Well, at least they are still pro-Israel.
Posted on 08/20/2012 11:02:35 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
School Bans Coca-Cola at Football Games
Posted in Top Stories | 22 comments School Bans Coca-Cola at Football Games
Aug 20, 2012
By Todd Starnes
Attention high school football fans in Maine: B.Y.O.C. – Bring your own Coke.
The Portland Public School system will no longer allow soft drinks to be sold on school property – including at high school football games. School officials are also banning the sale of gridiron staples like buttered popcorn and potato chips.
Instead, football fans will be encouraged to nosh on baked tortilla chips, reduced fat string cheese and hummus.
The total ban on the sale of soft drinks is part of a new policy governing the sales of healthy foods and beverages, said Chanda Turner, Portland’s school health coordinator.
“We’re taking it to another level,” Turner told Fox News. “We’re not going to sell soda and it doesn’t matter who it’s to.”
Read the entire policy by clicking here.
(Excerpt) Read more at radio.foxnews.com ...
Yeah, my wife buys it every now and then. To me, it is just overpriced Frito-Lay Bean Dip, which was a staple at sleepovers when I was a kid.
Yeah, that's a good way to describe it, though I'd not use those same words in front of my lovely wife. :-) I'd likely wind up wearing what she'd prepared. lol!!!
Texture is about the same. More flavor, but that's because she knows I like spicy food.
After seeing the picture of it above, I could come up with some other colorful descriptions of what it looks like but that would be juvenile, which is my middle name.
I'm still trying to picture what would happen if I substituted hummus and tofu for Chips&Salsa, Beer Brots, Cheese&Sausage, Pretzels, Beer, etc the next time I have my buddies over for the game. They'd riot. OR, at the very least, I'd never hear the end of it.
Makes me wonder if the Food Nazi has ever been to a Football (American Football) game before.
Oh, goody. I see the health Gauleiter in question is sitting next to a "focus on fruits" sign. I could go on the but Mods would ban me.
It could have worked when I went to grade school, though. I'd have chosen the janitor. He was cool and had some really *interesting* magazines, too...
Easy to fix...don’t attend the games.
Instead, football fans will be encouraged to nosh on baked tortilla chips, reduced fat string cheese and hummus.
Despite there never having been any real evidence that fat had anything whatsoever to do with heart disease, and a growing body of evidence that it was the sugar and refined carbohydrates (of which these low-fat alternatives are stuffed) that were and have been the real problem.
Yeah, our janitor was great. He was past retirement and long past giving a rip. And, he had the best dirty jokes.
I still use one of his comments. He walked in the boys room right after someone had just blown it up, then tried to cover up the odor with about three aerosol cans of Air Freshener.
George said, "Humph. Smells like someone just sh*t in a lemon tree".
30 years later.....I'm sure that George is long dead and buried, but I still use that comment, where appropriate. :-)
You can bring your own soda. For now. Until the TSA gets wind of this. Do you know what could possibly be contained in a bottle of soda brought in from outside a ball game????
This food Nazi does not know how to fund raise. Nobody wants to buy a bag of carrots at a ball game. But they do want something salty because they are SWEATING in the stands. They want drinks like Gatorade which do not meet the standard listed in this article.
Personally, I do not drink soda except at the baseball field or at football games. I want the sweet and carbonation when I am broiling in the sun. Water is insufficient.
Are sno-cones allowed? hah! Stupid, stupid people.
~ C.S. Lewis
What’s ironic is the idea of selling food that food Nazis think are healthier for you while the athletes are out on the field bashing each other’s heads in.
It sounds like it’s time for Portlanders to tailgate before and after their high school football games.
Wow, I bet their concessions take a major hit over this.
However, the first few games there will be lots of goodies in the stands until they forbid them. Then they will raise ticket prices to make up for the lack of concessions sales.
And then their b.o. will start to drop. But by then, the wiener responsible for this nonsense will be off fouling up other activities, and won’t care about the mess left in his wake.
To the parents of Portland students, I say: READ. The recent 9th Circuit Court ruling says that you don't have to pay a single penny for any part of your child's schooling. That means band parents don't have to pony up a grand or more a year for uniforms, that football parents don't have to pay for required insurance policies, nor equipment purchases, etc.
You can still just give money to the school if you desire. But they can't hold back a diploma, nor otherwise punish the student for not paying these fees - oh, and that does include ASB fees, which most programs require participants to buy.
Swing that club around, and see how fast this policy goes away. If you don't, you're going to hook yourself up to a whole lot of costs for absolutely no good reason.
Don’t forget a big steaming bowl of falafel, kelp, ratatouile, seitan, and tempeh. You’ll never have to worry about having the gang over to mess up your house again.
Get rid of this moron.
Clearly unAmerican.
I like pureed garbonzo beans but what a frickin mess they would be.
Popcorn, peanuts and chips are what I want at a game. Real man fuel, easy to eat and when everyone gets excited, throwing snacks around as they cheer I won’t go home wearing someone else’s food.
Chanda. May I call you, Chanda? Would you like a coke or chips? Whatever. Hon, it seems you need an attitude adjustment. I'd like to remind you who gave you this job. It was and is the taxpayers, you know those sugar high kids' parents, who are allowing you to take home that paycheck. What, you're mumbling something about the school board? Oh, you mean those folks who can be voted out or forced out of office whenever we taxpaying parents wish? Ha, sorry honey, but as Biden says, we own you and you're wearing our chains so you better drop that uppity attitude and stock what WE want in OUR concession stand or you'll be in the unemployment line with a not so glowing statement in your permanent record.
These do-gooders will be the death of us all.
A Liberal Progressive —> “Give a little mind a little power and they will wreak havoc.” For our own good, of course.
Purge Maine
Woo hoo! That couldn't have happened to a more deserving nitwit.
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