Posted on 08/24/2014 12:11:55 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
An eruption of aggravation about what American schoolchildren can no longer eat in school cafeterias is never far away in the Obama era.
Now, thanks to federal intervention that first lady Michelle has made her signature issue, students in all 11 taxpayer-funded public schools in Elyria, Ohio cannot enjoy the famous Elyria pink cookie anymore.
This cookie is no ordinary cookie, according to The Chronicle-Telegram, the Cleveland suburb’s local newspaper.
It’s a velvety, cake-like, scrumptious delicacy glazed with a huge dollop of sugary pink icing. Cleveland magazine dubbed the Elyria pink cookie the “Best Cafeteria Cookie” in 2009. Locals will even call up asking for special bulk orders of the tasty treat.
The originator of the Elyria pink cookies, Jean Gawlik, formulated the legendary confection almost 40 years ago using a simple, personal recipe her late mother had given her. It includes lots of butter, a couple different kinds of sugar, some Crisco and sour cream.
As local ABC affiliate WEWS notes, the cookie has been a staple on the local school menu since roughly the Carter administration.
This year, though, students in the Elyria must say goodbye to all that because of draconian calorie restrictions.
“We can’t have them in the cafeteria for sale, period,” Scott Teaman, who runs the district’s cafeteria services, told The Chronicle-Telegram. “The guidelines for snacks are very strict, and there is no wiggle room.”
As of July, schools that take the attached federal money under the 2010 Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act must adhere to new Smart Snacks standards created by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The standards stringently limit the number of calories and the amount of sugar, fat and sodium in every morsel of food sold at schools for over 30 million American school kids.
This school year, instead of the illustrious pink cookie, Elyria students will be treated to a salad bar and a yogurt bar. There’s a sandwich bar, too. It will feature vegetables and egg patties.
Elyria Mayor Holly Brinda, who grew up in town, said local reaction over the new federal ban on delicious cookies is almost uniformly negative and highly critical.
“I grew up eating them,” Brinda told Fox News. “They are a comfort food. It’s one of those things that’s special to our community.”
Amy Higgins, a spokeswoman for Elyria City Schools, agreed.
“It’s a tradition,” Higgins told Fox. “It’s not only a tradition. It’s one that tastes really, really good. You’d be surprised by how many people are upset about the pink cookie going away. Anyone who’s gone to Elyria schools in the last 40 years knows the pink cookie.”
Efforts to bring the pink cookie into conformity with federal guidelines have failed.
Teaman, the cafeteria services director, told The Chronicle-Telegram that his staff tried whole-grain flour and less icing, to no avail.
“There is only one way to do the pink cookie, and to do it any other way would not do it justice,” he said.
“It’s not the pink cookie anymore,” Higgins explained. “It doesn’t maintain the integrity of the homemade recipe.”
Mayor Brinda likened an Obama administration-approved pink cookie to “eating diet potato chips.”
That fat azz should have no say in what other people eat. Total Commie.
“Notes on the State of Virginia” by Thomas Jefferson, 1785...
“Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now.”
Pssst...hey kid...over here.....I’m the candy man....you want Hostess?...I got Hostess!...Twinkies are a buck extra....tell your friends.
Why is it that the liberal - MY BODY, MY CHOICE - mantra ever applies in these cases?
ROFL!
Fat a$$ has nothing better to do with her miserable racist life......why doesn’t she entertain other first ladies like Laura Bush did.......no one wants to have anything to do with the evil Wookster.....they run!
What’s more pathetic is they all just shrug and say “Oh well, Mrs. B. Hussein Obama has spoken.”
For pete’s sake, ignore the damn edict and put the stupid cookies out. This is YOUR school! Screw these busybody food nazis.
My least favorite part of the US Constitution is the part that allows the First Lady to control what cookies we are allowed to eat. But what can one do?
I do not eat sweets. Nada. And I do not want the government telling anybody that they cannot indulge.
Why addict kids to government cookies, so they just sit back the rest of their life and wait for the government to provide?
I can't wait for the outrageously funny movies that will satirized their time in DC. The British may have to produce said films, but they will sell BIG in the U.S.
If you like your pink cookies, you can keep your pink cookies, period.
That picture got today’s LOL from me. Thanks.
The sugar content of cookies should be a 1st Amendment freedom. When the judgement of government substitutes for the judgement of citizens, we have tyranny. Orange juice, for instance, contains 33 grams of sugar per 12 ounce serving. One Twinkie only contains 19 grams of sugar. We not only have governmental food restrictions, but they are restrictions based upon non-science. Any government that bases policy on assumptions, is a tyranny.
I am not a sweet eater. I usually forgo desserts for another helping of meat and gravy. To have this wide load rear end FLOUTUS telling people what to eat... that is obnoxious.
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