Posted on 10/30/2007 7:56:37 AM PDT by Constitutionalist Conservative
I went to HS for one year at a nearby school (Awalt High). Back in those days, we had two(2) “student smoking areas” ON CAMPUS. I can tell you, there was a lot more than Marlboros getting smoked at lunchtime on those areas.
Or so I heard...
A lockdown would probably not fly either. Best alternative would be for the studentws and “poor immigrant” show up at the city council meeting and get the PC weenies head’s spinning between:
1) Passing another law “for the children” and
2) Another arbitrary law impinging on the young people’s freedom and a hard working immigrant just trying to make it.
Yep, PB&Js from home was what I and all my siblings ate all the way through graduation. We were given a little money for milk on the side. I was wondering myself if kids were still allowed to bring their own lunch to school.
School cafeteria food is always revolting . . . it’s the law.
I remember one time when the football coaches threatened to stand the cafeteria manager upside down in a fifty five gallon drum of discarded “cheese surprise” if he ever served it again.
Regarding the schools’ “healthy” menu, spend some time here: http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2007/10/junkfood-science-exclusive-big-one.html Biggest dietary study ever, and most people haven’t heard about it because it didn’t turn out the way it was supposed to.
Ever since Chieu Le founded Lee's Industrial Catering back in 1980, the local Vietnamese community has practicall owned the roach coach, uh, catering truck business in this area. They (Chieu and his brother Henry) are superb businessmen, they found an under served market niche, and filled it with clean trucks, good food, friendly service, and a willingness to add any product the customers desired to their menus.
It's a great American success story.
That’s what I am wondering. What’s the difference between these kids bringing a sack lunch from home and buying a lunch from the truck? In both cases the students do not buy from the cafeteria.
Often cooked to order, from ingredients hand selected that morning. Even the stuff in the warmer was mostly cooked in transit from the last stop.
Compare that to government surplus cheese, butter, and only God knows (and no one else really wants to!) what else that has been quietly bubbling away in the cauldrons in the back of the school cafeteria since last Tuesday...
Does anyone remember the California school district that changed its menu to include ‘healthy’ foods like tofu, bean sprouts, etc. —and the kids left the school grounds to go to the local fast food operations?
I think the cafeteria operation went broke.
When hamburgers and fries are outlawed, only criminals will have hamburgers and fries.
The Principal of my Alma Mater wouldn’t bother with this foolishness. The school is in Malden Square. What would they do, have the city shut the restaurants at lunchtime?
Sure, like the menu my grandkids get at lunch.... pizza, corn and french fries, all at the same meal. All just hunkey dorey according to the government food police.
Yes, and put the students in handcuffs and leg chains to move them from class to class to make sure none escape. A double fence around the exercise yard would be needed, as well. That should be enough to eradicate this market-based solution.
Heck, the taco shop near my high school used to get a line out the door when we went to lunch. So did my buddy’s house nearby, his dad had a keg-erator.
yea and as far as the leftists are concerned, white isn’t a color, meaning the celebration of “diversity” is the celebration of everything except “white”. If Hillary takes over, it will be truly a gov’t of the “diverse”, for the “diverse” and by the “diverse”. Whitey is just an “obligor”.
Here’s one for your nanny state ping list.
That’s phase 3.
Wow, I thought the high school I attended was the only one that had a smoking area for students. lol We also had a Student Lounge where we could buy pop and candy bars for lunch. *gasp* I know! It’s a wonder I survived to tell the horrific tale! :O
I am sooo sick of hearing the school lunch BS. The lunch menu when I was in school would have never been approved today, yet there were very few overweight kids. That seems to indicate another cause for the number of overweight kids today.
Many times, the parents screeching the loudest about forcing schools to offer “healthy” food for lunch are the same parents throwing fast food at their kids nearly every evening for dinner and shrugging their shoulders because they can’t seem to drag the little darling away from video games and TV. They want to place responsibility everywhere but directly upon their own shoulders.
Interesting link!
IMO the ‘healthiest’ eating is in the palm of your hand.
Hold up a fist and realize your stomach is only about the same size.
Doesn’t take much to be satisfied.
Quality eating is determined more by smaller amounts of foods you actually like.
That’s where I went to HS. Class of 19xx (I’m shy about my age.)
I never ate at school, as my folks lived a block away, so I can’t comment on food quality. Plus, things change over the years.
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