Nothing is better than the rectangle pizza from school.

 

There is a grocery nearby that sells rectangle pizza. My wife occasionally brings one home for us, just to relive the good ol' days. In truth, I liked the Lancaster Elementary cafeteria version better than the at home version today!

Brought a sandwich, chips, dessert and a piece of fruit in a brown bag to school every day from ages 5-18. I always thought it was a good lunch... especially when there was leftover meatloaf. It's 9:30 a.m. and I'm getting hungry just thinking about a meatloaf sandwich. And now that I know it's probably banned? Forbidden meatloaf sandwich... I want one now.

 

Shame on your parents and your school that they did not make sure you also had a vegetable!

2012

1982 - The lunch lady gives your 4-year-old a hug and maybe an apple.

 

Reminds me of Adam Sandler's song with Chris Farley as the Lunch Lady! :Lol:

Shame on your parents and your school that they did not make sure you also had a vegetable!

 

It was the 90s. We didn't know any better. We still had a food pyramid that seemed to suggest you should eat about 5 pounds of bread every day...

I remember this rule from 5 years ago. After a few warning notes from the pre-school saying that my kid did not have a vegetable in his lunch, we just put 2 little carrots in a zip-loc in the lunch box. Each day he would come home with those same 2 carrots in the zip loc. And the lunch box police stopped sending notes.

Nothing is better than the rectangle pizza from school.

 

Nothing is *more disgusting* than the rectangle pizza from school. Ugh. :lol:

Times sure have changed. My elementary and middle schools actually had people who cooked real food and it was good.

 

Tuesday was fried chicken day, not chicken nugget day. You got a breast 1/4 or a leg 1/4, buttered corn, green beans, a roll, and apple crisp.

 

Wednesday was pizza, salad w/ Italian dressing, corn, and heavenly hash. Sometimes choc pudding instead of heavenly hash. I still love heavenly hash.

 

The rest of the days varied between about 10 or 12 different main courses like salisbury & mashed potatoes, open faced turkey or roast beef, spaghetti, etc. Fish sandwich was always available on Fridays but there was always an alternate.

 

Every kid in the school had to do 1 week of caferteria service per year. Basically wiping tables, carrying trays, etc for 1 class period.

They consider French Fries a vegetable....how ridiculous is that?

 

So, fries with ketchup and wer're good for two veggies? My son would love that.

It still reads state regulation in the story. I am failing to see how this is Mrs. Obama's fault. Especially when the story also says that it looks like some technical assistance is needed at the school. This seems more like a school issue about properly enforcing state regulation.

 

With our organization, the state enforces but the rules come down from the Feds on food nutrition. I think it has to do with the reimbursements.

Since this is in General Discussion and not in P&R, I will say...

 

How awesome was Chicken Nugget Day when you were in elementary school?!

 

Didn't exist. :irked:

Every kid in the school had to do 1 week of caferteria service per year. Basically wiping tables, carrying trays, etc for 1 class period.

 

KP duty was the cafeteria version of getting jugged at Trinity. If you got in trouble anywhere else on school grounds: jug. If you got in trouble in the cafeteria: KP.

 

I also definitely remember watching people eat the pizza/corn pairing in elementary school; thought it seemed strange then and think it seems strange now. What is it with cafeterias and the pizza/corn pairing?

With our organization, the state enforces but the rules come down from the Feds on food nutrition. I think it has to do with the reimbursements.

 

Gotcha. Thank you, Sir.

This story infuriates me.

This story infuriates me.

 

A 4-word P&R post by you makes that quite obvious.:lol:

I just read this: A North Carolina Non-Troversy. It appears the story is a bit of hyperbole. Apparently, this school is a fully subsidized program for low-income and "at-risk" families who have to apply to get in. Part of the program is providing lunches to the students or otherwise supplementing their packed lunches with other options as most of the childrens' families can't afford to pack a lunch or pack a full lunch, ergo the application to this special program. In that context I don't find it particularly absurd.

 

By and large, what this story boils down to is that a low-income child whose tuition is fully subsidized by the state under a program her mother opted into was offered some additional food to supplement the boxed lunch she brought from home. This option was provided not because of some overarching, generally applicable law or regulation, but because the program in which her mother and school voluntarily participate requires such an option be available.