2nd N.C. Mother Says Daughter’s School Lunch Replaced for Not Being Healthy Enough

The Blaze ^ | February 17, 2012 | Madeleine Morgenstern

[NCjim]

North Carolina officials have said there was a misunderstanding when a preschooler’s homemade lunch was sent home for not meeting certain nutritional requirements, but now a second mother from the same school has come forward exclusively to The Blaze to say the same thing happened to her daughter.

Diane Zambrano says her 4-year-old daughter, Jazlyn, is in the same West Hoke Elementary School class as the little girl whose lunch gained national attention earlier this week. When Zambrano picked Jazlyn up from school late last month, she was told by Jazlyn’s teacher that the lunch she had packed that day did not meet the necessary guidelines and that Jazlyn had been sent to the cafeteria.

The lunch Zambrano packed for her daughter? A cheese and salami sandwich on a wheat bun with apple juice. The lunch she got in the cafeteria? Chicken nuggets, a sweet potato, bread and milk.

“She never eats breakfast or lunch at the school,” Zambrano said of her daughter during an interview with The Blaze. “We always wake up early and make her lunch.”

[Huskrrrr]

[SandRat]

The Food Gestapo strikes again!

[darkwing104]

Time to start firing these people. When you mess with children I no longer give a damn about unions or collective barging rights. Fire them all.

[duckman]

Can someone please tell me what is so healthy about chicken nuggets?

[yoe]

These Nanny State Police need to be thrown out of office....be more careful who you elect this next time around...if this is some School Board member, throw them out or stop the funding that allows them to throw their weight around.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks NCjim.

[Raycpa]

http://thestir.cafemom.com/food_party/110459/Anatomy_of_a_Chicken_Nugget

Which came first: The chicken nugget or the pink goo?

We may never solve the age-old chicken/egg question, but this one is easy: It’s the pink goo.

It looks like some sort of innocent strawberry frozen yogurt, doesn’t it? But it’s not. That horrible pink image above, my friends, is what happens when an entire chicken is smushed through a sieve, according to the folks at Inquisitr.

Why would someone do that? It’s because he or she is making chicken nuggets.

Read on — if you dare! — to learn about what ELSE goes in to those cute little nuggets.

Nugget-making doesn’t stop there! Because there’s so much bacteria in this smushed chicken mess — also known as “mechanically separated chicken” — the pink goo has to be soaked in ammonia. But who would want to eat pink, ammonia-soaked chicken goo? Nugget-makers accurately assume no one, so they add artificial flavoring and coloring.

So, how do you tell if your nuggets contain this disgusting pink stuff? Simply check the ingredient list: The USDA now requires foods with mechanically separated poultry to be labeled as containing “mechanically separated chicken or turkey.”

McDonald’s McNuggets no longer contain mechanically separated poultry; however, their ingredient list is still nothing to brag about: Water, modified food starch, salt, seasoning, safflower oil, dextrose, citric acid, rosemary and sodium phosphates. (Surely I can’t be the only one slightly taken aback that McNuggets are flavored with rosemary?)

And they are battered and breaded with: Water, flours, modified food starch, OTHER starches, salt, leavening, spices, and whey. And they are prepared in vegetable oil. And dimethylpolysiloxane is added as an antifoaming agent. Whatever that means.

In case you think I’m being mean to McDonald’s, consider this — Perdue Dinosaur Shapes Chicken Breast Nuggets contain: boneless chicken breast with rib meat, water, potassium lactate, sodium lactate, salt, sodium phosphates, sodium diacetate, and flavoring.

They are breaded with: flours, yellow corn meal, dextrose, dried whey, salt, sugar, potassium sorbate, spice, soybean oil, calcium propionate, guar gum, flavoring, extractives of paprika, and spice extractive.

Hard to tell if that’s any better, isn’t it?

But it’s also hard to forget the pink goo, no matter how much you like chicken nuggets.

*Editor’s note: This story has been modified from the original version to make it clear that nuggets made by McDonald’s and Perdue do not contain mechanically separated poultry.

Is this an appetite killer or what?

[donna]

I bet single moms love the help - it’s better than having a husband.

Why, it’s almost as good as being married to Obama.

[doyle]

If you read the letter written by the school principal and sent to the parent of the child featured in the news item, it is obvious the person has difficulty expressing herself.

It used to be said that clear written expression is evidence of clear thinking.

Maybe someone should take all those commas out of the principal’s “lunch box” and make her chew on some basic grammar fundamentals.

[Girlene]

Finally, another parent speaks out. It seems the principal LIED about the incident. From the article,

Principal Samuels previously told the Carolina Journal he “didn’t know anything about” parents being charged for cafeteria meals after the first preschooler’s mother — who has not been identified — came forward.

but this parent has a signed memo from the principal saying a fee may be charged (shown at the link).

Busted.

[Radagast the Fool]

The thing to do is to follow the food chain (no pun intended). Somebody on the school board has a “friend” who is profiting off the purchasing and distribution of the food. Find out who it is-and prosecute the heck out of them.
Even if the food is from the Fed, there’s still someone who’s profiting off it. Follow the money!

[Raycpa]

Parse much?

but flatly denied any of its employees or contractors “instructed any child to replace or remove any meal items.”

Are visitors from State employes or contractors of school?

Instructed vs. ordered?

Replace or remove? Didn’t the kids say they were told to eat a different lunch? That isn’t replacing or removing a meal item, its replacing the entire meal.

[Irenic]

Can someone please tell me what is so healthy about chicken nuggets?
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Sure, it is healthy for the schools pocket book. They get grants and special monies for playing food Nazi, plus it looks like they are charging the parents to top it off.

[Cold Heart]

Somebody has a kickback to buy x amount of nuggets.

[Logical me]

Laying he foundation for communists America. It is well on it’s way.

[AnTiw1]

if you had organized a youth tea party

you could have flash mob cafeteria food fights

teachers covered with lofat goo on washingtons birthday

b b b but cant we all git along teacher sobs on msn

mmm nope

[gundog]

I’m guessing they’re chock full of Tyson goodness.

[FrogMom]

I had a friend who had several odd food allergies. His mother always packed him a lunch so he wouldn’t eat one of his food triggers accidentally.

These jackasses would probably kill him since his allergies included many fruits.

[Professional Engineer]

Sounds like the cafeteria lady needs to be jailed for theft.