Posted on 02/22/2014 11:01:40 AM PST by KneelBeforeZod
Yup, that’s pretty much what you see in the NYC public school cafeterias. The free or reduced fee lunches are composed largely of frozen pizza, PB&J sandwiches, ham or bologna sandwiches, pasta dishes, wraps with some kind of indescribable junk in them, third-rate miniature fruit (which gets thrown at each other or into garbage cans as basketball practice), overcooked veggies hardly anyone touches, and salads which look like mostly iceberg lettuce. The amount of food which ends up on the floor, left untouched on tables or tossed into the garbage is simply amazing and shameful. What else is appalling and shameful is the extreme rarity (maybe 2 kids in the whole cafeteria?) of kids bringing HOMEMADE lunches.
Mom packed us lunch through high school. If I wanted to buy it I could, with my own money from my jobs. On the rare occasion that I did buy it I sure as heck wouldn't throw anything away because I had bought it with MY OWN money, not someone else's
So because of that your life went in a downward spiral, you left the Catholic Church and now you lurk at Free Republic on Saturday nights. I understand your pain.
And I’m sure it made you a better person. You don’t waste what YOU have to pay for. These kids getting free this and free that have no care for what they use to throw at each other, see if they can sink a perfectly good apple into the waste can with, take a single bite of and leave, etc. You would be absolutely appalled at the amount of food wasted in the school cafeterias. And I am appalled at the fact that the mothers of these students cannot bother themselves to pack lunch for their own kids, with extremely rare exceptions. This is the carbo-crap that DiBlah-blah made me travel to school in a full-blown Nor’easter storm for, because “it might be the only hot meal some of these students get all day.” Spare me. Their miserable excuse of a mother can’t warm up a can of soup that she probably didn’t even pay for?
How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat your meat?
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