Posted on 06/16/2011 2:56:13 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I am gonna disagree on that Melas. Too much chopping of veggies and fish-type-pre-cooked-stuff. Not something a typical school cafeteria can do safely. Worker safety and bio-safety.
You want a public school cafeteria worker using a mandolin? And certainly not one wielding a cleaver in skinnier than julienne slicing of veggies.
Not even considering the raw fish — that’s wholly out of the question.
But I’m no master of school cafeteria costs and management. Still, it is something that seems scary to me.
I figured they’d just get in boxes like the grocery store does. I have no qualms about consuming irradiated fish. It might not be the tastiest, but it’s probably the safest food you’ll ever find.
Valid point, I’ll give you the quibble. :-)
The grocery stores here prepare the sushi themselves. I thought the sushi cook did the all slicing of the stuff, because they are specialists, but now I’ll have to ask. In any case even the cheapest boxed sushi is over $5. That’s not school cafeteria territory, is it?
I beg to differ. Processed food is so completely stripped of all nutrients, bacteria won't even touch it. Most of the produce we eat is chemically enhanced and picked while still “green” so it can be shipped across the country. Regular farm animals are raised in cages while being fed the cheapest garbage and chemicals the farmer can get away with. Fish is farmed about the same way.
I started eating all organic about 5 years ago when I lived near lots of Amish farms. Including homemade icecream, cookies, fried food, etc. In 6 months, with no other lifestyle changes, I lost 50lbs and felt better than I ever remembered.
Humans were meant to eat natural produce ripe from plants and meat from healthy roaming animals. All this factory food is garbage. Try switching for just a few weeks and tell me how you feel.
Just cover those nuggets with paste - the little kids will eat them... :)
One of my grandsons would only eat hot dogs or chicken nuggets for dinner and PB&J for lunch until he turned 18. He’s doing just fine. I still don’t know what’s wrong with parents sending a PB&J sandwich, a piece of fruit and a cookie in a brown bag. Friday can be pizza day. Let the school provide a carton of milk and get rid of all the rest of this stuff.
The stuff here comes pre-boxed. There is no in store preparation required at all.
I think the cheapest is $4.99, and the seaside combo, my favorite is $8.99, but it’s almost entirely sashimi except for the shrimp which is cooked.
Just banning chocolate milk would’ve had me leaving school and joining the hobos down the railroad tracks.
Middle class folks will pack lunches for their children. It’s the free lunch demographic that will be impacted by this.
Maybe that will teach them to not rely on the gov’t.
I hope some kid finds a fishing hook in his lunch and sues the hell out of them. Ethnic foods? Does this mean the anchor babies still get tacos?
When the kids go to the hospital and the lawsuits start they’ll go back to nuggets and dogs.
Thanks for the ping!
It’s incrementalism. They got the smokers.
If the Statists told you what their real agenda is, normal Americans would be repulsed.
I don’t have children and even I know that kids hate these types of foods...
Nobody ever got intestinal worms from a corn dog.
Just saying.
Quality sushi is delicious. Sushi by bureaucrats though? And how’s a rambunctious growing kid going to get enough carbs for energy from a bunch of salmon roe and rice??
They’ll have to increase their budget, dontchaknow, because one of the reasons your average school lunch takes the form it does now is because of government meddling in the farm sector...cheap meat and cheese.
Let me guess, nasty canned spinach filling, overcooked pasta and diluted tomato paste as sauce. My kids love mac & cheese, but they hate it when my neighbor makes it because she cooks the noodles to mush.
That would be perfect. Endless variety.
I think one problem is that not much actual cooking goes on in a lot of school kitchens.
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