Posted on 05/02/2019 5:46:16 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Is white bread about to make a comeback on school lunch menus?
After complaints about taste and costs, the Trump administration rolled back a rule that required foods like pasta and bread be made with whole grains. The cafeteria directors who lobbied for the change say they just want greater flexibility to serve foods like white bread — which are more processed and have less fiber — when whole grains don’t work.
In Vermont, the relaxed rule means white rice will be served with beans again. In Oregon, macaroni and cheese may return. And in South Dakota, students may notice a change with their soup.
“The staff asked right away, ‘Oh my God, can we go back to the other saltines?’” said Gay Anderson, a school lunch director and president of the School Nutrition Association, which represents cafeteria operators and suppliers like Domino’s and Kellogg.
The rollback addresses rules on grains, milk and salt championed by former first lady Michelle Obama. …
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A $1 loaf of white bread is nasty.
Better chance the kids will eat the lunch...
rather than throw it in the trash.
Do they still serve the Wookiee’s Insect Sausage ?
Pb&j here we come
But with baloney and mustard .... yum.
I eat a lot of whole wheat bread.
But, if I’m having a tomato sandwich, it has to be on white.... with Kraft mayo.
I also want peanut butter on white bread and a grilled cheese made with white bread.
I think a whole wheat grilled cheese would make me puke.
GASP!
I think the Chubaca actor died today.
I went through the entire school system and at home eating white bread and certainly survived well......I expect kids will today as well...sheesh!
Has Jesse Jackson voiced his concern yet? This is obviously something that only a white nationalist would do. Why not Rye?
In before angry pictures of the wookie.
With a baseball bat.
Can you imagine a club sandwich on ANYTHING other than toasted white bread? I can't!
Joe Biden: “Let the Wookie win”
Good
I prefer white bread over shite with seeds in it
Except Kaplan’s rye
Grilled cheese sandwich on Russian or Jewish rye is very tasty.
Russian?!?!?! COLLUSION!!!!!
Indeed
Some things just go better on regular Wonder or Colonial or Sunbeam white bread
Peanut butter and grape jelly
Or a nice BLT
We go through 3-4 loaves a week in my large brood
I don’t buy fancy bread unless it’s from a bakery
Brioche or a ciabatta or a baguette or Cuban loaf
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