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The school lunches that shame America: photos reveal just how meager US students' meals [truncated]
UK Daily Mail ^ | February 18, 2015 | Staff

Posted on 02/18/2015 7:19:48 AM PST by C19fan

Mouthwatering photos of school lunches served around the world reveal even children in Ukraine, Estonia and Greece are treated to delectable meals each day. School children in America, meanwhile, aren't nearly so lucky. Whereas a kid in France might be treated to a juicy steak and a hunk of brie, the richest country in the world's youths are more likely to receive unidentified meat served alongside little more than a starch like white pasta, fries or a roll. The contrasts between America's school meals and those in far less fortunate economies are stark and suggest Michelle Obama's push for more healthful lunches nationwide may not be enough.

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TOPICS: Education; Food
KEYWORDS: education; lunch; michelle; school; schoollunch
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Third world countries serve better lunches than in America thanks to Marie Antoinette Obama. I would love to see photos of lunches at Sidwell where the Obama children attend. From the lunch menus that have been posted it is not what public school students eat.
1 posted on 02/18/2015 7:19:48 AM PST by C19fan
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To: C19fan

This Admin benefits from hungry children. Malleable youth will more quickly toe the line if it means their hunger will be sated. And yes, Sidwell Friends students may as well be sitting at Spago or Maxims.


2 posted on 02/18/2015 7:23:59 AM PST by originalbuckeye (Moderation in temper is always a virtue; moderation in principle is always a vice. Paine)
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Most American children would trash the healthy foreign meals because all they want is fast food.


3 posted on 02/18/2015 7:26:18 AM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: C19fan

I am more than just a little suspicious of a lot of those photos ...


4 posted on 02/18/2015 7:27:17 AM PST by TexasGator
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To: originalbuckeye

Most of the youts I see in the ‘hood look pretty robust, despite a lot of commercials indicating that they go to bed hungry every night.


5 posted on 02/18/2015 7:27:29 AM PST by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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To: C19fan

Hey, come on - those foreign kids only wish they could get boiled kale and raw celery.


6 posted on 02/18/2015 7:27:56 AM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: C19fan

Michelle is just doing to our kids what Obama is doing to adults: feeding us shit, and expecting us to like it.

CC


7 posted on 02/18/2015 7:30:39 AM PST by Celtic Conservative (Cogito ergo non liberalo: I think, therefore I'm not a Democrat)
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To: ViLaLuz

Some of what you say may be true in a localized sense, granted. However, you aren’t trying to tell us that the crap shown for nutritious American lunch meals has value, are you? My experience as a long time father of two children and three grand daughters tells me visuals play an enormous part.

Lastly, there is one whopping big difference between “fast-food” these kids might see anywhere in American society and the sh!t these snaps of American Michelle Carte-du-jour represent. Don’t even try.


8 posted on 02/18/2015 7:31:54 AM PST by Gaffer
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“Not enough”? Michele Obama is the PROBLEM (or at least part of it). Whatever you thought of them before, school lunches are far worse than before she” butted” in. Why is it when goobermint meddling fails it’s because there wasn’t ENOUGH?


9 posted on 02/18/2015 7:32:53 AM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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Frankly, I’ve seen better looking goop come out of a 20 year old can of C-rations (yes, I’ve had oodles). My thought on looking at that juicy meat-something laden surprise shown was “damn...they figured out how to make sh!t on a shingle with Spam!”


10 posted on 02/18/2015 7:35:12 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: TexasGator

Why? Have you sampled international airline food and snacks compared to the American? Local restaurants? Meals in the home?


11 posted on 02/18/2015 7:35:52 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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As I've said before, the school lunches I observe in NYC high school cafeterias consist basically of some square or rectangle of breaded chicken or fish that was frozen (and not much of that), overcooked veggies or salad consisting mostly of lettuce that hardly anyone takes, very small fruits no one would choose in a grocery store (plum-sized apples, for example), packaged cut up fruit or applesauce, sometimes rice (if a lot of Hispanic students are in the school), wraps consisting mostly of the tortilla with a small amount of something to fill it, pasta with a little meat or cheese clinging to it, etc., and a carton of milk. Not very appetizing. I'm sure prisoners get better food. No wonder half of it goes right into the rolling garbage cans, untouched. As a taxpayer, I absolutely cringe at all the dollars paid for this food ending up right in the garbage can, and the amount of money the students then spend buying junk food at the vending machines right in the cafeteria. Chips, cookies, candy---that's their lunch.

It is VERY rare that I see a student bring a lunch from home. You don't see ANY lunch boxes/bags. Absolutely none. Sometimes you see students bring in Subway or similar sandwiches.

That's public school food.


12 posted on 02/18/2015 7:37:21 AM PST by EinNYC
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Check your white privilege fella! :0)

What American-under-Obama’s rule can afford an American airlines ticket where they actually HAVE a real hot meal tray? Honestly?

I won’t even fathom the ability to travel on a foreign airliner and get hot trayed food.....:0)


13 posted on 02/18/2015 7:38:33 AM PST by Gaffer
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The EL Moo is for the Spanish (illegal) kids. Culturally relevant nutritious.
14 posted on 02/18/2015 7:39:59 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: C19fan

Where is the money for the school lunch program going? Not for food, apparently.


15 posted on 02/18/2015 7:43:00 AM PST by GSWarrior
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Well, at least in our area, they have to supply breakfast and lunch, 5 days a week, year round.
Not sure if the budget has been expanded for that or not.


16 posted on 02/18/2015 7:44:46 AM PST by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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To: C19fan

The entrée in the American dish looks like vomit.


17 posted on 02/18/2015 7:49:09 AM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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US school lunches remind me of Vladmir Voinovich's satiric novel Moscow 2042 where he wrote that true communism would be achieved when primary matter (food) equaled secondary matter (feces).
18 posted on 02/18/2015 7:49:30 AM PST by The Great RJ (Pants up...Don't loot!)
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Meanwhile:


WHO DIDN'T FINISH THEIR LUNCH?

19 posted on 02/18/2015 7:52:48 AM PST by Michael.SF. (It takes a gun to feed a village (and an AK 47 to defend it).)
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“Why? Have you sampled international airline food and snacks compared to the American? Local restaurants? Meals in the home?”

Yes. And I have lived in some of those countries. No way are some of those photos representative of their regular lunches.


20 posted on 02/18/2015 7:56:28 AM PST by TexasGator
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