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.”
anyone dumb enough to actually ingest crisco deserves whatever they get BLECH
“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.”
All to be thrown out promptly about one minute after it hits the plate.
“The meanest, grouchiest people don’t want anyone to have fun, or desert... but them. I can guarantee that Mooch has desert on a regular basis.”
This is the idiocy that results once people allow the government to interfere in their lives for the sake of getting money from Uncle Sugar.
Then the district should just say no.
...,.and now you can say goodbye to the crispy, yummy Italian pizzelle which unfortunately rhymes with......
.....yep, you got it.
Leni
Yep. We the powers that be give you money. You the power that not be accept our rule or we stop giving you money.
If that isn’t extortion then my 4th grade reading comprehension class hath failed me.
FO Barrack (Barry) Hussien Obama (Soerto)!
I naturally assumed if Michele was going to outlaw a cookie it would be the Black N’ White?
I just say ‘pack their lunch’ and the first time someone throws it away....well, God help them.
To me, a school lunch program -- and all of the whining you hear even on FreeRepublic about these idiotic nanny-state rules and regulations -- is symptomatic of exactly what is wrong with this country.
For a parent to demand that the government (i.e., the TAXPAYERS) must feed their children in school, and then turn around and complain about what they're getting, is the epitome of someone consigning their children to self-imposed slavery.
By what authority does she do this? She’s first lady for pete’s sake!
Yep. See posts 30 & 31. No complaints from me!
Elyria, according to this
http://censusviewer.com/city/OH/Elyria
Dems 39.55%
Pubbies 15.32%
Non-partisan 45.03%
Libertarian 0.07%
Green 0.02%
I suspect the ‘non-partisan’ vote is Dem. Then you add in the Green and Libertarians and you have a total of 84.67% who are collectivists of one sort or another.
Let them reap the rewards of their idiocy.
(for those in Rio Linda, that was '/s')
Correct on the ‘non-partisan’ vote. I’m very surprised by the Dem 39.55%. I would think it would be closer to 65 or 70%. Elyria is in Lorain County. The southern/rural part of the county is more heavily republican and the northern/urban portion is heavy/corruptly democrat run.
I know a lot of these democrats, many of them are sick of Obama but will vote for Hitlery when the time comes.
Best laugh of the day so far, thanks.
” For a parent to demand that the government (i.e., the TAXPAYERS) must feed their children in school, and then turn around and complain about what they’re getting, is the epitome of someone consigning their children to self-imposed slavery.”
Even the kids that pay for their lunches,like my grandkids,are subject to these restrictions. They’ll survive,but the interference by a non-entity like Michelle Obama infuriates me.
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There was an interesting story posted here last week about a school district in Kentucky that was rejecting their Federal lunch funding and all the nanny-state restrictions that come with it after getting the funding for one or two school years.
The school board wasn't motivated by any sense of outrage over the government meddling, mind you. The superintendent of schools was clear about what was motivating them. The revenue they lost from all the kids who stopped buying lunch at school exceeded the revenue they got from the Federal government for the program.
Money always talks. Use it to your advantage.
“Then stop paying for the lunches and take a stand. “
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I pay for nothing——my kids pay for the lunches—and the grandkids are all in high school or beyond.
We have pretty much escaped the Michelle Mandates,but I’m horrified that this is taking place.
Good for that district in Kentucky.
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