HOW DARE YOU HAVE PINK COOKIES.
Posted on 08/22/2014 9:01:12 PM PDT by Olog-hai
School children in Elyria, Ohio are mourning the demise of a 40-year tradition – the loss of their beloved pink cookie. The fabled cookie, long served in local school cafeterias, was done in by a pound of butter, six cups of powdered sugar and the Obama administration’s food police. […]
The USDA “Smart Snacks in School” standards mandate that all snacks must contain less than 200 calories. It’s not exactly clear how many calories are in the pink cookie, but the recipe for the frosting calls for a pound of butter.
The cookie was banished to comply with the federal guidelines.
“We can’t have them in the cafeteria for sale, period,” food services director Scott Teaman told The Chronicle Telegram. “The guidelines for snacks are very strict, and there is no wiggle room.” …
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Just want to ban all that is fun and enjoyable. I guess soylent green will be the next to go. ;-)
True dictatorship when the federales can prevent children in “Elyria, Ohio” that they can’t have their link cookie treats. When will Americans finally wake up, anyway?! This administration is a Giant theatre of the absurd.
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I don’t believe in evolution, however, this picture might make me think twice. LOL!
Why do the Feds have a say in what local schools serve as lunches and snacks, anyway?
They won’t be banned in the teacher’s lounge.
The Moms, and Dads too, in the neighborhood should find the recipe and be there handing them out at the end of every school day. With appropriate media coverage, of course :-)
I will bet you that 40 years ago kids ate this pink cookie and did not get fat. And 30 years ago. And 20. What changed?
Cut ties with the federal lunch program, problem solved.
For the same reason they control health care, the environment, and just about every other area of public and private concern: the elastic Commerce Clause, which has been in effect since Wickard v Filburn. Also known as the New Deal Commerce Clause.
One more job lost because of government regulation.
OK, we each give the federal government $100.00.
They give us back one dollar, and from then on any activity even remotely related to the spending of that dollar is subject to federal review and approval.
As here, by strict adherence to federal “guidelines”: a euphemism for ‘Rules and Regulations’.
And once they become established, they’re impossible to get rid of; once they nose you out of the tent, you’re sitting outside wondering why your kid can’t have pink cookies at school, like their parents and grandparents.
I would tell you why, but Auto correct won’t let me use the necessary words.
I don’t know about that, however it certainly has me thinking about de-evolution.
ROFLMAO!! Amen!
"A republic, madam, if you can keep it."
God save the republic.
Because they said so, and they have lots of thugs with automatic weapons.
I would send my child to school every day with a nutritious lunch and a homemade pink cookie, just daring anyone to take it away or say something. However that scenario would require me to have child in school, which I do not, I homeschooled and we ate whatever we wanted.
The same lying imbecile incompetents who told you "butter bad, margarine good" are pushing this snake oil.
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