School Bans Coca-Cola at Football Games [and buttered popcorn and potato chips......]

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School Bans Coca-Cola at Football Games

Posted in Top Stories | 22 comments School Bans Coca-Cola at Football Games

Aug 20, 2012

By Todd Starnes

Attention high school football fans in Maine: B.Y.O.C. – Bring your own Coke.

The Portland Public School system will no longer allow soft drinks to be sold on school property – including at high school football games. School officials are also banning the sale of gridiron staples like buttered popcorn and potato chips.

Instead, football fans will be encouraged to nosh on baked tortilla chips, reduced fat string cheese and hummus.

The total ban on the sale of soft drinks is part of a new policy governing the sales of healthy foods and beverages, said Chanda Turner, Portland’s school health coordinator.

“We’re taking it to another level,” Turner told Fox News. “We’re not going to sell soda and it doesn’t matter who it’s to.”

Read the entire policy by clicking here.

[sharkhawk]

I thought this had to be from the onion. High school football fans eating hummus? ROFLMAO.

[reegs]

Exactly. And, don’t the sports boosters usually run the concessions booths to raise money for the different teams? I bet this will last one or two games and the lack of money will have the boosters to tell this food Nazi to go pound salt and then add it to the buttery popcorn.

[Osage Orange]

Instead, teachers will be encouraged to reward boys and girls with an eraser, a sticker or “taking a walk with a special staff person.”

Yeah.....I bet they do!

[crusty old prospector]

Take me out to the ball game. Take me out with the crowd. Buy me some string cheese and hu-uh-mus I don’t care if we....(what rhymes with hummus?)

Dummass?

[sharkhawk]

When I was in high school, the concession stands is where the booster and student clubs made their money. I guess they are going to have to find somewhere else to get cash.

[crusty old prospector]

Hummus. Ain’t that the brown cow crap that I sprinkle on the garden every year? I think I’ll be eating the peat moss instead.

[Iron Munro]

Buy a bowl of hummus and get three free tickets to the local Mosque!

[kcvl]

Parents won't be able to bring in cupcakes to celebrate a child's birthday. Teachers will be encouraged to reward students with extra recess instead of food, and if food is used in celebration, it will be healthy food. These changes go for staff lounges, too.

School health coordinator Chanda Turner says this is all about practicing what the school preaches. "How you change or establish kids behavior is by giving them a chance to practice healthy behaviors. We're trying to give kids as many opportunities as possible to practice healthy decisions," Turner said.

7/6/2012

Chanda Turner, a health coordinator for thePortland School District, is losing her job along with 30 others around the state as a result of funding elimination. Posters in the foreground were part of her program encouraging proper eating habits among students.

[AppyPappy]

I had water and a bag of peanuts at the last game. We get a $6 voucher for volunteer officating.

[Avid Coug]

“Instead, teachers will be encouraged to reward boys and girls with an eraser, a sticker or “taking a walk with a special staff person.”

Brother! I wonder if the “special staff person” will treat the kids to an interpretive reading of his favorite passages from Chairman Mao’s red book. Or if they have been really good, passages from “Dreams of My Father”.

“Barack Hussein Obama—MMM, MMMM, MMMM.”

[Tanniker Smith]

(what rhymes with hummus?)

Totally bum us?

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

That works too.

[funfan]

Hopefully she is not a stress eater turning to food when upset and more likely to binge on candy, chips and other delights now that she is unemployed.

[kcvl]

You parents are too stupid to know how to raise your kids, we will show you!

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Rick Fortier, the Program Manager for Let’s Go!, a statewide anti-childhood obesity program, says every time a school makes a step like this, it starts conversations at home. Fortier said, “A lot of times, families are looking for that direction, and so by a school making these changes and also sending information home for families on how to make the changes themselves, it not only says that they’re not the only ones doing it at home, the schools are making the changes, and here’s how to do it. So the school’s leading by example.”

[kcvl]

"Hummus. Ain’t that the brown cow crap that I sprinkle on the garden every year? I think I’ll be eating the peat moss instead."

It looks the same!

[GreyFriar]

Rite On. The people ought to be going to the stadiums to watch the game, not feed themselves on food that will lead to their early deaths due to thousands of possible medical problems. The ‘booster clubs’ that run those concessions ought to be put totally out of business. Who needs the dollars the sale of unhealthful or even healthful snacks? Who needs the items purchased for the school athletic program from those sales, which can now easily be replaced by increasing the school budget and the increasing amount of taxes from everyone who lives in the school district.

We should all be willing to pay a few more dollars in taxes to support the school athletic programs than forcing it to sell unhealthy snacks that will cause many times more expense in medical costs.

(Sarcasm off)

[Personal Responsibility]

Liberals: Doing “good” by legislating all of the “bad” right out of life!

[Cyman]

All jokes aside, I am surprised that this cornhole hasn’t gone after banning football. That will come.

[wbill]

Hummus.... Mrs Wbill makes it occasionally. It's made from Chick Peas and a buncha spices, I think.

Not bad. Tastes good on a cracker.

BUT, not really in the top 10 things I'd look forward to eating at the game. The food Nazi is an idiot.

[wbill]

Chanda Turner, a health coordinator for thePortland School District, is losing her job

2 comments....

1. This person being out of work is likely not a bad thing.

2. Why does a school system need a "Health Coordinator" (much less 30, in a state the size of Maine) to begin with?