Students, stomachs grumble over Michelle O’s menu

eagnews.org ^ | 10-08-2014 | Kyle Olson

[Texan5]

I went to Catholic school and I hate fish sticks!

The only day I liked to eat the cafeteria fare was on Tuesday-baked or fried chicken, and I chose salad over corn-we had enough fresh corn at home...

[IamConservative]

When I was in school (30+ years ago) there was a kitchen at the school and cooks in there cooking. You could start to smell it around 10:00 or so. On days when we had chili, you could smell it the rest of the day, but I digress.

For the entire time my kids were in school in the 90’s and 00’s, the school had a kitchen, but they did not cook. It was all just warmed up fast food or locally purchased fast food. The only appliances in the kitchen were warming ovens. When the PTO wanted to have a pancake breakfast, we had to bring griddles in to cook.

Never did understand that. I can see Michelle’s point, but I don’t think it is the role of the Federal Government to intervene.

[Catsrus]

I remember grade school and yes, the cooks did cook. There were no free lunches for the underprivileged kids. If your parents couldn’t afford lunch - then you worked in the cafeteria to pay for it. Our food was good and I loved the fish on Fridays.

[Texan5]

All the cafeterias still had real cooks even when my kid was in school-you could smell food actually being cooked all morning. I wouldn’t have a kid of mine eating packaged re-warmed crap...

There was no such thing as free lunch in private school-or in public school either-everyone who didn’t want that day’s lunch had a brown bag, and kids were not singled out as “underprivileged”-that is cruel, and almost like bullying.

I love fish, but not fish sticks...

[punknpuss]

Great, now school lunch rooms will be putting more people out of work because the kids won’t eat lunch.

When I was growing up we only had brown bag lunches, sometimes pb&j, sometimes bologna or potted meat, sometimes pimento cheese. We would buy milk and that was lunch. My parents did not let us buy lunch because they had 6 kids.

My son took a lunch box to school almost every day except for Fridays when I let him buy lunch. That was a treat.

[Bitsy]

BURLEY, Idaho

If they hitched their carriage to the obama horse, they have to take the ride. You have no choices in progressive world.

[erkelly]

I remember those days, too. If you could not pay for lunches, you worked. I also remember that in our sixth-grade class, a boy from the one of the most prominent and well-to-do families in town was told he had to work for his lunches; because his father felt he was old enough to start contributing economically and that there was no such thing as a free lunch. This decision by this man took all stigma away for the children whose parents could not afford to pay for their lunches. All these years later, I still think of that boy's parents with such admiration!

[Graybeard58]

I don’t eat hot dogs, but my husband did-it is processed mystery meat

You got it, everything but the pig's whistle ground up in hot dogs, plus, let's not forget, "mechanically separated chicken". About once or twice a year, I might have a Nathan's or Hebrew National, both Kosher.

[Red Badger]

Whatever happened to the ‘Right to Choose’?

I guess if you ‘choose’ to have an abortion at 15, it’s okay, but not to ‘choose’ more than one packet of ketchup because it’s verboten...........

[Bitsy]

yep. Makes sense doesn’t it?/s

[Texan5]

I’m pretty sure I don’t want to know how chicken is “mechanically separated”-or any other mystery meat...