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.
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I had to tell my BK drive-through person not to put any in my bag; they'd always put 4-8 of them in otherwise.
“so get the kids who dont want ketchup to get some and give it to those who do..............”
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That’s EXACTLY what I was going to post.:-)
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That's what I told my grandkids! They do it anyway.
I asked one BK drive-thru clerk if there was ketchup in the bag. He got indignant with me and screamed “Condiments are provided ON REQUEST ONLY!!!”
Arby’s on the other hand loads me up with enough ketchup and sugar packets to last a month.
What brand is the ketchup? I’m guessing it’s not Heinz. We know which Democrat benefits from Heinz sales.
Actually it’s a fruit.
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I never forget that line....
Even as an adult, I still think ketchup tastes yucky, but will tolerate it on meatloaf and occasionally french fries if they are too greasey.............B^)
Go ahead, Punk, make my day!..........................
My kid should be allowed to have all the ketchup he wants. If he throws away three packs of ketchup whats the big deal? It dont cost nothin.
Government is paying for it so what do I care?
The Free Lunch Program was a BIG mistake from the beginning. If people are not responsible for their childrens welfare, feeding and clothing they become less interested in their welfare.
Just look at this issue in the sense of parents being responsible for their children. Someone that is not the childs parent (the school) is trying to limit the amount of food that their child will receive at someone elses expense (tax payers) and parents are outraged.
Why should any parent be upset that anyone is declining to feed their child if the parent is not paying for that food?
I haven’t eaten ketchup on anything since I was a kid.
My husband used to put it on his fried eggs. Yuk!
To each his own,I guess.
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Yep, my grandma told me that they would also use the ketchup as sauce for pasta in the depression. She called it “Irish Spaghetti”.
Lot of truth to that. OTOH, why should the school be making such decisions?
Two packets equal 8 carbs which comes from sugar. What happened to the outrage that kids are fat and eat too much sugar?
They should be outraged over the lack of proper education.
Our local school banned ketchup packets when the boys decided it’d be fun to sneak them into the restroom and squirt them everywhere and put them under the seat so when someone sat down they squirted on the person.
They used to do the same thing in East Germany.
The Food Network ran a piece about it.
Black Market catsup deals-—Who would have thought??
He said parents can send children to school with extra condiments if they want to..
Is this okay ?
Or they could sell them like cigarettes in prison.
all the other world problems solved so now on to ketchup waste.
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