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Parents See Red Over Ketchup Limit at NY School District
USNews ^ | Nov. 16, 2018 | Staff

Posted on 11/16/2018 9:31:11 AM PST by yesthatjallen

Some parents are seeing red over a ketchup crackdown at a New York school district.

Newsday reports that the Eastport-South Manor Central School District on Long Island is limiting students to two 9-gram packets of the condiment at lunch.

Assistant Superintendent Timothy Laube told families in a letter this week that ketchup and other condiments "have little or no nutritional value."

The district eliminated pump dispensers for condiments last year and switched to packets.

Parent Tim Petrou called the condiment cap "a little ridiculous." He said kids "should be allowed to have ketchup."

But school board member and parent Jeff Goldhammer said the restriction is not a big deal to his three kids. He said parents can send children to school with extra condiments if they want to.

(Excerpt) Read more at usnews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: education; food; newyork; ny; publicschools
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At least Reagan wanted kids to have ketchup because it's concentrated tomato.
1 posted on 11/16/2018 9:31:11 AM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

BYOC


2 posted on 11/16/2018 9:33:09 AM PST by budj (combat vet, 2nd of 3 generations)
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To: yesthatjallen

Follow the money. Someone gets a bonus for “saving” the school money (which can now be used to hire more administrators). /s


3 posted on 11/16/2018 9:33:30 AM PST by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Snowflakes Without Unlimited Ketchup.

Of all the horrors!


4 posted on 11/16/2018 9:33:43 AM PST by Blue House Sue
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To: yesthatjallen

good to see parents focused on the important details of the disaster that is our public education system. /sarc


5 posted on 11/16/2018 9:36:14 AM PST by LostPassword
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To: yesthatjallen

I doubt that the people pontificating about “only two packets” have never served lunch duty in a school.


6 posted on 11/16/2018 9:37:46 AM PST by Aevery_Freeman (An enemy invader does not become a citizen just because he breached the ramparts!)
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To: yesthatjallen

Your government wants you to be healthy to reduce gov spending on healthcare.

That way they have more money for their pensions.


7 posted on 11/16/2018 9:38:35 AM PST by fruser1
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To: budj

and BYOK!


8 posted on 11/16/2018 9:40:27 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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That's what I was thinking.

I won't expect food service costs to go down.

9 posted on 11/16/2018 9:43:50 AM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

Back in the Horn & Hardart automat cafeteria days legend has it that patrons would take the free catsup (ketchup) and the free hot water intended for tea and make soup with it.


10 posted on 11/16/2018 9:44:37 AM PST by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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From what I have seen from my own children attending our local public schools, there a minority of parents who are always aggrieved, always a victim, always ready to raise a stink for their “babies,” about ridiculous issues - like ketchup.

Yet these same fools will never monitor or utter a peep about serious academic things - why certain AP courses were eliminated from the school, how course curricula may have changed, what government-required test will be used for calculating a grade, academic standards, etc...

They are the drones of the nanny-state.


11 posted on 11/16/2018 9:44:42 AM PST by PGR88
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I didn’t like Ketchup as a kid, so there must be others who don’t, so get the kids who don’t want ketchup to get some and give it to those who do..............


12 posted on 11/16/2018 9:45:40 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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(which can now be used to hire more administrators). . .

. . . thereby costing the district much more than giving every kid a 64 oz. bottle of ketchup every day.

13 posted on 11/16/2018 9:45:47 AM PST by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys all aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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Follow the money. Someone gets a bonus for “saving” the school money (which can now be used to hire more administrators). /s

I wouldn't be surprised to learn that like most other schools, this school's lunch program has already been privatized, so this is a move by the contract holder to maximize profits.

14 posted on 11/16/2018 9:46:15 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: JimRed

Laurel & Hardy did that in a movie, IIRC............


15 posted on 11/16/2018 9:46:26 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: yesthatjallen

Burger King won’t give you any unless you demand it from the cashier.


16 posted on 11/16/2018 9:46:33 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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https://www.amazon.com/Heinz-Single-Serve-Ketchup-Packets/dp/B0045TWRXA/ref=sr_1_3_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1542390314&sr=8-3&keywords=ketchup%2Bpackets&th=1

$9 on Amazon for 200.

And your kids can sell them for a buck each at school.


17 posted on 11/16/2018 9:46:57 AM PST by Snickering Hound
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To: Red Badger

Brings back bad memories of the “Reagan thinks ketchup is a vegetable” media scam.


18 posted on 11/16/2018 9:47:16 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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Follow the money. Someone gets a bonus for “saving” the school money (which can now be used to hire more administrators).

The cost per ounce of packets vs. pump dispensers has to be astronomically higher. Eliminating it altogether was the only solution!

19 posted on 11/16/2018 9:47:46 AM PST by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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Follow the money. Someone gets a bonus . . .

Half the time, this nonsense is financial corruption. The other half of these cases are petty tyrants enjoying pathetic doses of "power". Neither one should be acceptable to normal, decent people. We need far less government, and in particular far fewer restrictions on what kids may eat.

20 posted on 11/16/2018 9:48:05 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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