Food fight at Los Altos High: District hopes to outlaw popular catering truck

Mountain View (Cal.) Voice ^ | October 12, 2007 | Susan Hong

[subterfuge]

I suspect the school needs the business to make up for the students that get free lunch and breakfast.

[3Lean]

After I graduated from HS I was shocked to learn that you could eat pizza without corn on the side...

[ErnBatavia]

School cafeteria “food” is a joke.

Try a mid-sixties Camp Pendleton Mess Hall - whew.

On 'liver' day, which was about once a week, the E-club did a huge business selling burgers and beer.

[calex59]

That would certainly disappoint the many students who lined up on Tuesday with dollars in hand to order cheese steak burritos, fries and sodas from Nguyen's truck, parked on Jardin Avenue next to the school.

Not only would it disapoint students but it would be unconstitutional to ban this truck from a neighborhood, banning from school property I can barely tolerate but banning from the school neighborhood is going way beyond the pale. If the parents of these kids don't stand up and put a stop to this they are crazy.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

But district officials are evidently concerned that the cafeteria is losing popularity, and that students may be ignoring the school's healthier offerings.

One of life's little cruelties that the food that tastes best usually isn't the healthiest.

[3niner]

If there’s one thing public schools can’t stand, it’s competition.

[Eric Blair 2084]

Nice find. Why am I not surprised?

[TommyDale]

I remember in school, seeing what they called “tamale pie” and it looked like all the leftovers from the previous week, covered with tamales. I bet at least a hundred kids were barfing just from looking at it. That was the last time I even set foot into a school cafeteria. To this day, I don’t like them — even the good ones like K & S.