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Michelle Obama to Impose Socialist Salad Bars on Schools
http://eater.com/archives/2010/11/23/michelle-obama-to-impose-socialist-salad-bars-on-schools.php ^ | November 23, 2010 | Paula Forbes

Posted on 12/20/2010 4:28:29 PM PST by lbryce

f First Lady Michelle Obama has her way, every public school cafeteria across this great nation will have a salad bar full of lettuce, carrots, and communism. The First Lady's Let's Move Salad Bars To Schools program aims to put 6,000 kid-sized salad bars in schools. Each salad bar costs $2,500, and the whole program costs $15 million. So on top of promoting a vegetable-y socialist agenda, they're also expensive! (Schools are being encouraged to raise part of the money themselves.) Big government run amock! The goal of course is to hoodwink children into eating their vegetables. >>>

The goal of course is to hoodwink children into eating their vegetables. According to Obama, "When [vegetables] are set up all pretty and nice like this you might want to try some and maybe try some things you've never had before, right?" Look out, public schools: Kids are going to demand their pizza and french fries. And then will come inevitable friots. You'd think child obesity was like a problem or something.

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To: lbryce

You can have my Sloppy Joe, when you pry it from my cold-fat dead hands. Well, in my day we would have retaliated. LOL We always took sack lunches except on Sloppy Joe day.

Somehow I have made it to 63. When I think of all of the large Hershey chocolate bars and Cokes I consumed every day on my paper routes........ I guess I should already be dead.


21 posted on 12/20/2010 4:54:14 PM PST by Gator113 (I'm voting for Sarah Palin, Liberty, our Constitution and American Exceptionalism.)
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To: hinckley buzzard
So hamding them plates of vegetables to throw out will make them slimmer? I don't think so.

Nope. They'll just dump it, then eat some really bad food out of a vending machine...and get fatter. All the while getting an excuse to avoid the discipline and exercise associated with phys-ed class.

22 posted on 12/20/2010 4:54:45 PM PST by ThunderSleeps (Stop obama now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: lbryce

How are the schools supposed to raise the funds themselves? Queen Michelle has outlawed bakesales at them.

So basically, they have inserted more government regulation and policies which makes things more expensive for schools to operate, but at the same time, reduced the ability of them fund these more expensive mandates.

Welcome to the democratic party.


23 posted on 12/20/2010 4:56:15 PM PST by Proud_USA_Republican ("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.")
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To: lbryce
First Lady Michelle Obama has her way, every public school cafeteria across this great nation will have a salad bar

What incredible timing she has:

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Latest Terror Threat in US Aimed to Poison Food
CBS News ^ | 12-20-10 | Armen Keteyian

In this exclusive story, CBS News chief investigative correspondent Armen Keteyian reports the latest terror attack to America involves the possible use of poisons - simultaneous attacks targeting hotels and restaurants at many locations over a single weekend.

A key Intelligence source has confirmed the threat as "credible." Department of Homeland Security officials, along with members of the Department of Agriculture and the FDA, have briefed a small group of corporate security officers from the hotel and restaurant industries about it. ...
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The plot uncovered earlier this year is said to involve the use of two poisons - ricin and cyanide - slipped into salad bars and buffets. Of particular concern: The plotters are believed to be tied to the same terror group that attempted to blow up cargo planes over the east coast in October, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. (Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...

24 posted on 12/20/2010 4:58:34 PM PST by piasa
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To: lbryce
Just what I want for my kids........

Raw uncooked food, placed in uncovered open air tables in close proximity to 1,000 kids who have been picking their nose (and other things), stocked with Monsanto approved government regulated produce.

I think we'' pass on the lunch service thank you..............

25 posted on 12/20/2010 5:01:55 PM PST by blackdog
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To: Gator113
Tastykakes and Wawa coffee for breakfast. Tastykakes and coke for lunch. Wawa hot soup, an Amoroso's roll, Tastykakes and a coke for dinner.

The extent of my daily cuisine from the age of 12 to 22.

26 posted on 12/20/2010 5:06:49 PM PST by blackdog
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To: Stayfrosty
our kids are fat, and it’s pretty damn repulsive how big Americans have gotten.

So I take it that you're in favor of having the federal government determine what schoolchildren will eat?

27 posted on 12/20/2010 5:08:00 PM PST by Bob
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To: lbryce
Then the kids go right across the street and get what they want....


28 posted on 12/20/2010 5:08:33 PM PST by Dallas59 (President Robert Gibbs 2009-2013)
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To: lbryce
What, she gets to approve things like this now & who approved the money for them??????

Geez, the constitution is DEAD, our freedoms are gone already!

29 posted on 12/20/2010 5:11:14 PM PST by blondee123 (IMPEACH THEM ALL! FREEDOMS SLIPPING AWAY DAILY!)
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To: hinckley buzzard

Putting PE and recess back in the school day would be better.


