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Southeast students served raw onions as snack
Washington Examiner ^ | 5/26/11 | Lisa Gartner

Posted on 05/28/2011 5:36:01 PM PDT by yup2394871293

No matter how you slice it, the days of milk and cookies are long gone as schools aim to provide students with healthy fruits and vegetables as snacks.

But raw onions?

That's what several classes of students at Southeast's Turner Elementary were fed Tuesday, instead of the zucchini slices the school's food provider, Chartwells, said it would serve as part of a federal initiative to provide healthy food to young learners.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: arth; chartwells; diets; education; foodnazis; foodpolice; freelazamataz; nannystate
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To: PAR35

You know, I was thinking the same thing. Cucumbers sliced up and served raw, sure. But raw zucchini? Bleh!

Green onions, on the other hand, are the bomb. I remember my mom fixing us kids an afternoon snack of sliced tomatoes and cleaned green onions (both from our big garden). That and a slice of homemade bread would fuel me up for the rest of a summer afternoon.


21 posted on 05/28/2011 5:48:57 PM PDT by DemforBush (A Repo man is *always* intense!)
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To: yup2394871293

Standing on a chair with one foot on the mess table.
Aye!


22 posted on 05/28/2011 5:49:00 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: yup2394871293
(Nearly) Raw Onions are GREAT!

I toss cutups (and cubed bell peppers) in with my scrambled eggs towards the end of cooking so they just get up to temp prior to eating.

23 posted on 05/28/2011 5:49:07 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: yup2394871293

Actually, in the South plenty of adults eat what we call “spring onions” but I have never ever seen a child take the slightest interest in eating one. My Mama used to keep them standing up in a jar of cold water in the refrigerator.


24 posted on 05/28/2011 5:49:07 PM PDT by clashfan (know your rights)
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To: PAR35

Don’t school cafeterias usually serve those together, but cooked?


25 posted on 05/28/2011 5:49:13 PM PDT by yup2394871293
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To: PAR35

Same here. Its certainly not an issue worth getting our panties in a knot over.


26 posted on 05/28/2011 5:50:00 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: Dallas59

...for the war effort. What war? Pick one.


27 posted on 05/28/2011 5:50:18 PM PDT by yup2394871293
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To: yup2394871293

Let this be a object lesson to young people everywhere: If you wet your lips with so much as one drop of liquid from the great toxic sea of liberal thought, you’ll soon go insane and begin doing things like serving raw onions to your children for dessert.


28 posted on 05/28/2011 5:50:18 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: yup2394871293
If it was up to the left, all of our kids government gruel with a boiled turnip on the side.

Mattafact, we would too - and washing it down with our monthly ration of vodka.

29 posted on 05/28/2011 5:50:50 PM PDT by AAABEST (Et lux in tenebris lucet: et tenebrae eam non comprehenderunt)
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To: Bockscar

“Someone please tell me exactly what is wrong with ‘milk and cookies’, please?”

The torture of milking, high fructose corn syrup, and butter?


30 posted on 05/28/2011 5:50:59 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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To: madameguinot

Ketchup, chocolate and coffee are vegetables and can’t nobody ever prove otherwise.


31 posted on 05/28/2011 5:51:18 PM PDT by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (I stand with Israel!)
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To: yup2394871293

Well, at least the article explains later it was a mistake.
So we just had a bunch of cafeteria drones who didn’t stop to think bags of green onions, without even some dip, was a weird snack.


32 posted on 05/28/2011 5:51:19 PM PDT by Karl_Lembke (jIQub vaj jIwuQ -- I think, therefore I have a headache)
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To: yup2394871293

My husband loves raw green onions. But he was raised on such along with something called “wilted lettuce.” Ugh. There’s a restaurant in Tucson that serves grilled green onions, and I love them. Whenever we grill and also have green onions in the house, hubby makes sure that the green onions are grilled.

I have to say that I would rather eat raw green onions than raw squash slices. Cook that squash in a little bit of olive oil, and we’re in business. Fry that squash (battered in corn meal) and I’m even happier. That’s almost as good as fried okra.


33 posted on 05/28/2011 5:51:35 PM PDT by petitfour (Are you a Dead Fish American?)
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To: gwilhelm56

Well actually tomatoes are classified as a fruit as well as green beans.


34 posted on 05/28/2011 5:51:53 PM PDT by SkyDancer (It's not the police that protect our rights, it's our military)
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To: yup2394871293

They’re prolly serving the raw onions with a side of pintos and cornbread. Delicious.


35 posted on 05/28/2011 5:52:01 PM PDT by Vigilantcitizen (I got a fever and the only prescription is more watermelon trickworm.)
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To: Jonty30

Do they scream when you bite down?

Yes, they holler, “Stick it, the Welch!”


38 posted on 05/28/2011 5:56:05 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: LibWhacker

Yeah, college kids are often indoctrinated that way. Don’t live the good life, live a proper zero-impact one like those poor exploited farmers in that overpopulated latin american country. Get used to living in a tiny room in a dormitory, bumming rides off of people, living off kraft dinner seasoned with sardines. Heck, students get to thinking they could live the rest of their life that way!


39 posted on 05/28/2011 5:56:29 PM PDT by yup2394871293
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To: yup2394871293

Where all the lobsters go??!


40 posted on 05/28/2011 5:56:59 PM PDT by alecqss
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