Trump gives the hook to 'nasty, rotty' school cafeteria food

American Thinker ^ | December 8,2018 | Monica Showalter

[Hojczyk]

Horrors! Bad food. That kids like. Including all that highly recommended carby stuff still sitting there at the bottom of the government's food pyramid.

The press is yelling 'fat people' and all that, imagining that lefty-union-controlled school authorities around the country are just itching to put refined flour and white sugar in front of the young 'uns, alongside chocolate milk. Tortillas, maybe, given the high numbers of Mexican kids (but don't dare serve them to a Honduran!), yet the reality is, the Trump administration is giving school districts some school choice in how to handle the food situation for the kids, not insisting they serve junk food for free.

The sad reality is, the Michelle Obama program did result in 'nasty, rotty' food for the kids and they threw the stuff out and imported 'flaming hot' cheeto fries instead, even setting up black markets for them. The kids didn't like the supposedly 'better for them' food, courtesy of the central planners back in Washington, and bitterly complained that it didn't serve the enhanced nutritional needs of student athletes, for one thing. It also wasn't appetizing, and the kids tweeted pictures of the slop to send that message. Then they threw the slop away. Fact: It's not nutrition if the kids are not going to eat it. The food went to waste and the kids went Galt.

[yarddog]

About once a year the State of Florida would give the schools free orange juice. There was enough that you could have all you wanted.

I have never been able to purchase orange juice that was as good. I have no idea where it came from.

[dhs12345]

That way they’d survive a couple of spills on the bike. The primary mode of transportation of that era. :)

[luvbach1]

The OJ at school in the ‘50s was not free (In San Diego) and was from concentrate. That’s all there was in those days.

[dhs12345]

Florida = orange juice! :)

[Still Thinking]

It’s not just for breakfast anymore!

[madison10]

Looks like poop. Probably tastes like it, too.

[yarddog]

Our lunches were not free but were very reasonable. I think it was maybe 25 cents in 50s and 30 cents by the 60s.

Some students got free meals . Actually they worked for their meals. Now that I think about it, their labor was probably worth more than the 30 cents they saved.

[Fresh Wind]

But it’s healthy poop. Michelle says so.

[luvbach1]

I think ours in ‘50s in high school were 35c.

[shelterguy]

Lunch boxes used to be a major item at those “Back to School” sales back in the 1970s.
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Maybe for the rich kids. Brown paper bags for me.

[VietVet]

Our school cafeteria in elementary school was subsidized by the US Dept. of Agriculture because so many of the students were the children of US Gov’t employees and Military Personnel. That meant we got a lot of surplus produce, such as cheese and canned purple plums. Lunch cost 35 cents. But we had a skilled dietitian running the kitchen, and I do not recall many meals that did not look and taste good. Except the made from scratch vegetable soup; it looked as if it was made by dumping all of yesterday's leftovers in a pot and boiling it to death; we called it “garbage soup.” Tasted OK, tho’.

Funny, I don't recall as much about Jr. - Sr. High School's Cafeteria. The food was edible, but not memorable.

[sport]

Grocery bags and empty sugar sacks for us.

[thesligoduffyflynns]

“menu czar”- and with all that Aff Act high falutin’ Ivey College & grad school & even her “personal” career (nepotism) this is the most noteworthy EPIC FAIL of someone called “Michelle” Mikey Obama

what a waste

[txrefugee]

What was this supposed to be??? It looks like the kid threw up on the tray.

[Flaming Conservative]

My grandson attends a public school in a district which prohibits kids from bringing ANYTHING sweet, other than fresh fruit, in their own lunches. And of course, absolutely NO peanuts, peanut butter, etc. (Almond butter is okay). Realistically, kids get enough sugar as it is, but of course, that’s not the point. It’s a beautiful little village North of Chicago, with a next to zero crime rate, but of course, the whole village is one giant HOA, and the taxes are outrageous. Trade offs, I guess. I’m sure it’s not the only school district like that. I think they’re everywhere, now.

[VietVet]

That isn't a picture of the whole meal. Scraps can be seen in the corner of the image. I do see a nice ripe Red Delicious apple; in the tray in the background, I see orange peels, so the kids were getting fresh fruit. The brown glop looks like the mixed grain porridge I make out of granola, with raisins, and perhaps chopped nuts, but it is so amorphous I can't tell. Might be beans and rice overcooked to mush. Might have some idea what it was if I could smell it, but it does not look appetizing.Is it lunch or breakfast?

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

In my school years, 1952-1964, only ONE School had bad lunches. Aztec, NM, 1956. They were beyond bad!

[TexasGator]

“Same here. Even in the 1950’s.”

Lol. It was brown bags!

[wny]

I don’t believe the Constitution mentions school lunches.

[RightLady]

Contact the Sec. of Education. I can’t think of her name, but the liberals HATE her. Hopefully she is working on eliminating common core before it gets a tighter foothold on our kids’ education.