At School, Turning Good Food Into Perfectly Good Compost

New York Times ^ | June 22, 2014 | Al Baker

[libstripper]

Naturally, you realize what you’re getting from them is pure affection. It has NOTHING to do with hunger.

[peeps36]

They should call it Moochell’s Multi Million Dollar Mountain Of Manure. She took millions of dollars and turned them into a big pile of dirt. What a great woman.

[BykrBayb]

I wouldn’t eat a green banana either. Of course it wouldn’t taste good, and it would make your stomach hurt.

We’ve raised at least a couple generations of people who don’t know what real food is, and wouldn’t know what to do with it if they had any. Sometimes I feel like the old guy in Soylent Green. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kQQ6wNfkcmc

[RightField]

“There’s a lot of carbon in that banana that’s going to end up growing something else in your garden at home,”

Whaaaaatttt? Now carbon is a good thing?
I am so confused.

[sportutegrl]

I went to an Asian buffet restaurant once that served sushi. A sign by the sushi said to take all you want, but there was a $1 charge for any suchi not eaten.

[A_perfect_lady]

Starting in October here in Los Angeles, we have to serve the little darlings Breakfast In the Classroom, which they will also throw away.