Posted on 11/15/2016 9:43:14 PM PST by Olog-hai
The Left, including their Food Network lapdogs, are constantly yapping about childhood hunger. Given the rates of obesity in America, and especially poor families, I’m skeptical. But if you assume the problem is real, wouldn’t you want schools to serve meals kids won’t throw out? They just won’t eat Moochelle’s crap.
but I don’t know if it was ever edible?”
Back in the day we had ladies in our high school cafeteria who actually knew how to cook. One of the kids favorites was a meat roll up which was a home made roll stuffed with sliced beef and topped with brown gravy. We also had things like roast beef with real mashed potatoes and gravy, fried chicken, ham with yummy sweet potatoes, roast turkey with all the trimmings, home made chocolate cake and always some kind of homemade cookies.
Don’t remember any of my classmates being fat as everybody had phys ed every day and did physical work after school. We also didn’t have school buses so a lot of kids walked to school. The words couch potato hadn’t even been invented yet.
“...the lunches I got back in the dark ages when lunch ladies could actually cook.”
As someone who started school on Army bases in 1958, I can attest to that. Half the time I couldn’t decide whether I liked my mom’s cooking or the lunch ladies’ cooking better.
Here in Oklahoma, school lunches were prepared by lunch ladies who were awesome cooks! The school was small, and we knew who prepared our lunches. We kids actually looked forward to lunch. By the time my own children were eating school lunches, we were living in small town Tennessee, where once again, the lunch ladies were good cooks and you knew them. Lunches were also still affordable. Once the kids got into high school, they only bought lunch on certain days and we packed lunch the rest of the time. Now that my grandchildren are in school, we no longer have lunch ladies who cook. Everything is precooked/processed, and assembled/heated. It’s horrible, and expensive. One grandchild in Tennessee is still able to buy his lunch, in a small rural school where I believe they still cook, but he’s six and his lunch costs 2.75. The rest of my grandsons pack their lunches everyday. I guess the schools just can’t afford to keep cooks these days, and good hot lunches have mostly gone the way of the dinosaur. It isn’t that expensive to pack a sandwich. I think school kids would be happier with peanut butter/jelly or bologna/cheese sandwiches, rather than some of the slop that’s being dished out now. I think there would be less waste, and the cost would be much lower. It isn’t doing anyone any good when children throw away their lunches.
Dittos here....For the most part, our school lunches kicked butt....The horror stories I’ve seen from Mooshelle’s interference are almost comical.....almost...
More clutching of pearls.
There’s a gigantic flaw here, you conservatives. True conservatives don’t want the Feds to fix school lunches; they want the Feds to get entirely out of the education system.
There was noting healthy about Mooch’s school lunches, just a lot of HUNGRY kids who wouldn’t eat the crap. Even my grandson refused to eat it, he packed a sandwich and a juice drink.
How about making school lunches the baby-drool overcooked mac & cheese like when I was a kid. Make it “All You Can Eat”. Then let the program die from lack of interest...
Oriental Food on Pearl Harbor Day?
You made that up! LOL!!
How about letting parents decide what to serve their kids in the schools their taxes support? Butt out, federal government.
Well here’s a novel idea - how about parents prepare their children’s lunches for them? I did it for 20 years while my 5 children went through school.
What a novel idea! That just makes too much sense!
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