National School Lunch Program Embarrassment Continues

Reason ^ | April 12, 2014 | Baylen Linnekin

[Elsie]

The expansion, which will impact more than 20,000 school across the country, reports the Washington Post, "will provide free breakfast and lunch, paid for by US taxpayers, to all students in schools where at least 40 percent of the children are low-income."

[stevie_d_64]

What I meant was there is, in some cases a progression from the folks whose efforts are to nanny state every single part of your day from birth to grave will employ every idea they can to accomplish the goal of a totally dependent and compliant population...

I guess this reminds people of a destructive concept...

But I dunno...

I think people are more inclined to worry about things that do not remind them of how precarious their freedoms and liberties are...

[bert]

The article misses the point

Veggies for kid’s lunches is not for the kids but to enrich the veggie brokers selling veggies to the schools.

[greeneyes]

Our grand daughter now takes her lunch. In her case, the school asked us to please do that. She wouldn’t eat breakfast or lunch. When she didn’t eat she was grumpy, and the teachers couldn’t cope.

I didn’t really have any trouble getting her to eat, she just had to pick something she could and would eat from each food group. When she finished eating the balanced meal, her reward was dessert.

[narses]

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[greeneyes]

We actually had pretty good school lunches. Especially tasty was the stuff made with government cheese. Au-gratin potatoes, macaroni and cheese, cheese sandwiches.

Once a week, we had an especially good lunch with chicken or turkey, and gravy, homemade rolls, green beans mashed potatoes and homemade cinnamon rolls. That was Thursday.

Friday was fish day, and we usually had mac and cheese to go with that. I can't remember now what they had if you didn't eat the fish, but they did have a choice.

I was a rather picky eater too. I didn't like all the stuff, but could always find enough that was good to eat.
I didn't like the peanut butter they had, so I always chose the cheese sandwich to go along with my chili.

[GOPJ]

... if anything helps these kids rebel against their liberal publi indoctrination center brainwashing, it may well be this. It is extremely personal to each of them.

The GOP should come in on the side of kids... we could request that children of conservative parents be allowed to eat normal food... pizza, burgers, tacos... If parents are overly concerned they can give their kids wheat germ for breakfasts or boiled Brussels sprouts... whatever...

[driftless2]

After fifty years the vile smell of most of that food still lingers in my nostrils. I still can’t smell canned green beans without getting nauseous.

[greeneyes]

I am glad that our school’s cooks prepared decent meals!

I do understand about avoiding stuff for decades. I happened to get food poisoning at a greasy spoon - hot dogs.

I always loved hot dogs or chili dogs before that. Just the smell of a hot dog made me nauseous for at least 45 years, sure couldn’t eat one.

[gogeo]

As I also noted last month, the federal government has decided that these abject failures are evidence of a need to double down on the school lunch program. Why scrap a failing program when you can expand it instead?

This is entirely consistent with the mindset of big government types.

Private enterprise, which is responsible for showing results and making a profit, measures success by measuring actual results.

Government, which wouldn't recognize success if it were dumped in a tank full of it, measures success by inputs...how much money have we spent?

If it didn't work, we obviously didn't spend enough money!

So doubling down on failure is predictable.