Posted on 12/08/2009 8:44:12 AM PST by markomalley
Ours were just flavored like soy. Absolutely disgusting. I wouldn’t doubt that you were supposed to flavor them and the lunchroom ladies were either too lazy to do it, or didn’t know to do so.
I remember one school I attended that had the most delicious little hamburgers, fries, and tacos. Man I loved them. 25 years ago and I can still almost taste them. There was something really special about them, I’d kill to have them again.
I don’t care.
Good, you’re quitting the field.
Take your silly free market argument and go, then. lol...free market. In a state run monopoly, using other people’s money, operating as a non-profit. So free.
If people have abnormal diets, they should bring their own damn lunch. I fail to see why public schools should cater to every dietary demand of every random kid.
SnakeDoc
Don’t try bringing logic into this...it’s for the children!!!! </s>
So I pay for my own kids’ tuition at private school (and their lunches), and I get to pay for the whims of kids using taxpayer money to eat tofu? Oh joy!
If my kids don’t like what is on the menu at school, they each have a lunchbox in the kitchen to make their own. I don’t expect the cafeteria moms to have to act as short-order cooks.
High-maintenance kids should be given lessons in self-maintenance. It’d be good for them to learn the crap others are having to deal with to meet their “demands”.
SnakeDoc
If the options are economically feasible, they should offer them.
As someone else pointed out, if the schools could actually turn a profit selling caviar (though this seems highly unlikely) they should.
Again, all my arguments are based on the assumption that the veggie meals are economically feasible. If they are not, then they shouldn’t be offered.
You seem to have a totally irrational aversion to offering them, even if they are economically feasible.
Even in a government run enterprise, the more like a free market you make it, the better it will be.
“Even in a government run enterprise, the more like a free market you make it, the better it will be.”
Can you tell me where else in the “free market” I can get the meal of my choice either free or below cost? Well? Just soup kitchens, and they operate at a loss and survive on donations.
You seem to be under the impression that school cafeterias are money making enterprises and base their offerings on what makes them money. Are you really this naive? How exactly does one make money selling reduced price or free meals? How many times do you need to have it explained to you?
If we just served bread and water to children, it wouldn’t be ECONOMICALLY FEASIBLE because they’re not trying to turn a profit.
Even if cafeterias are subsidized by taxpayers, if some kid’s veggie burger costs the same as my kid’s hamburger, there is no negative economic impact to offering the veggie burger.
If you want to end subsidies for school lunches, I am on board. I see no reason for them. But, they are not really relevant to whether it makes sense to offer a veggie burger that cost the school, for argument’s sake $1.00, next to a hamburger that cost the same.
Economic ignorance, the cost of maintaining more and different is a cost as well as the special prep, are do you want your veggie burger fried in cow grease. There would never be a time when there was not additional special cost.
Amen!
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