Posted on 11/30/2011 5:29:41 AM PST by Clintonfatigued
At his public school, Little Village Academy on Chicago's West Side, students are not allowed to pack lunches from home. Unless they have a medical excuse, they must eat the food served in the cafeteria.
Principal Elsa Carmona said her intention is to protect students from their own unhealthful food choices.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
With a honker like that, I’d place a bet she’s getting her grains in the liquid form.
I wish I could have found a full body shot....I’m betting she’s shaped like a pear.
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I didn’t notice anything in the article but does this rule also apply to school employees? Such as the principal?
We moved around a lot when I was in school. The big city school lunches were nasty but the small town lunches were great. Out in the rural areas, the lunchroom ladies were country moms who knew how to put out a spread. You could smell the homemade yeast rolls baking an hour before lunch so you were drooling in class. They never served mystery meat except for the fish sticks on Fridays. If they were serving lemon chicken, you’d get a real piece of chicken complete with the bone and crispy skin. Yes, they got government commodities but even those were tasty - cheese, peanut butter, real butter, honey, etc. We’d get pb nearly every day and no one died of peanut allergies. They’d either mix honey and pb in a dixie cup and serve it with a real apple, a half a pb sandwich as a side or a big homemade pb cookie. Good eats!
Even when I was grown and having to visit schools for my job, the rural schools still had better lunches than the city schools that bought pre-made slop.
If you recall prison movies where one of the prisoners throws his tray of food on the floor and shouts that he and the other inmates won't eat this lousy slop anymore, that's what the food was like. Except us inmates had to eat the horrible chow or face the wrath of the nuns constantly monitoring our eating habits. "You eat that soup...don't be so sloppy...finish what's on your plate." I'd like to have picked up a lunch tray and thrown it on the wall, but the nuns would not have taken that defiance kindly. (smirk)
Of course, if any of the kids needs an abortion, it’s: “My body, my choice.”
Lunchtime, not so much.
When I was in elementary school (back in the ‘60s) the food was reliably mediocre. Not home or commercial quality, but tasty never the less. Better than C-rations or MREs that I ate later in life.
Except for the yeast rolls. We had GREAT yeast rolls... Somebody when to baking school or had a family recipe that scaled up well. They were really good.
Real reason: Some kids bring things from home that other children want. We all have to be even. If Johnny has a cookie in his lunch bag and Jose does not have a cookie on his free lunch tray, there is no justice in America.
The Ain’tgots are always looking to get something from the Gots.
Pre-made slop is right.
I have to say, your first part of the post made me hungry even though I just ate, way to go!
LOL. Here’s something of interest that your post reminded me of. I read in an article about lobsters, once, that when the Americas were originally settled that there were lobsters everywhere on the east coast. I read that they used to grind them up and use them as fertilizer and they would feed them to prisoners and slave. The eventually stopped when the prisoners threatened to riot if they had to eat one more lobster. Fun little factoid.
How do you make Halal pizza?
I was telling a friend on mine who is now learning to make bread, “Bread is very forgiving.” I used to work in a specialty bread bakery, and I also made other dough, several batches of about 100 lbs a day for years. I told my friend, “Bread can be anything from flour with water, so don’t worry, it’ll almost always be edible, it just won’t be good.” LOL. There’s tough economic times, so it’s back to making bread at home. I’ve had some really good bread, and some not so good bread, but that’s what gravy is for, SOS!
To be honest, I dunno what Halal means. Is that the Muslim dietary standard? If so, I honestly don’t know, but if you really want to know, I could look it up and see what I find, I guess.
Nevermind, I looked up Halal. I’m more familiar with “Haraam.” I went to High school with a lot of muslim kids, and I often heard the word “Haraam” (which means they’re not supposed to do it), but I don’t think I really ever heard “Halal.” But no, I don’t know how to make a Halal pizza.
“Some kids bring things from home that other children want”
LOL I remember being horrified when I found out my son was selling portions of the turkey subs, chips and cookies I had packed in his lunch. He HATED the cafeteria food, but more than that, he hated waiting in the lines that took up most of his lunch period.
unbelievable.
A smack with a ruler for you for even thinking of defying the nuns! And another ruler smack for taking me back to those horrible days of parochial school.
Little Village, Chicago. Ninety percent of these kids are the children of Mexican illegals. They are learning the same lessons of authoritarianism that their parents learned from their socialist kleptocrats in Mexico. Lunch is “free” of course, since the parents’ incomes are low or cash only, unreported. Also “free” are the food stamps and state medical cards, issued here without regard to legal status. A dependent class, raised in a bankrupt Democrat Machine City. The face of our future? Greece, without the sun?
Elsa Carmona - Principal - $127,946
Evangelina Covarrubias - Asst. Principal - $98,188
Ingrid Murillo-Torres - Counselor - $58,269
Melinda Dahl - Literacy Coach - $95,407
Christine Hernandez - Bi-lingual co-ordinator - $71,512
Manuel Juarez - Tech co-ordinator - $71,713
Ned Perisic - Business Mgr. - $69,158
Lilia Gutierrez - Children's Welfare attendant - $31,430
Susan Salinas - Social Worker - $76,389
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