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USDA removes major barrier to Michelle Obama’s salad-bar initiative
Grist ^ | December 6, 2010 | Ed Bruske

Posted on 12/06/2010 11:05:58 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: Eyes Unclouded

“Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, wife of the President of the French Republic. Never noticed the shoes in that picture.”

Ah, but you are probably male. I am of the female persuasion. So we notice different things. . .


21 posted on 12/06/2010 11:53:16 PM PST by Persevero (Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

When I was a kid we packed a lunch.
We were “allowed” to buy lunch on Pizza day and Spaghetti day.

Our school had Italian lunch ladies


22 posted on 12/06/2010 11:57:51 PM PST by mylife (Opinions ~ $1 Half Baked ~ 50c)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Exactly how long do the little Boogers get for Lunch anyway? We used to get 30 minutes. Two single file lines past the Salad Bar. Lunch had better start serving about 10 AM and end about 2 PM.

A bunch of little kids using the same pair of Tongs to scoop up lettuce, with all the condiments in separate little containers (with their own set of Tongs) that they have to scoop out before they get to the Golden Ring, the Dressing!

What do you get after they hit the dressing, Lettuce Soup.

23 posted on 12/06/2010 11:59:58 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (Obama, Pelosi and Reid, the Axis of Fascism.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What makes Crazy Aunt Esther any sort of an expert on nutrition? Did the concept even exist on the south side of Chicago?


24 posted on 12/07/2010 12:01:27 AM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Cooper has complained about USDA regulations that require students who use the salad bar to pass a cashier, or point-of-sale station, where a trained cafeteria worker would inspect the student's tray and confirm that the student had taken the required items in the correct portion sizes in order for the school to qualify for reimbursement. Such rules create logjams in the cafeteria, Cooper said.

LOL! Does this sound like a government program or what?

"YOU! BACK OVER TO THAT SALAD BAR AND DON'T COME BACK WITHOUT ANOTHER 3.5 OLIVES ON THAT PLATE, MISTER!!!!"

25 posted on 12/07/2010 12:02:19 AM PST by VeniVidiVici (What's black and white and red all over? HINT: Think White House)
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To: Kickass Conservative
What do you get after they hit the dressing, Lettuce Soup.

As well as ringworm and impetigo...

26 posted on 12/07/2010 12:04:40 AM PST by mylife (Opinions ~ $1 Half Baked ~ 50c)
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To: sheik yerbouty
"I will knock the fat right out of you suckah!"


27 posted on 12/07/2010 12:08:44 AM PST by mylife (Opinions ~ $1 Half Baked ~ 50c)
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To: mylife

ROFL! She sho’ is fugly!


28 posted on 12/07/2010 12:10:42 AM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: sheik yerbouty

In real life Lawanda Page wasnt to bad.
She really played the part well.


29 posted on 12/07/2010 12:13:16 AM PST by mylife (Opinions ~ $1 Half Baked ~ 50c)
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I went to a highschool that had access to a salad bar. The only day it was popular was the afternoon 3 fetal pigs (from the biology lab) showed up in the giant lettuce bowl. Biggest crowd the salad bar ever saw. Seriously, salad bars for kids is a silly idea.


30 posted on 12/07/2010 12:13:35 AM PST by Casie
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To: mylife
>”Our school had Italian lunch ladies”<

My Mother was an Italian Breakfast Lunch and Dinner Lady.

At School, all we had were Pissed Off Lunch Ladies.

31 posted on 12/07/2010 12:17:49 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (Obama, Pelosi and Reid, the Axis of Fascism.)
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To: Kickass Conservative

We still have them in the family LoL


32 posted on 12/07/2010 12:19:06 AM PST by mylife (Opinions ~ $1 Half Baked ~ 50c)
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To: Kickass Conservative

I love the Italian kitchen.
My Cuz’s wife just had a blackboard on the wall with the word “NO!” on it, that she pointed to when the kids got wound up.

It was hilarious! Making pasta, making soup drinking wine, laughing and pointing at the blackboard.

A real event.


33 posted on 12/07/2010 12:23:44 AM PST by mylife (Opinions ~ $1 Half Baked ~ 50c)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

A salad bars for kids is complete stupidity.

They are like a giant petri dishes of food born and cross contaminating critters.

I would never allow my kid near a salad bar.

Before people holler that millions eat from salad bars and never get sick, it is because they are meant for adults and adults can handle the pathogens better than kids.

Adults are also more sanitary.

Can you imagine a bunch of untrained dirty kids who don’t wash their hands after the toilet or filthy from the playground or other sick kids slobbering and grabbing at food a salad bar?

Better to be a fat kid than a dead kid.


34 posted on 12/07/2010 12:32:28 AM PST by radpolis (Liberals: You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy)
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To: sheik yerbouty
And has anyone here bothered to check the actual nutritional value of a salad?

Lettuce has no nutritional value and most salad dressings are oil, mayo and some spices.

Salads are not a member of the basic food groups so Michelle obviously skipped food science at Princeton.

This recipe for this initiative two parts ignorance and three parts arrogance

35 posted on 12/07/2010 12:33:35 AM PST by rdcbn
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To: Kickass Conservative

Yeah but if I was in an Italian Kitchen at 2 am
There were always pots still simmering.

I’ll always remember that from when I was a kid.
You could roll in at 2 am and there was chow.

You might catch hell in the morning but there was always chow on the stove

My friends parents God Bless Them, they are dead now.
The old man was Italian, we called him “The Whopper”
Their Mom was Lebanese. Her name was “Desert”.

The things that Woman would make.
Her kitchen was open 24/7


36 posted on 12/07/2010 12:36:53 AM PST by mylife (Opinions ~ $1 Half Baked ~ 50c)
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To: mylife
My Mother was a great cook, but we used to go to visit my Dad's Cousin almost every Sunday afternoon.

He was a retired Butcher, and we would basically sit down and visit for hours while eating more food than you could imagine. It was like the Caesars Palace Buffet, but you never had to leave your seat to get another helping.

My Dad's Cousin would sit there pontificating while smoking a big stogie and drinking Italian Red while his wonderful Wife would spend all her time in and out of the Kitchen. T Bone Steaks piled a foot high, Pasta, Meatballs, Sausage, Lasagna, Vegetables, homemade Cannolis, whatever your heart desired. You would have thought they had a staff back there.

My Mother always tried to help and was chased out of the Kitchen. It was as Italian as Italian could be.

And now we have some idiot Libtards that I wouldn't trust to babysit my Dog making kids eat lettuce at school because the Nation has decided that raising children is somebody elses problem. Dear God.

37 posted on 12/07/2010 12:41:02 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (Obama, Pelosi and Reid, the Axis of Fascism.)
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To: rdcbn
haha...true, but personally speaking I'm not against public schools serving healthier/nutritious food. If the kids bring junk food that's the parent's responsibility, but government-funded schools shouldn't be sugar pimps.
38 posted on 12/07/2010 12:43:15 AM PST by Rick_Michael (Have no fear "President Government" is here)
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To: Kickass Conservative

Dat’s what I am talking about!

We would arrive on Saturday as it is a two day event culminating in Sunday dinner LoL


39 posted on 12/07/2010 12:43:29 AM PST by mylife (Opinions ~ $1 Half Baked ~ 50c)
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To: Kickass Conservative

Michelle Obama, FEH!

I bet she never cooked a pot of beans in her life.


40 posted on 12/07/2010 12:46:19 AM PST by mylife (Opinions ~ $1 Half Baked ~ 50c)
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