mansion, we are now going to be instituting Meatless Mondays as well — and that will be for our family meals and for the events we have at Gracie Mansion and when we have guests over for dinner,” de Blasio said. […]
“I am very proud of all the students; I'm proud of everyone here for their decision,” de Blasio said. “They made a decision based on their own experience and their own values that they wanted to live healthier and they wanted to do something that they thought would be good for the earth as well.” …
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What about taco Tuesday?
What about meatless Fridays where fish is substituted as penance?
Very dangerous for kids. They need iron and protein!
I think meatless Fridays disappeared some 30 years ago.
What about beans?! Check out the westerns on TV during the 1960’s. Those hard working cowboys were eating beans. Beans with whole grain rice are healthy for a person. Add in sweet potato fries and green bean casserole and you have got an incredible meal. And add a slice of corn bread and a glass of lemonade. I am gaining weight just thinking about such a wonderful meal.
True, beans are healthy, but they tend to lead to this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXHkFZ-nG4Y
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This is ludicrous.
Any kid can go meatless any day of the week if they want. They do NOT have to impose it on everyone else whether they like it or not.
Meatless Mondays? Isn’t that misappropriation of Depression era cuisine?
If I remember my parents telling me about the Great Depression, the days of the week were:
1. Meatless Mondays
2. Tasteless Food Tuesdays
3. Warmed Weak Soup Wednesdays
4. Tasty (but Unrecognizable) Food Thursdays
5. Fish Stick Fridays
6. Soup Saturdays
7. Satisfying Food Sundays (God Willing)
Beans Beans good for the heart. The more you eat them, the more you forget art. The beans have to be digested for an hour or two before the “wind begins.”
Will they charge less on Mondays? Meatless Monday is part of frugal meal planning.
Fish Stick Fridays - during the Great Depression?
Fish sticks were invented in the 1950’s
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/inventor-fish-sticks-e-robert-kinney-dead-96-1c9952297
I didn’t think those nasty school lunches had any real meat in them.
They go back further than that; to England, where they were first dubbed “fish fingers”.
I’ll need antacids, for the kind of tacos I prefer.
Yes, I’m familiar with the fish fingers. They go way back. But the term ‘fish sticks’ was first used, according to the Merriam Webster dictionary, in the 1950’s. They were mashed fish that was breaded and frozen.
This is child abuse in my opinion - recent scientific evidence supports eating animal protein as part of a healthy diet.
Following the USDA pyramid leads to obesity, diabetes, cancer, heart disease, and osteoporosis.
One day without meat isn’t going to hurt anyone. But once again, the school system is trying to instill something into children that should be a family decision. Our family doesn’t eat meat on Friday but we always have leftover meat from Sunday’s meal. Meatless Monday’s don’t make sense at our house so my children would not participate in this. Thankfully, I homeschool so it doesn’t really matter!
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