Michelle Obama's Unsavory School Lunch Flop

Townhall.com ^ | December 21, 2011 | Michelle Malkin

[ROCKLOBSTER]

half the kids in school have peanut allergies.

Carter's fault.

[Bigg Red]

Chances are the Obamas were helping some friends who produce the lunch replacements or the ingredients thereof.

Why do we need for schools to produce lunches anyway? I survived 12 years of elementary school and high school while bringing my lunch from home. In my Catholic schools, there was no cafeteria service.

I wonder how much money school systems would save by eliminating food service.

[BTCM]

For this school district, ‘possum and sweet taters with a side of corn pone would be scarffed down;

[ROCKLOBSTER]

beef jambalaya, vegetable curry, pad Thai, lentil and brown rice cutlets, and quinoa and black-eyed pea salads.

Sounds pretty good, until you consider that untrained assembly-line union-thug "food workers" were forced to actually "get creative"...blechhh!

Now everyone knows SEIU as just another hog call.

[taterjay]

I wonder if ole SanFranNan and hubby are pushing some food down that way so they can profit from the operation?

[goodwithagun]

My three year old eats grilled salmon, black beans and rice, spicy chicken quesadillas, lamb stew, and recently enjoyed caviar with minced shallots on crackers with cream cheese at a wedding brunch. His first food at six months of age was pureed avocado, which he regularly eats now as well only not pureed. He never had baby food from a jar, he only had purees that I made him. He ate what my husband and I ate, and now he does the same thing. He is usually the only kid at Chipotle scarfing beans and rice and ignoring the chips. These kids aren't eating that food because they have been raised on McDonalds and Kraft mac and cheese. Nobody cooks for their families anymore and this is proof. Don't even let me get into the gov waste of all of this as well.

[oyez]

Just think of the money saved now that school meals programs no longer have food theft problems.

[murron]

I remember when I was in elementary school in the 1950s, we were served hot lunches every day. They were horrible. And we weren’t allowed to throw any of it away, and couldn’t go out to recess until we had finished eating. I missed many a recess. We were not allowed to bring lunches from home, so that wasn’t a solution. I see many lunch program rules today that are deemed intrusive or overbearing as nothing different than what I experienced as a child way back when.

[PrincessB]

I was thinking about this as I was making dinner last night. My grocer had split turkey breast halves (2-3 lbs of meat, skin and bones) as a special at Thanksgiving. I bought and froze a couple. Last night a fixed a soup with this find, a couple of basic veggies and a few odds and ends that needed to get used.

I was thinking that I should try a food stamp challenge and would probably eat fairly well because of cooking like this.

I still think this is half. Second, and Michelle does bring this up, is that too much food is provided at one sitting. We have systematically increased portions so that they are unrealistic. It would be better to decrease portions and have a system in place for seconds or alternatives than to give everyone too much.

[Bigg Red]

Wouldn’t surprise me.

[Newtoidaho]

“beef jambalaya, vegetable curry, pad Thai, lentil and brown rice cutlets, and quinoa and black-eyed pea salads.”
Sounds delectable in theory.

To who? Slop hogs?

[rdb3]

<< Piranha teeth!

Help! She's gonna bite me!

25 years ago, we had Ronald Reagan, Johnny Cash, and Bob Hope.
Today we have Obama, no cash, and no hope!

If you can't appreciate the pure beauty of the violin after hearing this, something's wrong with your ears.

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Do it!

[calex59]

The one in blue is Sarkozy’s wife and the other one is some young girl, can’t remember who. The pic is photo shopped of course, the wookie’s butt isn’t quite that wide, but close.

[astounded]

...”Nicolas Sarkozy’s wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy”....

Ooohhh la laaaaa.....

[calex59]

Why do we need for schools to produce lunches anyway? I survived 12 years of elementary school and high school while bringing my lunch from home. In my Catholic schools, there was no cafeteria service. I wonder how much money school systems would save by eliminating food service.

Only so called "rich kids" bought their lunch when I went to school and grammar schools didn't have lunch programs at all in the area I was raised in. I always took my lunch and so did the majority of other kids. We folded the paper bag and put it in our pocket and took it home to be used again. The parents in my area would have revolted had the school prohibited home made lunches. There would have been some mighty bruised up school board members if they had tried that sh**. Americans need to revolt against this type of tyranny, and it is tyranny.

[KantianBurke]

Call me when Ms. Malkin gets courageous by going to the heart of the matter - why is the Federal government involved in school lunch programs in the first place? She won’t say due, initially, to cowardice i.e. getting criticized for taking food away from kids but mostly because plenty of big govt GOP types (I’m looking at you farm states suckling at the Federal teat) who love the programs and could care less about spending more on it.

She won’t as its easier to simply kevetch.

[SpaceBar]

Chances are the Obamas were helping some friends who produce the lunch replacements or the ingredients thereof.

That was my initial thought when I first saw the story... Big Lentil. Somebody's making out like a bandit with the meal contract(s). Follow the money as they say.

[Chode]

just DAMN...!!!

[R. Scott]

Your child is the very rare exception but don’t blame it on fast and prepared foods. I was a picky eater as a child, we didn’t have fast food joints in the area and very few prepared foods.

[Bigg Red]

Americans need to revolt against this type of tyranny....

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Unfortunately, far too many parents are just not paying much attention. Their thinking is that the school and the after-school are taking care of their kids for x hours each day so the parents can just go to work and not have to worry about where the kids are. Not having to take the whole 10 minutes to pack a lunch is considered a bonus.

Many parents today do not get the concept that a child’s development and well being are the responsibility of the parent and should be uppermost in the parent’s mind at all times.