30 posted on 12/20/2010 5:13:22 PM PST by tbw2 (Freeper sci-fi - "Sirat: Through the Fires of Hell" - on amazon.com)
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To: Gator113

I read the “Old Man and The Sea” by Hemmingway, when I was around 12. I gleaned a view of the working man’s diet as described in that novel. It’s what got me drinking coffee for breakfast. I would relive that cherished “tin can” of coffee to make the day new, with milk and sugar.


31 posted on 12/20/2010 5:16:37 PM PST by blackdog
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To: Cecily

Spot on! I can see elementary students drenching their salads with salad dressing. Kraft Ranch Dressing has 148 calories for 2 tablespoons. With the other condiments (2 tablespoons sunflower seeds = 164 calories), one could easily bring the caloric count up.


32 posted on 12/20/2010 5:20:04 PM PST by jonrick46 (We're being water boarded with the sewage of Fabian Socialism.)
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To: lbryce

I’m sure the lawyers will love salad bars in schools.

Wait until the lawsuits fly when the 1st school shuts down due to Salmonella.


33 posted on 12/20/2010 5:22:07 PM PST by Le Chien Rouge
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To: lbryce

Salad bars aren’t a bad idea really. Kids are getting fatter. Adults are getting fatter for lots of reasons. The only thing is, kids don’t like to eat what they don’t like. Maybe they’ll eat the stuff after a while, I don’t know. Until then, anyone care to guess how many tons of lettuce, tomatoes and carrots that’ll go in the garbage daily? Also, kids aren’t stupid; they pick up on hypocrisy. Barack is skinny, but eats what he likes. Michelle is rather plump with a big rear end, eats what she likes and it shows up a bit.


34 posted on 12/20/2010 5:25:36 PM PST by Twinkie (Doing nothing is the most tiring job there is; you can't quit and rest . .)
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To: Le Chien Rouge

Salmonella is the least of concern. Wait until spinal meningitis breaks out. The brain swelling stuff takes a week or so to bloom.


35 posted on 12/20/2010 5:26:24 PM PST by blackdog
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To: lbryce

The fact that salad bars are “expensive” is an understatement. Have you bought fresh vegetables at the grocery store lately?


36 posted on 12/20/2010 5:28:57 PM PST by JoeGar
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To: Bronzy
"Are young children still permitted to carry home packed lunch boxes? Is eating cafeteria food a must?"

This was the first question that came to my mind as well.

I and my wife both grew up in public schools; 2,000 miles apart. Both of us took our lunches to school in paper bags or lunch boxes. We ate the meal prepared at the cafeteria only occasionally; maybe a half a dozen times a year, that's all.

My lunch was one or two sandwiches (peanut butter w/ honey, or tuna fish, or deviled ham, or liverwurst), some cucumber slices or carrot sticks, some potato chips/shoestring or Cheezits, a piece of fruit, and a thermos bottle of milk or sweetened tea.

I was an urban youth---my wife grew up on a Midwest farm, but her sack or box lunch was very similar to mine. . . . except, she got more BBQ pork sandwiches and venison sandwiches, because her dad raised pork and hunted the deer in the back woods on the farm. I am still jealous!

Neither of our families had, what they call today, "disposable income." My family was definitely lower to middle middle class, and all my wife's folks' money was in the earth and in equipment.

I remember in the 4th grade, the school's "hot" lunch cost 35 cents, and a half pint of milk was another 5 cents. My folks thought 40 cents per day to be too high, and the lunch sent to school with me could be made then for much less than 40 cents. That was, of course, when a Snicker Bar was 7 cents. And sometimes, Mom threw a Snicker Bar in our lunch.

So, the only reason I see for Mrs. Obama's programs is to further entrench government and socialism.

37 posted on 12/20/2010 5:29:39 PM PST by John Leland 1789 (GratefulWhich scriptures were used in "the Apostles' ministries?)
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To: lbryce; a fool in paradise
this great nation will have a salad bar full of lettuce, carrots, and communism.

Mmmmmm... communism, olive oil, nutmeg and aragula! What's not to like about that?

38 posted on 12/20/2010 5:29:39 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: lbryce
Ms. Gorilla Obama is onto something. She can start with her own oversized can.

I won't hire fat people. They're slow and useless.

Go ahead and sue. I am willing to lose everything I have for the sake of not having to look at lardasses every day. BTW - avoid malls where Americanized sorta-ricans hang out.

I've turned down contracts just because the person with whom I was dealing was was so repulsively obese.

Stocky guys (genetics) work hard. Fat asses (Twinkies) which are something else entirely need to go away and die. Where's Darwin when you need him?

P.S. 90% of American chicks are fat slobs. Gents, get yourself a Russian or Ukrainian gal if you'd prefer not having to fight your way through 80 pounds of blubber to find the womanly bits.

39 posted on 12/20/2010 5:35:38 PM PST by InternetTuffGuy
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To: John Leland 1789
I remember those days. My grandma wrapped my sandwich with waxed paper. I always felt like the kids with Saran wrapped sandwiches were from “fancier” families. LOL But, I usually had a Twinkies or Hostess Cup Cake to trade.
40 posted on 12/20/2010 5:46:16 PM PST by Bronzy (We Remembered In November.)
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