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These kids could make a killing with some hot sauce packets.
There was an article a couple weeks ago about some kid that got his tit in a wringer over ghost peppers.......
These kids could make a killing with some hot sauce packets.
There was an article a couple weeks ago about some kid that got his tit in a wringer over ghost peppers.......
And sitting in detention for up to 3 full grades waiting for the principal to give them a strongly-worded lecture about dealing illegal condiments.Caught?
And sitting in detention for up to 3 full grades waiting for the principal to give them a strongly-worded lecture about dealing illegal condiments.
And all on the word of a woman known to have six kinds of pie on the table for her daughters.
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/28/a-white-house-menu-heavy-on-the-pies/?_r=0
Make that nine kinds of pie on the table. All at the same time.
From Drudge;
Kids Create Salt Black Markets in Cafeterias Due to Michelle Obama’s Lunch Rules
Children are creating their own black markets to trade and sell salt due to First Lady Michelle Obama’s school lunch rules.
...“unintended consequences”... students have been caught bringing–and even selling–salt, pepper, and sugar in school...
“This ‘contraband’ economy... ” he said.
Payne noted other problems with the “one-size-fits-all” approach to providing healthier meals to students, including fewer kids participating in the program and higher food waste. The trend started in 2012, when the school lunch law, which was championed by Mrs. Obama, went into effect.
“Students are avoiding cafeteria food,” Payne said. “More students bring their lunch, and a few parents even ‘check out’ their child from campus, taking them to a local fast-food restaurant or home for lunch.”
Dr. Lynn Harvey agreed that the whole-grain requirement is not working, as kids refuse to eat dense and dry biscuits, and “unpalatable” grits.
“This product dissatisfaction has contributed to a decline in breakfast participation in 60 percent of North Carolina’s school districts,” she said.
“Biscuits and corn muffins are part of the state’s cultural and regional food heritage, just as bagels are traditional in the Northeast and tortillas in the Southwest,” Harvey added. “These foods are very popular breakfast items; the addition of whole grain flour has created products that are dense, compact, dry, and crumbly instead of light, moist, tender, and flaky.”
Harvey said since the new rules went into effect participation in the school lunch program in her state has declined by 5 percent, “a loss of nearly 13 million meals in two years.”
School districts across the country have echoed Payne and Harvey’s complaints. Students have noted the unappetizing fare on Twitter, with the viral hash tag #ThanksMichelleObama, which led the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to launch their own social media campaign, soliciting pictures of more appetizing food.
House Republicans have introduced legislation to give schools more flexibility in meeting the rules.
A bill sponsored by Rep. Kristi Noem (R., S.D.) would “ease sodium restrictions, give school administrators flexibility on some of the rules that have increased costs, including the school breakfast program, a la carte options, and school lunch price increases, and make USDA’s easing of the meat and grain requirements permanent,” according to the Hill.